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I once handled a medieval manuscript that smelled unusually of horses, which contributed to my discovery that it was a traveling notebook of sorts. Digital surrogates are wonderful but you can miss a lot if you don’t experience the manuscript in person.

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✨✨✨ Super proud it's finally out!

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the point of DOGE was to hack into government databases, not much else

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So I've watched ep. 1 of the New Adam Curtis, and here's the thing: Thatcher did not destroy British manufacturing industry by mistake. That is all you really need to know to understand what's wrong with this way of telling the story, but I'll elaborate a bit....

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Wild story: a quality manager who warned about the shoddy construction of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes was particularly concerned about the ones sent to Air India in 2014. That's when the Air India jet that crashed today was sent. prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

think of it as the px for the universal army

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there are precedents for domestic military deployments (of course many of these were in indigenous lands, not in the united states) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

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the ralph nader milton friedman consensus

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

when looking at contemporary politics, I think often about what Hannah Arendt so insightfully characterised as the phenomenon of people being "unable to pit their own judgment against the verdict of History, as they read it"

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The rather wonderful grotesques from St Peter's Church, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

the reason stocks do better under democrats than repunlicans is because part of the republican platform is always to attack the economic infrastructure its like if an autoimmune disease were a political party

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how to read a saga (from durrenberger’s “the dynamics of medieval iceland”)

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apple should make it so all your family photos are automatically separated from photos of book pages and screenshots you’re saving to use against your enemies

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