Cornels
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Congratulations!
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Congratulations!
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ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming.
ME: is that true?
ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.
ME: is that true?
ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.
June 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming.
ME: is that true?
ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.
ME: is that true?
ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.
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Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words
June 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words
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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
June 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Standing up for immigrants means not freaking out when an immigrant celebrates their country of origin
June 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Standing up for immigrants means not freaking out when an immigrant celebrates their country of origin
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i also can pretty much guarantee you that most of the people you’re seeing don’t view their mission as “dispelling racist claims that you’re an army from a foreign country” or whatever. they’re defending their communities, not pitching their cause to centrist pundits.
June 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
i also can pretty much guarantee you that most of the people you’re seeing don’t view their mission as “dispelling racist claims that you’re an army from a foreign country” or whatever. they’re defending their communities, not pitching their cause to centrist pundits.
While Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to ensure black students are allowed into schools in Alabama, Trump (under Stephen Miller's advice) is federalizing the National Guard in L.A due to his belief in the Great Replacement Theory.
June 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
While Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to ensure black students are allowed into schools in Alabama, Trump (under Stephen Miller's advice) is federalizing the National Guard in L.A due to his belief in the Great Replacement Theory.
One risks 'microwaving' their brain to mush while on X. Inasmuch as I'd like to interact with as many people as possible, with diverse or different opinions from mine, I don't think it's worth the risk.
High density bullshit and hate can be harmful to your mind and general well-being.
High density bullshit and hate can be harmful to your mind and general well-being.
June 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
One risks 'microwaving' their brain to mush while on X. Inasmuch as I'd like to interact with as many people as possible, with diverse or different opinions from mine, I don't think it's worth the risk.
High density bullshit and hate can be harmful to your mind and general well-being.
High density bullshit and hate can be harmful to your mind and general well-being.
release the Epstein files, release the Kraken! 😆
June 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
release the Epstein files, release the Kraken! 😆
This is just a reminder that rubber bullets are still lethal and can result in serious injuries or even death.
Don't buy the bs that it's "less lethal" because lethal is still lethal.
Don't buy the bs that it's "less lethal" because lethal is still lethal.
June 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is just a reminder that rubber bullets are still lethal and can result in serious injuries or even death.
Don't buy the bs that it's "less lethal" because lethal is still lethal.
Don't buy the bs that it's "less lethal" because lethal is still lethal.
Hobbes' assumption is that the voluntary submission of legislative will to the State is 'balanced' by 'reason' (i.e, as self-moving 'intelligent entities' or 'matter' capable of 'superadding' moral properties onto the indifferent world of nature) to prevent a despotic leviathan.
One of the less convincing parts of Hobbes’ political philosophy is the claim that the absolute sovereign would treat the people well as their prosperity is in the sovereign’s interests. Assumes that the sovereign takes a long term view rather than will grab everything while the chance is there.
June 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Hobbes' assumption is that the voluntary submission of legislative will to the State is 'balanced' by 'reason' (i.e, as self-moving 'intelligent entities' or 'matter' capable of 'superadding' moral properties onto the indifferent world of nature) to prevent a despotic leviathan.
Maybe the trigger happy police dude is taking a cue from Israeli sodiers.
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Maybe the trigger happy police dude is taking a cue from Israeli sodiers.
To counter dissent by protesters, the authoritarian state manufactures or provokes chaos to justify violence against the people.
#Biopolitics
#Necropolitics
#Biopolitics
#Necropolitics
June 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
To counter dissent by protesters, the authoritarian state manufactures or provokes chaos to justify violence against the people.
#Biopolitics
#Necropolitics
#Biopolitics
#Necropolitics
Almost through with this one. It tops the list of best books for me this year. I highly recommend it for philosophers, scientists, and educators interested in the political economy of education (specifically mathematics).
June 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Almost through with this one. It tops the list of best books for me this year. I highly recommend it for philosophers, scientists, and educators interested in the political economy of education (specifically mathematics).
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Baudrillard's The Play of Antagonism is relevant in regards to Musk v Trump thro' the principle of synthetic inversion. As it's been said by theorists, synthetic inversion is where two principles, practices, ideas, or Pple are inversions of one another if they oppose each in a dialectic polarity+
Baudrillard's The Play of Antagonism is relevant in regards to Musk v Trump thro' the principle of synthetic inversion. As it's been said by theorists, synthetic inversion is where two principles, practices, ideas, or Pple are inversions of one another if they oppose each in a dialectic polarity+
June 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Baudrillard's The Play of Antagonism is relevant in regards to Musk v Trump thro' the principle of synthetic inversion. As it's been said by theorists, synthetic inversion is where two principles, practices, ideas, or Pple are inversions of one another if they oppose each in a dialectic polarity+
Baudrillard's The Play of Antagonism is relevant in regards to Musk v Trump thro' the principle of synthetic inversion. As it's been said by theorists, synthetic inversion is where two principles, practices, ideas, or Pple are inversions of one another if they oppose each in a dialectic polarity+
The Elon vs. Trump breakup is entertaining. Elon was once "all in". I hope he is now "all out" for good, and this drama is not some cheap WWE kayfabe.
June 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The Elon vs. Trump breakup is entertaining. Elon was once "all in". I hope he is now "all out" for good, and this drama is not some cheap WWE kayfabe.
This is a militia cosplaying as ICE officers. No more different than cattle rustlers terrorizing innocent people in a remote village.
MEMPHIS — YESTERDAY: “He’s not a criminal!!”
ICE agent clumsily PULLS A GUN on the daughter of a man they grabbed.
Original post: www.facebook.com/share/v/12LM...
ICE agent clumsily PULLS A GUN on the daughter of a man they grabbed.
Original post: www.facebook.com/share/v/12LM...
June 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This is a militia cosplaying as ICE officers. No more different than cattle rustlers terrorizing innocent people in a remote village.
Curtis Yarvin being the dark elf advisor to tech bro libertarians is what happens when you downplay the importance of humanities in academia.
June 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Curtis Yarvin being the dark elf advisor to tech bro libertarians is what happens when you downplay the importance of humanities in academia.
Even if it was an unintended consequence, the Pinker, Dawkins, Haidt, etc. group is the reason the far right and Trump II gained so much political ground and legitimacy (via the 'anti-wokeness' narratives). I first came to know about James Lindsay through Pinker's book, where he appraises
I think this is a real and important distinction. There is a huge difference between living in a world run by Steven Pinker and Sam Harris versus one run by Curtis Yarvin and Stephen Miller! That doesn't mean the world run by Pinker and Harris isn't quite bad!
I'm not saying Rand was some great antiracist. Her approach to racism was really problematic! I wrote a lot about it in this essay. She was similar to today's anti-antiracists, like John McWhorter or Jonathan Haidt, not like David Duke or Stephen Miller. www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-v...
May 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Even if it was an unintended consequence, the Pinker, Dawkins, Haidt, etc. group is the reason the far right and Trump II gained so much political ground and legitimacy (via the 'anti-wokeness' narratives). I first came to know about James Lindsay through Pinker's book, where he appraises
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Question: Will the next mainstream media interviewer of Trump ask about this blatant lie in the Oval Office?
Or will they say ‘let’s agree to disagree’ and try and move on, a la ABC’s Terry Moran?
Or will they say ‘let’s agree to disagree’ and try and move on, a la ABC’s Terry Moran?
Trump’s image of dead ‘white farmers’ came from Congo, not South Africa | CNN
The footage shows a mass burial in Goma, Congo, and was filmed by Reuters video journalist Djaffar Al Katanty, who said seeing Trump holding the article with the screengrab of his video was a shock.
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May 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Question: Will the next mainstream media interviewer of Trump ask about this blatant lie in the Oval Office?
Or will they say ‘let’s agree to disagree’ and try and move on, a la ABC’s Terry Moran?
Or will they say ‘let’s agree to disagree’ and try and move on, a la ABC’s Terry Moran?
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The ex US ambassador to Israel says there are not 2 million innocent civilians in Gaza and the line between civilians and terrorists in Gaza is ‘mostly invisible.’
How is this not openly genocidal rhetoric, and incitement to violence against an entire people?
How is this not openly genocidal rhetoric, and incitement to violence against an entire people?
May 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The ex US ambassador to Israel says there are not 2 million innocent civilians in Gaza and the line between civilians and terrorists in Gaza is ‘mostly invisible.’
How is this not openly genocidal rhetoric, and incitement to violence against an entire people?
How is this not openly genocidal rhetoric, and incitement to violence against an entire people?
Contingency, Irony & Solidarity by Richard Rorty
Difference & Repetition by Gilles Deleuze.
Both books are vital in overcoming Platonism (or the 'trap of representationalism'). And as the famous Whitehead quote goes: the European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Difference & Repetition by Gilles Deleuze.
Both books are vital in overcoming Platonism (or the 'trap of representationalism'). And as the famous Whitehead quote goes: the European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
What non fiction book has influenced your worldview the most?
May 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Contingency, Irony & Solidarity by Richard Rorty
Difference & Repetition by Gilles Deleuze.
Both books are vital in overcoming Platonism (or the 'trap of representationalism'). And as the famous Whitehead quote goes: the European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Difference & Repetition by Gilles Deleuze.
Both books are vital in overcoming Platonism (or the 'trap of representationalism'). And as the famous Whitehead quote goes: the European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Fascism is less ideological than we think. Today, Trump supports the Saudi prince, and tomorrow, he supports Netanyahu, two ideologically opposed geopolitical factions.
As long as it's where the power is.
As long as it's where the power is.
May 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Fascism is less ideological than we think. Today, Trump supports the Saudi prince, and tomorrow, he supports Netanyahu, two ideologically opposed geopolitical factions.
As long as it's where the power is.
As long as it's where the power is.
One of the best essays so far this week.
Timofei Gerber on Adorno's 'Minima Moralia': Has the concept of truth been completely subsumed into the 'reality' of power?
epochemagazine.org/80/adorno-mi...
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Adorno on Ideology: “Minima Moralia,” §71 | Epoché Magazine
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May 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
One of the best essays so far this week.
Timofei Gerber on Adorno's 'Minima Moralia': Has the concept of truth been completely subsumed into the 'reality' of power?
epochemagazine.org/80/adorno-mi...
epochemagazine.org/80/adorno-mi...
Adorno on Ideology: “Minima Moralia,” §71 | Epoché Magazine
A free online philosophy magazine, delivered monthly
epochemagazine.org
May 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Timofei Gerber on Adorno's 'Minima Moralia': Has the concept of truth been completely subsumed into the 'reality' of power?
epochemagazine.org/80/adorno-mi...
epochemagazine.org/80/adorno-mi...