alright great i’m glad we have reached consensus in my anti-consensus thread, now that the meta-discourse has been resolved you can resume your regularly scheduled discourse
highly addicted to bsky ngl. i should have went to sleep 5 hours ago, my thumb hurts from scrolling all day, and i had to recharge my phone battery twice today
public service announcement: the UC Santa Cruz Environmental Studies department has taken down the political philosophy PDFs they were hosting. i know, i’m just as shocked and disappointed as you are.
this is true tho. they might have massive disagreements but they both reject core tenants of liberalism that obscure the conversation (neutrality in particular re:’compromisers’)
btw this was me 5mo ago, touching bsky data for the first time. i didn’t know anything about the api (or atproto for that matter) so i just went scrounging around in the network tab of devtools
i think one of the biggest changes that i somewhat miss is ult gen rate, like it kinda completely changes the dynamic bc you can tempo ult a lot more aggressively, and it feels like more characters have macro expression in that way
one of the many reasons i enjoy wittgenstein is that he articulates one elaboration of hegel's dictum: "philosophy arises when life has lost its unity" www.marxists.org/reference/ar...
"Where language is perceived to be the site of progressive action, action is taken in language. Actions taken in other spheres can become less urgent and less necessary."
my fav part abt this is that while it’s accurate that it’s categorically untrue (PDS != relay), the part he focuses on (rightly, because it’s the point being made) is not qualitative but quantitative