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Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]

@ Philosoraptor @hexbear.net

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  • How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

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  • I think what chloroken is getting at is "the key word here is 'theory'" sounds like a dismissal in the same vein as "evolution is just a theory." The sense of 'theory' in both "evolutionary theory" and "leftist theory" is the same, and in both cases it's distinct from the colloquial sense. It means "body of conceptual academic work," not "hypothetical belief." In neither case does it imply dogmatism.

    "Every state is authoritarian" is a pretty non-controversial claim in leftist political theory of any stripe. Comrade's point was "China is authoritarian" is a non-sequitur from any leftist perspective, because China is a state so of course it is. Anarchist and ML theorists are going to disagree on the implications of that basic observation.

  • Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up'

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  • If this gets confirmed, it will be a big deal. The fact that anything in cosmology is changing fast enough to be detected as different in a matter of decades is very strange and would mean we're wrong about a lot of really significant things.

  • ["Listeria, Imma let you finish..." news] E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s quarter pounders has killed one person and hospitalized 10, with 49 cases identified so far.

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  • Man, he was so fucking rad. Haven't thought about WW in years.

  • "It was kind of like finding a dead body."

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  • There's a little cottage industry among philosophers of making versions of those "In this house" signs that feature all the weird arcane bullshit positions that philosophers have about weird inscrutable issues that professional philosophers care about and customizing them to whatever brain-melting combination of things the particular individual believes. That is 10,000 times less cringe than having an election sign. I'd rather have a yard sign that says "in this house we deny the analytic / synthetic distinction" than an election sign any day of the week.

  • I miss this

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  • Lich-King of Amerikkka

  • [CW: Objectifying men as satire] Bit idea: Complaining that the male characters in games chuds like aren't hot enough

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  • This Comment is an All-Timer

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  • I teach a writing class for (aspiring) scientists, and it is so hard to train some smart people out of writing this way. Some people just think that using big words and complicated sentence structure is the best (or only) way to communicate important ideas. The idea that you should always use the simplest language that will do the job takes a lot of getting used to for certain folks. The way some academics write does not help.

  • David Brooks is at it again

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  • brain

  • David Brooks is at it again

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  • Wouldn't it be cool for your job to be "say the dumbest, wrongest shit imaginable to millions of people once a month or so, and get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing it?"

  • David Brooks is at it again

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  • For Brooks, culture is something that's out there, and which arises, fully formed, from some kind of pervasive but nebulous ether. Politics (and economics) is fully downstream of that, and is completely parasitic on this ex nihilo culture. This is pretty much a paradigm case of your brain on idealism

    : it's the ideas--in the form of culture--that shape our political economy on this view, but not the other way around; politics and power never "act back" on culture, but are forever subservient to ideology. This gets the arrow of causal influence almost perfectly backward. As you say, the predominant beliefs of most Americans are shaped by decades of material conditions--propaganda, immiseration, austerity, and political capture by the richest of the rich. Even if we grant that he's right in describing the views of most Americans (which I think is actually pretty suspect too), Brooks never thinks to interrogate why and how people come to have the views that he attributes to them; we just think what we think, and then shape our world in response to that bundle of ideas that God has placed into our minds. Politicians, on this view, are merely weathervanes whose job it is to act based on the ideological winds, forever hostage to their vagaries and totally unable to shift their direction.

  • He was so cool

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  • The Atlantic: "Why Trees are Antisemitic"

  • David Brooks is at it again

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  • Yeah it's just bafflingly wrong. He says something a little later about how Kamala is sort of doing what he says, but she just doesn't have time to swing the Democratic priesthood around, and anyway it's all performative and she's really a death to America commie like the rest of them. It's almost breathtaking how incorrect this column is.

  • finally followed through on my numerous threats

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  • Volunteering

  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    David Brooks is at it again

    archive.ph /llVkf

  • Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail

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  • No, of course they're not. This is made up bullshit to run cover from them just searching shit whenever they want to.

  • Average osinter

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  • First they came for the arms dealers

  • Jerry Seinfeld retracts claim that the extreme left is ruining comedy: 'It's not true'

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  • This is why eggs in smaller diameter ovipositors are always going a significant fraction of the speed of light.

  • Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail

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  • Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail

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  • Every independent test that's been done has shown absolutely no sign of this. Super mysterious!

  • Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail

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  • Right. The specific scenario they're concerned about is someone sending in a "tip" that a particular person or organization is mailing out abortion medication, then the cops intercepting all the mail from that person or organization and having a dog alert on it so they can get a warrant to open it and seize the contents. This works even if the dogs aren't trained to sniff out any of those drugs, because handlers can "cue" the dog to alert on anything they want to (deliberately or not). This is also how lots of K9 traffic stops work.

  • news @hexbear.net
    Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mail

    theintercept.com /2024/10/16/abortion-pills-mail-usps
  • Science @hexbear.net
    Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Surprise! Nobel prize winners OVERWHELMINGLY have very rich parents

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    Hexbear hobbies

  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    That's a lot of jargon to hide from having to say "people who get some perspective on the technocapitalist grindset life tend to realize that it fucking sucks and run screaming in the other direction"

  • electoralism @hexbear.net
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    Harris picks Walz for VP

    www.newsweek.com /tim-walz-kamala-harris-vice-president-1934825
  • Earth @hexbear.net
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    Geosystems are absorbing way less (almost no) CO2 than they used to. That's very bad

    arxiv.org /abs/2407.12447
  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Today, We're all MAGA

    web.archive.org /web/20240714125413/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/today-were-all-maga-trump-shooting-assassination/
  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Biden pausing all advertisement after Trump assassination attempt

    thehill.com /homenews/campaign/4770511-biden-campaign-pauses-ads-trump-shooting/
  • chat @hexbear.net
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    Currently the last day of a student-led international relations elective I supervise, and they have decided to do karaoke Soviet Anthem and Internationale

  • technology @hexbear.net
    Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    The disenshittified internet starts with loyal "user agents"

    pluralistic.net /2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/
  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Coinbase CTO describes "tech Zionism" plan for San Francisco

    www.parallelmirror.com /balaji-srinivasans-gray-vision-for-san-francisco/
  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    "Four more years. Pause."

    twitter.com /disclosetv/status/1783184198477508785