“Researchers that have attempted to make the university’s connections –and potential obligations– to the Caribbean explicit say their efforts have been stymied. …“The conversation is not happening,” said Carla Martin, a Harvard professor of African and African American Studies. “We all have tried.””
Original:
El reloj cuenta maquinalmente las horas
Da lo mismo las siete que las doce
Yo no estoy aquí
Es la señal de carne que dejé al irme
Para saber mi sitio al regresar
Still nerding out on how crisp this Pop!_OS COSMIC desktop is (built on Rust, don't you know), and fully appreciating the fact that it's probably the only working desktop for Linux that isn't based on Qt or GTK.
eylenburg.github.io/de_compariso...
My problem is that installing drivers for my ancient graphics card is a big headache, meaning those desktop apps that expect a gpu don't work without tweaking (which is not always possible).
Tired of GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE, Cinnamon, and all the classics, I bumped into Pop!_OS and installed. It's lovely and clean and simple, and has its own, original Desktop (called COSMIC).
We could have a winner.
That's right. Self-determination is not an indeterminist understanding.
A self-determinist.
I don't love them in the way local foxes do, I love them in the morning when they're chilling outside their burrows catching the first rays of sun.
“In some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what’s going on in the Catholic church. But when they’re in conflict, they’re in conflict. I don’t worry about it too much.”
Vance doesn't worry about the disconnect between universal politics and particular morality, and neither do many others.
What do we need more software for, though?
Loads here (some say 'rabbit' is in the etymology of 'Spain') and I love them about as much as local farmers hate them.
going back in time so i can have a long argument with karl marx about how markets and constitutional rights are good and you must enshrine them into your core dogma Not sure how long of an argument that would be, or how effective it would be (because a lot of people claim to be Marxists without knowing what he thought about anything).
This is a thing on my Marx feed, of which this screencap is but one example: may I present you the liberal Marx knower.
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
I don't know the first thing about Hungary, but from the little I've read it seems the fascists have taken a loss. A qualified moment of hope then for us all, but most especially if you're a democrat (small d) who likes to take it slow.
But this was no accident: conflict with the Arabs was essential to the Zionist mainstream. For the advocates of ‘muscular Zionism’, as Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin has argued, the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine would allow Jews not only to achieve the ‘negation of exile’ but also, and paradoxically, to reinvent themselves as citizens of the white West – in Herzl’s words, as a ‘rampart of Europe against Asia’. Brit Shalom’s vision of reconciliation and co-operation with the indigenous population was unthinkable to most Zionists, because they regarded the Arabs of Palestine as squatters on sacred Jewish land. And, as Ben-Gurion put it, ‘we don’t want Israelis to be Arabs. It’s our duty to fight against the Levantine mentality that destroys individuals and societies.’ In 1933, Brit Shalom folded; a year later, Kohn left Palestine in despair, convinced that the Zionist movement was on a collision course with the Palestinians and the region. Ben-Gurion’s movement was also on a collision course with those who, like Kohn and Arendt, sympathised with the idea of a Jewish cultural sanctuary in Palestine, but rejected the maximalist, exclusionary, territorial vision of the state associated with Israel’s creation in 1948. Jewish critics of Israel who traced their roots to the cultural Zionism of Magnes and Buber – or to the anti-Zionist Jewish Labor Bund – would find themselves vilified as heretics and traitors. In Our Palestine Question, Geoffrey Levin shows how American Jewish critics of Israel were dislodged from Jewish institutions in the decades following the state’s formation. After the 1948 war, the American Jewish press featured extensive, and largely sympathetic, coverage of the plight of Palestinian refugees: Israel had not yet declared that it would not readmit a single refugee.
Even in the United States, there was ‘public silence and some sort of statist denial regarding the Holocaust’, as Idith Zertal writes in Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood (2005). It wasn’t until long after 1945 that the Holocaust began to be publicly remembered. In Israel itself, awareness of the Shoah was limited for years to its survivors, who, astonishing to remember today, were drenched with contempt by the leaders of the Zionist movement. Ben-Gurion had initially seen Hitler’s rise to power as ‘a huge political and economic boost for the Zionist enterprise’, but he did not consider human debris from Hitler’s death camps as fit material for the construction of a strong new Jewish state. ‘Everything they had endured,’ Ben-Gurion said, ‘purged their souls of all good.’ Saul Friedlander, the foremost historian of the Shoah, who left Israel partly because he couldn’t bear to see the Shoah being used ‘as a pretext for harsh anti-Palestinian measures’, recalls in his memoir, Where Memory Leads (2016), that academic scholars initially spurned the subject, leaving it to the memorial and documentation centre Yad Vashem.
D'acord que els dos homes van d'acord amb la seva conjuntura història, però no és com aquell temps fos gaire més humanista, diguem-ne. (cites de dos articles del London Review of Books).
A reminder, for me, of quite how Victorian the parts of England I knew in the late 70s were still. Eliot was so right to declare that 'no truce is possible with such people'.
‘In late Victorian England, cricket-speak fulfils the same function as the language of chivalry and the tournament once did to sanitise the blood and guts of medieval warfare.’
Ferdinand Mount revisits 𝘙𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Nice car, if your name is Richard.
freedom (n.)
Shedding.
Dear GI How are you? Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania
Melania: “I never had a relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.”
That's the same '万岁' as this one, right?
Political abuse in psychiatry: avoid repeating history (The Lancet, Volume 12, Issue 10 p727-728 October 2025)
Call the men in white coats on Trump for his malignant narcissism, and he'll call the men in white coats on you for Trump derangement syndrome.
cc. @guillemmaya.com
G. got there by the study of Chinese numerals - may I present 'the myriad scale':
til that 'myriad' means 10k (thanks for the heads up G.).
1550s, "the number of 10,000," also "an indefinitely great number," from French myriade and directly from Late Latin myrias (genitive myriadis) "ten thousand," from Greek myrias (genitive myriados) "a number of ten thousand; countless numbers," from myrios (plural myrioi) "innumerable, countless, infinite; boundless," as a definite number, "ten thousand" ("the greatest number in Greek expressed by one word," Liddell & Scott say), of unknown origin; perhaps from PIE *meue- "abundant" (source also of Hittite muri- "cluster of grapes," Latin muto "penis," Middle Irish moth "penis"). Beekes offers "no etymology." The numerically specific use is usually in translations from Greek or Latin.
myriad (n.)
Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this.
"Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings."
ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas
