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GhostOnTheHalfShell , 1 month ago to academicchatter

@economics@a.gup.pe @economics @academicchatter

Imma stick my neck out here but this paper of M Friedman

The Methodology of Positive Economics

his argument means there is no useful distinction between say, theories of heliocentrism v geocentrism, germ theory v humors, spontaneous generation v infectious disease vectors.

that germ theory hypothesis is “unrealistic”, so is spontaneous generation and nothing can or should be said of them

somehow this passed academic muster.

phaedral , 29 days ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics@a.gup.pe @economics @academicchatter We're talking about the "discipline" that fatuously swallowed "money is utility" (von Neuman and Morgenstern, "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior") as if the authors never heard of Midas.

The entirety of "modern Western economics" is fatally flawed.

todayonscreen , 1 month ago to histodons

#OnThisDay, June 19, 1964, having survived a 60-day filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the US Senate, a milestone in the struggle to extend civil, political, and legal rights and protections to African Americans and to end segregation (depicted in All The Way, 2016)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #AllTheWay #Segregation #VotingRights #CivilRightsAct #History #TodayInHistory #Histodons @histodons

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office of the White House. "Well, nothing in this country will ever change until Negroes can vote."
A close up of a document, the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

phaedral , 1 month ago

@todayonscreen @histodons But let's celebrate the "texas holdout story" for Juneteenth.

clayrivers , 3 months ago to blackmastodon

💛 “Wharlest Jackson Died for Our Rights”

Tradeswomen have jobs today because of decades of organizing by Black workers
By Molly Martin

#AffirmativeAction #Allyship #Inclusion #RacialEquity

@BigAngBlack
@BlackMastodon
@blackmastodon

https://www.ohfweekly.org/wharlest-jackson/

phaedral , 3 months ago

@clayrivers @BigAngBlack @BlackMastodon @blackmastodon I'm moved by the Masonic logo on this one. I tend to think of Masons as right-leaning, happy to see a counter-example.

FrightenedRat , 6 months ago to actuallyautistic

Anyone else sometimes merge the concepts of 2 famous people into 1 - so that when you are confronted with the fact that these 2 people (with different names & histories) are indeed different, you are so shocked it's hard to take in?

Eg I merged Al Pacino & Dustin Hoffman into 1 idea accessed via 2 names. But they are different!!! 🤯

I do this a lot & with other types of entity too e.g. 2 supermarket chains with different names & logos got merged.

Bizarre.

@actuallyautistic
#ActuallyAutistic

phaedral , 5 months ago

@FrightenedRat @actuallyautistic Phillip Seymor Hoffman and Jack Black.

theotherotherone , 7 months ago to bookstodon

Who to read if you're an Agatha Christie devotee, but have read all of her books (besides re-reading her books, of course)? The former is true of me, but the latter, not quite yet. I'm planning ahead.

I know to at least consider Sherlock Holmes, anyone in the Detection Club (which Christie co-founded), medieval mysteries like Brother Cadfael, etc. And yes, I've already read some of those here and there, especially Cadfael.

What else?

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #mysteries #cozymysteries

phaedral , 7 months ago

@theotherotherone @bookstodon Love me some Nero Wolfe, by Rex Stout.