Medical misinformation is one those phenomenona that dispels your belief that if things get bad enough they will self-correct; people often (usually) double down on their delusions rather than admit they were wrong, even when it's actively harming them. bsky.app/profile/luck...
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2d agoUS child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
IMO this is the slow-moving disaster that most epitomizes the nightmare that is the Modern Information Environment
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2d agoUS child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
You have to think how utterly soul-destroying it must be to be so low down the pecking order of the pro-Iran hacking groups that you are sent to sort-of take down Bluesky.
Katieboo @k8tshires.eurosky.social · 2d ago'Bluesky suffered a 24-hour DDoS attack that caused outages. A pro-Iran hacker group claimed responsibility for the disruption.' securityaffairs.com/191059/secur...
Contemporary philosophy is full of inveterate Realists whereas I'm instinctually anti-realist. (Atoms, void, and class-warfare are the only primitives; everything else is fake.) But where this comes out most is that to me it's just *obvious* that metaphysical realism about moral value adds nothing.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d agoDo you have any philosophical intuitions that seem extremely obvious to you, but are highly disagreed about? E.g. moral realism vs antirealism, separation of mind and matter, possibility of free will, objects being able to have moral standing, existence per se as a positive good for humans etc
Beliefs in conspiracies cannot be shaken by anything. Denials are interpreted as confirmations. "Full disclosure" only raises suspicions that something is being hidden. This is inherent in the logic of conspiracies.
A summary of what I understand and do not understand about the way democracy works: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7269378
<p>Swan Song: My Understanding of Democracy</p>
I summarize my understanding of democracy: the theory which predicts when elections peacefully manage conflicts and the empirical evidence regarding the co
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Exiting Samsara requires knowing that your correct policy preferences will never be law because American voters are Hitler.
Now, just so no one feels im not being fair, let's steelman an argument from earlier: while it is stupid to summarise this as "no progressive movement has ever gone too far," it is actually incredibly hard to convincingly argue that 2010s Western cultural liberalism went too far.
The last bit of the screenshot is especially peculiar. You don’t have to agree with Burke to think the French Revolution “went too far” (not even Burke’s position, but I digress). You can just agree with Benjamin Constant, i.e. the defining figure of French liberalism. bsky.app/profile/vand...
Kristian van der Vliet@vanders.bsky.social · 6d ago
I don't point this out nearly often enough or in a way that would connote the intensity of the feeling but I really can not convey how much I hate that self-proclaimed liberals are very often illiberal and almost never motivated by liberal political-philosophical principles.
The Great Crested Grebe with her little chicks on her back! Such a great capture!
Didn't expect a Republican to be the one to usher in a global carbon tax, but I'll take wins where I can get them bsky.app/profile/ship...
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2w agoIran is demanding a fee of 7% on all commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, with Chinese and Russian vessels exempt from the fee, while Oman is discussing smaller fees of around 3% and the US wants no fees at all.-Reuters
First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
when people say "do your own research" they generally mean "do not trust anyone with any relevant training or experience"
Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.
One of my least favourite elements of political discourse is when people insist that a word has only one meaning (especially when it’s heavily contested) and aggressively refuse to even engage with that fact
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 3w agoThe whole ‘liberals will choose fascism’ discourse is a bit tiresome all round, partly because it seems like liberal is being subbed in for ‘centrist’ or ‘moderate’ which is far less defined ideologically.
"You realise you're an adult, right?" is kind of the ideal rejoinder to 90% of the therapy-speak discourse that plagues so much social media.
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3w ago'I don't like techies or yuppies' then don't socialize with them. you realize you're an adult, right? no one is making you play with people you don't like.
Yeah in 2026 if you're pushing for new Nuclear I assume you're either paid by legacy energy companies or manipulated by those paid by legacy energy companies. If you're bemoaning the lack of construction in 1976, though, you're just correct to bemoan it.
say what you will about the internet, but it’s undeniably the best way to find new stupid stuff to be insane about every day
Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · last mo.ICYMI: William Upham, a Marine Corps veteran and Republican congressional candidate from Florida, is facing the prospect of prison after he advocated in a widely-shared social media video for killing President Donald Trump. (from @chadgarland.bsky.social)
Bluesky: the home of vindicated but still often annoying opinions
