Is it time to leave twitter?
I've never worried about voting with my feet since I'm not paying to be here and what I "pay" in whatever data is collected seems meh in the grand scheme. But fascism going as it is these days, I wonder. Also, it mostly just feels dead around here.
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My feed seems to be all big accounts that I follow, but I don't see so much from the regular folks that I like to interact with. I don't know if that's because they've left, or the algorithms, or what. I'm not on here enough anymore to even know for sure.
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This is basically Nietzsche’s slave revolt in morals, with the placeholder “pagan” switching roles to now be associated with slave morality.
It’s always struck me as an obviously weak argument… if the old nobility were so great… how’d they manage to get defeated so bad?
CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp:
“The West is obviously superior. We had a pagan religion infiltrate our universities and our society, and that religion basically said that everything good about America and everything that has actually worked… is bad.”
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If only we had a branch of government that handles disputes about what does and doesn’t constitute “legitimate power,” then we’d be cooking with gas!
If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.
If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.
Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.
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Kind of wish that in addition to a robust fascism debate about the current moment among political theorists there was a robust antichrist debate among theologians.
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evanfk retweeted
The richest man on Earth is dismantling the organization that feeds the poorest children on earth.
evanfk retweeted
My book (Kant's Critique of Practical Reason: Background Source Materials) is now available online through CambridgeCore! If you'd like a digital copy and want a discount get in touch with me - I still have a code.
cambridge.org/core/books/kan…
With the caveat that I know plenty of adult converts that are wonderful and one shouldn’t generalize, lmao.
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A new edition of Suzanne Britt’s “Qu'est-ce que la documentation?”, the classic text of documentation studies, has been created by Arthur Perret. Included are marginal notes by Laurent Martinet, who worked on the English translation in the 90s.
hal.science/hal-04816907
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