Skepticism is just the converse of acceptance
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Being skeptical about some non-mainstream beliefs is not a fringe project of little importance, not always a slam-dunk, not a bit of occasional pointless drudgery - though I can certainly understand why it feels that way to argue with creationists. Skepticism is just the converse of acceptance, and so to be skeptical of a non-mainstream belief is to try to contribute to the project of advancing the borders of the known - to stake an additional epistemic claim that the borders should not expand in this direction, and should advance in some other direction instead.
What will happen if you swim in nuclear waste?
The remarkable Mundari Tribe of South Sudan showers with cow urine
Combining Research, Training, and Mentorship by Umesh Vazirani
How to stop a heart attack
I can imagine myself spending a year in my dream vault towards the end of my life, reliving it in dreamspace at 8x speed like an insane podcast, to arrive at a fully integrated sense of my life as a space of potentialities. A sense of it that might perhaps fuel the truest possible account of it. One that would be better than any autobiography or memoir, and perhaps even be suitable for uploading to the cloud, there to drive an eternal sequence of reboots of me, in a Groundhog Day of an afterlife.
Cyberpunk a short story by Bruce Bethke
Slave cure by Ido Portal
Freedom is an attribute that develops through practice. Freedom that is the result of a process of removing constraints outside of you, means the inner constraints shall remain untouched and one shall stay a ‘slave’, clearly it’s only an illusion of freedom. The practitioner should embrace the outside constraints in order to transform one self, internally and become truly free. Such is the Slave Cure. This is how we try to practice. One day at a time, with commitment, dedication and perseverance. We don’t put our navigation in the hands of what ‘feels good’, ‘looks good’ or what we are ‘good at’ necessarily, neither do we look for discomfort for discomfort sake. These choices place too much control in the wrong hands.
The joy of training (A Training Philosophy)
How johnny harris rewrites history
As a historian watching the latest Johnny Harris video I was disturbed. Johnny has a laudable goal of wanting to show the origins of European colonialism. But he cuts so many corners, that history is sacrificed on the altar of storytelling. In doing so he presents warped version of what actually happened.
Tweets for thought
war materials 🇺🇦
Where once the main sources of wealth were material assets such as gold mines, wheat fields and oil wells, today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can seize oil fields by force, you cannot acquire knowledge that way. The profitability of conquest has declined as a result.
A 34-year-old former Russian paratrooper, Pavel Filatyev, has published a remarkable in-depth account of his experiences of the Ukraine war. He served with the Feodosia-based 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment and fought in southern Ukraine for two months.
> Read threadMy threads on the experiences of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine
After Crimea Was Hit The World Laughs At Russia - Ukrainian Separatist’s Wife On The Phone
What happened in the past that seemed too crazy to be true but
There is no such thing as unbiased news. You can call it “less biased news”. There are numerous other biases that can influence news reporting too.
Overt political bias is probably the least concerning aspect of a democracy because it is simple to identify and weigh.
The more concerning biases in news reporting today are those that are more subtle, such as financial incentives and self-censorship of topics. Many topics are simply not covered, and the mainstream media does not question why.
Feel free to send me counter-propaganda too.
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