tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bl... It's barely worth engaging with but it's just so obviously twaddleen.wikipedia.orgJohn Blanke - Wikipedia 010
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I often think that the Principal of Charity would be invaluable for people to have productive discussions online (or generally) Unfortunately, social media generally reward doing the opposite of all of these with more engagement 011
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I feel like unfortunately he would have ended up like billy corgan or Morrissey, like a boomer reactionary 410
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I think the issue was not clarity but rather making so many citations it felt like a literature review with some conjecture thrown in to connect one citation to the next 000
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Yeah I'm pretty sure the assembly was just like "something bad has happened" like I don't know what the head teacher would say to a bunch of ten year olds lol 010
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I remember it being the same day but maybe I'm wrong 110
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I was in primary school and wasn't sent home, but I remember having a big assembly with the headteacher because of it 110
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I think of this 1930 poem so often. Of course it applies to more than british journalists. 0418
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"To get properly Hegelian about it, Fukuyama and Jäger are thesis and antithesis; the synthesis is what’s especially juicy." When they say they're getting "properly Hegelian" and you look and it's just Fichte instead. (thesis/antithesis/synthesis is not Hegel) 000
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Falls short of the page count but One-Dimensional Man Chapter 3: The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness: Repressive Desublimation is accessible, relevant and challenging imo. It's fun to discuss whether contemporary texts are examples or repressive desublimation or not 020
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The Cribs and Bloc Party for Brighton. I've Tried Everything by the Cribs "Three months ago I ran to Brighton" (also mentions Wakefield by nickname "I was born in The Merrie City" and Waiting for the 7:18 by Bloc Party "Let's drive to Brighton on the weekend" 010
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Reminded me of this photo of Adorno with Gretel Adorno touring a mine 250
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Is Life: A User's Guide good or just ouliposlop?" 020
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Well, more people do speak Portuguese in Angola than in Portugal 030
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Well at least it makes a change that they use western democratic historical false analogies instead of Mao and Stalin etc 000
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Thinking of when Zizek said a sign of actual progress in society is when certain abhorrent questions are seen as beyond the pale. 010
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I wanted to agree but the things he links seemed to have nothing to do with the Moncrieff book lol. Like they're about the dangers of going cold turkey on antidepressants which Moncrieff agrees with? Weird 000
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It's pretty embarrassing when even Alastair Campbell had the sense to realise he shouldn't contribute to a media pile-on, yet an aspiring left wing media outlet didn't 160
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It's a collection of essays but it's v interesting. 020
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Googled them and they were the source when everyone thought Noam Chomsky died? lmao 110
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A nice green photo of Knole Park, Sevenoaks they used there. This is what it actually looks like currently 031
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Strictly speaking as well surely "Woke 1.0" should refer to its use by African Americans in the early 20th century (and earlier) such as leadbelly, who used it in the context of telling other African Americans to stay vigilant against racial injustice and persecution. 020
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026tbf I think it's good but that's because he's just stolen the idea from Mamdani's "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules 100
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It would be useful if they added their first name as a prefix. Hypothetically someone named "Anna" would name their website "Anna's archive". For example. Hypothetically. 030
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Criticism is permitted, but criticism of criticism is too far? 100
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Where does Oates say that Emily Wilson criticised Nolan for being unfaithful to the original text lol? She is saying that Wilson's response to Nolan's interpretation of Homer has a superior and dismissive tone instead of collegial 040
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think I really interesting idea for an article would be about whether the technocrats or the so-called "populists" are agnotologists 000
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The funniest bit was when she complained that the trojan horse was poorly-designed because it had no wheels. Yes, that's a choice Nolan made. Like what are we doing here? 011
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026It's impossible to navigate the store because it's so bloated with junk and unnecessary features now. I mainly rely on the recommendations of friends as well as some youtubers and PCGamer + RockPaperShotgun to find new games now 020
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026There's a Bloomberg podcast called Trumponomics but I rarely see it used vs Bidenomics etc 010
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Very funny to cut taxes and people's response is "well that means they're going to increase taxes" what does that mean lol 010
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Reality: www.rusi.org/explore-our-... "In the UK and broader European context, defence spending is not an effective route to jobs, growth or the economic security of working people. As a result, any arguments for increased defence spending should not dwell on the purported economic benefits. "rusi.orgThe False Promise of Defence as ProsperityFraming defence spending as a path to prosperity ignores its poor economic returns, limited job creation, and the opportunity costs of not making alternative public investments. 030
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Could you ever have imagined him saying the same of Corbyn despite him being more popular? 100
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Not my field, but I think about the fashion chapter "Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture" from Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. Especially the passage about having your servants dress in cumbersome clothing as a signifier of how much wealth you have to dispose of 020
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The closest one I can imagine, although I can't recall how deeply it gets into it shaping our modern politics 110
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I do find the Christian debates over astrology fascinating. I think it's there that Aquinas argues that astrology is fine as long as you accept that it's angels who are positioning the stars and therefore astrological knowledge isn't heretical? I kind of love that type of reasoning 031
tehan.bsky.social @tehan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026It's very funny journalese to mention the two lead actors, at that point just name the film you're referring to lol 190
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Since the time of Quine, other philosophers[who?] have formulated at least four versions of the principle of charity. These alternatives may conflict with one another, so which principle to use may depend on the goal of the conversation. The four principles are:
The other uses words in the ordinary way;
The other makes true statements;
The other makes valid arguments;
The other says something interesting.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qd2qqv3gr73ca26vs2tfmhdc/bafkreif2j5nogpjobkbzxqr45smana5n34cf4rzqezjtaw225tp5pltwxy)
