Maren Behrensen

@mbehrensen.bsky.social

Philosophy (trans and gender stuff, technology, social ontology, cognitive warfare) | Mushrooms (not that kind) | Scifi and sports dorkery

One terrifying aspect of brainrot on the American left is the inability to process political events without connecting them directly to Trump and Israel. Even if the events in Ceuta were the result of Moroccan geopolitical flexing, there's still no need for antisemitic epicycles to explain them.

Postende direkt nach dem Anschlag auf den Berliner CSD: "Merz ist bestimmt zu feige, dazu etwas zu sagen" Merz: *äußert sich wenige Stunden nach der Tat* Postende heute Morgen: "Heuchelei! Merz hätte besser nichts gesagt!" Und jetzt weiß ich auch nicht.

Ein Finale als hätte man den ganzen Tag so ein faseriges Stück Fleisch zwischen den Backenzähnen, das man mit der Zunge nicht rausgeprokelt bekommt und dann kommt man endlich nach Hause und greift zur Zahnseide FERRÁN TORRES

Spahn "kenne es 'als Christ', dass 'das eine die reine Lehre ist und das andere das echte Leben'." - Ich kenne es als Philosophie treibende Person, dass das eine gut begründetes Abwägen gegenüber dogmatischen ethischen Forderungen ist und das andere Pippi-Langstrumpf-Moral.

Richtig muss es natürlich heißen: "Les Malouines sont françaises" - und für den Fall des Falles steht nach wie vor ein König von Araukanien und Patagonien im französischen Exil bereit.

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Philosophy isn't special. Studying philosophy doesn't make you good, wise, or even smart. And like any other group of humans, academic philosophy has its share of groomers, grifters, and hateful little gremlins.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last mo.

Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

2 WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J.
THOMAS, J., concurring
judgment). Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable men-
tal state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does
not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of
which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny—
race, sex, or national origin. Instead, gender dysphoria re-
sembles other characteristics on the basis of which legisla-
tures may classify with a merely rational basis. See, e.g.,
Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 321 (1993) (mental illness);
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202, 220 (1982) (immigration sta-
tus). Legislatures have many obvious rational bases to
keep men who believe that they are women out of teams
and private spaces reserved for women.
Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “bio-
logical men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10,
27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or
girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immuta-
ble “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary;
and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that
correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne,
Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical
Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to ob-
scure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”—
is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens
“as equal[s].” J. Pieper, Abuse of Language—Abuse of
Power 17, 21 (1992).

Chemical misconception I was disabused of as I was looking up information for a joke: I thought that all isotopes of transuranic elements with an atomic number higher than 94 (Plutonium) had short half-lives (less than a year, maybe less than a day). Boy was I wrong.