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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Writing a paper on Kant's Categorical Imperative while a cat sleeps on my left arm. It's not a bad life.

Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

What do you mean you're shocked that the generations who had to be bribed to read with pizza parties don't read as adults?

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Have you taken the time to mourn who you were "supposed to be" but never became?

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I just saw a video of someone about "clarity maxxing." It's mindfulness. They were talking about mindfulness practices. Baudrillard and the Buddha both just had facepalm moments.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Some of the best advice I pick up in life comes from fictional characters.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Word of the Day: Meteoropathy - pain caused by changes in the weather. My leg experiences meteoropathy when storms are coming, making it a more reliable predictor of storms than the forecast since DOGE ravaged NOAA.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

some days the muse is just a sleep-deprived goblin eating cold noodles in the corner, and the only thing i can manifest is another tab I won't read.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Looking at my degree plan to see where I'm at towards graduation. I'll either have to cram some extra credits in the next two semesters or I'll have to take some class next summer, but either way, I'll be graduating in 2026! 30 years after I graduated from high school.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Don’t be the kind of ghoul who is delighted by the death of innocent children in Texas. That’s Greg Abbott’s thing. Don’t be like Greg Abbott.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 24/06/2025

The people saying the federal judge doesn’t understand copyright law should instead realize that they are the ones who didn’t understand copyright law

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Oliver North thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles. Oliver "convicted for selling missiles to Iran" North.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Natasha Lyonne as Nadia Vulvokov in the TV show Russian Doll. She is gesturing with a lit cigarette and speaking to someone. The caption reads 'Hermeneutical Injustice. What a concept.'

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I attended small town 4th of July parades as a kid that had more energy than Trump's birthday parade did.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Season 21 of Grey's Anatomy just dropped on Netflix, so that's what I'm watching this weekend to regulate my emotions while WWIII and Civil War 2.0 pop off. Because Grey's Anatomy is less of an emotional rollercoaster than reality right now...

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The first battles of the Civil War had spectators. People showed up and sat to watch it. Vendors sold food for the event. The new one will be streamed. The creators will sell merch.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Twilight marked the mainstream turn back towards conservatism. Pro-life Mormon vampires that enthralled a whole generation of young women.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Writing a paper on perdurantism for metaphysics today. Fun times.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Just three more weeks and the semester is done. Still debating whether I'm going to take classes summer semester, or drop the classes I'm registered for and take the summer off. Kinda wanna push through and get as many classes in as I can, kinda wanna take a break.

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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Loving life is an act of defiance. Misery is part of how they control you.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I *know* it's a game. And yet, when my player character falls, my heart jumps. Every. Single. Time. Because for the brain, games are practice. It makes them a remarkably powerful mindfulness and contemplation tool if you choose the right sorts of games.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Time to admit that "billionaire tax cuts" is a dogwhistle for eugenics.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Perfection is our most irrational belief, and it's importance in Western philosophy is one of the roots of supremacy.

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donworth.bsky.social @donworth.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Trump is not the modern Hitler. Hitler was never elected. Hitler was appointed Chancellor and took over from there. Musk is the modern Hitler. He told you that with his salute on inauguration day.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Musk is the gun that Peter Thiel aimed at the head of American government and economic function. Getting rid of Musk won't stop the takeover. Getting rid of Trump won't stop the takeover. J.D. Vance is one of Thiel's men. When do we accept they've won this and start organizing accordingly?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk’s staffers have gained unauthorized access to sensitive government employee data by installing a server at the OPM. They now have access to USAJOBS, the federal hiring portal where applicants submit personal details such as Social Security numbers, home addresses, and employment histories.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I've seen too many people say they don't know what the Trump/Musk endgame is. Just get to know Peter Thiel and his goals to end the U.S. government, destroy the U.S. dollar, and send us into technofeudalism where everyone is owned by a corporation.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I think we need to remember that some strategies shouldn't be publicized. To effectively counter fascism, the resistance has to move in the shadows. If they tell us the plan, the fascists will know the plan, too. We can, and should, take public resistance actions.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

One of the most effective ways to resist the South African Steampunk Edison hijacking the U.S. government is simple: troll him mercilessly. He's so fragile, a well-executed trolling campaign would derail him faster than his ketamine hits.

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H. Stewart @ohioisforhaterz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Let people be wrong without being punished; allow them space and support to learn, grow, and make changes. The “I told you so”/ “you should’ve known” attitude does not help bring people on side.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Day 14 of the American Coup. How's it going for you? Me? Trying not to panic about financial aid cuz I'm fucked without it...

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I cooked ramen on my woodstove today. First time cooking on my woodstove, since it's not a cooktop, just a flat top woodstove. But with Trump starting trade wars that could affect delivery of energy to my state, might as well get used to cooking with the wood fire.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

While the collapse of American representative democracy into fascism is going to be terrible for those of us living here, it's likely to be good for the rest of the world. China calls Trump 川建国 - Nation Builder - because he's so bad for the U.S. that it's good for China.

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Gwynne Michele - The Curious Hermit @gwynnemichele.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

How y'all doing knowing Trump ramped up his coup yesterday?

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 27/01/2025

Nvidia's plunge, fueled by investor concern about Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek, erased a record amount of stock-market value from the world’s largest company

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Nvidia’s $589 Billion DeepSeek Rout Is Largest in Market History

Nvidia Corp.’s plunge, fueled by investor concern about Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek, erased a record amount of stock-market value from the world’s largest company.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is unacceptable! Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, reporting that Navajo citizens in Arizona and New Mexico have faced “negative, sometimes traumatizing experiences” with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants after Trump’s recent immigration orders.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Cool idea and interesting stuff (philpapers.org/rec/HANMCI).

Measuring Conceptual Inflation: the Case of 'Racist'
Nat Hansen & Shen-yi Liao
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Is the term ‘racist’ being applied so widely that it is losing its moral force? Theorists and pundits from across the political spectrum think that it is. They call such a change of meaning “conceptual inflation” and argue that we should try to stop it by restricting the use of ‘racist’ or replacing ‘racist’ with new expressions. But what evidence do we have that ‘racist’ is inflated? Economists do not track currency inflation with mere vibes; they use measurements such as the consumer price index. For example, using CPI, it is observable that there has been considerable US dollar inflation over the last three decades or so: $1.00 in 1989 has the purchasing power of $2.54 in 2024. If ‘racist’ has undergone a similar transformation, as critics of conceptual inflation contend, how could that be measured? Before plunging into the normative debate about whether conceptual inflation is good or bad, we should gather systematic empirical evidence about whether the purported conceptual inflation of ‘racist’ is in fact happening. That is what we do in this paper: we use an apparent time study, a technique drawn from sociolinguistics, to measure whether ‘racist’ is undergoing conceptual inflation. An apparent time study looks at the linguistic behavior of people of different ages as a way of measuring linguistic variation over time. We distinguish two processes that constitute conceptual inflation: extension expansion and intensity bleaching. Across three studies, we found some equivocal evidence that ‘racist’ has undergone extension expansion—its reference class may have slightly expanded—but no evidence that it has undergone intensity bleaching—its moral force remains the same. By comparing ‘racist’ with other terms that have plausibly undergone meaning change, we argue that claims about the conceptual inflation of ‘racist’, as they are standardly understood, are overblown

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