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Nay, encouraged!
I've got a ~1,900 word essay on liberalism, critique, Smith, Grouchy, Shklar, practice, and hope. It needs smart feedback.
If you've the time and interest in the next couple of weeks, do let me know. Swaps welcome!
2 photographs of a biography of Marty Feldman. One has googly eyes added but it looks virtually the same.
Every time we see this Marty Feldman book it reminds us of that time we stuck googly eyes on it but all that happened was it looked even more like Marty Feldman. 👀
The case for gender studies programs has never been stronger.
My Facebook is old enough to drink and my eBay account can rent a car. You simply have not been Online like I have.
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
Give me Shadowrun over Rawls any day.
You got to
Know when to hold 'em
Know when to Noem
a guy on the train in berlin is wearing a pin badge, of the sort one might wear in support of a band or political cause, but his is in support of the ancient grain amaranth
no brand or anything just Amaranth
I had to have a heart-to-heart with Gemini. It felt… bad?
Chris Rufo Tweet: "On Talarico’s “God is nonbinary”: Pope Benedict has a great collection of homilies on Genesis, in which he argues that the male-female binary is superficially about sexual reproduction, but more deeply, built into the order of the cosmos itself. The world is not “multi-gender.”"
I dunno, man. If male-female is only superficially about reproductive plumbing - chromosomes, bio stuff - and really about cosmic depths, why would you want to insist peoples' driver's licenses must reflect assigned-at-birth biological sex rather than registering their deep, cosmic gender?
Democracy and Competition, ed with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social is out now! Many thanks to @BritishAcademy.bsky.social, @ycpt.bsky.social, @martinoneill.bsky.social and above all our great contributors: @simonechambers.bsky.social, @shaiagmon.bsky.social, @lisamherzog.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3rc8mbx3
Content before 2022 is the Roman shipwreck lead or the Scapa Flow steel of human information, anything afterwards could be influenced by AI: directly written by AI, as a result of co-work with AIs, or just as a result of ambient contamination as AI style slips unconsciously into our work.
TIL that Alasdair MacIntyre publicly distanced himself from The Benedict Option that he inspired.
tradistae.wordpress.com/2020/04/21/m...
The most wholesome thing you’ll watch today. And Annabell deserves a Netflix special. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dt7M...
Useful distinction.
When the imminent threat is an immanent eschaton.
Strike: when we bomb someone
Attack: when someone else bombs us
Excellent review of Natasha Piano's groundbreaking new book Democratic elitism: the founding myth of American political science. Far from being advocates of a "realistic" view of democracy, the Italian elite theorists warn us of the plutocratic dangers of election
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
When you’re incapable of empathy.
Transpose this 1970 campaign speech by antisemitic white supremacist Asa Carter into the voice of JD Vance or Elon Musk or Matt Walsh and tell me if you could tell the difference.
If Americans discovered how good the average British grocery store is versus what they get, they'd riot, I swear.
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
Multi-party systems do better at respecting voter intelligence.
“It is a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes a kind of institutionalized gang…with cruelty and brutality as the organizing principles and violent bravado as the main form of political expression.”
www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...
Tag line for philosophy as a discipline
Trad/Cavalier Twitter is about to implode…
Every American business now faces the prospect of being conscripted for fascism.
