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Simon Huxtable
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Historian of global media and socialism / Researcher on Connecting 3 Worlds project / Improviser / Pawn pusher
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Absolutely must know more about Foucault's theory of pasta
Excerpt from David Macey's biography of Foucault. The passage talks about Foucault's friendship with two French physicists. "The three quickly became a closely knit group, taking it in turns to cook for one another (with Foucault specialising in pasta dishes, about which he elaborated an entire culinary theory) and spending most of their free time together."
February 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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From Matt Taibbi's 2005 evisceration of the book
The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth. But Friedman is going to spend the next 470 pages turning the "flat world" into a metaphor for global interconnectedness. Furthermore, he is specifically going to use the word round to describe the old, geographically isolated, unconnected world.
January 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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In a world of academic enshittification this is one of the worst jobs I've seen. *Four* specialist modules for *immediate* delivery and we'll only pay you for eight months. Way to go Bishop Grosseteste University!
December 19, 2023 at 11:46 AM
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"UK's nuclear expertise ..."
Headline from UK gov't: "UK's nuclear expertise is showcased on BBC Countryfile" Tweet from Simon Grundy showing a screenshot from Countryfile: a computer at Sellafield with the password taped to the monitor Guardian headline: "Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China"
December 4, 2023 at 2:43 PM
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I thought of you while I was enjoying the architecture!
October 12, 2023 at 11:16 AM
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There are worse places to do research than the UNESCO archives...
October 10, 2023 at 7:30 AM