Robert Brown

If you need a bright spot, it is this: acting in the dead of night, secretly, with as much speed as possible, and denying and delaying scrutiny implies that they BELIEVE their work is vulnerable and reversible at this stage.

Really excited to announce our "Best of" for 2024 just came out! Super excited to share the 20 best #philosophy #ethics #shortstory #fiction we published this year!

Considering we had 1300+ submissions, you know the top 20 stories going to be great! buff.ly/3WCloi7

It needed to be a series. At least a mini-series. It added too much camp and deviated too much from normal Trek "canon" too fast. Stretched out over six episodes with better balance, and it could be so much better.

"DEI" is the Swiss Army Knife for bigotry dog whistles. Anything can be blamed on it, and bigots will fill in their hatred, ignoring the fact they fit someone else's choice for DEI otherness.

Eichmann in Jerusalem Part 1 of Hannah Arendt’s 1963 report on the “banality of evil” and the trial of the former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann for his role in the Holocaust.

Mandatory reading:

www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...

#PhilSky

The times are a timing. Interesting times. Philosophical times. Evil times. Dangerous times.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Remember: If an article is behind a paywall, going to archive[dot]is is a great way to make sure that article is properly snapshotted for posterity in the future. If in the process, you can read it, well, that would be something, wounldn't it?

*This is a Nazi with Aspergers enthusiastically throwing his heart to the crowd while giving a recognizable gesture of hate.

Fact-checked and fixed.

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Do not, however, trust that any platform-based reading material is permanent.

Foot soldiers vs. officers in “God’s Army”.

When we reach the other side, my friends, as time dictates we must, may we find a better world we've created waiting on us past the blood and sweat to come. 5/

...and you know that simplicity is a lie. What I can say is that there are those, many new to this awareness, who are ready to test the path forward. Some will falter. Hell, most will. I hope enough will continue that the journey will be a little less lonely. 4/

For many of you who live at cultural intersections I don't even pretend I will ever have to face, this is old news. You may be exhausted. You may be sick. That's all valid. I would love to say lay down your burden or that it will be picked up. You've heard that before... 3/

Challenge your worldview, evaluate your belief system, and discard that which does not serve in light of the world around you as it has become. This is not a fix-all for life. It does not guarantee a lack of struggle. It is, however, a way to gird yourself for the years and uncertainty to come. 2/

If you, like many on my feed, are working to process today, that's valid. If you are struggling to find a path forward, I humbly suggest starting with yourself. Education, reading, and reasoning is more important now than ever, both as a fundamental skill and revolutionary action. 1/

The History of What is the Good Life -
existentialcomics.com/comic/586

They make a lot of our tech components. The apps are just a courtesy nod to privacy.

Are we going to post about how #Chillsubs users ranked us the #1 literary magazine out of 1,000+ literary magazines for months on end? Yup! Even prouder because this comes from readers and Chillsubs, an org that matches up with our culture.

Reading is fast becoming a revolutionary action, digital and unpatriotic.

Worse it lets them open their minds without engaging critically. It's like taking down the firewall on reason and morality.

Brief research online says this is apparently a not overly uncommon problem with their stacked sole design. The rubber is just fused with heat and sometimes they don't join completely. Tried a few of the common fixes to no avail. I may try another pair again because I felt good in them.

It was a sole split. Jadon II soles started coming apart at the layers.

I mean, aside from an anecdote about her supporting his development as an MMA fighter during Rogan, it's been crickets.

In the wake of the #Meta #DEI fracas, isn't weird that we haven't heard anything from or of Priscilla Chan, despite her being a big talking point in the rehabilitation of the Zuck image from semi-android basement dweller to certified internet dude-bro?

My one pair--first ever Docs--started splitting a year in. I was so disappointed!

Why didn't anyone save us Gen Xers from Jenkem? Surely they could have found SOMETHING to ban.

I thought suspenders were mandatory in IT, not belts?