The more you yearn, the more you earn.

I love that season 2 of The Wire is about a fight between dockworkers, who want a church to have a socialist realism stained glass window, and the police, who want the church to have police-themed bladee album artwork as their stained glass window

10 thoughts on democracy from Tocqueville 1. Democracy is mid: "If a democratic society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes." 2. Democrats put equality over freedom: "Democratic

I have a new hero

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Name a movie you've seen more than 8 times with a gif

Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living. And the ideal shames us all.

They buried the lede on this new study. It's not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that *just* dancing has the largest effect of *any treatment* for depression. That's kind of beautiful.

Look Up: A Thread of Mesmerizing Ceilings (Part 1) 🧵

The Greek language has 4 words for love — Agape: charitable love; Eros: sexual love; Philia: love between friends; and Storge: family love.

I was fighting Dugin's ideas all the way back in 2002, so am quite surprised to see Tucker interviewing him. Dugin as usual gets half right. The missing piece is how breakdown of constraining identities leads not only to individualism, but also to globalism. 1/5

6) 🥇 Award for the best "hilarious textbook reference" goes to Quantіan

The US has approved 5 nuclear reactors this century, 2 of which were later cancelled due to costs. Vogtle 3/4 came online 15 years after govt approval and cost $31 bln. China approved 11 reactors this week that are expected to cost $31 bln collectively and be ready in 5 years.

"Foolish boy," said the Witch. "Why do you run from me? I mean you no harm. If you do not stop and listen to me now you will miss some knowledge that would have made you happy all your life." "Well I don't want to hear it, thanks," said Digory. But he did. "I know what errand

When the tide of AI slopification recedes, leaving the drowned wreckage of modern higher education behind, the true nerds will emerge, blinking, from their discords and begin patiently rebuilding the libraries

Found myself chanting into an open fridge last night: “Vegetables depart! Vegetables depart! Let none of the vegetables remain!”

Matthew Pirkowski “Have we really become so spreadsheet-brained that “ - yes.