Imagine looking at the world today and deciding to write an opinion piece complaining that people are buying fancy coffees.
Unless this is a joke?
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Imagine looking at the world today and deciding to write an opinion piece complaining that people are buying fancy coffees.
Unless this is a joke?
While the quote is apt, Sherman is remembered for this:
“After ordering almost all civilians to abandon the city in September, Sherman gave instructions that all military and government buildings in Atlanta be burned, although many private homes and shops were burned as well.”
Highlighter
I choose carefully
At first
The parts that really matter
But soon I realize
It all matters
And everything is bright like sunlight
Today’s poem(s): Katana Smith, “Three of Us” and “Shitty Boyfriend”
#lunchpoems
“prima facie, [ ** voice noticeably quieter ** ] it appears that these actions are inconsistent with international law.”
“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Ceramic vessel in black with white dots and ridges coming from the small neck in a swirling pattern all on a white surface
Kitamura Junko, Japanese ceramics artist #womensart
Here's some bonkers microbiology terminology:
Thanks for your reply. My comment was snobbish and unkind.
There is literally no situation where Comic Sans is a good choice
And now I notice that’s not all it’s got!
Do it! It’s definitely got legs
The Bible ≠ God
Cover of “The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life” by Eviatar Zerubavel
“The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life” by Eviatar Zerubavel
As is happens, Olivia Dean sings about this topic in “Loud”:
“The silence is so loud
And everything's unspoken now”
I’m a biostatistician who does some work on RCTs. I don’t think it’s incorrect to call this a randomized controlled trial. But I think you can’t called it a randomized *clinical* trial since it’s more a kind of simulation of what *might* have happened.
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
> At present the realities are life and death, peace and war, fascism and democracy; we are in a world which may soon become unfit for human beings to live in. A writer must decide at what remove from this conflagration he can produce his best work and be careful to keep there
Cyril Connolly, 1938.
I just realized that in the Chicago song "Hard To Say I’m Sorry", Peter Cetera never actually gets there.
In addition to declaring “It’s hard for me to say I’m sorry”, he sings "I really want to tell you I'm sorry", and "I will make it up to you, I promise to", but he Never. Actually. Apologizes.
Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power.
a 🧵
www.amazon.com/Asymptomatic...
The road to hell is paved with misaligned incentives.
🚨Want to know which Canadian companies are profiting off of ICE and Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda?
Well I just spent the last few days digging into exactly that.
Here are the companies I found, how much they’re making, and whether they’re getting Canadian taxpayer dollars.
Sneak peek:
Take action now to stop Bill C-12, which would put our friends and neighbours at risk.
Join us in calling on the Senate to uphold our values of fairness and justice by voting against Bill C-12.
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New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Letter From Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
letterfromjail.com
A photo I took of a partly decayed leaf on a fallen log in the woods.
On my walk in the woods I come across this ghost-leaf - veined insides yawning through the gaps that winter has torn in its surface, caught, as if half-way between this world and the next, a delicate, decayed delight.
Painting of a standung whinte girl facing forwards dressed in dark clothes holding a large black umbrella
The umbrella, 1883 by painter Marie Bashkirtseff #WomensArt
