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“If you interrogate a mystery, don’t expect a reply in any language you can understand.” - Is A River Alive?, Robert McFarland
October 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“If you interrogate a mystery, don’t expect a reply in any language you can understand.” - Is A River Alive?, Robert McFarland
“Women became ‘body’ so man could be ‘soul’”
- Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner
- Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner
September 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“Women became ‘body’ so man could be ‘soul’”
- Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner
- Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner
“Sources of collective effervescence—ceremonies, musical performances, sports, dances, rituals […]—shift, the rhythms of our bodies to a shared biological rhythm, breaking down that most basic barrier between self and other, the idea that we are physically separated by the boundaries of our skin.”
August 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“Sources of collective effervescence—ceremonies, musical performances, sports, dances, rituals […]—shift, the rhythms of our bodies to a shared biological rhythm, breaking down that most basic barrier between self and other, the idea that we are physically separated by the boundaries of our skin.”
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I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
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Overheard: I'm surprised the nickname “Pedofuhrer" hasn't caught on yet.
July 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Overheard: I'm surprised the nickname “Pedofuhrer" hasn't caught on yet.
“Inauthentic beings never win.” -Patti LuPone’s character in “And Just Like That”
July 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“Inauthentic beings never win.” -Patti LuPone’s character in “And Just Like That”
The most educated person I know:
“I didn’t go to college”
“I didn’t go to college”
July 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The most educated person I know:
“I didn’t go to college”
“I didn’t go to college”
Things to work on in therapy: Why is it that, sometimes, just being a decent person to my mother feels like it deserves a gold star?
July 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Things to work on in therapy: Why is it that, sometimes, just being a decent person to my mother feels like it deserves a gold star?
“It is, after all, better to take a beating once, than be humiliated repeatedly.” - Alexie Navalny, Patriot
July 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“It is, after all, better to take a beating once, than be humiliated repeatedly.” - Alexie Navalny, Patriot
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Phang: Teachers are some of the least paid, most underappreciated people, and they work in such an intimate way in our lives. Your kids spend more time at school than they do at home, at least in waking hours. So why not encourage our teachers? Why create this oppressive environment?
July 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Phang: Teachers are some of the least paid, most underappreciated people, and they work in such an intimate way in our lives. Your kids spend more time at school than they do at home, at least in waking hours. So why not encourage our teachers? Why create this oppressive environment?
Is there reciprocity for an alliance’s “if you attack one of us, you attack us all” mentality?
Like, “if one of us attacks you, it was an attack from us all”?
Asking for many friends.
Like, “if one of us attacks you, it was an attack from us all”?
Asking for many friends.
June 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Is there reciprocity for an alliance’s “if you attack one of us, you attack us all” mentality?
Like, “if one of us attacks you, it was an attack from us all”?
Asking for many friends.
Like, “if one of us attacks you, it was an attack from us all”?
Asking for many friends.
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The earth runs a fever to kill the virus.
June 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The earth runs a fever to kill the virus.
“Complicity has consequences”
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“Complicity has consequences”
We must remind people
that there are still those among us
who are as passionate for peace
as others are hungry for war.
that there are still those among us
who are as passionate for peace
as others are hungry for war.
June 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We must remind people
that there are still those among us
who are as passionate for peace
as others are hungry for war.
that there are still those among us
who are as passionate for peace
as others are hungry for war.
What is this world when Tucker Carlson and Gavin Newsome are looking like the new Centrist / Moderate voices?
June 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
What is this world when Tucker Carlson and Gavin Newsome are looking like the new Centrist / Moderate voices?
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I like reading, but I kind of wish that I could drink books instead
May 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I like reading, but I kind of wish that I could drink books instead
Soy bon vivant.
May 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Soy bon vivant.
“we are ‘dystopian-aware techno-optimists.’”
April 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“we are ‘dystopian-aware techno-optimists.’”
In ancient Greek, noēma means “thinking” or the “object of thought.”
April 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
In ancient Greek, noēma means “thinking” or the “object of thought.”
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"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough."
Corey Booker, just now.
Corey Booker, just now.
April 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough."
Corey Booker, just now.
Corey Booker, just now.
“Sensuality simply doesn’t lend its self to the Riggers of scorekeeping.”
-Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel
-Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel
March 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“Sensuality simply doesn’t lend its self to the Riggers of scorekeeping.”
-Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel
-Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel
“I said to myself that if it hadn’t killed the women, it was because a person can’t die of sorrow.”
- I Who Have Never Known Men
- I Who Have Never Known Men
March 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“I said to myself that if it hadn’t killed the women, it was because a person can’t die of sorrow.”
- I Who Have Never Known Men
- I Who Have Never Known Men
An eye for an eye : Department of Defense for Department of Education.
March 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
An eye for an eye : Department of Defense for Department of Education.
America cannot be great so long as it refuses to be good.
March 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
America cannot be great so long as it refuses to be good.
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.