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Literary translator, actor, early modern drama enthusiast.
Luddite geek. Greek. Truth, justice, and the comics. Mostly in Athens.
(@amaenad from Twitter but more chill)
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I don’t particularly care about the book of Revelations, nor Christian mythology more generally, on any day. I do care about Patmos, though, and whose names are on the spines of which books.
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John*?
*of Patmos?
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A strongly worded note through their front door.
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I’m not convinced that threat is diminished by the Israeli government’s latest actions.
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“support it on Iran” means ‘support Israel’s policy on Iran’, not ‘support the Iranian theocracy’
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I don’t support bombing Iran though.
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Their own hypocrisy - which hollowed out the liberal consensus we all depended on for authoritarians to exploit- is apparently invisible to them.
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Pretty great, right? Now maybe we will get the comics or animated version of her Raksura books we all deserve.
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The native *Cretan* palm tree (phoenix theophrasti), which is endangered, btw.
Please, can we be given the capability to edit alt text?
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Legacy media internalized the Reagan Revolution. They bowed to right-wing demands (Powell Memo strategy) for “balance” resulting in significant overrepresentation for unpopular rightist ideas.
We need a deep course correction.
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We teamed up with @bloomberg.com to investigate how the world’s largest tech companies send their “secret” passwords. We found a marketplace that feeds an opaque and sprawling network of untrusted middlemen – including a notorious surveillance enabler
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“Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use…Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels” arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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Εγώ με κάποια παιδιά από τους Democrats Abroad, και με την ελπίδα πως θα βρεθούν άλλοι σύντομα, γιατί πρέπει μεν να γίνει οργάνωση αλλά προτιμώ να γράφω πλακάτ.
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Κάτω δεξιά με την No Tyranny in Athens είναι όντως η μούρη μου!
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😆😘😘
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Looks good!
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We have the equivalent of the scientologists running the field of AI with untold amounts of money and power and we're the ones who have to do point by point rebuttals of their eugenicists dreams.
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By the way, NPR reckons his security career is overstated or outright fantasy www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
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The native *Cretan* palm tree (phoenix theophrasti), which is endangered, btw.
Please, can we be given the capability to edit alt text?
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Μια στρατηγική μονάδα αφαλάτωσης 50 MGD για την Αθήνα, θα κάλυπτε το 25-30% της συνολικής προσφοράς και θα κόστιζε ~200 εκατ. ευρώ με παράδοση σε 2-3 χρόνια.
Γιατί επιλέγουμε λύσεις του 20ου αιώνα;