Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(xkcd.com) Coastline Similarity
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 10: The Fragile Foundations of Global Health Data
GiveWell’s ability to find and fund highly cost-effective health programs relies on a foundation of credible data. A key source of that data, the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), recently had its primary funding from USAID discontinued. This creates the potential of a significant challenge for GiveWell’s research—and for evidence-based grantmaking across the global health…
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(Policy of Truth) Resistance in Action (6)
Thoughts on Rapid Response In the last 24 hours or so, there have been three major ICE raids in my immediate vicinity in central New Jersey, meaning in the vicinity of where I live or work: one in Hightstown (yesterday, at Franklin & Westerlea), one in Edison (yesterday, 45 Patrick Ave), and one in Trenton…
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(Policy of Truth) Institutional Neutrality as Willed Collective Stupidity
The doctrine of institutional neutrality asserts that universities ought not to make public statements on matters of public controversy, or in its newer iterations, matters of public controversy not “directly” related to “their core mission of teaching and research.” One exception, present from the start, is what I call the self-defense exception. In the words…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Thursday updates
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Mary Worth, 8/21/25 Mary Worth Update: Olive rushed into the surf and saved her drowning classmate, is one…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Woman of ill repute
New comic!Today’s News: You can now read Exorsisters on Pixie Trix Comix. It’ll update Monday to Friday! :)Want printed books or swag? Check out our store!https://tinyurl.com/yc56p4hwWe also have books available in bookstores and comic shops:…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Kalven’s Complicit Executioners” by MAP Public Facing Philosophy | Policy of Truth
[…] a quick announcement to say that I will once again be presenting “Academia’s Complicit Executioners: A Critique of the Kalven Committee Report,” at the MAP Public Facing Philosophy conference on Saturday, September 6th. I…
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(Policy of Truth) MAP Public Facing Philosophy
Just a quick announcement to say that I will once again be presenting “Academia’s Complicit Executioners: A Critique of the Kalven Committee Report,” this time at the MAP Public Facing Philosophy conference on Saturday, September 6th. I’m hoping by then to have a much-expanded hard copy of the paper written up, which I’ll post here…
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(QC RSS) Yet Another New Character
Roko is still bad at knitting
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Resistance in Action (5) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Louise. Thanks for your comment, Louise. I don’t know how widely this was noticed, but Town Topics’s original August 13 coverage of the Council meeting omitted all but the last sentence of Heilner’s comment. Readers of Tow…
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