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Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

imagine being this pathetic, servile and eager to gulp up the slop

Statement by Starmer on showing adolescence

You know what I’d call for if I was prime minister - more funding of youth clubs , extracurricular activities, and mental health support - but showing a film looks like concern while costing very little

Sales of Vietnamese doll plunge over face marking like China’s ‘nine-dash line’ One version of Baby Three doll appears to bear a mark resembling the shape of the ocean border on which China bases its illegitimate claim to most of the South China Sea Regional tensions over the South China Sea have tanked the sales of a popular…

Sales of Vietnamese doll plunge over face marking like China’s ‘nine-dash line’

1983-01-01

Wonderful book

Volkswagen is bringing back physical buttons “Honestly, it’s a car. It’s not a phone.”

Volkswagen is the latest carmaker to announce the return of physical buttons. We’re making progress.

The sound of rain on water

feel like this chart is example 1 in why "just do what's popular, based on polls" is so facile

How the RSF's parallel government could divide Sudan - and Africa As the army and Rapid Support Forces vie for legitimacy, Kenyan President William Ruto is accused of profiting from the paramilitary's gold trade

How the RSF's parallel government could divide Sudan - and Africa - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rsf-parallel-government-divide-sudan-africa

Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.

An actual red scare

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

There was a guy in the grocery store yesterday who was taller than me and it was legitimately confusing

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

Flashback to when Musk told Twitter engineers to print their source code for review.

People are far too caught up in the idea that you’re supposed to “do things” on vacation. I feel like this is so they can get back and brag about the number of things they did. All I want is seemingly what you’ve gotten, to relax

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

I probably should do something else besides laugh for a minute straight at the Trump administration firing the workers who manage the nuclear stockpile and being unable to figure out how to rehire them, but that's all i got right now

someone just tried this

Do Marx – and Engels – have something to say on the national question (and internationalism)? - Historical Materialism Let me start with some explanations concerning the title of my paper.[1] There is a commonly shared opinion on the relation between the “founding fathers” of historical materialism and the nation. Sha...

Now Online: 'Do Marx – and Engels – have something to say on the national question (and internationalism)?' by Stathis Kouvelakis.

Relevant

There should be a Happy Holidays type greeting but for Valentine's day

Smiling Friends Inc. was a big recipient of USAID funding so there will be no more of that unfortunately

a cartoon of snoopy and charlie brown standing next to a christmas tree and wishing merry christmas ALT: a cartoon of snoopy and charlie brown standing next to a christmas tree and wishing merry christmas

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