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Adam Lee

@daylightatheism.bsky.social
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Progressive secular humanist. Author and columnist for Freethought Blogs & OnlySky Media.

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OnlySky @onlys.ky · 18/09/2026
The Houthis now control the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Diesel is $6/gal. This is what cascading geopolitical failure looks like — by @daylightatheism.bsky.social onlys.ky/the-energy-crisis-is-coming #EnergyPolicy #GeoPolitics #FossilFuels #YemenCrisis #ClimatePolicy
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The energy crisis is coming
Shortages, price spikes, inflation—it's about to be the 1970s all over again.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Probability Broach: Whistle blowers Why private property untempered by any other consideration is a bad idea. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Whistle blowers
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Probability Broach: Robert's rules of order Sometimes you have to have rules to get things done. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Robert’s rules of order
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Probability Broach: Law of unintended consequences Is interfering with the market like interfering with nature? Well, kind of. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Law of unintended consequences
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Probability Broach: Heads in the sand Why anarcho-capitalism is a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too fantasy. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Heads in the sand
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Probability Broach: Who speaks for me? An actually good plan for democratic government that would never work in an anarchist society. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Who speaks for me?
Adam Lee (he/him) is an atheist author and speaker from New York City. His books include Daylight Atheism; Meta: On God, the Big Questions, and the Just City; and most recently, Commonwealth: A Novel of Utopia. He's published editorials for NBC News, Political Research Associates, The Guardian, Salon, and AlterNet.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Probability Broach: The art of war An army with no one in charge. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: The art of war
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Probability Broach: Tangled in red tape In times of crisis, even libertarians want a functional government. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Tangled in red tape
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Probability Broach: Fire in a crowded theater This world only works if every single gun owner is maximally responsible at all times. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Fire in a crowded theater
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OnlySky @onlys.ky · 27/07/2026
NYC's two worst smoke events: 2023 and 2026. Fire tornadoes in Jasper. Floods in the subway. by @daylightatheism.bsky.social — the hazy future is already here. onlys.ky/wildfire-skies-2026 #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #AirQuality #FlashFloods #ClimateChange
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Wildfire skies: The future is hazy
From fire-hazed skies to flash floods, the planetary climate is changing all around us.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Probability Broach: The self-rescuing hostage, part 2 L. Neil Smith says that armed people can defend themselves, then writes a story that proves they can't. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: The self-rescuing hostage, part 2
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Probability Broach: Make the desert bloom How could an anarcho-capitalist world agree on allocating scarce resources? freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Make the desert bloom
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Probability Broach: The self-rescuing hostage, part 1 Ordinary civilian plus gun does not equal badass action hero. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: The self-rescuing hostage, part 1
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Probability Broach: Fly the heavily armed skies Guns on airplanes. What could possibly go wrong? freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Fly the heavily armed skies
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The Probability Broach: Inside job The classic needlessly complicated villain plan. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Inside job
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Probability Broach: Do no harm Doctor by day, killer by night. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Do no harm
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OnlySky @onlys.ky · 04/06/2026
Religions grow by raising children in the faith. Nonreligion grows by convincing adults to leave. 1.9 billion nones later — by @daylightatheism.bsky.social — that difference is... onlys.ky/the-future-is-still-less-r… #Secularism #Nones #Demographics #Religion #Humanism
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The future is (still) less religious
The trend toward a secular world continues.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Probability Broach: Turf wars War isn't profitable? History begs to differ. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Turf wars
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The Probability Broach: You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore Tricky Dick gets what's coming to him. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Probability Broach: Crime is everywhere, crime, crime Total freedom is a big advantage for people with evil intentions. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Crime is everywhere, crime, crime
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The Probability Broach: Search and seizure Total and complete freedom is a big advantage for people with evil intentions. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Search and seizure
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Probability Broach: Who cares about the Bill of Rights? A rare admission that maybe government isn't all inherently bad. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Who cares about the Bill of Rights?
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Probability Broach: Meet the big bad Why libertarians can't abide moral complexity. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Meet the big bad
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OnlySky @onlys.ky · 30/03/2026
One terawatt per year, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social We're making more progress on green energy than most people realize, and the Iran war may supercharge that trend. onlys.ky/one-terawatt... #climatecrisis #solarpower
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One terawatt per year
We're making more progress on green energy than most people realize.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A military historian sums up the colossal blunder of the Iran war, and gives a well-thought-out set of predictions for what might happen next: acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...
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Miscellanea: The War in Iran
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Probability Broach: Shame, shame "It's a recent and modern innovation in ethics to hold that you can't punish people for their opinions, no matter how offensive." freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Shame, shame
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Probability Broach: Backyard WMDs Building weapons of mass destruction with no oversight. What could possibly go wrong? freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Backyard WMDs
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The greatest-ever review of Atlas Shrugged, via Reddit: "Each page is covered in words." www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLu...
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From the LinkedInLunatics community on Reddit: this subreddit writes itself
Explore this post and more from the LinkedInLunatics community
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The Probability Broach: Non-state violence Is it only governments that wage war and commit violence? You wish. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Non-state violence
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OnlySky @onlys.ky · 18/03/2026
The colossal stupidity of war with Iran, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social An unwinnable war without a goal and with consequences for the whole world. onlys.ky/iran-war-2026/ #war #iran
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The colossal stupidity of war with Iran
An unwinnable war without a goal and with consequences for the world.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The UK Labour Party is fulfilling a campaign pledge to end all hereditary positions in the House of Lords. Good - this was an embarrassing relic. Now get rid of the reserved seats for bishops next! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes
The bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families.
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OnlySky @onlys.ky · 13/03/2026
Reforestation: A greener future for planet Earth? by @daylightatheism.bsky.social Deforestation is slowing and could reverse in our lifetimes. We might still be headed for a solarpunk world where futuristic skyscrapers rise amidst lush garden cities. onlys.ky/reforestation/ #environmentalism
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Reforestation: A greener future for planet Earth?
Deforestation is slowing and could be reversed in our lifetimes.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The city of Corpus Christi, Texas, is going to run out of water as soon as this year, because Republican leaders invited businesses that use lots of water to set up shop without regard for how much water there actually was: insideclimatenews.org/news/0803202...
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After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe - Inside Climate News
Officials in Corpus Christi expect a “water emergency” within months, and to fully run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel supplies to Texas airports, trigger a surge in gasoline prices a...
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The Probability Broach: Blue sky We owe many of our most valuable breakthroughs to pure curiosity-driven research that wasn’t undertaken to serve a commercial purpose. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Blue sky
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Philip Yancey, author of bestselling Christian books like The Jesus I Never Knew, confesses to an eight-year extramarital affair and says he's withdrawing from public life: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/auth...
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Author Philip Yancey Confesses Affair, Withdraws from Ministry - Christianity Today
The writer said he will retire from speaking and writing and grieves “the devastation I have caused.”
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The Probability Broach: The myth of the lone genius The persistent libertarian delusion that one smart guy can do everything by himself. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: The myth of the lone genius
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OnlySky @onlys.ky · 02/03/2026
The Bible is too woke for Christians, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social Anti-immigrant theology is a perfect catch-22 of absurdity. onlys.ky/the-bible-is... #evangelicals #bible #immigration #johnpiper
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The Bible is too woke for Christians
Anti-immigrant theology is a perfect catch-22.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Hurrah, Freethought Blogs lives! DNS problems finally fixed. New posts coming soon. freethoughtblogs.com
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It's a really good story, a deeply humanizing account of life in a country that the media trains us to see as the enemy, and an indictment of just how badly America has failed for what it's done and is still doing to the Iranian people.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I've been reading Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel, Persepolis. It's an autobiographical account of growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, moving to Europe as a student to live freely, and eventually becoming homesick (and homeless) and returning to Iran.
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OnlySky @onlys.ky · 25/02/2026
Judge Fred Biery: A defender of human rights and secularism, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social A hurricane of authoritarianism is crashing against the walls of the American constitutional system. Judges like this one are the last line of defense. onlys.ky/judge-biery/ #secularism #humanrights #law
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Judge Fred Biery: A defender of human rights and secularism
Judges like this one are America's last line of defense.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
FYI: Freethought Blogs is down due to webhost issues. Work is ongoing to get it back up, but I don't know how long that'll take.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Scientific progress is both cool and body-horror-esque: Doctors saved a man with a critical, incurable lung infection by removing both his lungs (!) and keeping him alive that way for 48 hours (!!) with ECMO until he could get a transplant. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
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Artificial Lungs Kept a Dying Man Alive For 48 Hours—Until He Was Well Enough to Receive an Organ Transplant
The patient is faring well nearly three years later, thanks to the life-saving device
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Probability Broach: What have the Romans ever done for us? "What dollar value do you place on having clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and roads that aren’t littered with the smoking wrecks of unsafe vehicles?" freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: What have the Romans ever done for us?
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The Probability Broach: Robots do nothing John Henry would've been pleased. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Robots do nothing
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OnlySky @onlys.ky · 11/02/2026
American brain drain, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social We used to be the world's haven for science, but now scientists are fleeing the U.S. for safer shores. China, the EU, Canada and other nations will benefit from our losses. onlys.ky/american-bra... #science #antiintellectualism
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American brain drain
We used to be the world's safe haven for science, but now scientists are fleeing.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The Probability Broach: Too much freedom Nothing's more libertarian than a Dust Bowl. freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Too much freedom
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OnlySky @onlys.ky · 04/02/2026
Protecting secularism in religious enclaves, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social Religious communities of choice can't be allowed to cross the line into becoming mini-theocracies where dogma is law. onlys.ky/protecting-s... #secularism
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Protecting secularism in religious enclaves
Communities of choice can't be allowed to cross the line into becoming mini-theocracies.
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The Probability Broach: Fair cop "Why would an accused criminal be so obliging as to put up a bond, if there’s no authority that can force them to do so?" freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Fair cop
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Adam Lee @daylightatheism.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The Probability Broach: Economies of scale Where's my cyberpunk dystopia? freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/202... #probabilitybroach #libertarianism
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The Probability Broach: Economies of scale
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