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Hemlock Connoisseur PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa Lover of Plato, onions, and Shelby Proud member of the Green Party of Ontario He/him

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FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · Nov 19

1) Understanding Plato as a critic of Socrates.
2) The normative limitations of teleological concepts (especially post-Dewey).

kristopher g phillips, Ph.D. @kristophergphillips.com · Nov 18

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1. What can we learn from early modern metaphilosophy & education?
2. Descartes is neither libertarian nor compatibilist

John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · Nov 18

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1. Can you model seasonal dynamics in child welfare populations?
2. State capacity.

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FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 16h

He released some music, but no one really respects him any more, no. Total defeat.

FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 17h

Ah, yes, that’s an excellent point. Whatever communism might entail, there is definitely an imaginary communism that still affects political discourse. No objection here.

FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 18h

We shouldn’t doubt that debt would be transformed, of course, because debt has always taken different forms. I just don’t know what grounds we might have for believing that it would be gone entirely.

But then again, I’m also not a Marx scholar. Maybe he says something compelling about this.

FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 18h

That would be nice.

Although, only tangentially related, I do find it somewhat odd that people define Communism or whatever by simply negating features of capitalism. Like, why would we think that debt is eradicated? It’s the single most enduring institution in human history.

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FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 20h

Isn’t this basically just We Own This City?

FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 20h

This might mean that Americans could buy their own or their friends’ debt on the cheap. Unlikely, but possible. Maybe church groups or whatever could get together and do some charity.

Of course, knowing this administration, that’ll be illegal.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party for the last few days have gained 1000 new members every single day.

We've just reached 87,000 members!!!!

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski is the Mamdani of the UK - and he's Green!

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Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 2d

NEW BIG VIDEO UP NOW:

this one has it all - driverless taxis, ICE detention centers, weird guys obsessed with Lord of the Rings, and so much more.

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Your Robot Taxi is Fueling the Police the State

YouTube video by Michael Burns

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

forum wars took over the government. the 10,000-page thread spilled out into the streets. people are getting their doors blown open and hogtied so that nerds can win an online argument. they tanked the dollar and fucked the economy permanently to own you

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FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 4d

I want to do a joke publication one day interpreting some famous biblical scholar’s paper with the same methods they employ for the bible just to, like, emphasise how meaningless the method sometimes is.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 5d

People outside academia are finally discovering Tyler Cowen. This may be better than the Kershnar event.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 5d

Beyond that, you’re definitely right that the name does not define or limit the character’s role in the dialogue. I’m mostly just curious about the ways that the names become relevant and especially about how Plato’s Greek audience read them, since they obviously needed no translation.

FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 5d

And it’s at least possible that Plato uses Socrates’ name as a pretext to frame his character differently from other Socratics, since he does represent him as something of a saviour in ways that Xenophon doesn’t.

FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 5d

I mostly agree. I think there is another dimension to this, though: not that Plato chooses characters on account of their name but that he subtly reframes what they say in light of it. For Critias, for example, judgement is pretty important.

FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 5d

Curious: which characters do you think are obviously not chosen for their names?

And in those cases, do you think that it would be misleading to translate their names?

FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 5d

This would genuinely be a funny debate because she’s management.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 7d

this is poetry

Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 8d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8d

in fact, "we should compromise" has it exactly backwards. Trumpists don't want conflict, they want domination. they FEAR conflict, which is a different thing. bullies are usually afraid to gamble with the possibility of losing, and you beat them by forcing them to.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Feb 19

That’s why it’s so absurd when people say “we can’t fight Trump, he thrives on conflict.” Bullies like Trump do not thrive on genuine conflict with real stakes. They thrive on fake conflict they can win and control. They fear real conflict immensely. Conflict is how you beat them. They are cowards.

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FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 8d

I wonder if people would understand Plato better if we translated the names also.

If so, get ready for a dialogue about rhetoric between Vigor and Powerful Salvation with interjections by Colt and Beautiful Fame.

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FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 8d

This is correct. The LDS church switched to avoid using “mormon” a couple decades ago, if I recall, because people like to differentiate mormonism from Christianity and that’s apparently bad.

FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 9d

I actually like The Last Man better than Frankenstein. Both are great, of course, but The Last Man speaks to me more.

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 9d

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

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