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I wonder how Kraznahorkai's and Fosse's one-sentence novels fare in audiobook format.

YouTube video by New Economic Thinking Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?

It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.

More by Friedrich Georg Jünger in 1942

How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not Free speech is not absolute, nor does the Constitution protect only speech Americans like.

The First Amendment shields protesters, critics and even offensive voices (even at funerals)..

It doesn’t protect threats, incitement or defamation.

A legal scholar explains the line:

well, it is now.

Updated, capitalist, technological and extra-terrestrial Orwellian farm rebellion in Alien: Earth.

Dark times under bright lights.
Dark times in broad daylight.

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Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
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Both the Huntington and pancreatic cancer results are promising. Now, these are corporate early announcements; let's hope published articles on larger trials show similar effects!

It's a great doc series.

by making certain "every inhabitant of our country has the same chance of survival." (...) Only a monarchic political structure would excuse an arrangement that has for its citizens no civil defense.'
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)

'What differentiates Switzerland and the United states is the beneficiaries of the [fallout] shelters: the population in the case of Switzerland, the government leaders in the case of the United States. Switzerland's goal is to make certain it can enact "legal equality"

Don't require or expect logical consistency where the relevant virtues are practical consistency and effectiveness.

All the esteemed guests at the state banquet for President Trump Senior royals were joined by politicians and some of the world’s biggest business men and women for the event at Windsor Castle

www.tatler.com/gallery/all-...

So are cross-dressers.

'True of the original discovery of CPR, so too of the ongoing refinement of our understanding of the conditions under which it best works requires huge investments of intellectual work'

'the 1959 invention of CPR as an instance of why the United States –and by implication, every other country– should continue to support universities.'
Elaine Scarry, Thinking in an Emergency (2011)

Proust in Venice, 1900

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Today David talks to @leaypi.bsky.social about her new book 'Indignity: A Life Reimagined'. A conversation about death and displacement, identity and betrayal, secrecy and salvation.

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A loyalty test trap.

Tempting to think Fox has done the same for the opposing view unless we can tell discursive communities from discursive bubbles, or at least bubbles tout court.

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Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar Ian Ellison about Franz Kafka’s The Trial, first published in 1925.

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Never too late!

"by relinquishing the claim to join authority and autonomy, the scene of teaching can be better understood as a network of obligations. Arguing that teaching is a question of justice not a search for truth..." Bill Readings, The University in Ruins (1993)

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."

whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

Where are all these shakedown collections going eventually? Someone should try following that money.

Nuclear Experts Say Mixing AI and Nuclear Weapons Is Inevitable Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems.

www.wired.com/story/nuclea...

Have you read Emmanuel Todd's The Defeat of the West (with an anthropological analysis of so-called American nihilism)?

The EU is a colossus. So why is it cowering before Trump like a mouse? | Alexander Hurst With its woeful trade deal, Europe prostrated itself before the president. We need a leader who will tell him where to shove it, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

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