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“The president inhabits a position of moral leadership. When the president and his officials sell their policies, they’re selling a version of what it means to be an American”
I wrote about the Trump administration, the boat strikes, and St. Augustine.
I wrote about the Trump administration, the boat strikes, and St. Augustine.
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This is very good. I thought I'd skip around and listen to twenty minutes or so, ended up absorbed by the whole three-hour episode.
Conversation with Lex Fridman on the status of the war in Ukraine is now live! Post below has links to the episode on YouTube and Spotify as well.
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The single longest Roman inscription EVER discovered is a 2000+ word INCREDIBLE wifeguy inscription honoring his (objectively incredible) wife. It includes detailed descriptions of her being revenged on her parent's killers and getting into street brawls.
droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/Laudat…
droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/Laudat…
Feels like a good day to remind everyone that we need more wifeguys
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"Decorated military officers with decades of experience were withheld from promotion after Pentagon staff printed out internet searches showing they had attended official events like promoting COVID-19 vaccinations or marking International Women’s Day...
Hegseth’s executive office led a planned and deliberate process that involved creating paper-only files filled with printouts from internet searches that were inaccessible to the officers under consideration. Hegseth’s office gave instructions about the new criteria over the phone instead of in writing."
ms.now/news/pete-hegs…
Hegseth’s executive office led a planned and deliberate process that involved creating paper-only files filled with printouts from internet searches that were inaccessible to the officers under consideration. Hegseth’s office gave instructions about the new criteria over the phone instead of in writing."
ms.now/news/pete-hegs…
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Phil Klay retweeted
Elon Musk, Pete Hegseth, and anyone else who played a role in cutting off Ukraine's ability to defend itself must answer for it. Congress must get to the bottom of this.
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Toni Morrison is my second fav behind Tolstoy. Dostoevsky ain’t touching her.
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When being just and honest comes at a price, pay it. When forgiving seems like a defeat, forgive. When everyone tells you to think of yourselves first, do not be afraid to put yourselves in the last place. Be willing to give up time, money, comfort and plans to serve others. May those who see you find themselves asking: “Why do they live in this way? Where do they get this freedom? Why do they love one another so much?” #ApostolicJourney #Uruguay
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With this particular essay, the AI summary ruins something very important about reading it for the first time. It’s a form of artistic vandalism
What the fuck, @NewYorker?
I was looking this essay up to teach it and ... why? Did you not already have a summary from 1996?? What are students supposed to think of this? That's it's okay to scrape, summarize, and get the main takeaway of a piece of writing without consent??
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“I want not to tell you what this book is about but instead to drift away in gentle melancholic reverie about just how my grandfather laced his boots.”
A philosopher I like (Amy Olberding) has written a book I suspect I’ll find very strange and beautiful.
KILL ALL THE CHICKENS
A philosopher I like (Amy Olberding) has written a book I suspect I’ll find very strange and beautiful.
KILL ALL THE CHICKENS
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“It is nothing but a kind of microcosmos of communism—all that psychiatry,” rumbled Pnin, in his answer to Chateau. “Why not leave their private sorrows to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?”
Stoner is a good novel I think, but Pnin is way better if you want a book about a sad little professor.
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Davis-Monthan airbase in Tucson shifted 44 points from Trump+23.5 to Hobbs+20.5.
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Have current events left you depressed and in need of a pick me up? Or are you thrilled and want the good times to keep rolling? Either way, the end you seek arrives early next year!
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