Principal at Roderigue Hortalez & Co. Multi award-winning chili chef.
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Ontology: nominalism, mysterian dualism
Epistemology: Some kind of Pierce/Popper synthesis
Moral philosophy: Deontology, Probably closest to Korsgaardian constructivist realism.
Theology: Wittgensteinian Roman Catholic with light heresies.
Political philosophy: Burke and Hayek on political practice, particularist liberalism / liberalism as inheritance for regime structure, Aristotelianism about other polises.
My philosophy in 1 tweet:
• Ontology: easy ontology (Carnap-ish)
• Epistemology: pragmatism (Wittgenstein-ish)
• Moral philosophy: rule utilitarianism (Hume-ish)
• Theology: N/A
• Politics: classical liberalism (Mill-ish)
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Japanese spies are gonna be some shit none of us have ever seen before.
Japan is building an espionage apparatus almost from scratch. Sweden is creating a new civilian foreign-intelligence agency. Canada is debating whether to have one, too economist.com/international/…
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Hope everyone is handling the nor'easter. I'm handling the so'wester by serving it with sizzlin' peppers and onions and smothering it with our signature queso.
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Nice empirical data you've got there. Unfortunately for you, though, I've already dismissed the empirical world as a pale shadow of ultimate reality and turned my attention to the realm of the Forms.
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Sorab's Comet makes its much anticipated close approach to the founding editor of Jacobin. Once it passes its perigee, it will not return again for another 20 years.
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I wish to hell paid agents of Israel would pay *me*. I do all this for free.
Scott Jennings -- who works for paid agents of Israel -- cries that when Abdul El-Sayed says he wants to go on Bill Maher's show because he thinks it's good when Maher's audience is "watching him get his ass whooped on his own show," that this is El-Sayed threatening "violence" against "the Jews."
What a fucking baby. Scott Jennings gets offended and screams RACIST! and "WORDS ARE VIOLENCE" more easily and frequently than a purple-haired sophomore at Sarah Lawrence. Also, it's super creepy when non-Jews like this anoint themselves spokemen and protectors of "the Jews."
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What do we know about this Linke fellow and why the German Communists want him out of the picture?
Maybe it isn’t the far right Europe should fear after all. Insurgents on the left, including Germany’s Die Linke, are much likelier to resist moderating, writes Joseph Sternberg
on.wsj.com/4yWRCoS
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This is a fascinating thing if it turns out to repeat in lots of contexts.
Fascinating article about Navier-Stokes solution and what mathematicians have learned … “so far humanity has learned very little from the solution. Although they believe the proof to be technically correct, the dense, 166-page manuscript drafted by AI is proving to be a difficult read. "So far it's been very difficult to really extract any human understanding from this new AI proof," said James Maynard, a mathematician at the University of Oxford. The paper is not written for humans," said Javier Gómez-Serrano, a mathematician at Brown University who uses AI in his own research. He said he believes the proof could help advance the field after "some serious re-writing," but "as of today, the paper doesn't teach us much."”
npr.org/2026/09/22/nx-s1-596…
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Better to say something like freedom notarizes or authenticates virtue. You can be virtuous under coercion and that's the best we can hope for in all kinds of cases, but the freedom of the will is still what separates us from the rest of creation so it would be odd to say it doesn't bear on virtue at all.
This is such a weird thing to say. Actually lots of people were virtuous when they were politically imprisoned and oppressed. We admire Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, or Maximilian Kolbe for their heroic virtue. Joseph in Egypt was virtuous.
Sorry, he may have done a lot of weird stuff, but Brent Bozell absolutely hammered Frank Meyer on this point. Orwell hammered Ghandi on it.
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On The Editors, @RichLowry, @charlescwcooke, @foster_type, and @michaelbd discuss the UN General Assembly and Trump’s meeting with Xi, the diesel export ban, and a viral Boston Globe story about Last Ditch, a collapsing lesbian bar.
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Maybe it's on me but I didn't know that Thiel is a German. It both makes a lot of sense and is also a source of potential concern lol. He's also wrong when he says he got Germany out of his system "intellectually" (and no this isn't a cheap Nazi joke.)
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You know mistletoe can be deadly, if you eat it.
Dems are in DISARRAY.
An Iranian-American student asks Abdul El-Sayed to DENOUNCE Iranian terrorist regime and he couldn’t bring himself to do it.
Hasan Piker promoted political violence against Chuck Schumer.
Kamala Harris sits through a roundtable about birthing persons and nods along.
I discuss a seven-step plan to end the Iran war - NOW - not after the election.
Watch 👇
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Wow, from the Washington Post: “Fraud grew rampant in recent years because the Biden administration increased Obamacare enrollment by expanding eligibility for zero-premium plans while failing to perform sufficient due diligence. That created a cottage industry of unscrupulous intermediaries, who received commissions from the government for signing up phantom “customers.””
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