David Lane
@davidlane.bsky.social
I like to use the little grey cells. I have a philosophy degree and work in tech. Interested in ontology, science, ethics, reason, society, and the future. I'm a liberal cosmopolitan who defends democracy and the rule of law.
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Senator Cory Booker has started his 19th hour on the Senate floor during his filibuster.
"I don't understand how we can be a nation with so much wealth and abundance and we haven't figured out a way to design a system where, when you invest in the wellbeing of people, people thrive."
Bravo, Cory!
"I don't understand how we can be a nation with so much wealth and abundance and we haven't figured out a way to design a system where, when you invest in the wellbeing of people, people thrive."
Bravo, Cory!
April 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Senator Cory Booker has started his 19th hour on the Senate floor during his filibuster.
"I don't understand how we can be a nation with so much wealth and abundance and we haven't figured out a way to design a system where, when you invest in the wellbeing of people, people thrive."
Bravo, Cory!
"I don't understand how we can be a nation with so much wealth and abundance and we haven't figured out a way to design a system where, when you invest in the wellbeing of people, people thrive."
Bravo, Cory!
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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
Or, rather, pretends to be to his supporters.
“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears, he is a protector.”
— Plato, Republic
— Plato, Republic
March 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Or, rather, pretends to be to his supporters.
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How many signs of democratic collapse do we need?
A push to impeach judges not for misconduct but defying Trump? Refusal to honor a court order to turn around planes? Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act outside wartime? A budget clearing him to ignore Congress? Jailing students?
The list goes on.
A push to impeach judges not for misconduct but defying Trump? Refusal to honor a court order to turn around planes? Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act outside wartime? A budget clearing him to ignore Congress? Jailing students?
The list goes on.
March 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
How many signs of democratic collapse do we need?
A push to impeach judges not for misconduct but defying Trump? Refusal to honor a court order to turn around planes? Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act outside wartime? A budget clearing him to ignore Congress? Jailing students?
The list goes on.
A push to impeach judges not for misconduct but defying Trump? Refusal to honor a court order to turn around planes? Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act outside wartime? A budget clearing him to ignore Congress? Jailing students?
The list goes on.
There's a phenomenon that seems, if not unique to America, uniquely bad here--the confusion of wealth with intelligence, moral virtue, and merit in general. And it isn't just the wealthy who confuse this in themselves. People from all socioeconomic strata seem to be similarly confused.
March 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
There's a phenomenon that seems, if not unique to America, uniquely bad here--the confusion of wealth with intelligence, moral virtue, and merit in general. And it isn't just the wealthy who confuse this in themselves. People from all socioeconomic strata seem to be similarly confused.
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90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
www.sciencefriday.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
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Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
snyder.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
"I don't like politics"
...yeah, but you'll like dictatorship even less.
...yeah, but you'll like dictatorship even less.
February 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
"I don't like politics"
...yeah, but you'll like dictatorship even less.
...yeah, but you'll like dictatorship even less.
Easy for demagogues to stoke bigotry when the majority of people falsely believe they're an "endangered" minority.
November 25, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Easy for demagogues to stoke bigotry when the majority of people falsely believe they're an "endangered" minority.
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Reading the news these days:
November 20, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Reading the news these days:
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Can relate.
The new normal is apparently waking up at 3am in a mild panic about the state of the country, then easing myself back to sleep by watching British panel shows.
November 19, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Can relate.
That fact that roughly half those polled support banning slaughterhouses is both encouraging and depressing, the latter when one notes that all but 5% repeatedly choose to vote for slaughter with regular meat purchases. The cognitive dissonance is thick.
I use this graph to show cognitive dissonance around #veganism 👇
November 18, 2024 at 12:30 PM
That fact that roughly half those polled support banning slaughterhouses is both encouraging and depressing, the latter when one notes that all but 5% repeatedly choose to vote for slaughter with regular meat purchases. The cognitive dissonance is thick.
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Unionization is a freedom issue, and needs to be understood as such.
Read more at the FrameLab Newsletter:
www.theframelab.org/labor-day-un...
Read more at the FrameLab Newsletter:
www.theframelab.org/labor-day-un...
Labor Day: Unions, freedom and profit creators
Unions increase freedom
www.theframelab.org
September 2, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Unionization is a freedom issue, and needs to be understood as such.
Read more at the FrameLab Newsletter:
www.theframelab.org/labor-day-un...
Read more at the FrameLab Newsletter:
www.theframelab.org/labor-day-un...
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We’re about to find out whether there are any patriots among Republican Senators, or whether they’ll make excuses for the foreign-backed demolition of our Republic that is now plainly underway.
November 13, 2024 at 11:01 PM
We’re about to find out whether there are any patriots among Republican Senators, or whether they’ll make excuses for the foreign-backed demolition of our Republic that is now plainly underway.
A Russian agent, a kiddy-diddling congressman, and a talk show host walk into a bar...oh wait, it's not a bar. It's the Oval Office, and they're in Trump's cabinet.
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
A Russian agent, a kiddy-diddling congressman, and a talk show host walk into a bar...oh wait, it's not a bar. It's the Oval Office, and they're in Trump's cabinet.
Watching this Trump cabinet come together reminded me of a Voltaire quote:
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."
November 13, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Watching this Trump cabinet come together reminded me of a Voltaire quote:
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."
A great irony of our time is that the democratization of media seems to be a large contributor to the present crisis of political democracy. There is no longer any institution providing a meritocratic or ethical filter deciding who gets to have a mass audience for their opinions 1/
November 11, 2024 at 9:49 PM
A great irony of our time is that the democratization of media seems to be a large contributor to the present crisis of political democracy. There is no longer any institution providing a meritocratic or ethical filter deciding who gets to have a mass audience for their opinions 1/
Inaugural post here. Hoping this place has a more customizable algorithm and less of a "Musky" stench about it. About me: I have a philosophy degree but work in tech. Interests include philosophy, science, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, democracy, and practical ethics. Who should I follow?
November 11, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Inaugural post here. Hoping this place has a more customizable algorithm and less of a "Musky" stench about it. About me: I have a philosophy degree but work in tech. Interests include philosophy, science, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, democracy, and practical ethics. Who should I follow?