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I plan to live forever in a skylit room surrounded by my friends
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new thing; I wrote about books as objects: buying and collecting books, moving books, damaging and annotating books, etc. etc. link in bio 📚
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If Adorno wrote Minima Moralia today there’d be a bit on “loaded fries”. Surely the grimmest sign of an infantilised culture
if Adorno wrote Minima Moralia today there’d be a bit on huel
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The goal of transitioning should be just to do whatever it takes to make you less miserable. What other people make of it means absolutely nothing.
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T.S. Eliot: “We die to each other daily. What we know of others is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. To pretend that they and we are the same is a convention which must sometimes be broken. We must remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
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Decentralised Robotics 🧵 I/ Building datasets for embodied AI is tough—humanoid robots need real-world human motion task data, but collecting it at scale has been limited to research lab projects or closed source big labs. At Eidon, we started with our wearable IMU trackers.
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In 'A Pitch of Philosophy', Stanley Cavell writes: "Who beside myself could give me the authority to speak for us?" In his personal copy of the book, Bernard Williams writes a note in the margin: "Just do it."
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It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.
Today's Council meeting about the future "size and shape" of our university has caused quite the stir...
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This is who they’re referring to as “two suspects”
❌CEASEFIRE VIOLATION: IDF troops identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, carried out suspicious activities, and approached the troops in southern Gaza, posing an immediate threat. The IAF eliminated the suspects to remove the threat. In another incident in the
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Wearing a keffiyeh and supporting pay rises for police is a little odd
🚨 WATCH: Your Party members answer 'This or That' questions at conference
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🚨 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 + 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐥’𝐬 $𝟔𝐁 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝟔 𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 Read the full article in the comment below.
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Only Shallow is one of the best songs ever. I remember the first time I listened to it. I think my life changed
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what I listened to in November 🍂
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RIP Tom Stoppard! I recently read The Invention of Love and really liked it
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[Life/God] A simple yet profound question is, "Why do we live? What is the purpose of our existence?" This was the question my father asked me from his deathbed. He was 92 and wanted to know what I thought. I responded, "I believe it is to find God." He replied, "So it's about
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One thing I noticed in this book is that conversations are often had through doors that are half-shut, or overheard through walls, which I guess is a symbol of the loneliness in the story: everyone’s words come at us from a distance or through a barrier
Lonely Crowds is the best book I’ve read this year. So readable and so deep at the same time: there’s a lot about missed opportunities and the discontinuities of growing up, about dependence & authority, and about the longing to dissolve into others. Also completely heartbreaking
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It’s like inverted Sebald
Big Twee have somehow turned the Holocaust into a Waterstones Crimbo Gift for those who "enjoyed The Salt Path and want another page turner that explores similiar themes of love and loss"
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Lonely Crowds is the best book I’ve read this year. So readable and so deep at the same time: there’s a lot about missed opportunities and the discontinuities of growing up, about dependence & authority, and about the longing to dissolve into others. Also completely heartbreaking
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#TRIGGERWARNING ⚠️ A police sergeant in the UK is unable to sleep, drive, or even dress herself after a Palestine Action activist bashed her in the back with a sledgehammer. Details on the case: https://t.co/DyaMX0GllB
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It’s interesting how common it is right now for someone to be both a choice feminist and a puritan about sexuality at the same time. I can’t tell if we live in a moralistic culture or not
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"Isn’t it a step forward, politics becoming openly hysterical, godly, content-free, the last air pumped out of the inter-state vacuum? You’re not regretting the exit of the grown-ups from the room, are you? Remember who they were. Remember what they did."
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What would politics be like in an age where one empire continued to hold sway over the ‘international community’, as...
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Actually, we can never give anything up; we only exchange one thing for another. — Freud, ‘Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming’
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