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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3h

While I'm Hermann Cohen posting, his immature epistemology as a blend of psychology and history is pretty damn attractive, and one day I might have to write about that.

But in the meantime: mehr Kantrezeptionsgeschichte!

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3h

Very Hermann Cohen to call a book KANT'S THEORY OF EXPERIENCE and then in the preface say "this book is about Kant's theory of the a priori," but then actually make the book about Kant's theory of objectivity.

I love love reading this guy so much.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, these things all connect up for him! But also, it's very half-baked!

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3h

Very Hermann Cohen to call a book KANT'S THEORY OF EXPERIENCE and then in the preface say "this book is about Kant's theory of the a priori," but then actually make the book about Kant's theory of objectivity.

I love love reading this guy so much.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 6h

"I'm a middle-aged white guy who thinks MeToo went too far, but MAGA ball caps and AI slop with eagles soaring is ugly and beneath me."

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 6h

My theory is that there's a huge market for rebranding conservatism as centrism (or heyerodoxy or whatever), because there are a lot of people who politically or culturally conservative, but who are put off by a lot of the aesthetics of the modern conservative movement.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 6h

Students! Take note of the reactionary conservatives and what subjects they *don't* want you to study!

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 9h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Between These Lines 🇪🇺 ⚽ 🏈 🏀⚾ 🏒 @footballlibrettist.bsky.social · 18h

Man went from elbows up to elbow deep.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 19h

www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

The Blurring

What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.

www.dataandpolitics.net

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 1d

But now hackers can't break into your onedrive and steal your unfinished drafts about Hans Reichenbach, as they surely would, with dire consequences, if you had any less security.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 1d

Why can't our fascists build anything this good?

A beige building in the sunlight against a blue sky. The building is a large block, with six rows of nine arches running up the entire side of it.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2d

en mass. Oof.

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2d

I've often found it inconvenient to live in one of the few Canadian provinces that has no border with the US. But I won't mind having some ocean between me and a civil war.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2d

Still thinking about those Leipzigers in 1989. They weren't staying home waiting for their own military to take a stand for democracy.

They took to the streets en mass, and put themselves in front of the machine guns. Every single week for months.

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 10d

The thing about those Leipzigers was, they weren't sitting at home complaining about other people who weren't acting. They took action themselves.

One march didn't work, so they did it again the next week. And the week after that. And the week after that. For months.

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 11d

I'm thinking a lot about the huge numbers of Leipzigers who, before the DDR collapsed in late 1989, marched once a week, every week, for months. Every time, they knew they might be machine-gunned for doing it, but they kept coming back week after week.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. You snuck right into my department meeting and I didn't even see you.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 2d

Wild parakeets are pretty exciting!

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

You're right this discussion doesn't apply to people living in the Arctic. But those people are ~0.06% of the world's population. So maybe it's okay for the discussion to only focus on the other 99.94% of the world's population.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

My god I would love to see Zuckerberg brought low by T-Swift.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

Meta is obviously much bigger and richer than the investors T-Swift ruined with her Taylor's Version gambit.

But she is a powerful, powerful hater (laudatory), and I know who my money is on if this comes to war.

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

One data point FWIW. My dad (87) has never looked at social media in his life. Gets his news diet entirely from the (Canadian) CBC and the BBC. In the last 12 months, he's gone from not thinking about I/P much at all to being appalled by Israel's killing of civilians.

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

Midday walk.

A large crowd walks down the middle of a street. In the distance, rainbow peace and Palestinian flags are visible. At the end of the street is the Colleseum.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 4d

This is what really shocks me. In Halifax's last municipal election, many candidates -- even a couple of winners! -- had never even heard of major planning, policy, and bylaw projects that were finally coming to a close after a *decade* of painstaking work.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 4d

One of the true joys of being a middle-aged man is reading something like this and thinking, "That's none of my business," before immediately moving on.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 4d

Ha! I'm not quite ready to post that sort of thing on main!

Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 4d

He sampled Zeppelin's "Kashmir," and that gave him a big hit.

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