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[?]Philosophics » 🌐
@microglyphics@mastodon.social

A colleague and I chatted about a recent publication; he graciously noted he didn't agree with me. I realise that my example was strictly US. In this post, I don't lose the US frame; I added more background and brought in some name support. Feedback and counterpoints welcome.
👉 philosophics.blog/2026/02/12/t

    [?]Lucire » 🌐
    @lucire@fashionsocial.host

    The south rises in at The Gold Record Road 2026 celebration

    lucire.com/insider/20260208/th
    lucirerouge.com/2026/02/08/the

    On stage at The Gold Record Road Grammy celebration, with trumpet player performing.

    Alt...On stage at The Gold Record Road Grammy celebration, with trumpet player performing.

      [?]Philosophics » 🌐
      @microglyphics@mastodon.social

      Claude witters on about the Thermodynamics or ideological Maintenance—referencing democracy and capitalism.
      philosophics.blog/2026/02/08/c

        [?]Philosophics » 🌐
        @microglyphics@mastodon.social

        News Flash: Fish Are Not Arboreal by Nature
        🦈 philosophics.blog/2026/02/06/f
        Those who know me know I am no fan of psychology as a discipline. A fundamental reason is the categorical misunderstanding of cognitive and precognitive functions.

          [?]Philosophics » 🌐
          @microglyphics@mastodon.social

          Part 2 of a triptych modern parable on a divided culture no longer divided by geography.

          ⛰️ philosophics.blog/2026/02/02/t

            [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
            @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

            Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed', also known as The Bather, is a name given to four nearly identical oil paintings on canvas by English artist William Etty. The paintings illustrate a scene from James Thomson's 1727 poem Summer in which a young man accidentally sees a young woman bathing naked and is torn between his desire to look and his knowledge that he ought to look away.

            en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musidora

            Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (1843, this version painted 1844, exhibited 1846) was arguably Etty's last significant history painting. William Etty - Tate Britain, London The scene shows: Musidora standing in shallow water, nude except for a white cloth She is turning or reacting to a sound, capturing the moment of alarm described in the poem A richly painted wooded landscape with loose, atmospheric brushwork Etty's characteristic luminous flesh tones contrasting with the darker, earth-toned landscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Etty#/media/File:Etty_%E2%80%93_Musidora-_The_Bather_'At_the_Doubtful_Breeze_Alarmed'.jpg

            Alt...Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (1843, this version painted 1844, exhibited 1846) was arguably Etty's last significant history painting. William Etty - Tate Britain, London The scene shows: Musidora standing in shallow water, nude except for a white cloth She is turning or reacting to a sound, capturing the moment of alarm described in the poem A richly painted wooded landscape with loose, atmospheric brushwork Etty's characteristic luminous flesh tones contrasting with the darker, earth-toned landscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Etty#/media/File:Etty_%E2%80%93_Musidora-_The_Bather_'At_the_Doubtful_Breeze_Alarmed'.jpg

              Privacy and Surveillance boosted

              [?]WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business [Unofficial] » 🌐
              @wired.com@web.brid.gy

              Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise?

              TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more closely.

              Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise?

              Alt...Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise?

              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
              @Nonilex@masto.ai

              Defund , Distort , Mock

              It’s not just about cuts to .
              It’s about .

              By Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum


              theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/

                [?]Longreads » 🌐
                @longreads@mastodon.world

                "The American tourist is curious about your gelato and is disappointed you can’t give him cold brew."

                Francesco Pacifico for The Dial: thedial.world/articles/news/am

                  [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                  @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                  I discuss Chapter 4 of 'A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis' in this video.

                  philosophics.blog/2026/01/20/l

                  I discuss where language fails in law, politics, science, and digital culture, where we think language conveys more than it does.

                    [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                    @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                    I witter on about Qualified Subjectivity. Ponder with me.

                    philosophics.blog/2026/01/16/q

                    Why objective reality is an anachronistic myth.

                      [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                      @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                      25 years of humanity at its best

                      Join us in celebrating Wikipedia’s birthday. via @wikimediafoundation

                      wikimediafoundation.org/wikipe

                        [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                        @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                        Is Craigslist the last real place on the internet, apart from the open social web, of course? Here's Jennifer Swann's story for @WIRED and @ArsTechnica on this "utopian vision of a much earlier, far more earnest Internet."

                        flip.it/uIYMTO

                          [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🌐
                          @freeschool@qoto.org

                          " A system without love is only for machines and damages people "

                          -

                            [?]Longreads » 🌐
                            @longreads@mastodon.world

                            "A printed diary held out the promise of total control over time, place and the self."

                            Elena Mary for Aeon: aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary

                              [?]Woodoo Prod » 🌐
                              @WoodooProd@mastodon.cloud

                              A lot of good documentaries to watch here: documentaryarea.com

                              "Documentary Area
                              Simply the best Documentaries"

                                [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                The Trump era isn’t peak partisanship—it's the collapse of a shared reality. Each faction lives inside its own cosmology, rewriting time to vindicate its prophecy. Madison feared factions would mistake part for whole. Our moment dissolves the idea of the whole entirely. Truth has become performance.
                                👉philosophics.blog/2025/11/14/t
                                yotard

                                factioned hourglass

                                Alt...factioned hourglass

                                  [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                  @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                  Everyone’s suddenly an AI detective, waving pitchforks at punctuation. Proper grammar? “Suspicious.” Logical flow? “Definitely synthetic.” The psychology of fear in full bloom. Read my new piece: Accusations of Writing Whilst Artificial. 🤖
                                  🔗 philosophics.blog/2025/11/12/a

                                  AI robot taking orders to write from his sentient master

                                  Alt...AI robot taking orders to write from his sentient master

                                    [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                                    @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                                    Africa and The Mercator Map | Encyclopaedia Britannica

                                    "The African Union has endorsed a campaign calling for the use of a world map that reflects countries' true sizes. Why doesn't our current world map do that?"

                                    youtube.com/shorts/OAG1zk1SAPQ

                                    Mercator map from 1930.

                                    Alt...Mercator map from 1930.

                                      [?]Emeritus Prof Christopher May » 🌐
                                      @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

                                      As Rafael Behr argues, behind many of the current (and recent) political problems in the UK is the decline of a sense of collective identity.

                                      This has been stoked by divisive cultural warriors but is also the result of the shift to higher levels of social isolation & individualism exhibited across a range of societies (not just the UK)

                                      While the fediverse often seems to maintain a sense of collective identity & civility, this seems ever rarer...

                                      theguardian.com/commentisfree/

                                        [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                        @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                        Every time philosophy declares the death of metaphysics, it builds another shrine under a different name.
                                        My new essay, The Great Substitution, maps that pattern — from theology to dataism — and argues for a discipline of maintenance rather than mastery.
                                        🔗philosophics.blog/2025/11/11/t

                                        Alt...philosophical ruin bathed in twilight, half-collapsed temple of reason with delicate scaffolding keeping it upright, small human figure performing maintenance, mixture of decay and care, mood of quiet dignity, oil painting style, soft diffuse light

                                          [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                                          @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                                          From Tablets to Papyrus: When Was Paper Invented?

                                          The invention of paper as a medium for writing was a revolutionary breakthrough that altered the course of human culture.

                                          by Matt Whittaker

                                          thecollector.com/when-was-the-

                                          Papyrus at PG:
                                          gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q

                                          The Heracles Papyrus (Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus Pap. 2331), a fragment of 3rd century Greek manuscript of a poem about the Labors of Heracles. The image shows a fragmentary piece of ancient papyrus, light brown in tone and worn with age, containing both text and illustrations. The papyrus surface is irregularly shaped, with rough, frayed edges and several missing sections that interrupt the writing and drawings. Across the fragment, lines of Greek script are written in dark ink, now faded to brown. Between the lines of text are small painted scenes depicting episodes from the Labors of Heracles (Herakles), rendered in a simple and expressive linear style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus#/media/File:P._Oxy._XXII_2331.jpg

                                          Alt...The Heracles Papyrus (Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus Pap. 2331), a fragment of 3rd century Greek manuscript of a poem about the Labors of Heracles. The image shows a fragmentary piece of ancient papyrus, light brown in tone and worn with age, containing both text and illustrations. The papyrus surface is irregularly shaped, with rough, frayed edges and several missing sections that interrupt the writing and drawings. Across the fragment, lines of Greek script are written in dark ink, now faded to brown. Between the lines of text are small painted scenes depicting episodes from the Labors of Heracles (Herakles), rendered in a simple and expressive linear style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus#/media/File:P._Oxy._XXII_2331.jpg

                                            [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🌐
                                            @freeschool@qoto.org

                                            Gender etc quotes... "The problem isn’t people; it’s the linguistic furniture we inherited."... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                            @microglyphics picked around and related topics:

                                            "The core lesson is epistemic, not biological."

                                            "The problem isn’t people; it’s the linguistic furniture we inherited."

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                                            More quoted below:
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                                            "This isn’t a matter of sex or gender, though that’s how the names have been filed. The core lesson is epistemic, not biological. Feminist philosophy re-centres care, interdependence, and the politics of maintenance, not as sentimental virtues but as systems logic. The post-colonialists do the same at a geopolitical scale: maintenance instead of conquest, relation instead of domination.

                                            On Gender, Behaviour, and the Lazy Binary

                                            I don’t buy into sex and gender binaries, especially regarding behaviour. Even in biology, the dichotomy frays under scrutiny.
                                            Behaviourally, it collapses entirely.

                                            The problem isn’t people; it’s the linguistic furniture we inherited."

                                            from Microglyphics / @microglyphics - Click this post or see post here mastodon.social/@microglyphics

                                              [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                              @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                              I reject the notion of gender as a social proxy for sex. It confuses type for trait and wreaks havoc on us. This is not a political stance; it's grounded in philosophy and language
                                              👉 philosophics.blog/2025/11/08/c

                                              Image: Hopeless by Roy Lichtenstein Caption: That's the way it should have begun, but it's hopeless!

                                              Alt...Image: Hopeless by Roy Lichtenstein Caption: That's the way it should have begun, but it's hopeless!

                                                [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                Excess Deaths Attributable to Capitalism has reached 1K views, so I'm celebrating. 💸

                                                philosophics.blog/2025/11/07/e

                                                Alt...city of money animation

                                                  [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                  @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                  Capitalism throttles the capacity for art and thought, which might explain why philosophy is a boutique hobby.
                                                  Still, now and then someone engages — even cites your work in another language. That’s reason enough to keep writing.

                                                  🟣 Raison d’être
                                                  philosophics.blog/2025/11/06/r

                                                  Alt...sprouting seed

                                                    [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                    @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                    I wrote The Metanarrative Problem four years ago, tracing how Enlightenment reason became the last acceptable superstition.

                                                    A recent Roumanian essay cited it — proof that not all echoes are empty.

                                                    philosophics.blog/2021/03/07/m

                                                    Lyotard avec ciggy

                                                    Alt...Lyotard avec ciggy

                                                      [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                      @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                      I address the issue of trust in the AI-surveillance age. Trust in the workforce is all over the map. Typically, surveys try to assess employees' trust in companies. What we don't see as often is leadership's trust in employees. Of course, one doesn't need a survey for this – actions speak louder than words.
                                                      👉 philosophics.blog/2025/11/06/r

                                                      Parody: Tarot tower Card

                                                      Alt...Parody: Tarot tower Card

                                                        [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                        @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                        ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                        Why do sex workers report higher job satisfaction than 'respectable' employees? Fromm had an answer 70 years ago. The disease wasn’t neurosis — it was capitalism. We’ve automated everything except fulfilment.
                                                        👉 philosophics.blog/2025/11/04/t

                                                        Alt...Apathetic office worker

                                                          Nicol Wistreich boosted

                                                          [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
                                                          @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social

                                                          In poetry: May the world not die of bread
                                                          or a lost Messiah
                                                          or the oil smeared desert
                                                          or a fire washed sky
                                                          but ripen into childhood ... texasobserver.org/a-prayer-for

                                                            [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🔓
                                                            @freeschool@qoto.org

                                                            @sesivany Ok I see point in this but is it mostly because of the conversion that's the main problem - see like / Korun is quite a bit symbolic of a that might turn faster to any other in if it copies everything and then suffers the same business (of money - cheapening it for example or other things devaluing / too wide an ... not enough to ).

                                                            Having of you own (in whatever sense more than jumping into someone else's ) is a big thing to keep...

                                                            Thanks (I apologize for jumping in but everywhere seems exact same in but faster 📉 )

                                                              [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                                                              @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                                                              Louvre robbery: Could a 50-year-old maths problem have kept the museum safe?

                                                              An audacious heist at the Louvre saw thieves make off with priceless crown jewels in broad daylight – here is how a decades-old geometry problem can help museums boost their security.

                                                              By Kit Yates

                                                              bbc.co.uk/future/article/20251

                                                              Projet d'aménagement de la Grande Galerie du Louvre (1796).https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Robert_-_Projet_d%27am%C3%A9nagement_de_la_Grande_Galerie_du_Louvre_(1796).JPG The viewer is positioned within the gallery looking down its length, giving a strong sense of depth and perspective. The ceiling appears vaulted, with large arches and perhaps skylights or clerestory windows (suggesting zenithal lighting) that bring in daylight from above. This lighting enhances the sense of a museum space. quatuor.org The walls: Both sides of the gallery are lined with paintings hung closely (“touche-touche” style) and shelves or pedestals of sculptures. On the right side, in the foreground, there is an easel with a painting in progress and a figure at work. The gallery is structured by series of large arches, double columns or pilasters with Corinthian capitals, and regular bays — all giving a rhythm to the space. The floor appears smooth and polished; the walls are neutral, letting the artworks stand out. In the scene there are a number of visitors or artists: some seated, some standing, some copying works.

                                                              Alt...Projet d'aménagement de la Grande Galerie du Louvre (1796).https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Robert_-_Projet_d%27am%C3%A9nagement_de_la_Grande_Galerie_du_Louvre_(1796).JPG The viewer is positioned within the gallery looking down its length, giving a strong sense of depth and perspective. The ceiling appears vaulted, with large arches and perhaps skylights or clerestory windows (suggesting zenithal lighting) that bring in daylight from above. This lighting enhances the sense of a museum space. quatuor.org The walls: Both sides of the gallery are lined with paintings hung closely (“touche-touche” style) and shelves or pedestals of sculptures. On the right side, in the foreground, there is an easel with a painting in progress and a figure at work. The gallery is structured by series of large arches, double columns or pilasters with Corinthian capitals, and regular bays — all giving a rhythm to the space. The floor appears smooth and polished; the walls are neutral, letting the artworks stand out. In the scene there are a number of visitors or artists: some seated, some standing, some copying works.

                                                                [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                                @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                                ‘Teamwork! Equality! No more bosses!’ said the ‘50s… and now we have RTO mandates and empty glass towers. Explore the illusion in my new post about Fromm, Beauvoir, and capitalist déjà-vu.

                                                                philosophics.blog/2025/10/30/t

                                                                Book Covers: The Sane Society and The Second Sex

                                                                Alt...Book Covers: The Sane Society and The Second Sex

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