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RT @CrankyFed: My historical methods professor in grad school told us he was learning to code because "pretty soon," he said, "not knowing how to code will be like not knowing how to read."
Turns out he was right
Because now it seems nobody is going to be doing either of those …
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RT @AlanJLSmith: Brutal chart.
France and UK vs. Communist countries at their peak.
UK public spending as % of GDP is currently above Romania, Venezuela and China.
And France is a lost cause.
(HM Treasury/Rand Research) https://t.co/WEk73sOpEZ
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RT @BM_Visser: België en @ENGIE_energie zijn erin geslaagd de kerncentrales Doel IV en Tihange III in een half jaar volledig te reviseren, alle veiligheidsprocedures te doorlopen en weer op te starten. Terwijl sluiting gepland was.
Dat is een applausje waard, vindt u niet?
#graf…
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RT @BurggrabenH: Historian Stephen Kotkin’s assessment of Stalin’s disastrous leadership during the Second World War carries a lesson for Russia today: the war’s centre of gravity is the leadership that sustains it. Break its grip on power - meaning kill them with special command…
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RT @nntaleb: Is AI different?
In the past technologies (dishwashers, word processors, etc.) moved workers up the added value scale, w/productivity at the bottom.
AI is moving lawyers,editors,radiologists into lower value jobs: Uber drivers, waiters...
Gains are going to technofeu…
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RT @MittRomney: Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.
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RT @JeremyTate41: As an 18-year-old this passage from C.S. Lewis completely blew up my agnosticism. I remember exactly where I was when I read it for the first time. https://t.co/gQMPcYR7vY
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RT @MacaesBruno: Europe paid for Patriot missiles for Ukraine. The US didn’t deliver them and kept the money
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RT @BurggrabenH: To be clear: Xi treats the Kremlin for what it is: a rotten outlet for its excess production, a cheap weapons testing ground and, above all, a captive provincial gas station.
Pays in yuan as & when convenient, drives a hard bargain and dictates every single term…
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RT @Athanasius_45: Aristotle on equality of virtue versus equality of numbers: https://t.co/JrpPX5gIML
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RT @aledeniz: Why are the Soviets running large chunks Western Europe in 2026?
What went wrong?
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RT @Oslejs: Runāju ar lietuvieti, lielas Baltijas bankas VP. Kāpēc Lietuvā tik strauji attīstās uzņēmumi, es jautāju. Jo šobrīd LT CEO un finansētāju gars ir: “F*** it, lets do it!”, viņš atbildēja.
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RT @AntigoneJournal: The greatest poem ever written is the Iliad. There is simply no question. The only challenge for each reader, whenever and wherever, is to find their own route to seeing how and why that is the truth.
(It took me 22 years from first read.)
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RT @ohlennart: TIL that global spending on alcohol is still larger than AI infrastructure spending this year ($1.7T vs $1.5T)
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RT @JeremyTate41: One paragraph from C. S. Lewis can change your life https://t.co/9EaxaJ4tVz
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RT @JesusFerna7026: ¿Cómo sería la población de España en un mundo en el que la inmigración neta a España desde 1995 a 2026 hubiera sido cero en vez de la observada?
Para calcular este escenario, tomo la estructura de población de 1995 y asumo que la fecundidad y mortalidad por …
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RT @AntigoneJournal: How it felt to gulp as a schoolboy 100 years ago, at 4.30 AM... https://t.co/hXxvewp3sc
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RT @lymanstoneky: This experiment was run in the 1970s using MDMA.
I’m not even joking.
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RT @Athanasius_45: No beach condos for Plato:
καὶ Πλάτων δὲ ἐν τῇ Πολιτείᾳ τὴν θάλατταν ὡς πονηροδιδάσκαλον φεύγειν οἴεται δεῖν ὅτι πορρωτάτω τοὺς εὖ πολιτευσομένους καὶ μὴ οἰκεῖν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῇ.
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And Plato in his Republic thinks that those who want to govern well ought to flee as fa…
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RT @Pergament_F: The mosquito is one of those creatures that humiliates the human sense of scale. Kings, armies, cities, ships, philosophies, all seem impressive until a few milligrams of living matter decide that the evening belongs to them.
I came across a tablet of the famous …
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RT @LiteraryVienna: „Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr.
Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben,
wird wachen, lesen, lange Briefe schreiben
und wird in den Alleen hin und her unruhig wandern, wenn die Blätter treiben.“
Rainer Maria Rilke https://t.co/5yEkxWp0u5
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RT @MarkHeusden86: I'm Dutch, living in the Netherlands and Russia killed 196 of my fellow countrymen.
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RT @ericweinstein: Okay. I’ll take the bait.
I went to work for Peter in 2013 with opposite politics.
He sat me down right at the beginning.
PETER: “I don’t want the (Thiel) Foundation to do good that the market can do. That is the job of the market. Likewise, I don’t want to…
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RT @Athanasius_45: Plutarch on education:
οὐ γὰρ ὡς ἀγγεῖον ὁ νοῦς ἀποπληρώσεως ἀλλ᾿ ὑπεκκαύματος μόνον ὥσπερ ὕλη δεῖται, ὁρμὴν ἐμποιοῦντος εὑρετικὴν καὶ ὄρεξιν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν.
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For the mind does not require filling like a vessel, but only kindling, as wood does, to produce i…
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RT @PAHoyeck: BREAKING: The location of Plato’s Cave is reportedly “100% confirmed” after 2,300 years, following the discovery of an astonishing “man-made” hole in the ground containing “suspicious-looking shadows,” per the Daily Mail.
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RT @edwardlucas: please stop this silly scaremongering. We are not in 1938 or 1939. Poland fought alone then. It has allies now. Russia cannot concentrate forces in Kaliningrad or Belarus without us noticing. Yes, Russia can test Nato decision-making. But only at great risk and c…
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RT @edwardlucas: more scaremongering. Lithuania has contingency plans and they have been in place already for months. Top tip: ignore anything posted on social media showing maps with red arrows (moving or static).
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RT @edwardlucas: this is nonsense. There are no Russian ground forces left in Kaliningrad. Also no air defences. If Russia tries reinforcing there, Nato will notice. If Russia attacks, it loses Kaliningrad. Ends.
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RT @edwardlucas: For anyone wondering what's going on in the "news" about a looming Russian attack, landgrab, drone strike etc.
Please remember this.
Scaremongering is a Kremlin psy-op.
The real attack is not on
-- infrastructure
-- industry
-- individuals
or any other phy…
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RT @edwardlucas: yes but Ukraine in 2022 is not Baltics in 2026. Agencies were warning about Kremlin intentions for weeks. But too many people in UA and elsewhere (including me) thought Russia was bluffing. This is quite different. There are _no_ Russian forces anywhere near B3 r…
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RT @bryan_caplan: Classic. https://t.co/QgWkL6qL6w
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RT @BurggrabenH: Ah, the Great Copper Deficit™…
…just around the corner. Where it has been for as long as I can remember.
#copper https://t.co/LmKrlCKe1f
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RT @CJEhrlichM: “By 2010, this will be the critical core of Europe’s security”. Brzezinski, 1997. https://t.co/L99yamlX7G
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RT @JesusFerna7026: Is Bolivia’s total fertility rate below the U.S. rate?
In a new data release, the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia reports the country’s total fertility rate at 1.56 in 2026. The U.S. will be around 1.57.
This is NOT my estimate. I am just copying…
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RT @smatta1701: Effective Altruism is the natural enemy of the left and right because the right doesn't believe in altruism and the left doesn't believe in effectiveness.
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RT @Afinetheorem: Carney still fascinating. Cuts net immigration to zero, announces 10% reduction in federal civil service, 1.2GW data center, cuts to cap gains and corporate tax, privatize airports, govt rapid support of fossil fuel extraction. Result: *massive* popularity incl.…
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RT @IngmBalode: Labi, ka nestrādāju, izrādās, nu jau bijušajā Latvijas Radio.
Šorīt būtu pamodusies - bez prasīšanas - kā "lsm izklaide" darbiniece.
Nabaga cienījamie radioļaudis, man jūsu žēl. Neļaujiet to sev nodarīt. @lsmlv
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RT @SlavaVK: MI kā katalizators vispārējais debilizācijai ir daudz tiešāks drauds par Skynet un visu matemātisko problēmu atrisināšanu. Skatīt 0:15-0:25. Ne jau tikai augstākie vadītāji (ministri) šādi pieejiet saviem uzdevumiem...
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RT @liana_langa: Pievēršu jūsu uzmanību LSM @lsmlv priekšvēlēšanu darbībām - "nejauši" ielikta Progresīvo reklāma, bet citam izrauj no stundu garas sarunas sarunvalodas frāzes un tās izceļ virsrakstā. Jauns nelīmenis! Patiešām - derdzīgi! https://t.co/LhNeOST5M7
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RT @LeonardoGoi: It will surprise absolutely no one to hear that El Pampero Cine has spawned another masterpiece. Mariano Llinás’s BIOGRAFIA DE BORGES isn’t just a phenomenal closeup on JLB, but a manifesto of the collective’s idea of cinema: inventive, playful, thrillingly alive…
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RT @MacaesBruno: I find American life very unadventurous and safe and in fact see in Europe the most intense signs of boldness and adventure in the world today (together with China and India). Can you imagine something bolder than creating genuinely multicultural societies? By co…
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RT @ArmandDAngour: If you were offered the chance to conjugate would you decline? https://t.co/rh2zZxyupL
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RT @Athanasius_45: An attempt to make sense of Ancient Greek colors: https://t.co/Hayv8Q8shD
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RT @NTFabiano: Muscles talk to the brain to fight depression.
The gym bros were right. https://t.co/YQiXCWfTp5
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RT @IvoButkevics: Par valsts parādu. Un par nomināciju balvai. https://t.co/FR7gBvx4MM
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RT @aledeniz: Reading this, I was thinking why we cannot have guys like that as ministers of energy all across Europe 🇪🇺, so I went to check the resume of Dan Jørgensen 🇩🇰 , the current European Commissioner for Energy.
Well, Jørgensen has a master's degree in political science.…
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RT @Broks: Pēdējos divus mēnešus ir interesanti vērot, cik bieži Kulbergam tiek prasīts skaidrot, atbildēt, ierasties, pamatot un atskaitīties. To dara opozīcija, kas ir pašsaprotami, bet regulāri arī paša valdības koalīcijas partneri.
Tuvojoties vēlēšanām, šī taktika kļūst arvie…
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RT @CoffeewClassics: What’s a Wendell Berry line that’s stuck with you? For me:
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
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RT @wrathofgnon: “What I stand for is what I stand on.”
— Wendell Berry, 1980 https://t.co/RRDUmkACs5
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RT @aledeniz: Does it matter what an official intends if this is how the message lands?
Imagine you are an EU taxpayer. After twenty years of hard work you finally earn €2,000 net a month.
Most of your friends, on hearing that, would treat you as a filthy-rich capitalist.
No …
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