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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 6h

First time in a while the band (four people; five advertised) has outnumbered the audience (me and some other guy)

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 8h

If the IDF had the forethought god gave a goldfish they would have treated her exceptionally well

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 11h

The reason I elsewhere called his view Panglossian was this bit: "Academic fashions arise because people trained in a discipline have some respect for the judgment of others trained in the discipline as to what is good or fruitful work, worth imitating or following up." This just seems naïve

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 11h

Hadn't Ullman-Margalit already written about this, or do I have the order backwards

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 11h

With Paul I do believe that the fancy metaphysician's bringing respectable decision theory to bear on a topic previously worked on by eg the loosey-goosey Frankfurt had a lot to do with it. And the factor of prestige also doesn't seem to fit Williamson's vibe.

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 11h

Been so much *felt* room for new developments in the reigning view. Or it was felt to lack vitality or whatever. Maybe that's not a story that does a lot of violence to Williamson's view but it doesn't seem in the rather Panglossian spirit of his

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 11h

If you look at his early essays the arguments against little red Cambridge books are weak, the positive program is confused, and the whole thing's kind of a mess. But being kind of a mess is what makes it a great research program; it's new and there's so much to be done! Whereas there may not have

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 11h

I think better than "faddish trend" is just "goldrush", not because something is obviously more worthwhile or promises good progress but because it promises the possibility of doing anything that isn't marginal. Like I think that this explains the davidsonian program in phil action somewhat because

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 11h

It would be a stretch to call this a favorite spot, even, I just have strangely strong memories of this block. There used to be a jewelry store next door that had much to admire but sometime in the intervening almost two decades it passed from this world

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 12h

It's important to keep checking in on places one has once been to make sure they know you still think of them, and to let them think of you too, a little <3

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 12h

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Cover of a book in the series "kleiner Stimmungs-Atlas in Einzelbänden". This Band deals with "le dandysme"

Anmerkung des Autors: Der dandysme ist keine Stimmung. Dieser Text steht also zur Reihe, in der er erscheint, wie der Dandy zum Mitmenschen.

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 12h

Charming: the bookstore at Knesebeckstr. 11 not only still exists, it still has the exact same edition of Benn's prose that I was directed to purchase 19 years ago by someone who informed me that I stood no chance of comprehending it. However the store no longer organizes its stock by publisher

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 13h

But

The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 13h

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 7d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 17h

Achilles had a son???

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 17h

Or detach the quote

doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 17h

I've got bad news about public transit in east Oakland

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe openly communicating that you see it as a matter of domestic political voter management is part of the problem

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?

Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 18h

Bist du Expertin darin, wie Leute aussehen sollen, die im Hungersnot sein?

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 18h

naysayers, and they too are highly intelligent and knowledgeable people.

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 18h

not long ago, though Paul's work had many precursors both acknowledged and unacknowledged; why did it take off only with her? Not because her work was obviously so much better! She did however grace it with prestige. & of course many academic fashions have their concurrent & not merely retrospective

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 18h

(at least in some circles), but imo the place where deference to majority opinion is stifling is the continued reign of some kind of Davidsonianism in phil action, which I don't think anyone would call a *fashion* at this point. there was similarly a little boom in "transformative experience"

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 18h

where he says both that this deference is good because it avoids wasted effort and that misconceived fashions are actually still good because the effort is not wasted (the contours of their badness are thoroughly explored). there seems to be a bit of a fashion for neo-Anscombean phil action lately

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 18h

academic trends/schools/fashions arise for a variety of reasons only some of which reflect the judgement of others in the discipline as to what is good work; independence of mind is stifled by much more than what is appropriate for "fashion"; he seems to be having it both ways about its utility

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doleful moo of a cow @oulipien.bsky.social · 18h

not so sure about your sociology work there Tim

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