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THREAD: During the first 75 years of the 20th century, 🇦🇫#Afghanistan experienced less war and political unrest than almost every country in the West, including eg. 🇳🇴Norway, 🇧🇪Belgium, and 🇫🇮Finland. 1/🧵

usually I can tell from the headline whether the snopes fact check is going to say it's fake, but my instincts failed me on this one snopes.com/fact-check/jr-…

Nietzsche: Writing well is a kind of music-making. And identifying (indeed, understanding) a good sentence requires a musical ear: (from Beyond Good and Evil)

SUCH a great program this week, Francis Russell on #neofeudalism and the possibility that "the end of capitalism" could usher in something much worse. Serf's up! Curtin University ABC Australia abc.net.au/listen/program…

Maybe Vivek's weird comments are a good opportunity to discuss how conservatives' obsession with the nuclear family is ahistorical & creepy. The isolated, atomic nuclear family is a relatively recent invention. Functions once played by extended clan & social groups ...

Will Fox Lose Its Broadcast License? Robert Kuttner prospect.org/blogs-and-news…

Looking north and south from the office this week

I used to be pro-Palestinian. I thought Israel was wrong for carpet bombing Gaza and using siege warfare on civilians. But then I ran into a very wise Israel apologist who changed my way of looking at things forever. I was walking down the street and I saw him leaning against a

The people you meet when you’re out for a walk

Can recommend

I'm forever overhearing a pop song that sounds like it's been rather well constructed and saying "What is that noticeably competent piece of writing and musicianship?" and the answer is quite often Taylor Swift

Please, someone tell me "Friyay" isn't now a thing

Hearing that the holiday traffic is horrendous when you're not actually going on holiday yourself is some top quality schadenfreude

Massive hornets nest removed from tree trunk [📹Hornet_King_Official] x.com/Levandov_2/sta…

Nick Schadegg This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

the band behind shane gillis not laughing at all makes this hilarious opening monologue even funnier

I'm on The Philosopher's Zone this week: had great fun chatting with David Rutledge of ABC Radio National about AI, aesthetics and why Spotify actually doesn't help you to seek out the music that's worth listening to. Listen here -> abc.net.au/listen/program…

#Auschwitz #AuschwitzBirkenau #Shoah abc.net.au/listen/program…

Imagine you’re the parents of a young American soldier, you’re told your daughter has died in a military accident, and you decide not to release her name because if you do the President of the United States and his fans will ridicule you and make fun of you until you die.

The takeaway here should not be that students are lazy. 18 year olds aren’t the problem. The problem is that universities have failed to make a persuasive case to their “customers” that they are educational institutions rather than companies that dispense “I’m employable” stamps.