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Jordi Cat

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how Kraznahorkai's and Fosse's one-sentence novels fare in audiobook format.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.

Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?

YouTube video by New Economic Thinking

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 5d

More by Friedrich Georg Jünger in 1942

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 11d

The First Amendment shields protesters, critics and even offensive voices (even at funerals)..

It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.

A legal scholar explains the line:

How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not

Free speech is not absolute, nor does the Constitution protect only speech Americans like.

buff.ly

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 12d

well, it is now.

Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 12d

Updated, capitalist, technological and extra-terrestrial Orwellian farm rebellion in Alien: Earth.

Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 13d

Dark times under bright lights.
Dark times in broad daylight.

Reposted by Steven French, Alan Richardson, Jordi Cat

Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 15d

#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University
AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science
AOC: Open
Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
Deadline: November 1
#PhilSci #philsky

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in Philosophy of Physics

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 16d

Both the Huntington and pancreatic cancer results are promising. Now, these are corporate early announcements; let's hope published articles on larger trials show similar effects!

Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 20d

It's a great doc series.

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 21d

by making certain "every inhabitant of our country has the same chance of survival." (...) Only a monarchic political structure would excuse an arrangement that has for its citizens no civil defense.'
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)

Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 21d

'What differentiates Switzerland and the United states is the beneficiaries of the [fallout] shelters: the population in the case of Switzerland, the government leaders in the case of the United States. Switzerland's goal is to make certain it can enact "legal equality"

Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 21d

Don't require or expect logical consistency where the relevant virtues are practical consistency and effectiveness.

Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 22d

www.tatler.com/gallery/all-...

All the esteemed guests at the state banquet for President Trump

Senior royals were joined by politicians and some of the world’s biggest business men and women for the event at Windsor Castle

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 23d

So are cross-dressers.

Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 23d

'True of the original discovery of CPR, so too of the ongoing refinement of our understanding of the conditions under which it best works requires huge investments of intellectual work'

Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · 23d

'the 1959 invention of CPR as an instance of why the United States –and by implication, every other country– should continue to support universities.'
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)

Reposted by Brooke Harrington, Jordi Cat

Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 25d

Proust in Venice, 1900

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Patricia Clarke @paticlarke.bsky.social · Sep 10

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3J7b...

Reposted by Lea Ypi, Jordi Cat

Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · Sep 10

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today David talks to @leaypi.bsky.social about her new book 'Indignity: A Life Reimagined'. A conversation about death and displacement, identity and betrayal, secrecy and salvation.

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 10

A loyalty test trap.

Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Sep 4

Tempting to think Fox has done the same for the opposing view unless we can tell discursive communities from discursive bubbles, or at least bubbles tout court.

Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Aug 21

Never too late!

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · Aug 21

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar Ian Ellison about Franz Kafka’s The Trial, first published in 1925.

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Jordi Cat @jordicat.bsky.social · Aug 17

"by relinquishing the claim to join authority and autonomy, the scene of teaching can be better understood as a network of obligations. Arguing that teaching is a question of justice not a search for truth..." Bill Readings, The University in Ruins (1993)

Reposted by Tom Shakespeare, Prakash Kashwan, Jordi Cat

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 10

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."

whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...