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themarginalian.org
Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times

We know that we live in contradiction, but we also know that we must refuse this contradiction and do what is needed to reduce it. Our task as [humans] is to find the few principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls. We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the misery of the century.

— Albert Camus
6d ago

It is not reason that gives us our moral principles; it is feeling. Reason is the slave of the passions, and ought only to be so.

6d ago

We are always in search of the redeeming quality or deed that shall make us satisfied with our own evil and ours is a life that is not to be separated from the evil to which it gives birth.

3w ago

The mass of every evil is swollen by the cowardice of those who could prevent it and do not.

1mo ago

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

3mo ago
noahpinion.blog
The way we treat pigs is a sin

Furthermore, vegetarianism, though morally laudable, has an obvious economic limitation — when one person refuses to eat meat, it lowers the price of meat for everyone else, which raises other people's meat consumption and partially offsets the vegetarian's action.

3mo ago
ai-supremacy.com
How to use Claude AI for Investing

2026 has been the year of Anthropic. They are the creator of the large language model Claude, which has taken the world by storm: The company was founded by a group of ex-OpenAI executives, who purportedly set out to create a more ethical generative AI tool.

3mo ago
noahpinion.blog
Do billionaires earn their money?

AOC seems to mean that in order for someone to get a billion dollars, they have to do something that society ought to forbid. In other words, billionaires can't get their wealth just by being lucky; they have to get it by being bad.

4mo ago
longreads.com
ISpyForGood

When I started paying my own rent and utilities, I frequently lied to the landlord and the gas company, saying the check was on its way when it wasn't. I didn't believe that scamming, or any illicit activity, even if done correctly, could ever be fruitful enough to get me or anyone else out of poverty—though it could easily attract the police or people of ill intent, who would make life worse.

4mo ago
noahpinion.blog
Why shoplifting is bad

Every time you shoplift, in other words, you're stealing from the people who work at grocery stores and drugstores and discount stores. You're stealing from the communities that those stores serve. You're contributing to food deserts. You're raising unemployment. You're making food less affordable for the most vulnerable.

4mo ago

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. The coordination of all knowledge and all effort toward the human purpose, the welfare of life, is the purpose of wisdom.

5mo ago

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

5mo ago

To be entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. The first principle for the relations between States should be loyalty to natural obligations of human beings, not to the state, whenever these conflict. A man who truly believes in an ordered society must believe in the equality of human rights.

5mo ago
platformer.news
Inside the backlash to the AI war machine

He felt the new contract wasn't true to the promise of tech: "This isn't what we came to the Valley to do. We came to build tech that makes people free!"

6mo ago

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