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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 19/01/2025

Zhuangzi, the gnarled tree

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I don't know if anyone has already said, but please do the useless tree! These are great :)

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 12/01/2025

Beginning of the Zhuangzi in pencil and marker. Sorry for the bad handwriting. Note how Zhuangzi immediately sets the tone of relativism and perspective: the cicada and little dove can’t fathom the pov of Peng/Kun.

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Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D. @christinenowik.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Easy hypothesis to test. Unionize. Then we see. Suddenly all that progressive language becomes absolutely farcical. I think it was @emilybrier.bsky.social who describes college/uni progressivism as a "veneer."

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Maybe because, at least between western parties under these labels, there is very very little difference, if any, for all but those who are already the closest beneficiaries of its status quo. From any sort of distance, you have to squint really really hard to see how they are modestly different.

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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

There’s 2 RW parties in America. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are to the right of the fascists in Italy. But libs wanna play dumb, pretend and gish gallop in their talking points as they simp for right wing nationalists in Israel. 🇮🇹 : www.instagram.com/reel/DBMOoLV...

Meloni: Italy imposed full arms embargo on Israel over Gaza ground op
*We have blocked everything," Meloni told lawmakers during a debate in Italys senate ahead of a European Council summit in Brussels.
pean Coul ail europe
the prime minister of Italy and self proclaimed fascist Meloni

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Obviously the Patriot Act was a blatant roll back of our civil rights, and through fear mongering and manufacturing consent the government can now spy on, arrest people and jail them without charges as long as they are labeled with the ambiguous term “terrorist.”

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

We're burning the planet for a technology that has so far mainly produced mediocre animation clips and terrible student essays

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The last one takes care of a lot of em really

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I'm allowed to punch people in the face in the boxing ring, so why is my teacher so mad when I punch him in the face in the classroom?

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 23/12/2024

Health Insurance Trolley existentialcomics.com/comic/582

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Vladimir Lenin @thereallenin.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

If you can’t look at your woman after sex it sounds like you might be gay. Not that there’s anything wrong in that, but stop wasting that woman’s time

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ITYSL memes 💦🥩 @ityslmemes.com · 25/12/2024

Good morning!

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Keep your identity politics bullshit out of our class war

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“When it comes to LLMs, proceed with caution. People are not the best at gauging good advisers and good advice, especially in the moral domain, and we often need true social connection, validation and even challenges more than we need an ‘expert’ response.“

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ChatGPT Gives Moral Advice. Here’s Why You Probably Shouldn’t Take It

Before turning to a large language model for ethical counsel, consider what makes for good advice

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My friends have more friends than I do *BECAUSE" they're my friend. NOW WHAT HUH??

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Believe it or not telling people they are dumb doesn't usually sway them. Maybe there is a different way to build coalition with people around basic common interests?

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Haven't used the we word for a while for this reason

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Omg it's my fav critical AI ethicist I didn't realize you were here yet! <3

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

They're coming for STEM now too. Health professions students at my uni asking why they need chemistry. My advice: build solidarity across arts and sciences against the pre-professional grift

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Amen 🙏 Believe it or not, the world does not need any more undergrad essays

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I think the third time you draw the analogy it's all going to click into place for me. Sorry I'm a bit slow 😔

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Still? Gilens & Page (2014), "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens"

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

He and all the rest got their heads wrapped round it plenty good. They know what they're doing.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Brian Thompson was directly responsible for more American deaths and family bankruptcies than I can count. And it was all considered legal. He would never do a day in jail for causing all of that unnecessary suffering. People aren't supporting Luigi because he's got shredded abs.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Ladies and gentlemen, the rules-based international order

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

of COURSE our society is inured to bloodshed. we're SATURATED in blood. the author has to write something so fatuous because what they REALLY mean is that this isn't the KIND OF GUY who's supposed to get killed. but it sounds fucking crass and disgusting when you put it that way (because it is)

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Comrade Conflict Kitty @werevolt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“Butcher of Gaza, Secretary of Genocide” Pro-Palestinian activists repeatedly disrupted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s congressional hearings before being arrested by Capitol Police.

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

For that matter, not sure political assassination can be normalized without a view to ends and count as normalization of *political* assassination. Can killing be seen as political w/o considering reasons they were targeted? And to endorse w/o concern for those reasons--anyone actually doin that?

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Okay. I think my question was why assume the normalization must be (or even is) of act-types. Are people endorsing political assassination as such, divorced of aims? Or do people seem sensitive to why the act was performed or, at least, why they think it was performed? That's what I've been seeing.

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This is also fascinating, and the basis of the board game I designed for my course on justice. youtu.be/IuqGrz-Y_Lc?... www.ted.com/talks/paul_p... (check minute 4)

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Why Those Who Feel They Have More Give Less

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hope people know this was precisely the point that Lizzy Magie, the real inventory of the game, was trying to make.

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Amber 🦋 @devilhag69.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What the world needs now is another season of I Think You Should Leave

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Viktor Frankly @viktorfrankly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

There's more that unites than divides us hehe But fr most of this shit is wrong on all accounts. Who gives a fuck which theory of justice is correct when every single one worth a single damn converges on condemnation of what's obviously straight up corruption

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 10/12/2024

Imagine how jury selection is going to go for this CEO killer case. Prosecutors will have to ask questions like "do you have a problem with millionaire CEOs denying insurance claims to sweet old Italian mothers who are living in constant pain, so the shareholders can buy a second yacht?" Good luck.

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