Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
does a guy named Timber falling down count as nominative determinism
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
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We're missing out on some guy apprenticeship these days.
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My guy inherited the shop from his dad, who I assume was also a guy. Sadly, my guy has three sons, and none of them want to take over the shop.
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My mechanic is a Guy, and I'm in a panic because he recently told me he's thinking about selling his shop and retiring.
This exercise by @jamellebouie.net on "How many Slaveholders were there, really?" (youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4?...) is really impressive and honestly I think should be a mandatory watch for *ancient* historians thinking about the slave societies we study.
“Community colleges, along with regional public universities, are the workhorses of higher education in the United States, which has roughly 4,000 degree-granting schools. Some nine million students are enrolled at community colleges, accounting for 43 percent of America’s undergraduates.”
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In Texas, we just call that a taco. 😁
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One of my greatest joys is how much more talented my kids are than I at things I love. Music, painting, football, you name it!
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Even if all he can do is shove someone over.
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Love to see a striker sprinting back the length of the field to defend.
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It's a fair question.
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It is pretty easy to see that English simply cannot conceptualize or distinguish certain very real things. And it's among the better options because it is such a scavenger and a thief!
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That's generous.
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Not sure if it's overlooked, but I didn't hear "You've got to hide your love away" until I was an adult. It blew me away.
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Why is there this random exterior stairway on Fox Theater?
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Why does this road randomly change names here?
Millions of us first listened to classical, opera, and other music genres via PBS and NPR. The right yells about the destruction of Western civ and culture, but aren't really interested in cultural preservation. If they were, they'd support funding for public broadcasting, the arts and humanities.
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The fact that the most powerful Republican officials in the nation don’t understand Monetary Policy 101 is an important detail that too often goes overlooked.
/2 Item 2: if my data storage device was running out of space I could use a hole punch to make a hole in it and then flip it upside down and that would allow me to double the storage
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Chef: Ches
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I'm so sorry to hear this. I hope you make a quick and thorough recovery!
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Thank you, Neil. I just watched the Jota tribute. As always, you do justice to the depth of my feelings. My thoughts are with Diogo's family.
Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true. Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that. It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Backed by civil rights groups, Texas undocumented students and Austin Community College are pushing back on the speedy dismantling of in-state tuition benefits for noncitizens.
This is from AdImpact, the canonical outfit tracking political spending on advertising. Note that the "top advertiser" so far this year is the Department of Homeland Security, so the Trump administration's spending taxpayer dollars in support of the President.
We used to be able to have nice things.
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I don't really understand it myself, but I think his idea is that the opposites are real even if we only experience one of them. On his view, the issue is not simply epistemological, at least at the quantum level. It is metaphysical as well.
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I just finished a book by Heisenberg today called _Physics and Philosophy_. He agrees. He also says this is objectivity.
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Perhaps this depends on your state.
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The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia.
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Here is a turtle (and some other things) I saw in a cabinet in the "scientific curiosities hall" of the DomQuartier earlier this week in Salzburg.
El comienzo de un cuento perdido de Jorge Luis Borges.
Women are lagging behind on going bankrupt on DraftKings, drinking themselves to death, and fist-fighting anyone who looks at them funny on the subway but they can catch up.
Writing is thinking.
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Pete must not know his Kant.
Are triplets twins?
Interesting reflections on MacIntyre by Geuss newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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If you enjoyed not knowing whether you know, thank a skeptic.
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0 added time. Put them out of their misery. #UCL 😂
Got fired from the drive thru for telling customers “The root of your suffering is your desire”
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Are there worries about things we think are true, but might not be if you aren't the same you in the past? If you aren't the same as your 10 yo self, were you even born? Did you buy that car? Is it correct to say I am a father? Personal identity over time helps to make sense of certain truths.
PLATO: hello SOCRATES: hi why are you
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You got this!
Inside Plato's Cave: Big Screen TV No Rent Like-minded friends Outside Plato's Cave Annoying philosophers
News coming out that Alasdair MacIntyre died today…
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.
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Seriously, people say let's have something different! I say, have you read Plato? That guy is weird AF.
“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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One time password Two factor authentication Three times a lady Four score and seven years ago Five golden rings Six flags tickets Seven Nation Army Eight, eight, I forget what eight was for...
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It's a fundamentally Catholic nation.
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A poem is a living thing, Change a word and it is new. Poems outlive the present king; They trump the goddamn'd wealthy few. Sing, oh Muse, and thus inspire: New seer-ing words, speak to a friend, To those who would be set on fire And bring plutocracy to an end.
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A poem is a living thing, Change a word and it is new. Poems outlive the present king; They trump the goddamn'd wealthy few. Sing, oh Muse, and thus inspire: New seer-ing words, speak to a friend, To those who would be set on fire And bring plutocracy to an end.
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Lots of options, but I was considering True Romance. Gotta pay homage to the King!
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Libraries are an institutional embodiment of human goodness.
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Yes, those problems have been around for a long time. Ultimately, they are among the reasons I converted even though the current nonsense was not part of the discourse 15 or 20 years ago.
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Remember dear, it's only humor if the ancient Greeks balanced it with the three others in your body to prevent illness. Otherwise, it's just sparkling trauma.
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@evilmopacatx.bsky.social hey, you're here now. Welcome!
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@kairyssdal.bsky.social Who was that political economist you interviewed on the show today?
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Damn!
Honestly, I think 10% is low
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Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid.
I’m unable to do academic work, but I occasionally write music. Here’s a bit of protest art about MAG*A public intellectuals and influencers. It’s a folk tune called “Brains Behind,” recorded rather roughly at home. Enjoy! youtu.be/5gWaKtDuW54?... The post below is from a great thread.
Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
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I love that we just went and parked the bus and Pep didn't see it coming.
A distraction from the news.
Fun Fact: Lucretius’ “On The Nature of Things” is “Metal.” 🤘🏻
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me 2023 #Archaeology
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
I promised you guys more of these. Here is one that I find particularly great. Materials: plastic, metal, wiring, and human tears. (See ALT text for full transcript of the sign).
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Believe me, we know!
A little Adam Smith for you. From Theory of Moral Sentiments.
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I don't know.
"The system has been designed, they say, to give everyone a fair chance—even as some levels clearly reward those with certain backgrounds, physical traits, or just the good luck of going last."
I can prove to you that the US Constitution is fatally flawed & requires replacement. All agree that any minimally adequate form of government must include a way to remove a chief executive for flagrant misconduct. Impeachment is the US's main way to do that, but it's entirely broken.
'flourishing' for eudaimonia — John Cooper credits Anscombe, "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958). [In the example that a plant needs a certain environment to flourish.] Does anyone recall any other uses, earlier or contemporaneous? #Philosophy #philsky #Aristotle
A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Gandalf: Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead, and every day was as long as the life age of the earth.
I'm going to reproduce a thread I did on the other place because I think you will like it. I posit that for every photo of a French philosopher looking drunk there also exists a photo of them looking cool. The drunker they look in the first the cooler they look in the second. Exhibit a Beauvoir.
I submit Gaston Bachelard for 20th century wizard philosophers
The work of Taiwanese sculptor Hsu Tung Han 韓旭東 - of wood sculptures carved as if pixelated and uploading [Via his Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/hsutu...
I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
The events in Syria, the toppling of the Assad regime and its replacement by a confederation of opposition groups with less than clear intentions on how they will operate and cooperate in creating a government that represents and serves the interests of a very diverse society, …
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I've had a similar thought. In the other place, I never broke 30 followers... maybe because I don't post much. But here, I was added to a starter pack and suddenly tons of followers. I don't know if it's bad, so I'm not so much worried. I just think it's weird to follow a bunch of people at random.
I am looking for a discussion on conditionals in medieval logic. I'm teaching Aquinas tomorrow on God's knowledge of future contingents and it's clear he's supposing something like strict implication. But I'd like to confirm from an informed source. Many thanks. @saraluckelman.bsky.social (?)
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"At the end of the day..."
“(First, you will note that) Men who are most able make laws for themselves.” πρῶτα μὲν ὄψει τοὺς δεξιωτάτους αὐτοῖς τοὺς νόμους τιθέντας #PseudoXenophon
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It is east of me.
