Monthly Archives: August 2022

Parapolitics of Esther

Posted on 04/08/2022 by oligomath

book of esther is both better and worse than ezra-nehemiah. better because it works better as a fun drinking story with a melodrama but worse because it is so evidently the pattern of every pogrom fuelled by fantasy and paranoia … Continue reading →

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They Don’t Want You To Know Linguistics: Bare Literacy

Posted on 03/08/2022 by oligomath

I talked to someone this morning who gave me something to thing about with the They Don’t Want You To Know Linguistics issue. They grew up in the country, in a place where it was still not a given that … Continue reading →

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On Being Asked Why Preserving Life Is Only Beneficial from a Human Perspective

Posted on 03/08/2022 by oligomath

“a forest you can hunt deer or gather a particular herb in” in is worth preserving but “the life of an arbitrary deer or a particular plant” is not. the preservation of the former, which you could science up into … Continue reading →

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