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Tue, 30/12/2025 - 20:42
Traditionally, philosophers have focused mostly on the logical template of inference. The paradigm-case has been deductive inference, which is topic-neutral and context-insensitive. The study of deductive rules has engendered the search for the Holy Grail: syntactic and topic-neutral accounts of all prima facie reasonable inferential rules. The search has hoped to find rules that are […]
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Tue, 30/12/2025 - 06:15


Our 8th most-read article of 2025.

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Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make them feel?

I know, I know—all you did was share your chili recipe, but did you consider the people who don’t like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don’t know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?

Not only did you share a thoughtless, cruel recipe, but you also had the audacity to call it the “best chili recipe in the world.” Really? Have you tried every chili recipe? How do you think this makes the creators of other recipes feel? How would you feel if someone said your chili wasn’t the best they’d ever had?

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Mon, 29/12/2025 - 09:16


Our 12th most-read article of 2025.

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Originally published May 19, 2025.

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Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mouthing the Giant Plagiarism Machine.

I’d like to remind you that our company policy is pro–Plagiarism Machine. We’re a tech-forward, future-oriented company that doesn’t shy away from the promise of new innovation—even if that innovation is a Giant Plagiarism Machine that copy-pastes existing innovation into fake sentient sentences.

Created
Mon, 29/12/2025 - 07:02

After The Grayzone exposed CIJA – the Western gov’t-funded regime change outfit – for collaborating with al-Qaeda and its allies in Syria, files show the group sought to penetrate and “intimidate” European financial regulators who charged them with corruption. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal the intelligence-linked Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) launched a malicious effort to infiltrate and subvert the European Commission and EU anti-fraud office after it accused them of corruption. In order to carry […]

The post Western intelligence lawfare op plotted illegal sting on EU fraud office, leaks reveal first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Western intelligence lawfare op plotted illegal sting on EU fraud office, leaks reveal appeared first on The Grayzone.

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Mon, 29/12/2025 - 06:06
by Tony Wikrent   Howie Klein (February 20, 1948–December 24, 2025) Thomas Neuburger, December 25, 2025 [downwithtyranny.com] [TW: Howie had a keen instinct for news and articles that could move the needle in favor of justice, freedom, and solidarity. And he was also hardened by a deep repugnance for the hypocrisy and transgressions of conservatives, libertarians and […]