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explorations in the convergences of science & philosophy | deepening democracy & expanding freedoms | beyond capitalism & state | stoic socio-cosmopolitanism
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I've never understood those who seem to really enjoy the taste of boot.

We have double grounds for being skeptical of social and political hierarchies a. epistemic (left) b. moral, scientific, game theoretic (right) You can rely on one of these grounds, or both. Your choice.

In terms of sequencing, why do vulgar libertarians that bootlick Trump/Musk not prioritise cutting military and police budget to zero if they care so much about "efficiency"

I will sound like a broken radio for repeating this over and over, but it's an egregious mistake for both right-wingers and "leftists" to equate Capitalism with the "free market", whatever follows is a collosal misdiagnosis of political economy

c4ss.org/content/60127 by @kevincarson1.bsky.social

So the IDW types are condoning and normalising ironic Nazi salutes, which means sooner or later we won't be able to distinguish what constitute ironic and unironic Nazi salute, which means Nazis will start capitalising on this normalisation

Interesting essay criticizing liberal socialism by Enzo Rossi. Appreciate the link to my @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social essay. I have a few responses to the claims... damagemag.com/2025/02/25/s...

Corporations and states are historically and institutionally co-extensive, so it's a false dichotomy to set corporate and state workers against each other as if one leeches upon the other, the real leeches are the billionaire class and their politicians.

"They just made up the money." Some words from David Graeber about banking and money creation.

Sucks when JD vance co-opt this to mean "me and my in-group before everyone else", when the point is precisely to progress beyond that sort of thinking

Yep.

Weird how people who've cited the Laffer Curve hundreds of times in their careers don't understand it applies equally to tariff revenue. Decreasing imports and increasing revenue work directly against each other.

So a lib here just blocked me after discovering that my critical attitude against naive libs has nothing to do with conservatism. Typical.

>it's 2025 >still believing that the only political philosophy that's not liberalism is conservatism and vice versa Pick one

Ok, I'm starting to hate this place as much as Twitter

I mean, from day one he has always promoted western chauvinism ala Douglas Murray, while calling himself "politically homeless", so this is really not that shocking.

Epitome of Stoic Ethics, Arius Didymus via Joannes Stobaeus @tannerocampbell.bsky.social

I feel like this place is the flip side of Twitter, but a refugee for Trump-hating libs that are completely oblivious to how prior administrations led by the Democrats have been complicit (for.. idk.. decades?) in enabling folks like Trump/Musk

The big elephant in the room is what should be done when freedom of speech conflict with private property rights, especially today, when there are mass concentrations of ownership in the hands of *private* corporations, particularly in mass media.

IMO any attempt to reform the state to become more cybernetically "viable" (which might well be a reform i'd support) is probably going to come out of a social movement that can figure it out, not out of intellectuals writing policy documents that are implemented by politicians

Yep. Computational complexity and the knowledge problem are real. Sure they spend money on network mapping and informants but they still really have a hard fucking time parsing the radical left or communicating findings; and when you look at so many choices they make it's just arrest records.

Liu Ling was well known for his fondness for wine. Answering his critics, who found him naked, drinking with abandon in his house, Liu said, “I take heaven and earth to be my dwelling, and my rooms are my coat and pants; so what are you gentlemen doing in my pants?” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philo)

"In recent years, scholars have developed a more accurate method for measuring extreme poverty, by comparing people’s incomes to the prices of essential goods in each country (specifically food, shelter, clothing and fuel)"

In this episode, I moderate a debate between philosophy professor @benburgis.bsky.social & economics professor Walter Block on whether democratic socialism or laissez faire capitalism offers a better way of life. open.spotify.com/episode/02xK...

War is in the air more than peace these days. This reflects not only the salience of well-known strategic traps, but also the rapid emergence of cloud capital, which is in steering the world into these traps in four distinct ways www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/r...

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