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Apparently my top album of the year was Blue Rev by Alvvways which I could have sworn was released this year but it came out in 2022. time is an ever-faster spinning hamster wheel and centrifugal motion is throwing me off of this bitch
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Apparently my top album of the year was Blue Rev by Alvvways which I could have sworn was released this year but it came out in 2022. time is an ever-faster spinning hamster wheel and centrifugal motion is throwing me off of this bitch
Intimations of Mortality, Abdu’l Hasan, 1618
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Intimations of Mortality, Abdu’l Hasan, 1618
This Paul Churchland books cover is absolutely wild lmao
October 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This Paul Churchland books cover is absolutely wild lmao
reading through this 13th century Southern Song travelogue of the Taoist sage Changchun being summoned by Genghis Khan to the Hindu Kush to learn the secret of immortality
October 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
reading through this 13th century Southern Song travelogue of the Taoist sage Changchun being summoned by Genghis Khan to the Hindu Kush to learn the secret of immortality
His book from just a few years back is probably one of the better on the subject of indigineity that I’ve read. Part of the punchline is that relative to Arab Zanzibaris, Ugandan Asians and the Tutsi - the Boers should not be too grumpy about how things turned out for them politically lol
October 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
His book from just a few years back is probably one of the better on the subject of indigineity that I’ve read. Part of the punchline is that relative to Arab Zanzibaris, Ugandan Asians and the Tutsi - the Boers should not be too grumpy about how things turned out for them politically lol
Seems fine. Good, even
October 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Seems fine. Good, even
Wondering whether new Joe Studwell book on developmental economics in SS Africa is going to be a total disaster or pretty good, but can’t imagine it’s anything other than one of those two
September 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Wondering whether new Joe Studwell book on developmental economics in SS Africa is going to be a total disaster or pretty good, but can’t imagine it’s anything other than one of those two
I’m about the finish Mahfouz’s Cairo trilogy and man, what a ride. Heavily recommended!
Between this and the Neapolitan Quartet I’m not sure which is my better sprawling, generational, devastating literary saga spanning the 20th century political upheaval of a city!
Between this and the Neapolitan Quartet I’m not sure which is my better sprawling, generational, devastating literary saga spanning the 20th century political upheaval of a city!
September 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’m about the finish Mahfouz’s Cairo trilogy and man, what a ride. Heavily recommended!
Between this and the Neapolitan Quartet I’m not sure which is my better sprawling, generational, devastating literary saga spanning the 20th century political upheaval of a city!
Between this and the Neapolitan Quartet I’m not sure which is my better sprawling, generational, devastating literary saga spanning the 20th century political upheaval of a city!
Penrose also has an incredible treatment of this in Road to Reality. Such beautiful little hand drawn illustrations too! I mean, come on!
September 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Penrose also has an incredible treatment of this in Road to Reality. Such beautiful little hand drawn illustrations too! I mean, come on!
From Jahan Malek Khatun. They say that the Shirazi poets can’t properly be translated (I guess translating Hafez is like translating Shakespeare[?]) and I’m inclined to believe them, but I’ve nonetheless been enjoying Dick Davis’s attempt with Khatun. Real Le Ton beau de Marot hours
September 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
From Jahan Malek Khatun. They say that the Shirazi poets can’t properly be translated (I guess translating Hafez is like translating Shakespeare[?]) and I’m inclined to believe them, but I’ve nonetheless been enjoying Dick Davis’s attempt with Khatun. Real Le Ton beau de Marot hours
Can’t tell if I’m pretentious or if this movie was actually incredible
August 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Can’t tell if I’m pretentious or if this movie was actually incredible
In the late Jurassic a coral-sponge reef stretched ~4k miles across the Tethys Sea, triple the Great Barrier Reef. One of the largest biological structures to have ever existed!
July 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In the late Jurassic a coral-sponge reef stretched ~4k miles across the Tethys Sea, triple the Great Barrier Reef. One of the largest biological structures to have ever existed!
Cookbooks that you can’t really make anything from but you’re just having fun reading em
May 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Cookbooks that you can’t really make anything from but you’re just having fun reading em
Why did this album get so heavily slept on? Should be Blonde-level, I think people will appreciate it more with time
May 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Why did this album get so heavily slept on? Should be Blonde-level, I think people will appreciate it more with time
Cribbed from Twitter but made me laugh
May 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Cribbed from Twitter but made me laugh
Roger Penrose is one of the greatest mathematical physicists of the 20th century, and I’m always blown away by role that visual intuition and doodling played in his life work. These are just some illustrations from Road to Reality about fiber bundles
February 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Roger Penrose is one of the greatest mathematical physicists of the 20th century, and I’m always blown away by role that visual intuition and doodling played in his life work. These are just some illustrations from Road to Reality about fiber bundles
My guilty pleasure is math and physics visualization pedagogy on YouTube. This is a great one on understanding electron orbitals through harmonics.
youtu.be/M--6_0F62pQ?...
youtu.be/M--6_0F62pQ?...
February 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My guilty pleasure is math and physics visualization pedagogy on YouTube. This is a great one on understanding electron orbitals through harmonics.
youtu.be/M--6_0F62pQ?...
youtu.be/M--6_0F62pQ?...
I like the austerity of winter. It’s like the woods collectively exhale
February 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I like the austerity of winter. It’s like the woods collectively exhale
Braudel, Wheels of Commerce p. 229-230
January 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Braudel, Wheels of Commerce p. 229-230