#Philosophy

A lot of people dismissively mocking this tweet but it's worth pausing to recognize its Marxist roots.This "thinking" traces back to Critical Theory, The Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno & ultimately
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Last week, the largest organized strike in human history shut down India. 250,000,000 people struck against Indian PM Narendra Modi's neoliberal reforms to the agricultural sector.https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/3/india_protests_mo
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Dear media,I am an anarchist.I assure you, the Capitol Hill mob are NOT anarchists.Anarchists support, among other things, social and economic egalitarianism; not extreme cultural conservatism, nationalism, and the like.
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Often Stoicism is thought of as an ancient philosophy, with no relevance to the modern world. This is simply not true. There are a host of successful people who have
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1/ Financial Hacking: Evaluate Risks, Price Derivatives, Structure Trades, And Build Your Intuition Quickly And Easily (Philip Maymin)Thread"To those new to the field, 'financial engineering' conveys a precision that is
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1...Sometimes it’s good to shuffle through political legacy and juxtapose related comments from our dear leaders:1. Jason Kenney (premier)2. Jason Luan (associate minister of mental health and addictions)...2 2...@jkenney:”If all
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12 years later people are still going mad over it. People respect it and even those who hate dc cannot stop praising it. But why ? My thoughts on Dark
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It's MLK Day, the day in America when politicians who absolutely would have opposed Martin Luther King Jr. quote him to cast a sheen of legitimacy on their causes. MLK
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Do you agree with the following statement:"Jews are overrepresented in positions of authority vis-a-vis whites for the same reason whites are overrepresented vis-a-vis blacks."Credit: @nathancofnas (b/c = "because") Your
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At the suggestion of the inestimable @tigerlilyrocks, I thought I'd do a thread on my thoughts on turning a #phdtobook for #TeachAncient and #classicstwitter. They're personal reflections, not unalterable laws,
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Some day an investigative journalist is going to write one hell of a book on the Neoreationary movement, its influence in Silicon Valley, and the funding and influence it clearly
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"The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the
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When we watch TV or play video games, we form one-way friendships with the characters, called parasocial relationships. The same thing can happen on twitter, especially with the bigger accounts
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It’s taken me too long to do this, but I’m finally finding the time to read Finding Our Niche by my good friend and colleague @ConserveChange. In this thread, I’ll
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Thread. Should you work on or with the FEP? The answer depends on a number of factors, and I believe that what discipline you are situated in is not one
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: MARGARET HAMILTON, born 1936. Software engineer who worked on the Apollo missions, founder of two software companies, author of over 130 papers. Hamilton earned a degree
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