Oli London Ahhh, the body language of true love!

Two pieces of evidence that Beckett sometimes smiled

Alright that's enough. Please respond with your best math pope memes and jokes. Large cardinals, original sin, let's collect them here.

There are four individuals that I have found that haven’t been a let down. Those four men are; Ron Paul Thomas Massie Rand Paul Justin Amash

The fact that most 'C developers' still don’t understand memory models is why your code crashes randomly. Modern C is a joke if you don't understand the hardware.

Pope Leo XIV explains his choice of name: "... I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.

A mathematician Pope going up against a machine god superintelligence is the most cyberpunk thing ever.

Nietzsche, what a line

“He wrote his seventh novel over ten days in 1965 to finance his first trip to Europe.” This is how to bio

16. The black-footed cat is Africa's smallest cat, but also the deadliest in the world

Now that's an Oscar-worthy escape! 😂 Every risk is taken for freedom ...

In an island of bitter lemons Where the moon's cool fevers burn From the dark globes of the fruit. . . . — Lawrence Durrell

John Milton had the best ear; Shakespeare had the richest language; Keats had the best character arc; Byron had the most flamboyant fashion sense (wore a cape and had a pet bear); but a Missouri boy can always pretend to be British and take the prize.

“Shelley thought that language was the remnant of abandoned fragmented cyclic poems, and Emerson saw language as fossil poetry. Is this less persuasive than currently modish views that literature is merely a special form of language?” —Harold Bloom, Kabbalah and Criticism

The federal government went after DNI Tulsi Gabbard for exercising her First Amendment rights. Now she’s exposing the very system that targeted her. There’s no one better to lead the intelligence community—and no one the Deep State fears more.

Sam Gregson My favorite part: Eric: “How dare you? Sean: “How dare I read your paper?”

Short summary of the recent Carroll vs Weinstein debate:

Xirtam Esrevni The problem is that Eric wants to be the outsider and assiduously avoids peer review while pretending he is being unfairly excluded. His ideas have been looked at and found wanting. Until he engages with the field like everyone else, little will change for him and nor should it