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Hard to explain but my cat always looked to me like she had walked out of a Chinese painting
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Hard to explain but my cat always looked to me like she had walked out of a Chinese painting
When the 5 minute presentations are 30 minutes long
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
When the 5 minute presentations are 30 minutes long
what would an experimental study in this context mean
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
what would an experimental study in this context mean
"Positive" here is just a typo, right? The rest of the paragraph is clearly setting up "negative"?
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Positive" here is just a typo, right? The rest of the paragraph is clearly setting up "negative"?
The AV Club is usually so good but this strikes me as just plainly wrong: the Greek is the least nuanced character in the series, in a way that I think does more damage to Season 2 than the newspaper high ups do to Season 5
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The AV Club is usually so good but this strikes me as just plainly wrong: the Greek is the least nuanced character in the series, in a way that I think does more damage to Season 2 than the newspaper high ups do to Season 5
Here's a barrier at Upton St telling pedestrians to cross Connecticut Ave with no crosswalk or light
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Here's a barrier at Upton St telling pedestrians to cross Connecticut Ave with no crosswalk or light
Some good old n+1
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Some good old n+1
My brother sends me this every time I tell him about a theory reading
October 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
My brother sends me this every time I tell him about a theory reading
These guys have a perfectly fine mission but lol democracy is most definitely not a design problem
October 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
These guys have a perfectly fine mission but lol democracy is most definitely not a design problem
Several surprises here, mostly pleasant:
1) Relatively concise for Opalo!
2) Tooze and Gabor are very serious intellectuals compared to what I'm used to seeing in Foreign Policy!
3) Opalo usually doesn't mind naming names but I'm not sure who he's talking about here
1) Relatively concise for Opalo!
2) Tooze and Gabor are very serious intellectuals compared to what I'm used to seeing in Foreign Policy!
3) Opalo usually doesn't mind naming names but I'm not sure who he's talking about here
October 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Several surprises here, mostly pleasant:
1) Relatively concise for Opalo!
2) Tooze and Gabor are very serious intellectuals compared to what I'm used to seeing in Foreign Policy!
3) Opalo usually doesn't mind naming names but I'm not sure who he's talking about here
1) Relatively concise for Opalo!
2) Tooze and Gabor are very serious intellectuals compared to what I'm used to seeing in Foreign Policy!
3) Opalo usually doesn't mind naming names but I'm not sure who he's talking about here
Old but truly nothing better describes the US electorate going into the 2024 election
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Old but truly nothing better describes the US electorate going into the 2024 election
Love to live in a time when these are relevant considerations
October 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Love to live in a time when these are relevant considerations
As a civil engineering student I encourage policy makers to listen to this guy open.substack.com/pub/statecra...
September 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
As a civil engineering student I encourage policy makers to listen to this guy open.substack.com/pub/statecra...
As Kapuscinski wrote about Selassie near the end:
September 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
As Kapuscinski wrote about Selassie near the end:
Also relevant
September 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Also relevant
Like, this is basically my reaction to comments about how valuable expertise on political systems is while those systems are in crisis. And I appreciate Bartram's refusal to just nod along with plausible sounding phrases!
September 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Like, this is basically my reaction to comments about how valuable expertise on political systems is while those systems are in crisis. And I appreciate Bartram's refusal to just nod along with plausible sounding phrases!
Reminded of this after estimating poorly how much baguette I would need to spread avocado and scrambled eggs across
September 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reminded of this after estimating poorly how much baguette I would need to spread avocado and scrambled eggs across