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Russian assault on Pokrovsk falters as Ukraine says it destroyed four platoons: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/russian-assault-on-pokrovsk-falters.html

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous #philosophy #Texas

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next

Lawyer: Do you have an understanding as you sit here today of what Plato’s Cave means?
Me (a genius, actually): Yeah.
Lawyer: So what's your understanding of what it means?
M(AGA): It is exactly what was written in “Plato’s Cave”
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“A World Appears”, by Michael Pollan, is a tour de force recounting of the current state of our millennia-long attempts to define and explain #consciousness. Since Plato’s cave (and likely before that) thru #Descartes’ misguided duality, to today’s attempts at

Plato Understood Why Masking Would Turn ICE Agents Into Devils (Paul Rosenzweig/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/plato-understood-why-masking-would
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p53#a260208p53

What are #exoplanets and how do researchers find them? Learn more in our kids’ lecture on Astronomy Day, March 28th, at 3 PM. Including hands-on fun! In German.
More info here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/astronomietag2026

Another banger by J. B. Crawford in his "Computers Are Bad" series, this time going through computer history from PLATO to Lotus Notes. PLATO is probably the most influential computer system almost nobody knows about (unlike, say, Mother of All Demos).
https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusn

LotusNotes

University bans philosophy professor from teaching about Plato because it's too gay - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/university-bans-philosophy-professor-from-teaching-about-plato-because-its-too-gay/