Andrew Wetzel

he who makes a Mr Beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a Mr Man

Ancient Roman soldier's monthly paycheck unearthed in pristine condition in countryside A 1,900-year-old Roman coin hoard equivalent to a legionary's monthly salary has been discovered in Norfolk, England, consisting of 25 silver denarii that were lost between the 160s to 170s.

Ancient Roman soldier's monthly paycheck unearthed in pristine condition in countryside.
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Invidia rumpuntur aves, neque noctua curat. The birds are bursting with envy, and the owl does not care. The mosaic is said to symbolise victory over envy.

For #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 🦉 and #MosaicMonday, here's the Owl Mosaic from Thysdrus, depicting an owl wearing a toga and surrounded by dead birds with an inscription that says "the birds are bursting with envy, and the owl does not care".

El Jem Museum, Tunisia.

These three things seem deeply interconnected:

1) app gambling culture.
2) the only industry adding jobs is health care.
3) AI cap ex now more than all consumer spending combined.

I need to write a ted talk about how.

The Irrational Decision How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality—and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment

I’m excited to announce that my new book, _The Irrational Decision_, is now available for pre-order from Princeton University Press.

Meat is printed in laboratories, and vegetables are grown in skyscrapers, while 2 million people are left to a fate harsher than slow death.

Is this the world humanity is so proud of?
Is this the civilization that has reached artificial intelligence

How graffiti spurred a public art renaissance in Detroit: Will the next mayor do more? Detroit City Hall's relationship with public art and graffiti has not always been as supportive as it is today. Will the next mayor do more?

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Headline for article inndetroitnfreenorese and first few paragraphs

Great article by my niece in this Sunday’s @freep.com about graffiti, politics, & public art in Detroit. Important conversation - also fun for me to see people I knew & used to write about featured. (And bonus, she’s also writing for @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social - which is doing great journalism!)

Are you a researcher (from HCI, communication, or information science) studying online misinformaiton, disinfromation, hate speech, polarization, or related information toxicity? Apply to attend our CSCW workshop (with both remote and in-person options).

Columbia and Brown, by settling, have encouraged this tactic. Authoritarians are emboldened by capitulation, and they won't stop until the cost outweighs the benefits.

He's mad because he wanted a job he didn't get & found out later there was a 2nd job he didn't know about.

Not mentioned:

-He's an anti-trans grifter. He studied spiders.

-He wasn't qualified for the 2nd job the Black woman got.

-The first job was also filled, by a more qualified man!

a point almost everyone misses is that Aragorn's legitimacy in Gondor is not demonstrated through war or conquest, but through healing. "The hands of the King are the hands of a healer." And that healing isn't even magical*, it's him rolling his sleeves up and using herbcraft along the women.

Short version: Don't consult unless you've been hired!

Evergreen

1. Did the post contain a question?
2. Do you know the answer because you have relevant experience/training/expertise (ie you're not guessing/googling)?
3. Did you READ THE THREAD, including other replies and additional context from the OP?

If no to ANY of the above: do not advise!

The morons in charge effectively bet all the buttons on the delusions of a gaggle of drug-addled techno-fascists that they can create God in their machines & shackle it to their whims when the best they're likely to do is a set of automation tools that shift employment around, just like all the rest

States of the Latin West c. 1100-1300ish had very limited state capacity which makes them poor hamfisted political metaphors for tyranny but slightly better hamfisted political metaphors for libertarianism run amok.

ie, 90s-2000s religion discourse frequently used the Catholic Church as a symbol of “bad” religion: backwards, violent, misogynist, “medieval”

The specific framing of it was very Protestant, including by atheists, which makes sense given the culture

Vance etc are running with that cartoon version

A lot of very zealous converts have a vibe of having read The DaVinci Code and thought the bad guys seemed really cool

Exclusive | Staten Island Democrats embrace Zohran Mamdani, turn on Andrew Cuomo: ‘Voters have spoken’ Staten Island Democratic officials in the city’s most conservative borough are jumping on the Zohran Mamdani for mayor bandwagon in what critics are calling the political equivalent of a &#82…

“While Zohran builds real support across all five boroughs, Cuomo’s campaign is withering as New Yorkers learn he stands for absolutely nothing but his own ambition, dogged by scandal, corruption, and a record of sexual harassment and humiliation,” @DoraPekec said. nypost.com/2025/08/03/u...

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Love in a F*cked-Up World Audiobook on Libro.fm In this inspiring self-help handbook, a trans activist dares us to be the change we want to see—both out in the world, and amongst our closest connections. Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade da...

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I’m at the railway station.
The train will carry me from Kyiv to Ivano-Frankivsk,
a long journey to a literary (writing) school in the Carpathians.
I’ll be there nearly a week

A few days ago, I shared a letter with my supporters about the goals I have for this trip
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*googling "the tiger is out poem"*

First they came for the plums
And I said nothing because the gyre was widening
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

New, amazing footage of 90,000 people on Sydney Harbour Bridge, marching to end the genocide in Gaza.

A protest the city and New South Wales authorities did NOT want to happen.

(🎥 ABC News)

I saw someone say once that JD Vance’s Catholicism is way more of a right wing Protestant’s *idea* of Catholicism and yeah

Yeah

timb33 hashtag nokings says First they came for the socialists etc. What if they came for some really small marginalized group of people (0.05% of population), and because we tied ourselves in knots trying to keep everyone happy, we never got into power, and never achieved anything.

absolutely wild to niemöller at a person from one of the groups in the poem to argue that it’s good actually to let them come for some people because it’s a tactical victory.

“i read niemöller & solved the trolley problem the omelas way” is what a surprising number of people sound like right now.

The transformative power of keeping a daily journal In a new book, writer Suleika Jaouad explains why journaling is a form of alchemy — and offers tips on how to reignite your practice if you're feeling stuck, bored or uninspired by your own writing.

In a new book, writer Suleika Jaouad explains why journaling is a form of alchemy — and offers tips on how to reignite your practice if you're feeling stuck, bored or uninspired by your own writing.

I have fired my scale because it keeps putting out fake numbers.

We're Not Broken “This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...

My first book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation came out four years ago this month. It simultaneously feels like it came out yesterday and a century ago. I did it in hopes that people would take the needs of #ActuallyAutistic people seriously 1/
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