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SPQR<p>“We’re stepping into the most pro-growth, pro-business, pro-American administration I’ve perhaps seen in my adult lifetime,” gushed the hedge fund manager Bill Ackman in December... </p><p>“You don’t get fired for being bullish, but you do get fired for being bearish on Wall Street,” said Berezin.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macroeconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macroeconomics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/groupthink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>groupthink</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biases</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reasoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reasoning</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html</span></a></p>
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>Is <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> a normative or descriptive concept?</p><p>Kevin Reuter, Lucien Baumgartner, Michael Messerli "present the findings of a <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/corpusLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corpusLinguistics</span></a> study revealing that people commonly perceive the concept of rationality as normative."</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.5840/tht20253442" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.5840/tht20253442</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/xPhi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xPhi</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/bigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigData</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2665/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Marcus Aurelius</b></a></p><blockquote>The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.<br>&nbsp;<br>[Τὴν ὑποληπτικὴν δύναμιν σέβε. ἐν ταύτῃ τὸ πᾶν, ἵνα ὑπόληψις τῷ ἡγεμονικῷ σου μηκέτι ἐγγένηται ἀνακόλουθος τῇ φύσει καὶ τῇ τοῦ λογικοῦ ζῴου κατασκευῇ]</blockquote><p><b>Marcus Aurelius</b> (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher<br><i>Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν],</i> Book 3, ch. 9 (3.9) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier (1701)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2665/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2665…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=judgment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judgment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opinion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reason</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=stoicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stoicism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thinking</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virtue</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=marcusaurelius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marcusaurelius</span></a></p>
Tim Zee<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>arstechnica</span></a></span> <br>Use "reality based thinking" as a synonym for science.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rationality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RealityBasedThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealityBasedThinking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Logic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reason</span></a></p>
Jan :rust: :ferris:<p>If you think people argue rationally more often than emotionally, you don't understand people.</p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychology</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Emotionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emotionality</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rationality</span></a></p>
saxnot<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@boghan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>boghan</span></a></span> i demand nothing less then for someone to make the supernatural into the natural.<br>Turn the divine into the worldly.</p><p>Perhaps believers known it can't be done or know this destroys what makes the fantasy so special I don't know.<br>I try to adjust this believe according to the evidence.<br>Currently it's evidence = 0 = belief.<br>Provide evidence and I will do my best to uphold my part.<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/rationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationalism</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/god" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>god</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evidence</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>epistemology</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/allah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>allah</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/vishnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vishnu</span></a></p>
Autiste à :ch_Vaud:🌊 #woke<p>What Happened to <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/JonStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JonStewart</span></a>? — A Retrospective</p><p>This is an already 2-years old video, but I would recommend it strongly to everyone interested in understanding the role of <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/politicalsatire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicalsatire</span></a> in nowadays <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/discourses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discourses</span></a>, and especially to fans of the <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/DailyShow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DailyShow</span></a> with Jon Stewart, as they are particularly likely to share some of his most problematic <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/biases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biases</span></a>, that is the appeal to <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> and this idea that only <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/polite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polite</span></a> conversation is fit for <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hCxHvogsTY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=9hCxHvogsT</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a></p>
Valen RESISTS<p>Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a wonderful take on HP where instead of being raised by a family full of hate and dysfunction, the parents are scientists. Harry then brings the Scientific Method to Hogwarts and analyzes how magic works. He also becomes friends with Draco! Highly recommended.</p><p><a href="https://hpmor.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hpmor.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Har</span><span class="invisible">ry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rationality</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CriticalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalThinking</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FanFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FanFiction</span></a></p>
Cees Grootes<p>How conspiracy theories bypass people’s rationality.</p><p>Prior research has focused on the negative reasons people are drawn to conspiracies, but there’s another side to the story.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://psyche.co/ideas/how-conspiracy-theories-bypass-peoples-rationality" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">psyche.co/ideas/how-conspiracy</span><span class="invisible">-theories-bypass-peoples-rationality</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conspiracytheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracytheories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a></p>
SPQR<p>Since being uncertain is part of being human, can we learn to live with it? Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman claimed, “I’m smart enough to know I’m dumb”, and was comfortable with not fully understanding things, saying: “I can live with doubt, uncertainty and not knowing.” This sets a fine example for how to deal with the inevitable ignorance in our lives.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/risk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>risk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uncertainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uncertainty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Decision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decision</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/modeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modeling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prediction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prediction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/forecasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forecasting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/15/uncertainty-is-part-of-being-human-so-how-can-we-learn-to-live-with-it" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2</span><span class="invisible">024/dec/15/uncertainty-is-part-of-being-human-so-how-can-we-learn-to-live-with-it</span></a></p>
Andrew<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@CheRosach" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CheRosach</span></a></span> </p><p>Where would you like me to start?</p><p>How about national flags on football strips? Or entertainment addiction? What about royal celebrity culture?</p><p>"... how then can we understand this deep-seated behaviour that to some degree affects us all, yet seems to defy our expectations of clear-headed, rational and logical conduct?"</p><p><a href="https://vocal.media/futurism/an-agreed-madness" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vocal.media/futurism/an-agreed</span><span class="invisible">-madness</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/transference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transference</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a></p>
Purplle lite<p>What is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PurplleLite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PurplleLite</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PurpleLite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PurpleLite</span></a> refers to a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CenterLeft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CenterLeft</span></a>, pragmatic approach that blends <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservative</span></a> views, emphasizing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rationality</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalThinking</span></a>. While it leans more toward progressive values, particularly on social issues, it adopts moderate or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PracticalSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PracticalSolutions</span></a> on economic matters, seeking balanced and effective outcomes rather than ideological extremes.</p>
Ulrike Hahn<p>„calling something logic doesn’t make it so. Calling someone rational doesn’t make it so“ </p><p>I’ve been thinking for a while that, as someone who works on human rationality and rational argument, I should write a blog post on what that actually means (and, maybe more importantly, doesn‘t mean).</p><p>in the meantime, though, I found much to agree with in this piece: </p><p>Title: The magical thinking of guys who love logic <br><a href="https://theoutline.com/post/7083/the-magical-thinking-of-guys-who-love-logic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theoutline.com/post/7083/the-m</span><span class="invisible">agical-thinking-of-guys-who-love-logic</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logic</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/argument" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>argument</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Bayes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bayes</span></a></p>
Salve J. Nilsen<p>Really good talk about facts and how these (don't) change minds, by Seth Andrews.</p><p>52min well worth spending.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4UJuQHYhWg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Z4UJuQHYhW</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/facts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facts</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atheism</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/StreetEpistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StreetEpistemology</span></a></p>
Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪<p>My pov: intuition is very overrated.<br>It feels rational to me to conclude this.</p><p>And I’m backed:</p><p>University College London concluded that the effect of intuition has been overrated by many researchers and that there is little evidence that conscious thought arrives at worse solutions in complex situations.</p><p>(Of course I am aware there are other voices, also in science)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sorrynotsorry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sorrynotsorry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/intuition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intuition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a></p>
datum (n=1)<p>Little low on 🥄 so no write-up but really feeling this article's point that</p><p>➡️ SETTING BOUNDARIES AHEAD OF TIME is a highly effective way to use one's own rational mind. Like how it's often easier to give someone else advice than to just know what to do oneself. Being prepared / primed means not violating one's own boundaries and regretting it later!</p><p>"I advised her to set firm boundaries ahead of time, just in her own mind, for what the landscape would need to look like for her to pull the kids out again."</p><p>We need to normalize this being one of our <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/SwissCheese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SwissCheese</span></a> defense layers!</p><p><a href="https://essaysyoudidntwanttoread.home.blog/2022/11/05/now-what-are-we-supposed-to-do-part-ii-boundaries-you-do-you-be-the-change-you-wish-to-see/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">essaysyoudidntwanttoread.home.</span><span class="invisible">blog/2022/11/05/now-what-are-we-supposed-to-do-part-ii-boundaries-you-do-you-be-the-change-you-wish-to-see/</span></a></p><p>h/t <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@joffir" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">med-mastodon.com/@joffir</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> [ETA: she has written several very insightful and accessible pieces, and IMO it's worth looking at her other writing if understanding cognition is interesting to you, especially in the context of covid-related behaviour]</p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>safety</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a></p>
Michael Fenichel<p>More from the shape-shifting creature of the couch cats… "Story time time"</p><p>Cartoon by Clay Jones 🎯</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QuidProQuo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuidProQuo</span></a> in the Story-telling license to lie, for the sake of … sake of… ?</p><p>Negating <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truth</span></a> &amp; upping confusion &amp; hate, so it would seem.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GQP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GQP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpVirus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VanceVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VanceVirus</span></a> versus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> VERSUS <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/couches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>couches</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cult</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/distraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>distraction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/insanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tribalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tribalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hate</span></a></p>
earthling<p>Reasoning in Psychopathology; Rationality and Irrationality in Mental Disorders by Valentina Cardella &amp; Amelia Gangemi, 2024</p><p>Reasoning in Psychopathology adopts a pragmatic conception of reasoning, demonstrating how people with mental disorders develop characteristic strategies of reasoning depending on the particular disorder they have and the emotions they experience.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pychopathology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pychopathology</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reasoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reasoning</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/irrationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irrationality</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a></p>
Ehud<p>In case you missed it, I highly recommend this thought provoking podcast series. The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rationality</span></a> Wars podcast tells about how Exxon funded the field of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a>, how they succeeded, and the role of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Sunstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sunstein</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Kahenmam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kahenmam</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://citedpodcast.com/category/season-02-the-rationality-wars/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">citedpodcast.com/category/seas</span><span class="invisible">on-02-the-rationality-wars/</span></a></p>
Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/JesseCouenhoven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JesseCouenhoven</span></a> - Is <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Forgiveness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forgiveness</span></a> Unique to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humans</span></a>? </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF1WESv5m50" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=wF1WESv5m5</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PhilosophyOfMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyOfMind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PhilosophyOfConsciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyOfConsciousness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Agency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Agency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rationality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Intentionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intentionality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Personhood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CloserToTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CloserToTruth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertKuhn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertKuhn</span></a></p>