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'[the self-sufficient common man] cannot even make his breakfast without using devices, more or less mysterious to him, which expertise has put at his disposal'

📚 gilbert murray's 'five stages of greek religion'

pleasant reading of a pleasantly researched topic. it has made it into my collection of mandatory yearly re-read 💯

📚the sciences of the artificial
— herbert a simon

‘you know, if we could put that on a credit card, it might make it more secure.’

processors. antennas.

— george polya

quote from brian eno

‘more and more i find i want to be living in a big here and a long now.’ — brian eno

Language Acquisition xkcd.com/2839

i find it quite interesting the things we take for granted in modern computer programming. like the typically simple & beautiful ‘var := val’ assignment protocol. here’s tony hoare laboriously specifying behavior, perhaps with hardware in mind www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f...

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Lucy Letby - Wikipedia

ah dear, rookie mistake, ms. lucy. in your the life would you come as an abortion doctor please? they do what you did, repeatedly, but walk free amid cheers and salutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Letby

guilty until proven guilty:

dating a white woman when black, within africa or without, is injurious to the black man's dignity. you're by default an economic lover until you prove to be so. only way out is death.

dixitque deus fiat lux et facta est lux. et vidit deus lucem quod esset bona: et divisit lucem a tenebris. appellavitque lucem diem, et tenebras noctem: factumque est vespere et mane, dies unus.

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Letters in Hebrew, German, and Ladino relating to the Jewish community of Amsterdam and other Dutch cities, including nine drafts of letters from the Parnassim of Amsterdam (1765-1795), et al

NOW AVAILABLE: 600 Hebrew & Judaica manuscripts from Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library ▶️ https://archive.org/details/culhebrewmss?tab=collection&sort=-

dixitque deus fiat lux et facta est lux. et vidit deus lucem quod esset bona: et divisit lucem a tenebris. appellavitque lucem diem, et tenebras noctem: factumque est vespere et mane, dies unus.