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Palantir's "Marxist Critical Theory" CEO // 263

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Today is' Arday // 264

The Pill Pod debates the academic and ethics perspectives' following the terminal end of the Jason Arday plagiarism scandal. 

The Right's Recycled Mythology of Far-Left Terrorism // 261

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Nature's Leftist Conspiracy against Western Civilization: Contemporary Mythology // 260

Socialist are to blame for the Forest Fires. Antifa caused Algae to take over the reflecting pool. Conservatives believe that nature has allied with their enemies to unde

LLMs prove Structuralism was Correct all Along // 258

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Chinese Room LLM // 257 (preview)

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AI Will Fail Because Heidegger // 256

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POPE vs. AI // 255

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Michel Foucault: Technologies of the Self // 254

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Christopher Lasch: The Culture of Narcissism // 253 (preview)

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Internet Connection UTTERLY DESTROYS Lost Exotic Rainforest Tribe!!! // 251

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The Philosophy of Looksmaxxing // 249

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Anthropotechnics // 248 (preview)

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Sloterdijk on Trial for Eugenics // 247

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Marcel Mauss - The Gift // 180 (unlock)

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Durkheim on MANA - The Original "Floating Signifier" // 179

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Why Critical Theory is Never Enjoying Anything // 246 (preview)

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Why Philosophers Fear their own Farts // 245 (preview)

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The Critique of Cynical Reason - Sloterdijk // 244

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Cynicism (the philosophy) // 243 (preview)

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