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@cwebber
I am scared shitless for Iranians, my Iranian friends abroad, and also for myself about the regional response. (Writing this from a bomb shelter as Iran is trying to make some kind of point today, apparently, with many missiles)
@ogeer Welcome to social.coop from the other resident philosopher :)
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A technology designed to preserve life has fostered a sense of near-total immunity, turning the catastrophe of war into a tolerable disruption if not a sterile consumer product — something absorbed into daily life with indifference, somewhere between the evening news and a food delivery.
When fear of war recedes, so too does the public’s motivation to bring it to an end. In this environment, technological security does not shorten wars but helps sustain them as a permanent condition.\"
https://www.972mag.com/iron-dome-intercepting-normal-future/
@nedhamson1 I can't seem to find the Haaretz article that is the original source for this claim. The link in your newsletter is to another site which also references Haaretz but doesn't link to it. Do you have a link handy?
","url":"https://social.coop/users/pjw/statuses/116335559871264409","date_published":"2026-04-02T14:22:48+00:00","author":{"name":"pjw","url":"https://social.coop/@pjw","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fsocial-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F114%2F716%2F240%2F463%2F246%2F438%2Foriginal%2Ffe57335d252b8590.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"pjw@social.coop"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-02 14:22","date_timestamp":1775139768,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87414828","content_html":"Whatever else you might say about this open letter, it makes me irrationally happy that even the Presidents of nations can't figure out how to get the end of sentence punctuation to work in word when switching from a right-to-left language and a left-to-right language.
https://xcancel.com/drpezeshkian/status/2039418009052119190#m
(This joke will only be funny to a small subset of people, but I stand by it!)
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@chrispomeroyhale thank you!
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","url":"https://social.coop/users/pjw/statuses/116326056377659535","date_published":"2026-03-31T22:05:56+00:00","author":{"name":"pjw","url":"https://social.coop/@pjw","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fsocial-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F114%2F716%2F240%2F463%2F246%2F438%2Foriginal%2Ffe57335d252b8590.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"pjw@social.coop"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-31 22:05","date_timestamp":1774994756,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87323577","content_html":"@burnoutqueen Did you know this trope linking women and Jews in some kind of weird plot together to destroy all that is Good goes back to the European witch trials? Jews and women were said to be 'too attached to the flesh' such that they were susceptible to satanic influence
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(Preface: I'm in favor of the No Kings protests and hope they are huge.)
I don't think those who criticize the protests, or those who attend them, have in mind that many attendees *explicitly* believe that occasionally attending a protest is all one needs to do. I think that the criticism is that (a) this is all many of these people *do* in fact do, because (b) they simply don't reflect on the question at all.
I would guess that a huge chunk of people you could ask at the protest, if you asked what else they are doing to fight fascism, most would say attending protests like this and voting. Those are both important (in my opinion), but it reflects a very limited political imagination.
@arod This looks PERFECT, thank you!
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","url":"https://social.coop/users/pjw/statuses/116306669275045922","date_published":"2026-03-28T11:55:33+00:00","author":{"name":"pjw","url":"https://social.coop/@pjw","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fsocial-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F114%2F716%2F240%2F463%2F246%2F438%2Foriginal%2Ffe57335d252b8590.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"pjw@social.coop"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-28 11:55","date_timestamp":1774698933,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87137291","content_html":"Anarchists, academics, general interested political folks!:
I'm looking for writings on the importance of political imagination for political progress.
I feel like I often come across this kind of thinking in passing in radical literature (e.g. 'even just asking the question about what a world without prisons might look like itself makes it possible'), but I don't know that I know of an essay or book length defense of its importance. Ideas?
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","url":"https://social.coop/users/pjw/statuses/116189986187338082","date_published":"2026-03-07T21:21:30+00:00","author":{"name":"pjw","url":"https://social.coop/@pjw","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fsocial-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F114%2F716%2F240%2F463%2F246%2F438%2Foriginal%2Ffe57335d252b8590.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"pjw@social.coop"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-07 21:21","date_timestamp":1772918490,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85242886","content_html":"@victorgijsbers I can't even imagine how scary it must be. And then the internet blackout on top of it.
Awful awful awful
@xankarn
Reminds me of this paper about how our institutional structures are increasingly steering us away from the truth: https://philpapers.org/rec/NGUHEL
@xankarn What did they say (if anything) about the missed too many men penalty in the 3rd? Just curious, because it seemed cut and dry!
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","url":"https://social.coop/users/pjw/statuses/116114717051473234","date_published":"2026-02-22T14:19:34+00:00","author":{"name":"pjw","url":"https://social.coop/@pjw","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fsocial-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F114%2F716%2F240%2F463%2F246%2F438%2Foriginal%2Ffe57335d252b8590.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"pjw@social.coop"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-22 14:19","date_timestamp":1771769974,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"83198653","content_html":"@ansate @ammaratef45 @loppear @edumerco @flancian @3wordchant @CaitlinWaddick thank you so much!
","url":"https://social.coop/users/pjw/statuses/115983283169403350","date_published":"2026-01-30T09:14:12+00:00","author":{"name":"pjw","url":"https://social.coop/@pjw","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fsocial-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F114%2F716%2F240%2F463%2F246%2F438%2Foriginal%2Ffe57335d252b8590.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"pjw@social.coop"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-30 09:14","date_timestamp":1769764452,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"81528883","content_html":"@pence @victorgijsbers
You're both right! It's part of a long tradition.
I also remember reading passages from Philo in grad school where he says something like \"Everything Plato said can already be found in the Torah, properly interpreted\"
People are so funny.
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I am so so sorry to hear about this from both of you. What a disaster and loss. And as @VCP says, short-sighted and stupid.
@JubalBarca All of this sounds quite plausible to me. Though I feel it is all the more reason why I wish these conversations were happening! It's something I think about a lot and struggle to find thoughtful discussions of as my partner and discuss whether to have children.
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I just meant generally one's social and cultural environment. For one small example, my partner and I are discussing whether to stay in our current town, which is very liberal but racially homogenous, or whether it's important that our child be raised seeing POC outside of the context of \"laborers\" or domestic workers.
So maybe I should reframe: why aren't we having these discussions on the left?
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","url":"https://social.coop/users/pjw/statuses/115400518177701074","date_published":"2025-10-19T11:09:24+00:00","author":{"name":"pjw","url":"https://social.coop/@pjw","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fsocial-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F114%2F716%2F240%2F463%2F246%2F438%2Foriginal%2Ffe57335d252b8590.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"pjw@social.coop"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-19 11:09","date_timestamp":1760872164,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"75949452","content_html":"@MichaelTBacon this was such a great story, even to a \"stranger\"! Thanks for sharing
","url":"https://social.coop/users/pjw/statuses/115385900730573180","date_published":"2025-10-16T21:12:00+00:00","author":{"name":"pjw","url":"https://social.coop/@pjw","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fsocial-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F114%2F716%2F240%2F463%2F246%2F438%2Foriginal%2Ffe57335d252b8590.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"pjw@social.coop"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-16 21:12","date_timestamp":1760649120,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"74953735","content_html":"@serge @afewbugs @kofanchen I think a lot of this is really a matter of a disagreement about what constitutes antisemitism (and I would guess the context matters a lot too).
Serge, I know for example you believe that the UN is antisemitic (or perhaps only subsets of it).
On the other hand, I've stood on the streets in Jerusalem with Israeli Jews and chanted \"From the River to the Sea\" - and obviously these Israeli Jews are not calling for self-genocide, but a single binational state.