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"I do not think therefore I am a moustache" Sartre, La Nausée, 1938 Interests: art, art history, culture, film/photography, history, music, science, sociology, comparative religion, technology, current affairs. * adferoafferro.wordpress.com
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◻️ #47 Surely there's a Billy Joel song that is a good fit for 47? (Richard Adams said the answer was 42. Who was No. 42 ?) He did, The Entertainer, though also suggest others he might have chosen: 'You May Be Right, I May Be Crazy', 'Big Shot', 'I Go To Extremes'. theweek.com/speedreads/6...

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◻️ #Iran 1 hr chat with Bari Weiss, Niall Ferguson & Dexter Elkins. E.g. of a not very useful discussion because it transparently has support for Israel woven into its fabric. Other current discussions, experts & journalism say Iran has been enriching U to 3% www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQeL...

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◻️ #Iran #Israel #US My view based on a morning spent reading and a handful of videos is that Pakistan has already warned off the US and Israel from proliferating to nuclear. It's pretty much a mini-MAD scenario. Mutually Assured Destruction was the Cold War stand off between the US & the USSR.

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◻️ #Iran #Israel Two for the price of one. 1. current events in the context of how Iran has been moving in recent years. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 2. Story of how Dayan, panicked by success of Egyptian (and Syrian) attack during Yom Kippur War 1973, suggested use of a nuclear weapon. 👇

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◻️ #Iran #Cinema #JafarPanahi Fans of Panahi will be hoping he keeps safe. Taxi and This is Not a Film highly recommended. Here a short review of Taxis Tehran by Mark Kermode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSio...

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◻️ #Iran #Israel #US #Sanctions So who buys Iranian oil? 👈 How have sanctions effected Iran's oil and gas industry? 👉 👉

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No way in hell did TRUMP write that. Somebody else, maybe Stephen Miller. Vocabulary, length, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, capitalization, thought cohesion, organization, none of it is Trump. He probably okayed it, though.

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◻️ #Iran #Israelk ◻️ #Iran #Israel The best graphic of the Gulf of Iran's oil and gas fields and infrastructure, including South Pars oil field drilled by both Iran and Qatar, together with those of the Gulf states. www.ft.com/content/7824...

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Shopping for a laptop can be infuriating. Here’s how to sift through the acronyms, storage options, and extra features to find the best one for you. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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◻️ "...AI models are being trained with synthetic data created by AI models. Subsequent generations of AI models may therefore become less and less reliable, a state known as AI model collapse."

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Bach’s fifth canon is secretly a musical Möbius strip. Debussy hid Fibonacci numbers in “La Mer”. Pollock used fractals decades before anyone knew. Daniel Rey reviews @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social’s brilliant new book, which reveals the maths behind masterpieces: www.prospectmagazine...

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◻️ #47 The Marsh Family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5nX...

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