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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 6h

45 years ago - The Damned, October 1980

Left to right: drummer Rat Scabies, singer Dave Vanian, guitarist Captain Sensible and bassist Paul Gray.

Photo by Michael Putland

#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #thedamned #history #punkrockhistory

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 9h

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 8h

My reasons don’t just have to do with the subjective point of view. I also think that substrate is likely crucial. Massimo Pigliucci (a philosopher and former biologist) and I address that aspect of it in this dialogue we did on the “Strong AI thesis”

youtu.be/wtNzxqmK-i0?...

Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci [Sophia] (full conversation)

YouTube video by NonzeroClips

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 11h

Untitled by Mark Rothko, 1952
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137850

Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

© 2012 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 10h

I’m always struck by how good the art is on these.

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 10h

I think the definition has an implicit element that you have left out:

“Introspection gives a person privileged access to their current state of mind (e.g., thoughts and feelings) that is not accessible to external observers”

*From a subjective point of view.* It’s not just privileged access.

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British Journal of Aesthetics @britjaesth.bsky.social · 14h

Connor Kianpour defends (many) immoral jokes in this advance article. Will he have cancelled himself by the time you reach the conclusion? Only one way to find out... doi.org/10.1093/aest... #philsky

Humour’s combination of non-literality, imaginative distance, and play allows it to disarm, provoke, and invite reflection, even from resistant audiences. That distinctiveness supports a more permissive ethical stance: immoral jokes often expose social and moral incongruities, making them valuable tools for moral-epistemic growth.
- Connor K Kianpour, Learning by Laughing: Humour as Moral Error Detection and the Ethics of Immoral Jokes

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 14h

Philosophers have lost their minds over the concepts, ‘objective’ and ‘real.’

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 14h

Yes

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 14h

I think so.

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 14h

I'm quite allergic the the "zombie" thought experiments, so I don't really think anything hangs on them. What consciousness consists of is an empirical question, and everything our scientific investigations of it have told us is that it is a property of nervous systems.

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 14h

Even weirder, when I tried to google "Robert Long Consciousness" Malwarebytes gave me malicious website warnings.

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 14h

thx

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 14h

Link won't work. Page doesn't load.

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 15h

I'm really starting to hate how every freaking game has to have MMO style "boss fights" with ridiculous mechanics and phases and one-shots and all the rest. Godawful game design. Can turn a fun game into an un-fun one almost instantly.

#gaming

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 16h

No.

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 16h

I very much doubt that she feels bad.

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 17h

😂🤣

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

"The Wrap of Khan" would be a good name for a Star Trek-themed shawarma cart

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 17h

So, what are you going to do about? Just talk a lot?

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bsox72.bsky.social @bsox72.bsky.social · 1d

Red Sox Leftfielder Carl Yastrzemski and Celtics Player/Coach Bill Russell share a laugh at the Harvard Club, after Russell was presented a Grecian urn for being named Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year”. Russell was the 1st NBA player to win the award, and Yaz won it the yr prior in 1967.

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Marylin Delgado @philosophypills.bsky.social · 17h

Umberto Eco: The Medievalist Who Taught Us How to Spot a Fascist

His writings reveal how the symbols and rhetoric of the Middle Ages can be twisted to serve modern fascist ideologies.

www.medievalists.net/2025/07/the-...

The Medievalist Who Taught Us How to Spot a Fascist - Medievalists.net

Discover how medievalist Umberto Eco used his fiction, scholarship, and political insight to expose the signs of modern fascism—and why his warnings remain urgent today.

www.medievalists.net

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 18h

No.

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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 18h

Takes on a whole new meaning nowadays. 😬

Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 18h

"I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors." ~ George A. Romero

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🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 20h

Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy and Christie Brinkley star in
the 🇺🇸American road trip black comedy "NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION" (1983) directed by Harold Ramis

🎬 Warner Bros

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 22h

October 8, 1973

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