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What the "anti-escalationists" of all stripes don't realize (or pretend they don't) is that if the Russo-Ukrainian war is ended on Russia's terms, then ALL disputed territories anywhere are immediately up for grabs. Because military force will once again be an acceptable way to change state borders.
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What the "anti-escalationists" of all stripes don't realize (or pretend they don't) is that if the Russo-Ukrainian war is ended on Russia's terms, then ALL disputed territories anywhere are immediately up for grabs. Because military force will once again be an acceptable way to change state borders.
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One of the books in my office is 290 years old. It’s still in excellent condition and easy to read. I wonder how easy it’ll be to read electronic texts 290 years from now. I expect it’ll be rather trickier.
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
One of the books in my office is 290 years old. It’s still in excellent condition and easy to read. I wonder how easy it’ll be to read electronic texts 290 years from now. I expect it’ll be rather trickier.
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I've decided all novels derived from Dracula should from now on be called fangfic
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I've decided all novels derived from Dracula should from now on be called fangfic
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This day Milorad Pavić sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pavic_... Numa Shōzō sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/numa_s... Oscar Wilde sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilde_... died, and Jonathan Swift sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/swift_... was born [couldn't identify artists) 4th is a 1932 Ukrainian 'Gulliver’s Travels']
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This day Milorad Pavić sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pavic_... Numa Shōzō sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/numa_s... Oscar Wilde sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilde_... died, and Jonathan Swift sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/swift_... was born [couldn't identify artists) 4th is a 1932 Ukrainian 'Gulliver’s Travels']
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November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
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I see it, laying down the fierce defense, as Machiavelli tried to do
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I see it, laying down the fierce defense, as Machiavelli tried to do
I have a habit of using thematically appropriate Magic cards as bookmarks, even if the connection only makes sense to me. For whatever reason, "Konda, Lord of Eiganjo" seemed right for "Inventing the Renaissance" by @adapalmer.bsky.social, even though Konda is from a Japanese-inspired fantasy world.
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I have a habit of using thematically appropriate Magic cards as bookmarks, even if the connection only makes sense to me. For whatever reason, "Konda, Lord of Eiganjo" seemed right for "Inventing the Renaissance" by @adapalmer.bsky.social, even though Konda is from a Japanese-inspired fantasy world.
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Funniest victory ever. Everybody's plans got messed up, including mine! #oathboardgame
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Funniest victory ever. Everybody's plans got messed up, including mine! #oathboardgame
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November 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!
October 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!
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Cassini's 'Grand Finale' Saturn Portrait (Annotated Version) (April 13, 2017) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/UPviDr
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Cassini's 'Grand Finale' Saturn Portrait (Annotated Version) (April 13, 2017) - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/UPviDr
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In wartime Ukraine, one’s future can vanish in a heartbeat. That’s why some Ukrainians are turning to tarot — a deck of cards that symbolizes life’s themes, spiritual lessons, and everyday experiences, used for both divination and self-reflection — to gain some semblance of control amid chaos.
It’s all in the cards — Ukrainians consult tarot readers about wartime fears
The viewer count ticks upward — dozens, then hundreds, sometimes nearly a thousand. Just about everyone has tuned in for the same reason: to hear Tetya (Auntie) Fania’s latest predictions about the th...
kyivindependent.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In wartime Ukraine, one’s future can vanish in a heartbeat. That’s why some Ukrainians are turning to tarot — a deck of cards that symbolizes life’s themes, spiritual lessons, and everyday experiences, used for both divination and self-reflection — to gain some semblance of control amid chaos.
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Religious values & beliefs, & the attendant metaphysical commitments or presuppositions thereof are all up inside all of our tech, & the questions we should be asking ourselves are "whose values & beliefs" & "what does their being woven in through our technosocial reality then do to the rest of us."
Remember: Tech & Religion have *Always* influenced each other. In the West, they used to be explicitly the same thing; elsewhere in the world, they still are. Accepting & learning to parse those motivating values better equips us to understand— & counter— their resulting sociotechnical developments.
October 31, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Religious values & beliefs, & the attendant metaphysical commitments or presuppositions thereof are all up inside all of our tech, & the questions we should be asking ourselves are "whose values & beliefs" & "what does their being woven in through our technosocial reality then do to the rest of us."
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That whole section is deranged. Am I suddenly reading Gene Wolfe? Saint Augustine? Warhammer 40k fan fiction?
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
That whole section is deranged. Am I suddenly reading Gene Wolfe? Saint Augustine? Warhammer 40k fan fiction?
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New anti-essentialist frameworks for analyzing and thinking through political power are urgently needed, not to mention very useful these days.
This is out now! Let me know if you wish to read it but do not have access - some free e-prints are still available.
Power: a processual view
The article proposes a new way to define power and to evaluate it in ethical terms, based on a processual view instead of the habitual object-oriented one. It first presents an outline of process o...
www.tandfonline.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
New anti-essentialist frameworks for analyzing and thinking through political power are urgently needed, not to mention very useful these days.
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Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x
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Pre - Sunrise on Mars a few hours ago... NASA's Perseverance Rover SOL 738 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2oo4EpA
September 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Pre - Sunrise on Mars a few hours ago... NASA's Perseverance Rover SOL 738 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2oo4EpA