Martin Cohen
@docmartincohen
Author, editor & freelancer: philosophy and social science = applying philosophy to everyday life. Best known book "101 Philosophy Problems" Bylines at Guardian, Independent, TES and Higher. Definitely also @ForDummies http:www.martincohenauthor.com No DMs
Wikipedia doesn't like AI… but to be honest, Wikipedia is only random humans reading and summarising other people's books and articles. So why not let AI do it too?
Insightful and nicely narrated story of how Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is actually a sharp critique of Victorian England and its cruelties. Had he not disguised the tale, likely he would have been put in prison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uahy... But the mystery of Alice we will never know.
The magnificent triumph of those who don't pay tax <sighs> open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
One of the best Lego videos here, at about 17' 45" (capping off a thoughtful podcast) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy5d... @miloprcohen.bsky.social
Given Trump's denial that he thought THAT image of him as Jesus was really him as a doctor, interesting to see that years ago, he showed a journalist at Mar-a-Lago.a large painting of himself as a God-like, orange figure. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Powerful stuff from Jeffrey Sachs on the horror of Gaza via @cgtnamerica.bsky.social
Echoes today of past attacks on Persia… When Trump consulted US experts on what would happen if he attacked Iran, they too replied: "If you launch this war, a great empire will be destroyed". Trump never thought that the empire in question might be the American one historyaffairs.com/the-tragic-w...
Geopolitics explainer: The Gulf States make huge pots of real money by selling oil. They then pass that on to the US in the form of things like "investments". The US in turn passes $billions to Israel, which uses it to attack its neighbours and seize territory throughout the Middle East. See map
My book, Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies, 2nd Edition, is 30% off at Barnes & Noble all month long as part of Dummies Month! If you’ve been meaning to pick it up, now’s a grrrreat time. www.barnesandnoble.com/s/dummies Get people reading! @wiley.com @miloprcohen.bsky.social
With reagrd to the space catapult, try to keep up, Eliot. The technology has been around a while. It's called a Trebuchet. Remember, Musk is a genius!
Courtesy of the cesspit of Twitter, an AI image created by the people who rolled out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska and cut off all military aid to Ukraine.
And this, from Larry Page and Sergey Brin, I fear is true… another reason to avoid Google. "In fact, the name Google, they said, was invented out of the belief that men would focus on a word with two Os in it.)
America is in a struggle for its soul… every action - little or great - in defence of our common humanity will matter uk.news.yahoo.com/news/furious...
Puffins are breeding on the Isle of Muck for the first time in 25 years www.irishtimes.com/environment/... @miloprcohen.bsky.social
Nice pic of a nice man… (Definitely not a psychopath, even if the dog looks worried) @miloprcohen.bsky.social
So it's Woking council going bankrupt today. Years ago, I used to investigate dodgy decisions at Brighton - always up for borrowing loadsamoney for grand projects that went into debt - essentially funelling cash from the ratepaying public to speculators with chums on the council. Plus ça change!
And that statue in New York Harbour… could be replaced with one of Trump holding a swag bag and a rifle?
So, Israel knew its bulldozer had exploded some of its own ordnance, and just wanted to destroy the peace settlment. So far, so normal. What IS new, is the US reining Netanyahu in. Long may it continue…
The Gaza war is a tactical victory - of course it is- for Israel, but a strategic failure. The am was to drive Palestinians out of Greater Israel which and increase its Jewish majority. However, despite killing 68,000 Palestinians, the balance has shifted the other way, with 145,900 Israelis leaving
The huge amount of space the vacuous UK media is giving to the story of Prince Andrew's defenestration as a "working" Royal, is obscuring another story. This is that Andrew's wife, Sarah, adopted two of the late Queen's corgis, Sandy and Muick. They too will lose their Royal status. Rough justice!
As I say, I think Israel has miscalculated. The horror will no longer be possible to hide. www.palestinechronicle.com/full-scale-g... "Israel dropped more than 200,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip and bombed one area more than 150 times - despite claiming it was a “safe humanitarian zone.”
Happy to recommend this new book… after all, one of the interviews undertaken by Richard includes my own thoughts on 'paradigms' - or, let me put it another way, on how to see the world in new ways.
It's so wrong, it's hard to think about. www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/u...
Grim insights into life in Gaza city now… www.democracynow.org/2025/9/26/ga... "The drones in the background, that keep buzzing and grinding down on the mental and the psychological well-being of everyone here…because we don’t know when the next attack is going to happen."
What started as Trump speaking casually, like a man in a bar, has become Trump speaking like a DRUNKARD shouting in the street. It's an angry, incoherent tangle of phrases - the only link is hate.
And now for something completely different …from the USA Solar coronal loops, as observed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite in 2014, following the path of the magnetic field on the Sun.
