a statement in someway that is self-contradictory; a statement that seems wrong when you first read it but in reality expresses some truth.
QuoProQuid
@quoproquid.bsky.social
paradox games—in how they represent “expansion” and elide on the unpleasant and unsatisfying details of what that entails—are perfect vehicles for representing nationalist fantasies in a way that seems “serious” and professional.
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Sarah Hörst
@planetdr.bsky.social
Every day of 2025 I feel like we are closer to figuring out the answer to the Fermi paradox.
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
If you think intellectual diversity requires including anti-intellectualism — liars, post-truth nihilists, archive destroying fascists, people opposed to the very foundation of free inquiry who would use the state to crush it — it’s past time to realize a version of the paradox of tolerance applies.
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