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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 22h

Can't wait to dive into the fabulous @quillkukla.bsky.social's new book "S*x Beyond 'Yes'" - a much-needed corrective to the tendency for feminist discourse on s*x to focus exclusively on how straight women can avoid terrible s*x, not on what sexual agency actually involves and how we can build it.

Cover of Quill Kukla's book "Sex beyond 'yes'"

Quill and Elliot Kukla sit on foldable chairs in front of bookshelves and a banner reading "Fabulosa Books"

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends. Yet memories of periods of revolutionary hope and collective victories can provide the materials for a form of nostalgia that the Left can use.

The Left Can’t Abandon Nostalgia to the Right

The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends. Yet memories of periods of revolutionary hope and collective victories can provide the materials for a form of nostalgia that the Left can use.

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 1d

Left nostalgia has been harnessed in the US in important ways - the Green New Deal is about nostalgia for the New Deal, the Palestine encampments are nostalgic for anti-Vietnam-war activism. But we should do it more!

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 1d

Nostalgia can also be a crucial ingredient in dreaming of a better future. Nostalgia is actually about creative reinterpretation of the past in light of today's needs. So it can be very helpful in coming up with new political visions. 4/

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 1d

Why? First: nostalgia has an unparalleled capacity to coordinate large groups of people around shared rituals, memories, and desires. It can really bring people out together instead of divide us. 3/

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 1d

It can seem that nostalgia is inherently fascist-leaning. But not only can nostalgia be directed at periods of hope, solidarity, and revolution, we need to actively do so on the left. 2/

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 1d

Super stoked to have a piece out in Jacobin! It's a personal essay about nostalgia for the Portuguese Carnation Revolution and a reclamation of the power of nostalgia for the left. 1/

The Left Can’t Abandon Nostalgia to the Right

The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends. Yet memories of periods of revolutionary hope and collective victories can provide the materials for a form of nostalgia tha...

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 2d

Lantern attention is open awareness of reality - good for learning and exploring, and what children have way more than adults.

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 2d

Spotlight attention is what we usually mean by “attention”: inhibiting lots of information to focus only on things relevant to our goals - good for getting stuff done, encouraged by capitalism.

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 2d

One fascinating distinction Gopnik draws: between spotlight and lantern attention.

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 2d

Listen for fascinating ideas on learning, play, children’s and adults’ minds, the explore-exploit and imitate-innovate trade-offs, varieties of consciousness and attention, cultural change, the limitations of AI, among others.

(And decidedly not endorsing Ezra Klein’s recent political takes)

Opinion | Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’ (Published 2021)

www.nytimes.com

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 3d

Art for social good: these artists have developed a piece where "you’re invited to phone CEOs and executives in the fossil fuel industry and waste as much of their time as you can. We’ve developed a kind of methodology to quantify how much time wasted would result in what amount of carbon savings."

Climate Hacks | Broadcast

Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe everyone mistrusts institutions, and rationalizes this distrust by thinking they represent “the other side”?

Take Sipma @takesipma.bsky.social · 5d

... We show that citizens' perceptions of bias are widespread in 🇩🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇬🇧, 🇵🇱 and 🇪🇸. Most notably, we find that the direction of perceived bias mirrors one’s own ideological position. Left- and right-leaning citizens tend to associate institutional actors with the opposite (‘hostile’) ideology. (3/3)

Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 4d

That’s just what someone in a simulation would say, though!

(The line between philosophy and trolling is thin here xD)

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 4d

for every post you make about a major pop album today i decree you make one bandcamp friday purchase

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 4d

Wild how I have a job that involves standing in front of 300 teenagers going "Maybe you're living in a simulation! What if other people don't actually have any thoughts and feelings? What if you don't have hands?" and there is actually no convincing reply.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 6d

GENERAL REMINDER FOR EUROPEAN TRAVELLERS: don't go through to the non Schengen area of a European airport until *after* you have eaten.

Else you will be left buying dinner from a small sandwich kiosk. And you deserve better.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy.

(🎥 Luc Auffret)

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Alex Fisher @alex-fisher.bsky.social · 6d

Spent the afternoon reading this fantastic article!

Would highly recommend, especially to anyone interested in how we view the colonial past, social narratives, the ethics of attention, and epistemic injustice.

Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · Sep 4

My new article, "Calling Trauma, Elite Capture, and Hermeneutical Injustice," is out in Phil Quarterly!

It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵

Black and white photo of the Padrao dos Descobrimentos (sailboat-shaped stone monument in Lisbon) surrounded by containers.

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 5d

"By choosing to take our music off of Spotify, we’re trying to point to something bigger: the ability to also take ownership of our brains and our dollars and direct them toward something we believe in."

Go buy Sylvan Esso's lovely music on Bandcamp!

Sylvan Esso on Why They Pulled Their Music From Spotify

The band Sylvan Esso has removed its music from Spotify in protest of the company’s exploitative practices. In an exclusive interview with Jacobin, they explain their reasoning — and why the move feel...

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 5d

Teaching William James on attention today and damn the classics are classics for a reason (and maybe I am becoming a Crotchety Old Man).

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, thanks so much! Made my day!

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 6d

We (often) endorse and share because things match how we feel the world as a whole is, regardless of whether the specific claim is true.

Also: I think this is not just a fascistic trait, but probably a general cognitive tendency that we sometimes reign in. (if we have the right incentives!)

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 6d

"Everyone in the comments knew the video was AI-generated... ‘It actually does not matter if this is AI-generated,’ one user wrote. ‘It is describing exactly what is happening in Britain right now to a tee.’" File under: why fact-checking can be irrelevant. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines

Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 7d

Yall please go watch @merriam-webster.com’s new AI ad😅

youtu.be/RvQnl3O0D3c?...

LLM

YouTube video by Merriam-Webster

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