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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 6h

It is curious, in fact.

Tòfol @cristofol.org · 11h

Of course it's only the lowbrows that get the hump when the midbrows diss the highbrows.

Tòfol @cristofol.org · 11h

Actually, I think their write up of last year's Nobel prize in literature is even funnier than this year's.

newrepublic.com/article/1870...

Can The Nobel Prize Save Publishing From Itself?

The Swedish Academy's decision to award Korean novelist Han Kang is a minor victory in a world of consolidation.

newrepublic.com

Tòfol @cristofol.org · 11h

Actually, I think their write up of last year's Nobel prize in literature is even funnier than this year's.

newrepublic.com/article/1870...

Can The Nobel Prize Save Publishing From Itself?

The Swedish Academy's decision to award Korean novelist Han Kang is a minor victory in a world of consolidation.

newrepublic.com

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 15h

There is only 1 (one) good piece of writing left on the internet and it is this by @alexshephard.bsky.social and @markkrotov.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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Galicia K. Mendez @srtagalicia.bsky.social · 15h

POR FAVOR Y GRACIAS

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump on Spain: "You'll have to call them and find out why they are a laggard ... maybe you should throw them out of NATO."

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 15h

'Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care whether what they say is true or false.[1]: 61 '

Mr. Trump’s claim that he had somehow taken away free speech and created a one-year penalty for flag burning appeared to be a reference to a remark he made on Aug. 25, when he signed an executive order that directed Ms. Bondi to find ways to prosecute flag burners “to the maximum extent permitted by the Constitution.”

When signing it, Mr. Trump had claimed to reporters that “if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing.” But the actual order he signed, prepared by his legal staff, said nothing about putting people in prison for a year. Instead, it acknowledged a 1989 Supreme Court ruling that burning a flag to protest government policies, even if onlookers may find that conduct offensive, is political expression protected by the First Amendment.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 15h

I still remember when I'd be willing to argue the toss with some of these accounts rather than simply blocking them.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 16h

It's definitely not a technical problem.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 17h

'Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad.'

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adn @a-d-n.bsky.social · 23h

called it 🤷
#NobelPrize

adn @a-d-n.bsky.social · 4d

the perfect candidate? 🤔

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QUIS PINXIT? @quispinxit.bsky.social · 2d

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 1d

I'd like to take this opportunity to make a categorical statement.

Fuck fossil fuels.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 1d

little fluffy clouds

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

Have they got that bad? I'm an enthusiastic FOSS user myself, and it's hard for me to imagine how I could bother people with my enthusiasm. Do they literally start haranguing people out of the blue to use FOSS software?

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

I like Linux, and even I couldn't stand it.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

'unwanted Linux advice' lol

The episode has sent more than a few Bluesky users to start wondering whether the snow-covered grass on Mastodon’s side of the road is worth considering.

But not everyone is looking forward to the idea: “I’d go back to Usenet before I went back to Mastodon,” wrote Bluesky user Count Von Horse Knuckler. “I do not need people yelling at me for not putting cat pictures behind trigger warnings or unwanted Linux advice.”

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

Reminded again.

Tòfol @cristofol.org · Sep 3

When I think of the emotional and intellectual investments we make in artistic production and, by transference, in the artist, I'm reminded of this genealogy I read once by Dovid Katz.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

Not sure what you mean by 'talked', but untranslated also replies to people here:

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

The same account posted the same review on twitter (at more or less the same time). Enjoy the book.

bsky.app/profile/theu...

Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 3d

“Schattenfroh belongs thusly to the rare but foundational tradition of books that trouble the very relationship that a reader, young or mature, has to literature.”

Great review of Schattenfroh from Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

pghrev.com/totality-wit...