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People who support the attacks on Gaza seem free to say the most depraved and racist things possible about Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians without facing any consequences whatsoever. [...] The proliferation of dehumanizing language about Muslims and Palestinians has had violent consequences: there has been a rise in anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate crimes across the US, including reported offenses on college campuses. There has also been a rise in antisemitism: a very real problem that shouldn’t be minimized or tolerated. What also shouldn’t be tolerated are the dangerous attempts by pro-Israel extremists to label any remotely pro-Palestinian speech, or any criticism of Israel’s actions, as automatically antisemitic. Conflating the actions of the Israeli state with the Jewish people is dangerous and wrong, and yet this is precisely what many pro-Israel voices are doing in an attempt to suppress any support of Palestine. And this strategy is working. In the current climate, a US politician can call for Gaza to be “nuked” without being censured. Dare to do so much as wear a keffiyeh (a traditional Palestinian scarf) on a college campus, however, and pro-Israel voices will go on primetime television and accuse you of being a Nazi. Jonathan Greenblatt, the executive director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), recently told Morning Joe (and faced no pushback from the hosts) that wearing a keffiyeh was the same as wearing a swastika. [...] What’s left out of these nonstop discussions of campus safety is this: there isn’t a single safe campus left in Gaza. Israel, with the unconditional aid of the US, has destroyed almost every kindergarten, school, and university in Gaza. It has killed at least 100 Palestinian academics. It has decimated every cultural institution. There are over 13,000 dead children in Gaza who will never have the opportunity of an education. You should not be able to talk about campus safety without mentioning the fact that, thanks to US-backed Israeli air strikes, every campus in Gaza is now a graveyard.

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

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all the calls for the national guard to be deployed amid cop violence on campus are driving us towards something like this. note how similar the attitudes were

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the enlightenment of the third hand’s pinky finger

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Narcissus, variously attributed to Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio or a follower (Gian Giacomo Caprotti?), ca. 1490

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what I particularly like in chapter 7 is Short’s insistence that Peirce both struggled to expand the range of what could be observed and took observation itself as a particular object of investigation. Here, Short illuminatingly connects a number of Peirce’s peculiar interests which have not been brought together before. One is his 1870s experiment of deliberately training an observer to determine the time of an observation’s onset with as much precision as possible, in the context of astronomical observations which were then still to a large degree based on individual perceptions. Peirce succeeded in training a young man, over a month of practice, to perform such temporal judgment with an error margin less than 1/80 second. The next experiment, much more famous, is the aforementioned one with Jastrow on perceptual discrimination, showing larger accuracy in guesses than the test subjects themselves knew about and thus proving the existence of subliminal sensation. Short does not hesitate to include Peirce’s famous course in the tasting of Médoc red wines by a sommelier during his Paris stay in the 1870s in the same context: this was not at all for pleasure but for experiencing in other sensory modes taste and smell, the fine-grained training of perceptual distinctions—although why should pleasure and theoretical interest exclude each other?—now also involving value judgments. Finally, Peirce’s famous experiment with his Johns Hopkins logic class in 1883: making lists of “Great Men” (including some women) in the West since the Renaissance, exposing the students to short biographies of each of them, and making each student estimate the relevant greatness on a four-grade scale. Peirce analyzed the results statistically and found that there was a surprising degree of agreement in their judgments, taking that as an argument that even such information—qualitative, imprecise, and based only on a narrow empirical basis—was accessible to scientific analysis to yield stable results. Peirce knew well that his students had similar backgrounds, influencing their choices, but still he found their judgments so concurrent as to surpass even common cultural influences (this claim, of course, could not in itself be directly measured). This chapter of Short’s is an instant classic and convincingly unites a number of curious Peircean activities under the headline of inquiry into inquiry.

Frederik Stjernfelt, “An Empiricism with High Metaphysical Ambitions: On Short’s Charles Peirce and Modern Science”

#frederik stjernfelt #t.l. short #c.s. peirce

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The worst April showers seem to be past, and now the sunlight's out more often. I feel like I've never heard as much bird song as I'm hearing this spring, early in the morning and late into the evening, the notes all interwoven, up and down, all of them singing in one complex rhythm. I was thinking about how we live in the electronic age, with so much of our infrastructure (manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, banking, etc.) dependent on computers--and how much more energy is spent, how much more environmental costs, to enable this kind of bizarre flux of information and calculations? And yet here we are in the kind of epoch where you can go on a youtube video for some pop song and find the top comment is "Who's here listening to this in 2024?" A strange sense of community pops up in every little ephemeral space: this no doubt being one of them. The most attractive things, however, are the most basic: the most primitive definitions and principles, a trickling of water along the rock, and a cool night. Our thoughts always have a jagged edge, a kind of trial and error, but they steer towards the pellucid.

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Until now Pannenkoek2012 has only—to put this in Carnapian terms—pursued questions internal to the language framework of Mario 64: but perhaps it’s time we asked the external question of why we should adopt said language framework.

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Mountain hare/skogshare. Värmland, Sweden (April 18, 2021).

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Free Palestine protesters shut down the Golden Gate Bridge and 880 freeway in Oakland. This is huge🫡

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Drawing Animals. Written and illustrated by Maurice Wilson. Published in 1964.

Internet Archive

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God will only reward the cartoonists

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