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Posts by Manuel del Río

No, I didn't!

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Answer is self-evident

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I'd be happier if I could just buy a sewn, quality paper, hardcover edition of the Sprawl trilogy...

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Kerala?

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Full and Faithful Functors Mathematical Creatures and Where to Find Them, 5a

After a pause, we're back to Mathematical Creatures and Where to Find Them, with the first part of Full and Faithful Functors

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Eternal Return It's back again to Bartle and Sherbert!

Back to Bartle and Sherbert, and some musings on the Archimedean Property!

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Saloni, the Works in Progress AI mascot!

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Monk doesn't do you justice. I think of you as a dweller in Dante's sphere of Saturn, il cielo dei contemplativi

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Book reviews - The Invention of Good and Evil, Hanno Sauer ★★★★

Thirty-fourth book of the year finished: The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer:

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Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema (part 5 and last)

Part 5 (and last) of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic movies

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Yuan Chun - Sent to my Sisters in Luoyang
Yuan Chun - Sent to my Sisters in Luoyang YouTube video by Manuel do Río

More Chinese poetry: Yuan Chun on writing to her sisters, in Luoyang

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Looks very interesting!

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Against the Viewpoint of the Universe™ (2) Some more ramblings, mostly inspired on Damiaan Luc van der Werf's In Two Minds

Against the Viewpoint of the Universe™ (2). More ramblings on ethics and anti-realism

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Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema (part 4)

Part 4 of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic literature

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Book reviews - Fabled Cities of Central Asia: Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Robin Magowan ★★

Thirty-third book of the year finished: Fabled Cities of Central Asia: Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva by Robin Magowan

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Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema (part 3)

Part 3 of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic urbanism:

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Book reviews - The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives, Plutarch ★★★★★

Thirty-second book of the year finished: The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives, by Plutarch

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Wise, as is always in your nature, Caela! ❤️

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Yuan Chun - Allegory
Yuan Chun - Allegory YouTube video by Manuel do Río

More Chinese poetry: an allegory by Yuan Chun

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Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema (part 2)

Part 2 of Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema: gnostic images in painting.

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Thanks! I'll be getting it and reading and reviewing it soon, then. Can't really stress how valuable and eye-opening I found your previous one.

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Loved your previous book, @hannahritchie.bsky.social. In what way is the new one different, if I may ask?

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Loved her previous book. How does this one differ from it?

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The Best Things I Have Found on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Neural Networks It may simply be that I am in a very unusual position with respect to what I know & what I don't, but I found these three videos from Welch Labs to be incredibly enlightening with respect to the unrea

The Best Things I Have Found on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Neural Networks
It may simply be that I am in a very unusual position with respect to what I know & what I don't, but I found these three videos from Welch Labs to be incredibly enlightening…
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Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema (part 1)

This was an old article of mine that I published 14 years ago and that I'll be sharing now with you (in English!): Prison, my lord? Gnostic Readings of the City, Literature, and Cinema, part 1 (Introduction).

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No disrespect, but that's not a valid answer. Data gives an average - of course some pensioners will have low income, and some will have a high one. But pensions being greater than salaries is unsustainable (and arguably, immoral).

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This month's purchases:

The Wind From Vulture Peak - Stephen D. Miller
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered - J.P. Mallory
The Great Commentary to the Documents Classic - Fan Lin and Griet Vankeerberghen

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Yuan Chun  - Spring View from Qin
Yuan Chun - Spring View from Qin YouTube video by Manuel do Río

More Chinese poetry: Yuan Chun on the views of a Chang'an Spring

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Book Reviews - Masterpieces of Tea Ceramics: See, Buy, and Enjoy ★★★

Thirty-first book of the year finished: Masterpieces of Tea Ceramics: See, Buy, and Enjoy.

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日本で買った茶道具は私の宝物です or "The tea utensils I bought in Japan are my treasures"

Some chadogu I got in Japan!

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