Discourse Elysium
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Philosophy is great because you start out thinking you're gonna answer all the hard questions and you end up thinking you can't even ask them.
The key takeaway from the Global Tipping Points Conference at the @UniofExeter, where I've been this week, convening over 500 earth-system & other scientists: Global heating over 1.5C risks setting off tipping points that would destroy the world. The hotter, the more danger. 1/
The strategy of slow murder by hunger was there from the very beginning — deaths calculated to be much worse than those caused by bombs or bullets because they deny martyrdom, the catalyst for resistance.
They burned the fishing boats of a starving people.
Massive Attack, Brian Eno, Fontaines DC and Kneecap have announced the formation of a syndicate for artists speaking out about Israel’s military assault on Gaza, who they say have been subjected to “aggressive, vexatious campaigns” by pro-Israel advocates theguardian.com/music/2025/jul…
VANCE: They never showed us the letter TRUMP: We told them the letter is a fake 🤔
Ron Wyden, who has worked the Epstein case for 3 years, says that the government is sitting on secret bank filings showing some 1.5 billion in suspicious wire transfers by Epstein involving some of the most powerful people in the world How about we release those?
The first like 10 episodes of The Colbert Report when he was parodying that dipshit O’Reilly were tremendous and he’s been coasting ever since.
For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump. on.wsj.com/3Ite58f
For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump. on.wsj.com/3Ite58f
Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a birthday letter with a drawing of a naked woman on it and a note reading, "may every day be another wonderful secret," the Wall Street Journal just reported. Trump denies this ever happened, saying: "I never wrote a picture in my life."
That's how you get ants
suck it crabs, the future is anteater
People missed the likely explanation for Trump's bizarre ramble yesterday, when he falsely said his uncle taught the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Trump is under huge stress right now about the Jeffrey Epstein files. And it's Epstein who claimed that he studied with the Unabomber. 1/
Trump: My uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors. 51 years whatever… three degrees in nuclear, chemical and math. Kaczynski was one of his students? Do you know who that is? There is very little difference between a mad man and a genius.
we need leaders who will lead us out of the fossil-fuel economy. now.
🚨I’m from New York and I’ve never seen it like this. Subway stations flooding. Streets turning to rivers. And the city that never sleeps just got soaked by the price of political cowardice. We don’t need thoughts and prayers. We need drains that work and leaders who give a…
What a guy, can't wait to be a citizen so he can tell me how to vote.
Corbyn, Sultana and the "let Nigel win" party ... thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-cor…
the public has no obligation to participate in strikes!
the public has no obligation to participate in strikes!
[I'm the hairspitting philosopher]
The truth is, there is some vague notion afloat that a question may mean something which the mind cannot conceive; and when some hairsplitting philosophers have been confronted with the absurdity of such a view, they have invented an empty distinction between positive and /1
The truth is, there is some vague notion afloat that a question may mean something which the mind cannot conceive; and when some hairsplitting philosophers have been confronted with the absurdity of such a view, they have invented an empty distinction between positive and /1
You are being lit by gas and you know it.
A moment of much appreciated sanity from @archiebland theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Adjunct making $60 per student: AI use stands at odds with any serious practice of intellectual inquiry or knowledge production Peter Thiel Distinguished Professor of Human Letters, base salary $280,000 per year: every day I discover another new task for Hallucinating AskJeeves
Michael Rosen: Letter to the Prime Minister and Home Secretary michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/letter…