Chawki A. Belhadi
phenomological.bsky.social
Chawki A. Belhadi
@phenomological.bsky.social
PhD Candidate philosopher-mystic-renunciate hybrid | Anthropologist of mind & meaning | Buddhist pragmatist | Systems critic | Space, psychedelics, & social contracts | Precision over pretense
5) It's good to know though that you are out there working hard to make a better world. 💟
July 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
4) Having to reset the map, as you say, is not the easiest thing to do. I second that in more ways that you might know. You're brilliant though. So, I have no doubt that you, as warranted and checked by the terrain, will come to adapt.
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
3) ... loosely and not become overly enamored with it in a way that leads to clinging—where we try to make the terrain fit the map. That’s where a lot of suffering is generated…
July 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
2) ... cannot yet become aware of. Even when we do become aware that something has changed, the reading always proves indirect and imperfect. That’s a foundational, non-negotiable epistemological reality, you could say. It’s baked into experience. The lesson, I suppose, is to always hold the map...
July 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
1) Makes perfect sense. The territory (or terrain) is always changing in noumenal ways that are not immediately triangulable just by its appearances—i.e., the only dimension we have direct access to (the phenomenological). Effective maps are constructed, only for the terrain to shift in ways we...
July 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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President Donald Trump's administration set a "trap" for the Supreme Court, and Shirin Ali wrote for Slate on Friday that the court walked right into it.
Supreme Court just walked into the Trump administration's 'trap': analysis
President Donald Trump's administration set a "trap" for the Supreme Court, and Shirin Ali wrote for Slate on Friday that the court walked right into it. The Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Casa, which was issued on Friday, sent shockwaves through the government. The court decided that nationwi...
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June 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
So a legislative bill is 100% invested in just some sheets of paper? No sheets, no bill? Seems like a really shitty design.
June 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
(2 of 2) ... a lot of existential dissatisfaction and burnout. I realized expectations were just constructs and not reality itself. That tamped down my ego and I stopped more or less taking "prediction errors" personally. Hope that helps...
June 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Super helpful explanation from @leahlitman.bsky.social about SCOTUS latest What Just Happened
What does the Supreme Court’s ruling limiting nationwide injunctions mean and what are the implications for Trump’s executive order targeting birthright citizenship?

@samsteindc.bsky.social spoke to SCOTUS expert @leahlitman.bsky.social
BREAKING: SCOTUS Just Blew Up Nationwide Injunctions
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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June 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
(1 of 2) Not currently, but I used to... a lot! Realized that how I was mapping the territory (a top down construct) and the territory I was walking (a bottom up experience - reality basically) were not one and the same. I'd get upset the territory wasn't fitting the map but that just lead to....
June 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
June 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I think it’s time for bed…

Chinese Hailuo 2 Shows What the Cat Olympics Would Look Like.

Mom's Friends' Cats
June 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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"Every bombed village is my hometown."

—James Baldwin

Artwork/Graphic by @silveiraworks (via Instagram)
June 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Great album. I wore that thing out. 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' just dominated the radio airwaves that summer (1985).
June 22, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Very Cool 😎
June 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The explanatory power of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) hasn't yet penetrated political speech much.
June 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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June 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Think the peons of idiocracy have something going for them that the rest of us don't. It's this preternatural level of certainty they have about the righteousness of their business. It imparts this forceful conviction free from any circumscribable doubt.
June 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
If your statement isn't rhetorical, all of THIS looks like an acceleration towards Idiocracy, one loaded with an already existing inertia...
June 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Think it's 19 and likely just a knee jerk 'MAGA virtue signaling' flail.

Full ban: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen.

Partial Ban: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan. Venezuela
June 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM