For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

Since clarification is still clearly needed, continental philosophy (i.e. data-free sociology) is influenced by early Marx, particular the work on alienation. Analytic philosophy (i.e. also data-free sociology) is influenced by later Marx, particularly the reproduction schemas in Capital vol 2.

Here is "AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto". I've been working on this feverishly because the issue seems to me so urgent - and I'm worried extreme positions on both sides are becoming locked in, when the best way forward is in the centre. Please read it! philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4

THE BELL JAR

HARD ❌

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York

EASY ✅

That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs

A thoughtful piece on the assassination of Brian Thompson

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