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Political theory &c. Emphasis on the &c.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I wish there was a book that covered all three of those areas
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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And so how does NPR start off their interview with him this morning?
October 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Rural Wyoming
October 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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That’s an automatic unsubscribe
Ad from Pearson celebrating AI
October 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Peanuts cartoon from the 70s, snoopy declining to name his “owner” b/c entails too much research
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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In memoriam
Frame of Redford from Day of the Condor. He is shouting “Fuck the Wall Street Journal.”
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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@nytimes.com needs to learn that “alleged” can apply to official acts as well as criminal charges.
August 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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. There was a large figure shown in middle of the throne's back rest which K. could not understand and asked the painter about it. That'll need some more work done on it, the painter told him, and taking a pastel crayon from a small table he added a few strokes to the edges of the figure but without making it any clearer as far as K. could make out. "That's the figure of justice," said the painter, finally. "Now I see," said K., "here's the blindfold and here are the scales. But aren't those wings on her heels, and isn't she moving?" "Yes," said the painter, "I had to paint it like that according to the contract. It's actually the figure of justice and the goddess of victory all in one." "That is not a good combination," said K. with a smile. "Justice needs to remain still, otherwise the scales will move about and it won't be possible to make a just verdict." "I'm just doing what the client wanted," said the painter.
July 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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June 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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One fewer tree that Emily Dickinson grew up with
Emily Dickinson house on the right, pieces of a 200-year-old felled tree in the left foreground.
June 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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May 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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@adambecker.bsky.social noting, in passing, that techbros are ultimately driven by a theologic focus that they themselves don't understand.
Adam Becker: Kurzweil tries to get around this by saying that you're not going to be immortal, but you can live as long as you want to. Sure, that gets around some of it. But Kurzweil also thinks that we're going to find a way around the second law of thermodynamics, which we're not. I do think that fear of death is at the root of a lot of this, if not all of it.
May 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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#HowIQuitSpin 155. Imagine a play which is just the attorneys for Creon, Haemon, Isme & Antigone meeting for two hours. That is tragedy. — Pirate Bae (@bookofriot) July 20, 2015
May 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Support your local media, for example @danshafer.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Seems like only a few months ago...
April 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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How many times can these guys be right?
An image of the wildly improbable and optimistic 1999 book Dow 36,000, which predicted an immediate rise in the stock market that would not come true for over 22 years.
April 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Bring it, Bernard
64 1-15 Five Books on Consideration It is a monstrous thing for the highest office to be filled with a man of the lowest character, for the first place to be occupied by a man fit for the last, for the tongue to be eloquent but the hand idle, for the talk to abound but results to be lacking, for the face to be grave but behavior capricious, for great authority to be vested in a man of faltering stability. Bring a mirror and let a dirty face recognize itself.
April 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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March 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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No no non non
March 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This you, my guy?
The same guy saying Trump wont do tariffs.
March 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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elaine scarry vindicated
Image of the cover of Scarry's On Beauty and Being Just
February 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Soon we will be free of the tyranny of C N Hinkman's 1937 Bell Labs discovery of how to record sound magnetically onto tape.
a graph from p 174 explaining how to reduce "bias"
February 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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also, too
1980s Rally for "Decency" flyer feat Anita Bryant
February 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Goose down meme with goose yelling “respected by who?”
January 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM