Sean Delonas
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One-upping that defiance, I'll be wearing my Obama "HOPE" T-shirt under my starched white shirt and tuxedo.

including the best waste of at least 10 minutes you can find today: scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.

I walk that, once a week, with my tiny pup.
Wonderful trails.
Hope the wound heals quickly.

What a day! Did we mention that today was the day we removed invites from Eurosky accounts? Anyone can create an account straight away.

On Fake Hannah Arendt Quotations This article discusses a mis-attributed quote to Hannah Arendt circulating on social media, exploring why such alterations occur and their potential consequences. Berkowitz argues that while simplifie...

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Is this just Arendt's dictum on why dictators lie all the time?
Purpose: Destroying capacity to think critically
Consequence: Constant lying leads to pervasive cynicism
Response: Audiences under totalitarian rule often accept, or are indifferent to, falsehoods, preparing them for total domination.

“It was the worst of times and it was the worst of times…”

1. Hiking up a sand dune deep in the Omani desert to watch the sun rise into a total eclipse.
2. In the lobby of the San Francisco Opera House, bored at some event. Stood by a piano to think what to do next. Guy came up, sat down and started playing and singing. Placido Domingo. One meter away.

I imagine the good folks can imagine the sponsors. "wrong" answers only?

Hungary tried national conservatism. The result: a lagging economy, rampant corruption, and a declining birth rate. Voters just delivered the verdict. Cato’s Johan Norberg explains what it means—and why it matters far beyond Hungary.

Cato gets this one wrong. The rich FACE the highest tax rates but don't actually pay them. The Buy/Borrow/Die strategy means marginal actual tax rates for the wealthy are actually zero. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Send JD Vance to campaign everywhere you want Dems to win.

Hungary’s Orban, Beacon to the Right, Concedes Election Defeat

Viktor Orban has conceded the election in Hungary!!! A reminder that authoritarianism can be defeated, even when the playing field is tilted -- because voters resent corruption and misrule. But much depends on having the right candidate to oppose the authoritarian. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

I'll be at the MIT Sloan Climate / Sustainability summit next week. Say hi!

Read a few not-so-good books as a breather after reading Never at Rest, the monumental (900+ page) biography of Isaac Newton.
Among them, I disliked, surprisingly, Ishiguro's Buried Giant.

Next, perhaps, the Chinua Achebe African Trilogy.

from which: "true force of a technology is felt not with the substitution of tasks, but the invention of new paradigms" . . . if true, this perhaps heralds a different arc of job displacement from AI. Perhaps.

The latest developments in the “forever war” over string theory: "Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?" @nattyover.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- Hermann Rorschach)

Grappling with Godel: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/02/f...

"Nazism has nothing to do with race and nationality. It appeals to a certain type of mind."

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥

Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

The vastly superior notation is perhaps Leibniz's most important or even sole contribution, given that Leibniz saw Newton's work-in-progress unpublished notes in London while working on his own analyses.

@around.com and other show that they did invent independently but Leibniz saw some of Newton's notes before either of them published (without Newton's permission).

All of the above is true. As @around.com (James Gleick) shows in his biography- he was those, and paranoid, and did more than almost anyone to carve the certainty of science out of what had been the realms of superstition and imagination. And then ended his career as a cranky bureaucrat.

you: we have surplus rice

So Iran (the actual country) mocked Donald Trump's horrible 'deal" by posting MY video all over social media. And I have to say, I'm kinda flattered 😉

Here's the full version. (They cut off the ending and cropped out my watermark)
#DonaldTrump #Iran

Wise words from Spain's Prime Minister: “The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”

There’s a reason people read the classics.

On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵

or, "if you import (and promote) apartheid, . . . "