#Universal

"Language is more than a medium for communication. It’s an instrument of power, a measure of humanity, a map for world-making. It is also never neutral." Nuanced insight on the
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I think that last SER panel was great. It was needed. And, I wished that there was more thought & analysis about how the goal post is not the same
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On The Necessity & Effectiveness of Masks: Okay, so this is going to sound like the craziest thing you've heard all day, but bear with me. Everyone knows Fauci, Redfield
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This is not to say that only 15-20% were exposed to covid. It says only 15-20% express antibodies, because many are able to kill coronaivrus before their body even needs
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Broke: retvrn to traditionWoke: TranshumanismBespoke: M O N K E more pacifically:tradition has led us to where we areif tradition were good, how did we fall out of it? tradition
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Powerful to re-read now Sylvia Wynter's "No Humans Involved" (written in 1992 in the wake of Rodney King), not just to ponder what has & has not changed, but also
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When discussing Universal Basic Income, inevitably the retort comes: "So you just want people to not have to work, is that it?" Accompanied by a smug smirk, expecting me to
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Warner Bros vient de dévoiler son nouveau logo animé, 1 an et demi après la version fixe !Court thread sur l'esthétique de ce studio qui fêtera ses 100 ans en
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Thing to note is all said & done the govt buys only 6% of the National #agriculture production for some ₹100,000cr . The total receipts of #India are at some
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Was listening to @FMAnalysts and their discussion of the word “Alkahestry'' which, as far as we could tell, is a neologism made specifically for the show based on Paracelsus's concept
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A long thread on the French Socialists' 1981 program, which has some amazingly based partsFirst, they insisted we have to overcome the "crisis in science" (which is not a post-2015
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Why does Zeus always look a certain way in video games? The easy answer is: We have an extraordinary amount of depictions of Zeus in classical art that folks draw
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the Western Standard Model of mind/psyche is really bad, constrained by demands for scientific (read: institutional) validation if you think about mind, self, emotion, etc as a vague space to
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Socialism Is Slavery and Worse Socialism is government ownership of the means of production. Since all work requires the use of means of production, under socialism the government is a
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Today, I received an email from someone who'd just signed up for our newsletter.They wrote, "I want to get into running, but I don't know how." When I received it,
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Dado que se cumplen los 20 años de la Wikipedia, creo que es relevante recordar que en sus inicios la Wikipedia corrió el riesgo de "facebookización". Les comento cómo logramos
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