Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: The Nitpicks of Power, Part III: That Númenórean Charge
This is the third part of our three part (I, II, III) look at many of the smaller issues of historical realism in Amazon’s Rings of Power, following up our mode the major worldbuilding problems the show experienced. Last time we discussed the tactics (or lack thereof) of the Southlanders and Orcs in the major…
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(QC RSS) Buttfor Whom The Bell Tolls
I was laughing the entire time while I drew this
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Blasphemy and the Polity of Our Prayers by Rad Geek People’s Daily 2023-02-02 – “The blasphemy laws should be abolished, not reformed. If that demand contradicts the raison d’etre of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, then it’s the Islamic Republic that has to go, not the right
[…] I’m Reading: Irfan Khawaja, Blasphemy and the Polity of Our Prayers, Policy of Truth […] LikeLike
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(Aaron Kim ENGRD 101) AGI Wasteland
Images from https://www.pexels.com/photo/rocky-formations-in-desert-with-bushes-5480839/ and https://www.google.com/search?q=artificial+intelligence&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwi1zp2jm_X8AhWFHd8KHS6WARYQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=artifici&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgAMgcIABCxAxBDMgQIABBDMgQIABBDMgoIABCxAxCDARBDMgQIABBDMgQIABBDMggIABCABBCxAzIHCAAQsQMQQzIICAAQgAQQsQMyCAgAEIAEELEDOgQIIxAnOgUIABCABDoECAAQA1D7A1jxCWD6D2gAcAB4AIABVYgB8ASSAQE5mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=XdLaY_WrD4W7_AaurIawAQ&bih=711&biw=1376&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS1017US1017#imgrc=XVGUZUih0CFQtM Inspired by class on Wednesday, I chose to combine pictures of a wasteland/desert along with an artificial brain, kind of symbolizing how AI could slowly sucking dry the earth of its nature and resources. The AI is placed on top of a peak in the back for two reasons: 1.…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Totally into you
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Blasphemy and the Polity of Our Prayers by Roderick T. Long
This is a great post. But, predictably, I’m not convinced that there is “no viable politics that treats activists as wholesale adversaries of politicians.” Your model seems to posit that there are only two forms of political engagem…
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(QC RSS) Unsubscribe Me
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Jenin: Collating the Wages of Death by butimbeautiful
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Nope. Macs are the work of the Devil. Joke. Never mind. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Blasphemy and the Polity of Our Prayers by butimbeautiful
You are the best writer and human-centred analyst of these topics I’ve ever read. You should… and perhaps do… have a much broader audience. You make a good point that exercising power is complicated and necessarily involves compromise…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on From West Philly to Gulshan-e-Iqbal and Back by Blasphemy and the Polity of Our Prayers | Policy of Truth
[…] most of this essay before yesterday’s terrorist attack in Peshawar, and have written too often about terrorism in Pakistan to want to dwell on the latest catastrophe. But I have that luxury. They don’t. They live on the […] LikeLike
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