Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) Puerto Rican Prisons Allowed Inmates To Work for Themselves. It Was a Huge Success.
These self-employed prisoners earned more than inmates in traditional prison jobs and were more likely than other inmates to be rehabilitated.
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(QC RSS) Sex Ed
LEARNING
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(Policy of Truth) Mistah Kirk, He Dead
I’m sitting here eating a nice vegan meal, reading Livy. I just heard that somebody killed Charlie Kirk, another fascist nobody in this rapidly disintegrating country. We can’t keep track of how many fucking wars or proxy wars we’re in, or how many innocent people we’ve killed or sent to concentration camps in a week,…
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(Cat and Girl) The Reminiscing Club
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Policy of Truth) Reminders
It reminds me of Israel, where it actually happened to me every other fucking day while people like you sat around making excuses for it. That’s what it reminds me of—the orders, the guns in our faces, the detentions, the interrogations, the threats, …
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(QC RSS) Questionable Content
Questionable content
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(xkcd.com) Biology Department
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) Kiosks and Cowardice
I wrote this in May, but forgot to post it. I happened to notice it today while cleaning out old files. It seems a fitting start to the academic year. In Princeton, where I live, there are two kiosks on Nassau Street, the main drag, on which people put up up flyers of various sorts,…
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(Policy of Truth) Start Spreading the News
Current status: paying $70 to take an Uber to work, care of a well-dressed driver named Roberto who’s blaring Sinatra in my ear. Feel like I’m en route to another meeting with Batista over the Castro/Che problem, but no, just another day of DRG Downgrade appeals with assorted hospital clients, paying top dollar to get…
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