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"It is rather a curious thing, my young friend, but that is exactly my record. I could outlift any man in Southern Illinois when I was young, and I never was thrown [in a wrestling match]. There was a big fellow named Jack Armstrong, strong as a Russian bear, that I could not put down; nor could he get me on the ground. If George [Washington] was loafing around here now, I should be glad to have a tussle with him, and I rather believe that one of the plain people of Illinois would be able to manage the aristocrat of old Virginia."
-- Abraham Lincoln, to Illinois Judge Samuel H. Treat, after Treat shared stories he had heard from George Washington's step-grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, who had noted that Washington was one of the strongest men of his generation and also a famous wrestler who had never been thrown in a match. ("Recollections of Lincoln" by James Grant Wilson, Putnam's Magazine, February 1909)
#History#Presidents#Abraham Lincoln#President Lincoln#George Washington#President Washington#General Washington#Presidency#Presidential Personalities#Putnam's Magazine#Quotes by Presidents#Presidents About Presidents#Presidents On Presidents#Presidential Quotes
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New Releases - Week of September 17, 2024
It's almost like the releases in September are preparing us for the scary time of the year. Three out of four of these releases are nightmarish, thriller types. They look like they will give folks a few chills. We have fear and magic to look forward to this week.
Ruin Road by Lamar Giles Scholastic Press
Sometimes a little fear is a good thing…
Cade Webster lives between worlds. He’s a standout football star at the right school but lives in the wrong neighborhood–if you let his classmates tell it. Everywhere but home, people are afraid of him for one reason or another. Afraid he’s too big, too fast, too ambitious, too Black.
Then one fateful night, to avoid a dangerous encounter with the police, he ducks into a pawn shop. An impulse purchase and misspoken desire change everything when Cade tells the shopkeeper he wishes people would stop acting so scared around him, and the wish is granted…
At first, it feels like things have taken a turn for the better. But it’s not just Cade that people no longer fear–it’s everything. With Cade spreading this newfound “courage” wherever he goes, anything can happen. Fearless acts of violence begin to escalate in both his neighborhood and at school. Something monstrous is clearly at work and it’s up to Cade to stop it. But just what did he buy and what’s the price to undo the damage? After all, the devil’s in the details.
Such Lovely Skin by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne Page Street YA
An evil video game A lying Twitch streamer A demon hungry for her secrets
After spending the summer wracked with guilt about causing the accident that killed her little sister, ambitious gamer and chronic liar Viv returns to Twitch streaming. She never told her parents the truth about the accident, but she hopes that maybe making it big in streaming and giving the money to them is penance enough for her mistakes.
The weekend before school starts, Viv finds the perfect horror game to make her Twitch comeback, and during an offline practice run, an NPC asks Viv for a secret. She decides to tell them the truth about her sister’s death since a game could never share her secret―in doing so, she accidentally welcomes a demonic mimic into her life.
No one believes Viv when she tells them about her evil doppelganger. Viv has lied to get her best friend’s sympathy and has spread rumors for attention, so why should anyone trust her now? The only person who believes her is Ash, a cute social outcast whom Viv once bullied. In trying to clear her name and kill the mimic, Viv discovers that her lies have hurt people who never deserved it, herself included.
We Are Hunted by Tomi Oyemakinde Feiwel & Friends
A boy, his family, and other resort guests must fight for their lives after the island’s unusual animals turn feral, in this horrifying fast-paced survival story!
Experience paradise, reimagined.
When 17-year-old Femi Fatona and his older brother are forced to accompany their dad to an island resort, Femi is not looking forward to it. After all, he hasn’t exactly been getting along with either of them lately. At least the resort promises to be full of all the extravagant luxuries they’re used to. Yet not much is actually known about it, as it’s on a recently-discovered island and shrouded in nondisclosure agreements.
Once they arrive, Femi is thrilled to find that the island is bursting with new and spectacular species of plants and animals. But he soon realizes that sometimes pretty exteriors hide ugly truths—truths that are begging to come to light.
When the animals suddenly become feral and the island is thrown into chaos , what was meant to be a peaceful bonding experience quickly becomes the stuff of nightmares. Femi will have to put aside tension with his family and work with other guests in order to escape the animals, the island. . .and his own guilt at the part he may have played in all of it.
Spells to Forget Us by Aislinn Brophy G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Fate brought them together. Magic made them strangers.
Luna is a powerful witch. Known for her skills and feared for her temper, she’s set to preserve her family’s legacy by becoming the head of Boston’s Witch Council—a job she does not want.
Aoife is a non-magical girl. Raised under the lens of her influencer family, she’s grown up in the public eye. Now she yearns for privacy—but knows her parents won’t oblige.
Just when they are at their lowest, Aoife and Luna find each other and start dating. As decreed by magic law, Luna casts a spell that will erase Aoife’s memories of their history together if they ever break up. But when Aoife and Luna end things, it’s both of them who forget . . . that is, until they meet again, fall for each other, and recover all the memories of their last attempt at dating.
So begins the story of two star-crossed lovers who keep finding their way into each other’s orbits, even as the universe pulls them apart. When they set out to break the cycle, will they be strangers forever or together at last?
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The biggest problem with watching Only Murders in the Building is that it inspires everyone to want to try Oliver Putnam's dips-only diet.
Granted the show makes a point to say how idiotic and unhealthy that is.
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1910s Cookery Books
Here is a sample of World War One-era cookbooks; more can be found at my blog.
Wartime cookery Haskin, Frederic Jennings, comp. War Cook Book for American Women. Washington, DC: United States Food Administration, 1917. Hill, Janet McKenzie. Economical War-Time Cook Book. New York, NY: George Cully & Company, 1918. Hill, McKenzie Janet. War Time Recipes. Cincinnati, OH: The Proctor & Gamble Co., 1918. Oldmeadow, Ernest. Home Cookery in War-Time. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1915. Snyder, Mrs. Sherwood P. Food Conservation and the Art of Home Canning. Binghamton, NY: Health Publishing Co., 1917. Webber, Carolyn Putnam. Two Hundred and Seventy-Five War-Time Recipes. Bedford, MA: The Bedford Print Shop, 1918. —. How to Save Eggs by Using Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder. Chicago, IL: Royal Baking Powder Co., 1917. —. United States Food Leaflet No. 5: Make a Little Meat Go a Long Way. Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1917. —. War Bread and Bread Crumb Recipes. Denton, TX: State College for Women, 1918. —. Wheatless Recipes. New York, NY: Royal Baking Powder Co., 1918.
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In 1873, in the company of women's rights activists, Mary Putnam Jacobi contemplated the subordinate status of American women. Women held secondary positions because of a false, but popular, "public sentiment": reproduction superseded all other activities of the female sex. "It is so far from true," she continued, "that the bearing and rearing of children suffices to absorb the energies of the whole female sex, that a large surplus of feminine activity has always remained to be absorbed in other than these primitive directions." According to Jacobi, women had a surplus of unused energy that could be diverted from the "primitive" to the productive, and divided between the private world of home and family and the public world of higher education and professional work. Women needed to be contributing members of society, intellectually engaged, and devoted to the greater good. This was not a choice; the health of women depended on it.
For Jacobi, women's work was a matter of health, but it was also a tool of liberation, an equalizing force that could grant women financial independence and social autonomy. Work could prove women's economic and intellectual worth while granting personal freedom. Women had always worked, she said, "but they demand now, and simply, some opportunity for a free choice in the kind of work, which, apart from the care of children, they may perform." She respected all forms of work, but professional careers held a special advantage because they provided a lifetime of economic autonomy, not temporary compensation. The professions allowed women to have "separate resources" from men, meaning fathers and spouses. In marriage, they could create what she called an "equitable monetary division between husband and wife." Professional work was not indulgent; rather, it was "only the natural result of the double pressure of an economic and of a psychological necessity."
-Carla Bittel, Mary Putnam Jacobi & The Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America.
#carla bittel#Mary Putnam Jacobi#womens liberation#first wave feminism#women’s rights activism#women’s work
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This mobile-friendly page is defined by my ability to write as these characters. The characters on the page are subject to change at any time.
The Accountant {Drive Angry}
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Q {Star Trek Universe}
FACE CLAIM: John De Lancie AGE: ??? STATUS: Active SEXUALITY: Yes? OCCUPATION: Q Continuum
Harry Vanderspeigle {Resident Alien}
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Frik {Merlin 1998}
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Rupert Giles {Buffy Verse}
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Annalee Call {Alien Resurrection.}
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Giles Redferne {Warlock}
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The Vision {Marvel Universe}
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Nathaniel Taylor {Terra Nova}
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Lance Bishop {Aliens}
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Norman Osborn {Marvel Universe}
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Waldo {Into The Badlands}
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The Collector {Marvel Universe}
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Dr. Issacs {Resident Evil}
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Ruby Knowby {Ash vs Evil Dead}
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Johnathan Carnahan {The Mummy}
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Kurt Wagner {X-men/X-2}
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Aidan Wilde {Argylle/Kingsman}
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Alan Grant {Jurassic Park}
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On to Round 2!
This is a wrap-up of the current standings. Polls for round 2 will be published starting this Saturday (12/16).
Congratulations to all the counties that progressed!
The state that is standing the strongest is New York, with 39 counties progressing to round 2! Albany, Allegany, Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Jefferson, Kings, Livingston, Nassau, New York, Niagara, Oneida, Orange, Otsego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Richmond, Rockland, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Schuyler, Steuben, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westchester, and Wyoming.
Next most powerful state is Virginia, which has 36 winning counties. Alleghany, Alleghany, Amherst, Augusta, Bedford, Brunswick, Caroline, Carroll, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Fairfax, Fauquier, Fluvanna, Gloucester, Goochland, Grayson, Halifax, Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lee, Louisa, Montgomery, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Prince Edward, Pulaski, Rockingham, Scott, Smyth, Southampton, Tazewell, Warren, and Wise.
Ohio is also standing strong with 27 advancing counties. Brown, Butler, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Geauga, Holmes, Jackson, Lake, Lawrence, Licking, Madison, Mahoning, Medina, Mercer, Monroe, Muskingum, Perry, Pickaway, Ross, Scioto, Seneca, Trumbull, and Van Wert.
North Carolina is up next with a solid 24 wins. Beaufort, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Craven, Currituck, Granville, Harnett, Henderson, Hoke, Jackson, Johnson, Lenoir, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, Mecklenburg, Northampton, Onslow, Person, Robeson, Tyrrell, and Wake.
Only 1 more state has over 20 counties that made won their match-ups and that's my wonderful Washington. Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Clallam, Cowlitz, Ferry, Garfield, Grant, Grays Harbor, King, Kitsap, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lewis, Pacific, Pend Oreille, Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston, Walla Walla, Whatcom, Whitman, Yakima. Stay strong my soldiers.
A much higher number of states are comfortably in the middle of the pack. They are as follows:
Texas: 19 counties. Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Fort Bend, Goliad, Hockley, Jones, Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, McMullen, Milam, Ochiltree, Orange, Panola, Parker, San Patricio, and Travis.
California: 17 counties. Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Imperial, Lake, Mariposa, Monterey, Orange, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Tulare, Tuolumne, and Yolo.
Pennsylvania: 16 counties. Allegheny, Blair, Butler, Carbon, Dauphin, Franklin, Greene, Jefferson, Lancaster, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montgomery, Perry, Potter, Venango, and York.
Tennessee: 15 counties. Blount, Campbell, Carter, Cumberland, Hardin, Houston, Johnson, Knox, Madison, Maury, McNairy, Obion, Union, Williamson, and Wilson.
Nebraska: 13 counties. Adams, Buffalo, Cass, Cherry, Dakota, Keith, Knox, Nuckolls, Platte, Saunders, Stanton, Thayer, and Webster.
Nevada: 13 counties. Churchill, Clark, Douglas, Esmeralda, Eureka, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey, Washoe, and White Pine.
Illinois: 12 counties. Cook, DeKalb, Franklin, Jasper, Kane, Marion, McDonough, McHenry, Morgan, Peoria, St Clair, and Winnebago.
Maryland: 12 counties. Anne Arundel, Calvert, Carroll, Cecil, Dorchester, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George’s, Queen Anne’s, Talbot, Washington, and Worcester.
Michigan: 12 counties. Barry, Berrien, Clinton, Genesee, Gogebic, Kalamazoo, Lake, Oceana, Ottawa, Rocommon, Sanilac, and Wexford.
Iowa: 11 counties. Dickinson, Fayette, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Humboldt, Jefferson, Jones, Polk, Pottawattamie, and Wright.
Louisiana: 11 parishes. Ascension, Bossier, Cameron, Catahoula, Concordia, Jefferson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, St Bernard, St James, and St Tammany.
New Jersey: 11 counties. Bergen, Cumberland, Essex, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Salem, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren.
Kentucky: 10 counties. Boone, Boyle, Breckinridge, Daviess, Leslie, Logan, Pike, Shelby, Trimble, Woodford.
Many of these poor cute states are barely hanging on. Please wish them luck.
Florida: 8 counties. Alachua, Bay, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okaloosa, Osceola, Palm Beach, and St Johns.
New Mexico: 8 counties. Colfax, Curry, Doña Ana, Lincoln, Mora, Otero, Roosevelt, and Socorro.
Georgia: 6 counties. Bartow, Cherokee, Floyd, Fulton, Pierce, and Rockdale.
Indiana: 6 counties. Benton, Elkhart, Jennings, Marion, Marshall, and Starke.
Minnesota: 6 counties. Aitkin, Clearwater, Hennepin, Hubbard, McLeod, and Pipestone.
Wisconsin: 6 counties. Calumet, Fond du Lac, Osaukee, Portage, Racine, and Sheboygan.
Wyoming: 6 counties. Big Horn, Converse, Lincoln, Natrona, Park, and Teton.
Missouri: 5 counties. Clay, Gentry, Greene, Newton, and St Louis.
South Carolina: 5 counties. Anderson, Calhoun, Dillon, Dorchester, and Lexington.
Utah: 5 counties. Beaver, Summit, Utah, Washington, and Wayne.
Alaska: 4 boroughs. Anchorage, Juneau, Matanuska-Susitna, and Wrangell.
Arkansas: 4 counties. Cross, Searcy, Washington, and White.
Colorado: 4 counties. Douglas, El Paso, Fremont, and La Plata.
Oklahoma: 4 counties. Bryan, Payne, Rogers, and Washington.
West Virginia: 4 counties. Fayette, Marion, Monongalia, and Roane.
Alabama: 3 counties. Bullock, Cleburne, and Mobile.
Arizona: 3 counties. Coconino, Maricopa, and Yavapai.
Maine: 3 counties. Androscoggin, Hancock, and Washington.
Idaho: 2 counties. Bannock and Bonner.
Kansas: 2 counties. Atchinson and Johnson.
Massachusetts: 2 counties. Barnstable and Berkshire.
Montana: 2 counties. Gallatin and Silver Bow.
North Dakota: 2 counties. Benson and LaMoure.
Some states only have 1 county that progressed. They are: Delaware (Kent County), Hawaii (Maui County), Mississippi (Adams County), New Hampshire (Hillsborough County), Oregon (Linn County), and South Dakota (Bennet County).
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In addition to all the winning counties above, there will be 83 new county flags folded into round 2!!! (Because of math reasoning this had to happen) Get hyped
They are as follows:
Alexander NC, Allen OH, Alpena MI, Alpena MI, Alpine CA, Arapahoe CO, Ashe NC, Avery NC, Baldwin AL, Baltimore MD, Bell KY, Benzie MI, Bernalillo NM, Black Hawk IA, Brevard FL, Camden NJ, Campbell WY, Canyon ID, Centre PA, Charles City VA, Cheatham TN, Chester PA, Clark WA, Clarke VA, Cleveland OK, Cochise AZ, Columbus NC, Coweta GA, Darke OH, Davidson NC, Elko NV, Erie PA, Florence SC, Garrett MD, Goshen WY, Greene VA, Grundy IL, Gwinnett GA, Hidalgo TX, Highland OH, Hocking OH, Holt NE, Hot Springs WY, Howard MD, Huntingdon PA, Ingham MI, Island WA, Kankakee IL, Lackawanna PA, Lawrence PA, Leelanau MI, Lehigh PA, Leon FL, Liberty TX, Lucas OH, Madera CA, Mahaska IA, Manitowoc WI, McLennan TX, Meigs OH, Milwaukee WI, Nashville and Davidson TN, Northumberland VA, Orleans NY, Page VA, Porter IN, Sacramento CA, Salt Lake UT, San Diego CA, Sangamon IL, Sevier TN, Shelby TN, Skamania WA, Spotsylvania VA, Stafford VA, Sussex VA, Terrell TX, Trinity CA, Tulsa OK, Tuscarawas OH, Ventura CA, Wahkiakum WA, Yuma AZ
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Multi-Chapter
While You Can - AO3 - Marc Spector x Steven Grant x Reader - hurt/comfort
Eclipse - AO3 - Khonshu's punishment separates the boys and blinds Steven
Mandy and the Moon - Tumblr, AO3 - the system is father to a little girl
I'm Not Good for You - AO3 - Jake x Reader
Drabbles
Waking to the Rain - Tumblr, AO3 - Marc Spector x Reader - fluff
Heart and Soul - Tumblr, AO3 - Marc Spector x f!Reader - fluff, pregnancy
Steven Forgets 1: Putnam - Tumblr - restraints and panic whump
Steven Forgets 2: Marines - Tumblr - whump within the system
Steven Forgets 3: New York City - Tumblr - mild torture whump
I Remember Every Night - Tumblr - a short contemplation of immortality featuring Khonshu
One Shots
Monarch - Tumblr, AO3 - Marc whump
Widda - Tumblr, AO3 - Layla emotional whump
Three Dates - Tumblr, AO3 - headcanon
Noche Buena - Tumblr, AO3 - Christmas Eve with Jake. Not romantic, some Jake time. The system are all Jewish.
Pencils Down - Tumblr, AO3 - Steven takes the ACT
'Til Death Do Us Part - Tumblr, AO3 - post-ep 6 Marc and Layla talk
Gan Eden - Tumblr, AO3 - Moon Boys reach their final afterlife.
My Way - Tumblr - Jake steps in when needed. He has lived life his way.
Series
Private Spector - AO3
Riding with Private Spector - AO3
We Haunt Ourselves - AO3
Edits
Hazy - Marc psychological whump
Collections
Whumptober 2023 - all works are also listed above.
#moon knight#marc spector#steven grant#jake lockley#layla el faouly#khonshu#moon knight fanfiction#moon knight fanfic#while you can#eclipse#waking to the rain#ladywynne#masterlist#fanfiction
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New Epistme
From, "yesterday/a few days a go."
I'm going to use this as a vehicle for expressing some of the points I'm bringing up in my dissertation that I really need to spend more, "serious" time actual authoring-- This will be somewhat disjointed. I'm a decent writer and a decent editor but never at the same time.
New developments in, "physics" (science) have created a new, "criterion of knowledge" this as suggested by Michael Sugrue causes changes in parts of culture namely, "what we consider actually or morally excellent." Occidental culture and the western expanse isn't precipitated on, "moral imperatives" "New Reason" or, "Science" but, "the careful and loving expansion of the human subjectivity. I would argue here that the father of western culture is uncontroversially Socrates- but the father of the technical sophistry which animates the concrete and plastic features of our society is actually the great Hippocrates. As we expand the tendency toward, "the preservation of life" systemically or holistically we see improvements in the quality of organized human where in contrast we've seen mixed results from the expansion of totalizing politics and technology- even technologies which improve our capacity to communicate or learn. It has been suggest recently by Alan Kay that technology needs a, "Hippocratic Oath." The author concurs.
Dynamical Systems Theory, the, "critical points" theories like those suggested by Mandelbrot and Sornette (Misbehavior of Markets, Slaying the Dragon King), self-similarity-- call into question whether or not, "exact experimental specificity" is actually a worthwhile criterion for, "facts or truth." Baconian science has, "real value" in, "Polanyic tacit knowledge systems" as a matter of critical irony. We might consider the pedagogies associated with architecture and musicianship. Both stem from forms of technical sophistication in engineering and instrument building but as a matter of practice are subjective, tacit enterprises guided by theoric insight. Scientific reproducability while having extreme value in a practical sense is no longer a gold standard of truth in contemporary discourses the way it seem to dominate in the 19th and first part of the 20th century. Ergodicity, attraction, tendency, sensitivity form an emergent vocabulary for an emergent, "post-Systems Systems Thinking" science which seeks, "not to understand what things are" but, "what things are doing and in what ways relative to our goals taking those goals and aspirations for granted." One example of this is in drug discovery which uses a need for therapies developed out of our of human need to be developed out of robust models and understandings of, "what nature is made of" which terminates in new drugs and therapies being developed.
Wittgenstein, Godel, Turing, Russell leading into the Pragmatic turn surrounding Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam calls into question whether or not questions like, "what is the ultimate foundational model for describing the qualitative features of the subjective experience of consciousness?" have answers beyond, "those found the poetry of Virgil, Dante, or Emerson." The epistemic horizon of, "what we actually experience" assumes the ground of discourse in such a way that, "totalizing" discourses about mind, consciousness, or language while at times being informative (consider the neurosurgeon) are motivated by a fundamentally misapprehension about, "the pursuit of knowledge" or, "knowledge about what we are" both by taking totalizing readings of Plato and Darwin to heart in their own respective pathologies of thought.
There's a harmony between, "later Chomsky" and the, "neopragmatists" (I dislike the term) in that the later Minimalist program allows for, "Enlightenment tells us we can know something" and, "contemporary discourses seem to inform us that certain aspects of attempting to have total understandings of almost any domain are fool-hardy. With that said we can come to know something of value that may be informed by what we stereotypically call, "hard science." We can come to know something about how brains produce language-- trying to use this as a vehicle to understand concepts like, "the ultimate nature of communication" or, "what meaning is" is to misapply a set of contexts' which are really-- if we dissect them attentively are ultimately what Rorty might typify as, "new priests attempting to revive the old religion in a new scientifically informed language."
Socio-Objective (a term I coining) stereotypes in culture on one hand related to, "rainbow flag waiving new Liberals" and on the other, "Adam Smith necktie wearing Conservative Liberal" (who are now Paleonormative Populists for some reason. Go figure) both misread not just Smith but the whole of the Enlightenment as being fundamentally fueled by an inner rediscovery of what Rorty might call, "Reason with a capital, "R."
The Neokantian takes, "Pure Reason's inability to give us real knowledge of the metaphysical nature of morals" and, "Darwin with a capital D" as creating a totalizing moral imperative where-in, "the new Reason" is the only means by which, "man the animal" can ever achieve, "status as something more than a collection of organs, atoms, organizational structures, and so on…" The New Reason of the Enlightenment, "takes away from ourselves and our ugly nature" as to give rise to, "actual praxis divorced from what we are as a natural, biological contrivance." It's in this way that ironically the Wilsonian idealist might assert the need for, "Leagues of Nations" or, "Universal Declarations of Rights" Knowing that, "the true universality" which comes from our , "actual" relationship with nature (Darwin) without the vital oar staff of, "the new Reason empowered by the new Newtonian-Baconian…" In this schema, "Man is not really Man until he has developed to the point of discovering that he is an animal and decided to tame himself…" On the other hand the right handed reading of, "what this thing called the Enlightenment actually was" which puts industrialization, Adam Smith's conception of, "Invisible hands" as being a realization of a moral order which can be understood through systemic science and organization. Both severely undermine that much of the expansion of human subjectivity following the change of the millennia relates not just to the development of new, "technical sciences" or, "improved understandings about nature…" but, "improvements in our ability to reflect on ourselves both critically and subjectively." It's worth noting that all together the Holocaust, Soviet Communism, and the neoliberal expanse have killed, injured, displaced, or made mentally ill more than a billion people over a period of decades-- a modern miracle of planning and organization we see the monsters these, "dated dichotomies" can actually create. The harm is far from conceptual and given the potential for what some critics have called, "Secondary Enclosure" there is ripe potential for abuse if these stereotypes can't be replaced with a, "superior kind of conversation."
Old Occitania and the Troubadours have fascinated western commentators for centuries not for the technical innovations demonstrated in their literatures but due to what they inspire in the popular imagination. The development of, "a superior human way of life" may be like this- this has been suggested by Rorty and others. This is also I think shared as a sentiment by artists and musicians-- there's a sense that we need, "a better conversation about ourselves" and not necessarily, "some heroic attempt to achieve a Platonic perspective but from the purview of, "atomic exceptionality." It is the greatest boon that Plato and the Greeks were revived in the west- it is our greatest honor and obligation to attempt to go beyond to where our immortal ancestor wanted us to go-- out of the cave. Out of the fly bottle into the free evening air to make sweet love with other flies.
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In 1984, Hilary Edson debuted as Tania Roskov.
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read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/R3sHZPe by wandering_omen “Problem for future Steven, then.” He murmurs out loud. The driver looks back. “You have a lot of problems?” He thinks for a moment about his answer. “No.” He shifts. “No, not really.” There were a lot of little things, but nothing big. Nothing that should make someone miserable. Steven wasn’t miserable, he thinks. He’s treading water well enough to pass. “How about you?” Canon divergence where the superhero Moon Knight is not real, but instead one of many fictional escapes for the severely traumatized mind of Marc Spector in Putnam Psychiatric Hospital’s out-patient program. Mostly canon compliant to the Disney+ show (same childhood, military service and dishonorable leave, dabbles into mercenary work, marrying Layla, Wendy’s very recent death) though there will be some small references to various MK comic runs. It’s your call as to what’s a character study and what’s the author’s barely disguised childhood trauma. Words: 3014, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: Moon Knight (TV 2022) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen Characters: Moon Knight (Marvel), Arthur Harrow, Steven Grant (Marvel), Marc Spector, Jake Lockley Relationships: Layla El-Faouly/Marc Spector, Layla El-Faouly & Steven Grant Additional Tags: Layla El-Faouly & Steven Grant Friendship, Married Layla El-Faouly/Marc Spector, It's not the main focus but it is important, Childhood Trauma, Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociation, No Beta We Die Like Randall Spector, Steven Grant and Jake Lockley and Marc Spector Share a Body, Autistic Marc Spector, System Written by a System read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/R3sHZPe
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Beigel Fund to Send Children to Upstate Camp
Children will head to an upstate camp on Sunday through a grant provided by the Scott J. Beigel Memorial Fund. The foundation raised $78,000 to send the 52 children to Camp Herrlich, a summer sleep-away camp, in Putnam County. The children come from homes below the poverty level; some live in shelters. They will be picked up from the park and ride on the north service road of the LIE at exit 49…
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The Dallas Morning News continues to bleed employees as left-wing bias is exposed
The Dallas Morning News is struggling to stay afloat.
Last year, parent company DallasNews Corp. announced that it had voluntarily bought out 6% of its workforce, which affected 40 positions at DMN.
“Today, the Company is announcing a limited voluntary staff reduction program that will be offered across all departments to eligible individuals at The News and Medium Giant.
Though the exact number of people who will take the option is unknown, it is expected that this could ultimately reduce the total workforce by about 6 percent, or 40 full-time and part-time positions,” DallasNews Corp. said in a press release.
Journalists such as Steve Brown, who had 47 years of experience, retired from DMN due to the voluntary buyout.
His reporting for DMN accounted for almost 10% of the newspaper’s digital conversions, reported The Real Deal.
Mitchell Parton, a former residential real estate reporter for DMN, left the publication at the end of last year and now covers real estate for the Dallas Business Journal.
Before that, DallasNews Corp. had losses of almost $9 million in 2022, reported The Real Deal.
Another mass layoff occurred in 2019 when DMN let go of 43 employees as a means to pivot towards a subscription-based model, according to The Wrap.
The Dallas Morning News, as a result, has been left with a majority-inexperienced staff.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, DX CEO Chris Putnam called out DMN for its reporters’ misplaced focus and lack of knowledge.
“… [T]he only reason much of the media exists is to try and make anyone who’s not a radical like themselves look evil or ignorant.
This appears to be the objective of Dallas Morning News CEO Grant Moise and his so-called ‘journalists,’ including ‘equity’ reporter Arcelia Martin and business reporter Natalie Walters (who never actually held a job in business). They are all incompetent,” Putnam wrote.
DMN also recently admitted to left-wing bias in its reporting.
In an opinion piece titled, “Some readers think bias taints our news report. They’re right,” DMN public editor Stephen Buckley wrote:
“I do think that sometimes, when we interview sources with whom we might be sympathetic, we are not as quick to dig for other, opposing voices. We are selective about weaving in voices from all sides. In particular, conservative voices are frequently missing.”
“Executive Editor Katrice Hardy agrees that her staff is inconsistent about objectivity and fairness,” he added.
Previous DMN articles have drawn criticism, including one focused on drag queens struggling during COVID and another one about how tollway authorities are racist.
The Dallas Express contacted DMN and its publisher Moise for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
UNBIASED NEWS IS UP TO WRITER AND READER
National press shake-ups point to challenges for us all
Like everything else in 21st century America, journalism has dramatically changed, and that change has not been for the better.
Substantive issues and policy ideas now get less attention while stories focused on celebrities and self-help take up more space.
Poorly vetted information and misspellings make it to publication or air without the important checks and edits once considered fundamental.
The line between commentary and opinion-free news stories grows dimmer by the day.
Even at premiere information news outlets such as The New York Times , The Washington Post and National Public Radio, such errors have become common.
Now individual voices inside those and other major newsrooms express concern about a new journalism ethic spreading through the profession.
The complaints shaking up the American press are not just about accuracy but about pervasive political bias.
A wider range of voices has been fighting to be heard around the national “campfire” of shared ideas.
It may not be clear to news consumers, but inside the craft, deep introspection is underway.
What went wrong
In an extensive column for The Economist magazine, James Bennet, at one time the editorial page editor of The New York Times, recently detailed what he sees as flaws in the practice of journalism at top-of-the-line outlets.
“The reporters’ creed,” Bennet wrote, “used to have its foundation in liberalism.”
By that he does not mean the liberalism with which most are familiar today, but classical liberalism in which the reporter acts as “a sworn witness; the readers’ role was to be judge and jury.”
In that approach to reporting, no matter what or whom reporters covered, their goal was to ask “why” and explain the reason their interviewees and sources arrived at their ideas and opinions.
In a republic, that is a journalist’s paramount mission.
Readers, listeners and viewers draw their own conclusions based on the assembled facts and opinions of the people with whom the reporter spoke.
The journalists’ personal views on the subjects they cover matter least.
That kind of dispassionate reporting develops over years as resolute journalists rise through the ranks from small news outlets to larger ones.
However, according to Bennet, even today’s best known news organizations have abandoned “their commitments to integrity and open-mindedness.”
He points to new journalists arriving at the Times and other outlets with a different mission.
Gone is the goal of exercising complete objectivity, which Bennet argues is now considered nothing more than “code for ignoring the poor and weak and cozying up to power.”
Pursuing truth, no matter where it leads, has been replaced, Bennet suspects, by journalists who see themselves as social justice crusaders.
This new breed, whom Bennet describes as “illiberal journalists,” champion group rights more than individual rights and view the exercise of free speech as a means of protecting the privilege of white men.
They believe, to Bennet’s mind, the 2016 election of Donald Trump proves their view that American citizens cannot be trusted with “potentially dangerous ideas or facts.”
During his employment at the Times, Bennet noted, “conservative arguments in the Opinion pages reliably started uproars,” among the staff.
Multiple staffers expressed their displeasure on social media and through in-house communication channels when in June 2020 the Times ran a column by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas calling for deployment of troops to protect lives and businesses following riots that erupted after the death of George Floyd.
Even the newsroom labor union weighed in, calling it a “clear threat to the health and safety of the journalists we represent.”
It is not just The New York Times where some journalists have raised questions about conservative coverage.
Writing in April in The Free Press, Uri Berliner, a 25-year senior editor at National Public Radio, said, “NPR has always had a liberal bent,” and until recently was “nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.”
Now, Berliner contends, NPR has dumped its mission of providing diverse viewpoints and elevated “race and identity as ‘paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace.’”
He has since resigned.
The Washington Post, too, is abuzz about abrupt changes in leadership and what they might mean for the paper’s coverage.
The newsroom there is revolting against new publisher Will Lewis despite the fact that change is clearly needed:
The Post lost $77 million and half its readership in 2023, according to reporting from Wall Street Journal deputy editorial features editor Matthew Hennessey.
Recently, in examining stories in The Dallas Morning News , the new Public Editor Stephen Buckley pointed to similar concerns, noting while the paper is “selective about weaving in voices from all sides,” he has noticed that “conservative voices are frequently missing.”
Culture of mistrust
Amid the disruption, news outlets must get better about showing their work — how and why they make decisions in their “gatekeeping” function.
But that’s only a part of the solution.
In the “culture of mistrust” that pervades America in 2024, it is not enough, Buckley wrote, to say that “we tried” to contact diverse voices, but they did not respond.
Readers, viewers and listeners have every right to compare journalists’ actual practices to their stated intentions.
Any distance between the two is the degree to which their stories should be called into question.
Put simply: No matter what a news provider promises in its masthead or branding slogan — whether to be a “voice for the voiceless” or “defend traditional values” or provide “both sides of every important question” — that must be the standard by which it is judged.
Market response
But journalists aren’t the only group requiring some soul-searching.
In a free market system of news delivery, the press responds to signals from the market.
And for the last few decades the market has been rewarding bad practices.
Fox News has been the most-watched television news channel for 22 years, attracting nearly half of the total cable news viewing audience, according to Nielsen Media Research.
In such a market, it’s pretty clear that what many critics of the Times , Post and NPR really want is an echo of their own opinions.
Information fabricators already abound.
With rising reliance on the internet as an information source, the rapid spread of falsehoods, especially in an election year such as this one, daily becomes a greater danger.
Last year, Pew Research Center revealed that half of U.S. adults rely on social media for news at least sometimes.
Fixing America’s journalistic landscape will require more than tacking right or left. In improving the flow of accurate information through society, there is a role for all of us.
The crusading journalist Ida B. Wells used to say, “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
Going forward, in selecting, reporting and consuming stories, accepting only what is true must be everyone’s goal, even if it includes considering real facts with which we disagree.
For journalists, that requires making the dissemination of accurate, vetted information more important than publishing or airing it first.
And it means publishing news and opinions that are accurate and well-reasoned even if it means losing subscribers.
For news consumers it means expanding our sources of information to include perspectives that might not align with our own.
The end goal should not be to agree with or support causes, but to understand how leaders of those causes arrived at their conclusions.
That task is not an easy one.
We must all be wary of those who would distract us from it.
That requires diligence and vigilance — the obligation of every citizen in a republic.
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