Yusuf
@yusufimaadkhan.com
political philosophy, social epistemology, anarchy, sometimes charts 📈 | PhDing @LSEGovernment | he/him
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Merry Christmas ! I am giving away a bunch of free books — who wants one
December 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Merry Christmas ! I am giving away a bunch of free books — who wants one
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#NewArticle #OpenAccess
Caste as a Social Kind | Ajinkya Deshmukh
Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1002/japp...
#philsky #philosophy
Caste as a Social Kind | Ajinkya Deshmukh
Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1002/japp...
#philsky #philosophy
Caste as a Social Kind
Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social ...
doi.org
December 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#NewArticle #OpenAccess
Caste as a Social Kind | Ajinkya Deshmukh
Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1002/japp...
#philsky #philosophy
Caste as a Social Kind | Ajinkya Deshmukh
Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1002/japp...
#philsky #philosophy
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getting both the king and the pope in the global cultural divorce
Could the idea of making Rupert Lowe the King instead be "mainstreamed", ask the online racist right!
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
getting both the king and the pope in the global cultural divorce
"Hey i love that song. Can you make me something similar? But don't make it too bait."
"Sure thing boss."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3m...
"Sure thing boss."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3m...
December 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"Hey i love that song. Can you make me something similar? But don't make it too bait."
"Sure thing boss."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3m...
"Sure thing boss."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3m...
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Lord I’m one, Lord I’m two, Lord I’m three, Lord I’m four, Lord I’m five hundred miles from my home…
youtu.be/B_K6z3HiRAs?...
youtu.be/B_K6z3HiRAs?...
Joan Baez ~ 500 Miles
YouTube video by ingifrance
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Lord I’m one, Lord I’m two, Lord I’m three, Lord I’m four, Lord I’m five hundred miles from my home…
youtu.be/B_K6z3HiRAs?...
youtu.be/B_K6z3HiRAs?...
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> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available.
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
December 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available.
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
A transcript and audio of MLK’s final Christmas sermon (part of the Massey Lectures).
“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.”
archive.is/4xTYP
youtu.be/1jeyIAH3bUI?...
“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.”
archive.is/4xTYP
youtu.be/1jeyIAH3bUI?...
December 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A transcript and audio of MLK’s final Christmas sermon (part of the Massey Lectures).
“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.”
archive.is/4xTYP
youtu.be/1jeyIAH3bUI?...
“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.”
archive.is/4xTYP
youtu.be/1jeyIAH3bUI?...
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Philosophers: Imagine yourself behind the veil of ignorance, not knowing what life you might be born into
Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it
Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it
Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
www.givingwhatwecan.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Philosophers: Imagine yourself behind the veil of ignorance, not knowing what life you might be born into
Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it
Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it
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Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
www.givingwhatwecan.org
December 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
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New Institutionalists on Christmas be like: “I can’t wait for Douglass North to come down the chimney with his bundle of institutions to deliver self-enforcing credible commitments and reduced transaction costs”
December 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
New Institutionalists on Christmas be like: “I can’t wait for Douglass North to come down the chimney with his bundle of institutions to deliver self-enforcing credible commitments and reduced transaction costs”
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"In becoming man, Jesus took upon himself our fragility, identifying with each one of us: with those who have nothing left and have lost everything, like the inhabitants of Gaza; with those who are prey to hunger and poverty, like the Yemeni people ..."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
December 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"In becoming man, Jesus took upon himself our fragility, identifying with each one of us: with those who have nothing left and have lost everything, like the inhabitants of Gaza; with those who are prey to hunger and poverty, like the Yemeni people ..."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal
Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other
country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million
more have inadequate access to c...
www.thelancet.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal
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UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight.
Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
December 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight.
Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
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Japanese artists are fleeing Bluesky because Elon just made all of their work editable by GenAI
bsky.app/profile/hele...
bsky.app/profile/hele...
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Japanese artists are fleeing Bluesky because Elon just made all of their work editable by GenAI
bsky.app/profile/hele...
bsky.app/profile/hele...
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See that cluster on the top left? It's gonna get a whole lot bigger by the end of the week.
a zoomed out view looking at language. might need to pull out all the language specific posts and do individual clustering by language
December 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
See that cluster on the top left? It's gonna get a whole lot bigger by the end of the week.
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it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
December 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
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You say “globalisation is corporate sponsored economic integration”
I say “yes but it’s also given us a straw hat Jolly Roger from Japanese manga and anime series One Piece that became a symbol of dissent and solidarity against unjust authority”
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
I say “yes but it’s also given us a straw hat Jolly Roger from Japanese manga and anime series One Piece that became a symbol of dissent and solidarity against unjust authority”
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
You say “globalisation is corporate sponsored economic integration”
I say “yes but it’s also given us a straw hat Jolly Roger from Japanese manga and anime series One Piece that became a symbol of dissent and solidarity against unjust authority”
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
I say “yes but it’s also given us a straw hat Jolly Roger from Japanese manga and anime series One Piece that became a symbol of dissent and solidarity against unjust authority”
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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As the year draws to a close, Ember presents some of the biggest clean energy shifts of 2025 and what they mean for the coming year 🗓️
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
As the year draws to a close, Ember presents some of the biggest clean energy shifts of 2025 and what they mean for the coming year 🗓️
🧵1/8
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12/In the US, it is unclear what national interest is being served by sanctioning EU officials. Increasingly, it looks like hyper elites (think Big Tech) is driving the bus. The result: an acceleration in the breakdown of transatlantic relations.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
12/In the US, it is unclear what national interest is being served by sanctioning EU officials. Increasingly, it looks like hyper elites (think Big Tech) is driving the bus. The result: an acceleration in the breakdown of transatlantic relations.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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6/ reminder that the EU could not consensually agree to create an anti coercion instrument or tax US tech giants because of American retaliatory threats against some Countries.
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
Time to put money where your mouth is Macron.
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Time to put money where your mouth is Macron.
bsky.app/profile/mijr...
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
6/ reminder that the EU could not consensually agree to create an anti coercion instrument or tax US tech giants because of American retaliatory threats against some Countries.
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
Time to put money where your mouth is Macron.
bsky.app/profile/mijr...
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
Time to put money where your mouth is Macron.
bsky.app/profile/mijr...
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The grind never stops 😤💪
December 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The grind never stops 😤💪