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Sorry what?
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For some reason my book is selling for $1.99 on Kindle.
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Reading Wittgenstein lectures? Correcting Noah Smith? Walking next to the lake? Could this day get better?? Yes. I put up a new PR on the stacked Turkish getup: 120lb (80 + 40) or 54.5kg! Left and right!
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No. It’s nothing like that. Holmes is a sentient being capable of knowing. A knife is not a sentient being capable of knowing.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
@NoahpinionOct 17
People who ask whether Elizabeth Holmes "knows she's lying" are asking the wrong question. It's like asking if a knife knows it's cutting.
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This is what happens when I take a break from reading my Wittgenstein lectures to check twitter.
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Kill Tim Faust 💀@crulgeOct 17
If I met the Cenobites I would ask for a billion dollars or something instead of "sensation." What the fuck kind of shit do you expect asking for something like that. Dumb ass
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Fixed it for yah • 1807 AD: Hegel is wrong • 1843 AD: Kierkegaard is wrong • 1844 AD: Marx is wrong • 1887 AD: Nietzsche is wrong • 1903 AD: Russell is wrong • 1921 AD: Wittgenstein is right • 1927 AD: Heidegger is wrong • 1966 AD: Foucault is wrong
Phil Hoyeck
@PAHoyeckOct 17
A Brief History of Philosophy: • 375 BC: Plato is wrong • 323 BC: Aristotle is wrong • 311 BC: Epicurus is wrong • 225 BC: Chrysippus is wrong • 364 AD: Hypatia is wrong • 413 AD: Augustine is wrong • 1020 AD: Avicenna is wrong • 1180 AD: Averroes is wrong • 1250 AD: Aquinas is wrong • 1320 AD: Ockham is wrong • 1641 AD: Descartes is wrong • 1675 AD: Spinoza is wrong • 1739 AD: Hume is wrong • 1781 AD: Kant is wrong • 1807 AD: Hegel is wrong • 1843 AD: Kierkegaard is wrong • 1844 AD: Marx is wrong • 1887 AD: Nietzsche is wrong • 1903 AD: Russell is wrong • 1921 AD: Wittgenstein is wrong • 1927 AD: Heidegger is wrong • 1966 AD: Foucault is wrong
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Wittgenstein on the MAGA freak out about Talarico’s “nonbinary” God comment.
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Every time I hear this the Arcade Fire make more sense.
acoustic julien
@arugulapiquanteOct 9
Canada would have no culture without Quebec
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Yes, I know most of the band are English speakers not from Quebec. My claim is that they sound like this and I doubt that's a coincidence.
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The tendency to counterpose "policies and reforms" (always assumed to be insufficient, pernicious, cowardly) to "structural transformation" (never concretely defined but rhetorically bold, courageous, virtuous) is undoubtedly one of the stupidest tics of internet leftists.
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Just imagining scolding an apoplectic Trotsky for arguing for mere "policies and reforms."
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I regularly walk past this photograph on my way to the pool at the Ratner Center and every time I see her, I wonder: what did she know??
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This is the sort of lie you to tell to someone whose library books you don’t want to return and the sort of lie that someone who asks other people to return their library books for them would believe.
Alec MacGillis
@AlecMacGillisOct 15
Johns Hopkins economics professor Steve Hanke writes in a WSJ letter to editor that many of his students don't know where the campus library is:
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Adding: I'm a reader of Foucault and his critic. I feel no need to reject or embrace his thought in its totality, much less to defame it by fantasizing about his sex life. That common rightwing compulsion is cope and suggests Foucault's insights penetrated deep, indeed.
bearistotle@gnrosenbergOct 15
Ignoring the homophobia, it's interesting that Foucault lives in this clown's head rent free nearly a half century after he died. They keep telling us how nothing Foucault wrote mattered, but their stupidity keeps illustrating what Foucault called the incitement to discourse.
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Ignoring the homophobia, it's interesting that Foucault lives in this clown's head rent free nearly a half century after he died. They keep telling us how nothing Foucault wrote mattered, but their stupidity keeps illustrating what Foucault called the incitement to discourse.
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The clown here being the guy writing in First Things, not Daniel, to be clear.
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The flip side idiocy of “any art that does not advance x politics is bad” is Matt’s “no art that advances x politics is good.” Both are infantile and trivial attitudes.
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbiOct 14
The Soviets believed all art is political, and produced seven decades of shitty art
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Thiel might give these lectures because it’s ego-gratifying for him to think people will finger him as the anti-Christ he’s lecturing on. Nobody’s biting, Peter! It’s be like Michael Jordan accepting Dan Dakich or some such as the anti-Jordan, just a huge blow to Christ’s aura.
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The better question is who is voluntarily attending these lectures?!
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You denied her tenure.
Princeton University
@PrincetonOct 8
Congratulations to Anne Carson on receiving the 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature. Carson taught at Princeton University in the 1980s and was recently on campus to deliver the 2025 Fagles Lecture: bit.ly/3TteJZj

Anne Carson Delivers Eighth Annual Fagles Lecture

Over four hundred university and community members packed the house Tuesday night to hear poet, translator, and classicist Anne Carson deliver the annual Robert Fagles Lecture for Classics in the...

classics.princeton.edu
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