Paul Reed
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Athena Polias: https://t.co/nuIcQX6ZK5 Aeschylus, commoners, women even. we got it all.
Joined June 2017
Today in Oxford for an event on Aeschylus' Agamemnon partly ro launch my commentary, marking 20th anniversary of the @APGRD conference volume Agamemnon in Performance (free to download on my websiteh ttps://edithhall.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/agamemnon-in-performance.pdf)
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Trying to wrap my head around what Walter Isaacson would have written about Charles Lindbergh, and Lindbergh as a proto-Musk figure.
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As part of this awareness, I would like you all to bookmark https://t.co/tcegMkrf7M. it lists all such websites that give away books and papers for free and also tells which websites are up and which mirrors work. I repeat, don't visit these websites!! #libgen
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We have a long tradition of welcoming morally decrepit scientists from evil regimes to advance science and industry but we appear to have forgotten they are never to be trusted in matters of politics or society more broadly.
This is an excellent summary of Musk’s takeover of the Treasury from @NYMag’s @chasdanner, with quotes from WSJ, NYT, WaPo, and my op-ed from @MSNBC yesterday. But this quote from @smotus is right on the money. This isn’t efficiency. It’s a coup. https://t.co/XivGG5Zz2H
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New installment: Battle of Marathon Miltiades returns to help. Aeschylus joins his brother at Marathon, where tens of thousands of Persians and their allies await. https://t.co/H4FVZvnfUl
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Battle of Marathon is here. It is not basic narration of events. It's quite historically accurate where possible and wonderfully fictionalized where not. It's a series, but you can dive in. https://t.co/RsrFnvz9gx Might love, might hate, but you have not heard this story.
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I have a book coming, some time. None of it would be possible without libgen.
legit fuming over libgen shutdown. especially in the light of meta training their ai on it. mining the most functional free library in the world to squeeze out these precious profits & turn the remains of the Internet into unusable sludge. then cutting out access to said library
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legit fuming over libgen shutdown. especially in the light of meta training their ai on it. mining the most functional free library in the world to squeeze out these precious profits & turn the remains of the Internet into unusable sludge. then cutting out access to said library
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When I imagine an interview with Thucydides talking about Pericles, this is more or less what I imagine.
Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk isn't motivated by money or power. He deeply cares about humanity.
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"Rebellion in Ionia" Athens enjoyed a decade of peace after Sparta abandoned Eleusis. As the infant democracy found its footing, the city received a request for aid from its Ionian cousins in Miletus, now under thumb of Persia. https://t.co/LnihkLh4Vo
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Athena Polias is back. The Athenians have chased Sparta from the city. Cleisthenes has returned. The infant democracy lives another day. https://t.co/K9maG1Vg6U
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Read a preview of my Odyssey book! https://t.co/E00x2qEGcf
https://t.co/hVViRIhzeE BE Odysseus in two preview sections of interactive fiction Odyssey retelling 🧿 You Are Odysseus 👁️ Why does Odysseus do what he does? Can you replicate his adventure? Or will you end up somewhere else entirely? Read/play now!
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The Spartans in Eleusis: Young Aeschylus watches as the Spartans occupy his hometown, sacred Eleusis, as they await their allies. As his brother goes to war for Athens, he senses the net of destruction to fall upon Athens as it did at Troy. https://t.co/L5hB1MbJoA
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Athena Polias is back. The Athenians have chased Sparta from the city. Cleisthenes has returned. The infant democracy lives another day. https://t.co/K9maG1Vg6U
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Fascinating work by @AditiSingh095 @ubcVSE
https://t.co/NfJJFauTfy documenting an unintended nutritional consequence of the green revolution: districts w/higher potential productivity gains from high-yielding varieties ⬇️ crop variety + availability of proteins, micronutrients
Aditi Singh JMP: "From Blessing To Burden: The Long-Run Effects of India’s Green Revolution" Website: https://t.co/YiJBUOAxch
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Omg this must be what it felt like to watch Icarus take flight.
Ok, I’m ready to start my “Public Defender Menswear” blog. Why public defender-specific? Because we don’t have the time or money to do half of what is typically recommended by online menswear experts. Also: we wear the crap out of our suits. Among other reasons. Here goes… 1/
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Participatory paid democracy (ie broad participation in actual civic affairs management) tried in different ways in 5th BCE Athens and Switzerland is essential in a post-religious age to maintain collective sanity and collective efficacy. Welfare state is not enough.
Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum
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If an economist is tweeting this, *guaranteed* there's no grant funding, positions, or status symbols to be had related to it.
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trying to play peekaboo with my child but he’s an opponent of the Great Man theory of history: me: where’d daddy go? baby: structural forces have caused my father to disappear me: peekaboo! baby: as a result of long-run dynamics, my father has returned
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