"La diferencia principal entre la la emoción y la razón es que la emoción te lleva a la acción y la razón a las conclusiones".
Donald Calne, neurólogo.

We can’t trust Palantir with our NHS data Is this really the company we should be entrusting with our health service’s digital architecture?

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."

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Minimum basic standards like not funding a fucking genocide? Minimum basic standards like making sure that nobody in the richest country in history is living in abject poverty? Minimum basic standards like not sending cops to beat the shit out of people protesting police brutality or genocide?

Too stupid for words.

Barbarians!
Arrogance *always* correlates with ignorance.
American positivists, that's all they "know."

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A reminder that dozens of Democrats — including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social — already voted with Republicans to condemn socialism. Dems set the table for this ban.

The Democratic Party and The Republican Party are privately-controlled corporations. The idea that we need to work inside these corporations funded and controlled by the billionaires to earn the right to demand policy is absolute nonsense. If you want my vote, you do what I want. Period.

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I'm sorry.

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It kills me that professors are supposed to be in loco parentis and I can’t protect any of the students being deported. It kills me that I don’t know how I can keep the ones I have safe. To think freely and to speak. These are Mandelstam hours…

I’m lucky enough that my agent also represents this book, and I’d like to call your attention to it on pub day— a day we get to hear these voices from Gaza is always a good day:

Think about it:

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‘You don’t become a fig wasp on the flanks of the neo-classical tradition without having inhabited it, parasitized it yourself first as practice. This is an education.’

— @saintsoftness.bsky.social

A wonderful insight and makes me think of @ansgarallen.bsky.social book on Cynicism and education.

More late night Yourcenar (apt before taking my undergrads to the Met classical galleries tomorrow):

‘We need our re-worked gods, our astray divinities, a glimpse at a frieze, a pile of unread books, a large black mark in the center panel and three to the right in the Twombly gallery in the Hamburger-Banhof Museum.’

— @saintsoftness.bsky.social ‘We the Parasites’, p. 35

Excerpt 2:

Excerpt 1:

In some ways, an unfinished Rubens triumphs over a complete one; the provisionality of the sketch frees up something daring in his figuration I love.

Great.

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LGBT History Month is February in the UK, and I’m thrilled to see We The Parasites featured by its British publisher, @bhousepress.bsky.social!

A List of Recent Loves Manet Roses, Wyatt Sonnets, Tang Imports, High Femme Japanese Makeup

A new Substack, on various recent loves, including Manet roses, Wyatt sonnets, Golden Peaches of Samarkand, and Japanese High Femme Makeup, with shouts to Hannah Smart and @drewdaniel.bsky.social Read it here:

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In which you get a fresh little Hölderlin translation, a personal challenge to up your classical language skills, *and* delicious bacon-wrapped chestnuts fired at the RETVRN-o-philes.

What more does one need for a good-time Saturday night?

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What makes zero sense is the insistence that the Democrats are somehow "better" when they're committing war crimes, sending cops to beat the shit out of protesters, and denying people the ability to meet their basic needs. But I guess brunch is more important than taking care of people.

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