Is it time to leave twitter?
I've never worried about voting with my feet since I'm not paying to be here and what I "pay" in whatever data is collected seems meh in the grand scheme. But fascism going as it is these days, I wonder. Also, it mostly just feels dead around here.
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This is basically Nietzsche’s slave revolt in morals, with the placeholder “pagan” switching roles to now be associated with slave morality.
It’s always struck me as an obviously weak argument… if the old nobility were so great… how’d they manage to get defeated so bad?
CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp:
“The West is obviously superior. We had a pagan religion infiltrate our universities and our society, and that religion basically said that everything good about America and everything that has actually worked… is bad.”
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If only we had a branch of government that handles disputes about what does and doesn’t constitute “legitimate power,” then we’d be cooking with gas!
If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.
If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.
Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.
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Kind of wish that in addition to a robust fascism debate about the current moment among political theorists there was a robust antichrist debate among theologians.
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With the caveat that I know plenty of adult converts that are wonderful and one shouldn’t generalize, lmao.
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A new edition of Suzanne Britt’s “Qu'est-ce que la documentation?”, the classic text of documentation studies, has been created by Arthur Perret. Included are marginal notes by Laurent Martinet, who worked on the English translation in the 90s.
hal.science/hal-04816907
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My oldest is pretty apolitical but is an avid egg eater and we have had to tell them to hold off on eggs for breakfast because we’re changing our grocery practices… if anything radicalizes them it will probably be egg prices, no joke. 😂
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This is a good theological-political statement, deeply rooted in psalms and tradition. Twitter replies do not seem to like it, though, lol!
People need to get more comfortable with stuff like this. Not saying everyone needs to believe in God, but this is a good word right now.
Fairfax is one of the largest school districts in the country, with only the more metro districts bigger than it basically. 54 admin designated “equity” across over 200 schools… seems fine? Especially when literacy outcomes also have equity issues!
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We were watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine and they were talking about how to teach kids about systemic racism, and the 8 y.o. said, “oh, we learned about that in church.” ❤️
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My dem representative in a plenty dem district had 1k requests for inauguration tickets and was able to hand out 150 of them to his constituents. From one IL deep blue district.
I can’t imagine Trump is moving the inauguration inside because he’s worried about low attendance. 🤷
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Well that's boring, I was hoping it was named Vader because it could choke people by telekinesis.
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Joke's on you, IG is about as up to date as I get and I usually forget that I have that app. Never even tried to figure out tiktok.
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Lots of people are 1) listening to an elder statesman’s address and 2) looking up theoretical terms from it - that’s a good thing!
Most of us probably learned/forgot the term in grade school, but how often do we use it colloquially, compared to “democracy” or even “aristocracy”?
What is going on with this index?
Looking at the publisher preview of Keith Ward's Barth on Religion.
cambridge.org/us/universityp…
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