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David S

@dslakter.bsky.social

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Community college philosophy professor. Former Oklahoman, current New Yorker. Kidney collector. There's more to life than books, you know (but not much more). https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-slakter

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 8h

Wow, that's crazy. I wonder if there were any stories published back then that downplayed his threat. Who would have written such a thing?

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 8h

I assume all the big name journalists are sleeping with one another and I don't care.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 8h

When I was teaching back then, I would assign Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" to discuss these kinds of issues. It worked due to optimism about the Internet; if students were capable of reading a document that long these days, they would think it incredibly naive.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14h

There are some potential, uh, side benefits to providing said defense.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14h

Or they wish they didn't have to.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 15h

But they weren't into resisting before it was cool. Many of them don't even know that It. Was. Always. This. Bad.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 15h

I have a professional acquaintance like this. Posting on Facebook about how they're worried the Feds will come for them. (The kind of thing someone who genuinely thinks the Feds were after them would do.)

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 15h

Finally, some terrorists who really do hate us for our freedom.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 15h

They read history and imagine all the kings and emperors were unfettered by any social or political limitations. Only lack of technology held them back.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 15h

This is part of Plato's argument that the tyrant harms themselves.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 15h

The stuff from Tesco et al is awful, but it can be good from a proper Greek spot.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 15h

And if you are,

Comedian Scott Seiss saying "Then die."

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 16h

If one dose of arsenic doesn't kill you, that means you can take as much as you want.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 16h

A corollary is that people who are lead poisoned will sue. The practical impossibility of this succeeding die to disproportionate resources between consumer and supplier is, of course, no fault of the markets.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 16h

NYT: In denying Jones's case, the Roberts court proves the majority retains hints of moderation.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 16h

A candidate is only as old as their median supporter.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 17h

That's just good heart biology.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 17h

No QI from angering the big man.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 18h

That whole thread is cursed.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1d

A cringe victory is no victory at all.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1d

Going to win the votes of a significant voting demographic by telling them to get fucked. (A strategy which saw great success in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.)

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1d

These priors don't adjust!

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1d

The bums will always lose.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite part of that discourse was earning the ire of weirdos just for pointing out that it was sugar water with added nutrients.

David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 1d

Who can say the cause of this?