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Sophistrionics

@sophistrionics.bsky.social
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Yes: Prometheanism, Inhumanism, Total Liberation, Abolition, Extreme Music, Horror everything, Tea, Root Beer. No: irony, distance. He/His

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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Elite education, in practice is primarily a privilege laundering scheme aimed at transforming antecedent advantages into perceptions of merit.” - @musaalgharbi.bsky.social going hard.
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On Education
How mass education and elite education synergistically reproduce and enhance inequalities; why education is not an effective vehicle for “social justice.”
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The needless cruelty of this is staggering.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It bears repeating that the “apolitical” move would’ve been to cancel or move (essentially impossible tho) the dates. Kraft demanded Sheeran and the promoters take an explicitly political action by removing Macklemore. Sheeran saying “no” would have been resistance to politicization as such.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Bluesky shift from “AI Safetyists are hysterical idiots who don’t get anything right” to “AI Safetyists are hysterical sex cultists who may have gotten one thing right” has been a masterful study in subtlety.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Low key sad Mark Ruffalo didn’t get the surprise win for “Task.” The parole hearing scene was the single best bit of acting I saw this year.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(jd vance cornering an aide who pretends not to hear him) so what are people doing after this
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Please don’t refer to Milo Yiannopoulos by just his first name. He doesn’t get to be the main Milo.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I reiterate - this administration is composed entirely of the type of person who would seek out and open the Lament Configuration #hellraisrer #horrorsky
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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s worth noting that: (a) we humans are nothing more than bundles of heuristics learned by a more complex neural architecture with built in inductive bias, and (b) this definition means stream processing is non-algorithmic, and that’s exactly what human-style continuous learning is.
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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Yes, the unedited version was about 5 1/2 hours long. I will literally just keep talking until someone tells me to stop.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Unbuttoned Fly Effect
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Again, I submit that the problem w/ “bring back shame“ is that shame didn’t go anywhere. The social/institutional mechanisms harnessed to use shame toward normatively salubrious ends faltered while certain socio-cognitive adaptations towards shamelessness have proliferated.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The problem w/ use and abuse of “social construct” isn’t the concept itself, it’s the strategically opportunistic deployment of its weaker and stronger senses
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s almost like when something is misused in wars of intellectual position within academia it might break containment and do the same outside of academia.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Epicurus: 2300 Years of Not Being A Cop” - Theaters July 2029
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This @teethkids.bsky.social song is pretty much my world rn… #metalsky teethkids.bandcamp.com/track/collat...
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Collateral, by teeth kids
from the album Fake Hell
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
pretty much the only political position that matters in 2026 is whether or not you agree the current Republican Party is an existential threat to liberal democracy in the United States i struggle to find any motivation to care that much about anything else
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
For them, the only reason the Spartan’s ever lost is because they weren’t Van Tillian presuppositionalists. Spartan vibe + correct theological frame work = undefeatable.
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falco @shitrock.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Manchester - link.dice.fm/I6986ed690a2 Leeds - brudenellsocialclub.seetickets.com/event/future... Bristol - effigypresents.seetickets.com/event/future... London - link.dice.fm/gbfe2952db47
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🔥
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
At the risk of failing the assignment: horror+ADJACENT - Negative Space, BR Yaeger - Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler (adjacent) - The Cipher, Kathe Koja - Head Full of Ghosts + Pallbearers’ Club, Paul Tremblay - House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski - Looking Glass Sound, Catriona Ward #horror
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
In recent “lyrics that’ll haunt me for the rest of my life” news: “My daughter came home crying after school She locked herself in her pink, Barbie room And she said "Daddy, did you know they used to use the weak for food?" I said "Sweetie, we still do" - Crippling Alcoholism Pay Pigs #metalsky
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Burning man is the perfect example of a thing started with emancipatory intent to transgress oppressive social forms and norms that transmogrified into a vehicle for the empty transgressive energy of people big mad that society constrains their ability to BE oppressive. Classic libertarian story arc
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I guess no one checked…
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One more. The greatest props department achievement of all time. The mask is the face of the 21st century arrived 22 years early. #horror #horrorsky
The Shape (FKA Michael Myers), bathed in darkness, framed by a doorway, looms behind a terrified Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
What horror movie image haunts you? #horror #horrorsky #horrorfilms
Spoiler alert for “Spoorloos” (The Vanishing), don’t continue if you haven’t seen…

Last chance…

Rex holding a lighter, screaming upon realizing he has been buried alive.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This is harrowing thread. Really hope @laurajedeed.bsky.social is ok and posts again soon.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Vatican II - not even once.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Losurdo also covers the “classical liberal” origin of the notion that “The basic idea is that if you don't come from a cultural background that comes from a traditional Western perspective-ideally Anglo-Saxon— then you aren't equipped for and properly formed for freedom” in depth.👇
A picture of the paperback version of Domenico Losurdo’s “Liberalism: A Counter-History”
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Bluesky feels like a space station, low on everything, orbiting a dead planet.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Are sure Carmen Sandiego was a criminal and not on the run from her 5 singing psycho exes?
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing an inconsequential number of academics that Rorty’s left and right Sellarsian binary exists
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
There is no philosopher who I love more in concept and hate more in prose than Feuerbach.
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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
For anyone curious about what's been going on in my course on The Revenge of Reason for The New Centre, here are some of the diagrams from the last session, suitably cleaned up, pointing in the more systematic direction my work is developing in. Aa sketch of my reworking of Platonism.
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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Working link: deontologistics.co/wp-content/u...
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This morning’s insufficiently-caffeinated opinion is that fiction writers should go back to making shit up
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The speed at which life is outpacing The Onion is wild.
thehill.com
Trump names William Pulte as acting intelligence head
President Trump named William Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to serve as the acting head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In tapping Pulte, Trump turn…
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
To put some Naomi Klein on it: a failure of the left, particularly men on the left, is ceding masculinity to the right (Pipik-ing). It’s easier to perform a sort of disavowed masculinity that create a positive masculine figure that is consistent w/ feminism but doesn’t feel like living an apology.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
So if there’s the technological ability for private firms to actualize personal pricing at point of sale, we’re totally beyond the “administrative complexity” argument against implementing a progressive sales tax, right?
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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Revisiting this old interview on the concept of concept, which summarises the consequences of my earlier work on the relationship between epistemology and metaphysics quite nicely I think: www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-con...
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"The Concept of Concept": A Conversation with Peter Wolfendale (Keywords: Truth; Reality; Cognition)
"Concepts are fundamentally determined by their relations to one another, so it’s hard to tinker with them in isolation."
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I want to buy a house inside the last 6 minutes of this song. Defacement - Duality #metalsky #metal #dissodeath #doom
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Open Qobuz
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
312 Mogwai, But Wet Pans-tara
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/05/2026
well we did lose to legal Calvinball and we aren’t going to fight back. but at least we spent a hundred million dollars losing
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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Full short form interview with me about The Revenge of Reason courtesy of Rorotoko: www.rorotoko.com/micro-interv...
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ROROTOKO
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother’s Day to all my Danzig lifers out there!
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Related/isomorphic: Sohn-Rethels-stans indexing abstraction to commodity exchange. Brother, you’re working from a creationist-level timeline of human history.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“I wanna be on a first name basis with your mortician” and 999 more pick up lines available now on my Substack.
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Sophistrionics @sophistrionics.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
However you get there I guess…but probably shouldn’t have taken Bezos for people to turn on the Met Gala. It’s a gross successor of aristocratic preening not the affirmation of Paris Is Burning.
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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I have finally managed to sit down and read the ‘Abstraction Fallacy’ paper, and it is extremely disappointing. This is Searle on syntax/semantics except primitive intentionality gets hand waved by tying qualia to autopoiesis (metabolic vulnerability/thermodynamics/etc.): philarchive.org/rec/LERTAF
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Alexander Lerchner, The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness - PhilArchive
Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlyin...
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