Pegasus

And Epicurus whose major influence on Marx's materialism and conception of freedom should not be overlooked.

You've certainly come across phrases like "commodities are embodied values". Here's a short text about the conceptual stakes of this mistake probably related to the traditional English (mis)translation of Marx that rendered "Darstellung" as "embodiment" : open.substack.com/pub/storypegas…

Every few months left twitter finds some slop meme about the calculation debate made by a moron who doesn’t understand the debate and then decides to smugly dismiss it with arguments that reveal they don’t really understand the debate

Would you believe that Marx's value theory and the transformation problem were discussed even in France's National Assembly in the late 19th century?

We can say whatever about how Engels contributed to spread some misconceptions on Marx's value theory but damn, you can feel for the man who was left alone with the giant task of justifying Marx's manuscripts & solution to the "transformation problem" against multiple economists.

Still baffled by how Black Sabbath was innovative with their first albums. Paranoid remains in my top 3 albums of all time. Ozzy's very special voice and personality contributed for sure. RIP legend.

One personal accomplishment this year was finally doing a real bulk after overcoming my ab anxiety. I hurt my progress for so long because I was afraid to get beyond 10% bf. Now that I actually eat, my performance skyrocketed, I never gained so much muscle and I feel much better.

Man, FF (And arguably other games as well) have not topped this game in terms of art direction sense imo. Spira to me remains the most beautiful FF World, and perhaps a frontrunner for the most beautiful game worlds of all time, "dated" visuals aside.

Is there an ancient philosophical question that never stopped obsessing you? For me it's the problem of universals. It touches the very nature of reality, existence and thought; and I feel like it has an underlying presence in a lot of topics. I somehow always go back to it.

Everyday I enjoy having this cool asf Japanese poster of Big Trouble in Little China on my wall

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Si c'est le cas j'en suis très heureux.

the urge to update a Substack article multiple times although nobody reads it anymore (two years it's been published)

Reducing Marx's value theory to a theory of relative prices in 2025