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Jonathan Miller
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Attempting to focus on lines of logical thinking and the beauty of our world an in increasingly post-truth society. Views are mine, I tell you. My own. My precious.
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Instead, I have to open up my morning health and biotech newsletter and read about, “far-right influencers”. Brandolini’s Law strikes again.
A snippet of a daily biotech newsletter detailing the stupidity of the moment as it describes how a far right influencer peddling pseudoscience is hogging the medical zeitgeist despite being a moron nobody, yet constantly has the president’s ear for reasons.
September 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Gee wow, a factual headline for once.
A pharma news headline that states, “Adjusted ACIP agenda omits anticipated votes, revives talks on vaccine ingredient erroneously linked to autism” which is surprising that they would use the factual and reality-based word “erroneous” to describe the best scientist knowledge regarding thimerosal usage in vaccines.
June 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Thank you Apple Photos for accurately selecting a highlighted photo for, “My Time in Massachusetts”
An Apple photos highlighted image of me playing Age of Empires 2 HD Edition with the caption, “my time in Massachusetts”
June 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Wow sorry, I meant to say, “popular vaccine critic”!
Insane headline describing mRNA crank and self-described inventor of mRNA technology Robert Malone as a, “popular vaccine critic”.
June 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Yeah man, the guy who incredulously claims that 17 million people died because of the mRNA vaccine is just a “critic”!
News headline that states, “RFK Jr. installs vaccine critics on CDC panel” even though the so-called “critics” are fucked up cranks high on their own supply of Dunning-Kruger.
June 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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cat in shrimp pose
April 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Off we go
April 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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A passage of highlighted text that reads, "For Vietnamese refugees, the most important anniversary is April 30, the date of Saigon's fall, which they call Black April (although white is the color of mourning in Vietnamese society,"
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A passage of highlighted text that reads, "It is also mnemonic real estate, for according to the informal terms of the American compact, the more wealth minorities amass, the more property they buy, the more clout they accumulate, and the more visible they become, the more other Americans will positively recognize and remember them."
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A passage of highlighted text that reads, "It stands in the History Park of San Jose, California, the city where I was raised and home to a Vietnamese community that is the second-largest outside Vietnam."
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A passage of highlighted text that reads, "Beautiful, quiet war cemeteries mask the certainty, recorded in many photographs, that these dead died in heaps, in fragments, in piles, in pieces, their limbs bent at impossible angles and their muddy clothes sometimes ripped from their bodies by the velocity of the manmade force that took their lives."
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A passage of highlighted text that reads, "These excessive memories do not point to a just approach to the past, but to an unjust one, defined by what philosopher Paul Ricoeur calls "memory abusively summoned" by those in power. 25 The response to unjust, repetitive memory is not to cease remembering an event that has been chewed over relentlessly, but to reconsider how we remember that event, who controls the industries of memory, and who abuses memory."
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A passage of highlighted text that reads, "Undermining the nation's identity, identity politics supposedly diverts us from real politics, the kind concerned with economy and class, money and mobility, the things that matter for people, country, and nation. But those who insist that we should forget the past and focus on economic and class inequality do not see that inequality cannot be addressed without a just memory"
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A passage of highlighted text that reads, "No matter the horrors that Americans may see on their screens-the beheadings, the suicide bombings, the mass executions, the waves of refugees, the drone's eye view of war—the viewers who are not physically present at those events are anesthetized into resignation, into watching the news as an awful form of entertainment. This, too, is the "so-ciety of the spectacle" of which theorist Guy Debord spoke, a society in which all horror is revealed and nothing is done on the part of the average citizen to resist it."
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A passage of highlighted text that reads, "Nations cultivate and would monopolize, if they could, both memory and forgetting. They urge their citizens to remember their own and to forget others in order to forge the nationalist spirit crucial for war, a self-centered logic that also circulates through communities of race, ethnicity, and religion."
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A passage of highlighted text that reads, "To think of war solely as combat, and its main protagonist as the soldier, who is primarily imagined as male, stunts the understanding of war's identity and works to the advantage of the war machine."
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A little thread for myself as I track notable passages while reading Viet Thanh Nguyen's, "Nothing Ever Dies"
Book cover for Viet Thanh Nguyen's, "Nothing Ever Dies". A masked Vietnamese woman is biking across the road with a passenger on her bike just out of frame. The backdrop is a stark yellow painted building.
April 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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A punishing defeat tonight at our first run on the campaign.
A kitchen table set up with four players’ worth of cards for the game, Aeon’s End.
March 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Life and home are so intertwined that it is almost impossible to think about one without the other. The home offers privacy and personal security. It protects and nur-tures. The ideal of liberty has always incorporated not only religious and civil freedoms but also the right to flourish: to make a living however one chooses, to learn and develop new skills. A stable home allows us to strive for self-reliance and personal expression, to seek gainful employment and enjoy individual freedoms.
February 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Less than 10.
Sen. DURBIN: How many NCAA athletes are there? NCAA president: 510,000. Durbin: How many transgender athletes? NCAA: Less than 10.
February 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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It’s times like this I really miss Simon Maloy. Rest in peace.
weird how the president's signature hat became the racism uniform
February 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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It’s all blatantly illegal but you need to get five paragraphs in to read that, oh well, some democrats think this isn’t constitutional.
February 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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“Accused of promoting liberal causes,” wtf is that supposed to mean?
February 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Loved my *time* with my Pebble (and my Pebble Time!).
January 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Don’t like the results of a report? Call it woke.
“Instead of woke reports, new UNH leadership should focus on developing students who are ready to be civil, successful, and productive members of society,” Ayotte said.
January 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM