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article tbrs on philosophy, adjacent topics; nurturing the intellectual life; might divide into separate collections later

Josh Labajo

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I really appreciate this piece from @ezraklein (and its amplification by @mattyglesias). But I think the ideas being teased out here would benefit from a prescient piece Alexis Madrigal wrote more than a decade ago. https://t.co/gluSoZVriP

Tom Lee

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Epstein_-Therapeutic-Function-of-Hate-in-the-Countertransference.pdf

insight.org.ro

Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers

Prinzing and Vazquez cambridge.org

View of Global Populism: A Lineage of Filipino Strongmen from Quezon to Marcos and Duterte

journals.upd.edu.ph

Kierkegaard on the Value of Despair

Maria Popova themarginalian.org

@metalgearobama Here's the article fwiw https://t.co/LfeVLb3soH Absolutely fucking insane that "ai therapy" is a thing. A machine cannot be given that responsibility when someone's on the line. OpenAI's response is... Yesh.

WOKE MOTH x.com

“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. ‘What good will it do you,’ they asked, ‘to know this tune before you die?’” — from “Why Read the Classics?,” in The Uses of Literature (trans. Patrick Creagh)

Yoon Kim x.com