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Interested in history, languages, software, dogs, dog software, and weird stuff from the internet. Swagless normie. Madison, Wisconsin. jvining.com
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I was not ready for the power of a jam band with a not-horrendous singer

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Georges Friedmann quoted in Pierre Hadot

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What I've been reading in January: jvining.com/reading/2025...

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the word 'tariff' suddenly strikes me as some ungodly combination of boolean logic and trigonometry. tangent if and only iff or something like that. logic and mathematics both suspect on their own, obviously

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planning a cervid-training reality show inspired by baudelaire, bronte and taylor swift called DEER READER

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Saw a car today driving too slow and floating between lanes. Played the perennial drunk-or-phone game in my head but was surprised to learn: The driver had a casserole on the dash and was carefully attending to it.

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My friend just cares about one thing. He always says that any good sized road should have some separation in the middle with some grass or a tree. He is the median voter.

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Philosophy, the realm of poorly formulated questions.

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“Let me think about that” always means “no”

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Me, on behalf of every one who is not an Ancient Greek or a philosophy professor: Yes, the unexamined life is worth living.

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Why why why do you want to eat? For why?

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why does VC build something instead of nothing ??

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The Socratics must be stopped.

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Great scene

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Obsolescence as a sign of generosity.

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Masochism in the service of tact.

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I love way the early morning light illuminates every speck of dust in the kitchen

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Man cannot live upon meditation alone.

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For sale now: Ralph Cahoon, Untitled (The Artist and the Mermaid)

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As a courtesy I end all of my texts with “stop to unsubscribe”

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Hearing fire on the north slope of the Hills. Sunswept drive.

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All literature is become Joseph Campbell condensed soup

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Does anyone write about school grades as compellingly as Ferrante?

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— Kamala Harris

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The incessant hum of the dental overlords

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Anyone know Emily Oster’s take?

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The key to Greek Philosophy is sleeping twelve hours a day.

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If Dover Publications ever needs money I hope to god they will ask. Also learning they were purchased by private equity. God save our souls.

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Why'd you have to go and make things so many-turned?

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The internet is great but I’m not sure it wouldn’t be better if politicians couldn’t access it. Wisconsin assembly speaker Robin Vos

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Has to be AI

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My local Barnes and Noble is so busy it feels like they hired extras

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Those Who Came Before: I will underline every other sentence in red and green pen in this book.

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as always, it is Time to Build (Potlucks)

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techn is poised to make an arduous but virtuous task unnecessary: - the task is unneeded the discipline developed for it is unneeded - discipline for the task is good per se; we are worse if undisciplined 3rd way: our discipline can be attached to more valuable ends

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Going to be a shit show when the anti-pit-bull guys hear about this breed.

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a lovely sound: the delayed collection of raindrops down the gutters on a warm night, a few days, or a week, after a good snow

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Oregon trail goes way back.

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Excellent job title.

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It’s Christmas Eve at Whole Foods and that can only mean one thing: half the store singing along to Ace of Base’s “All that She Wants” which is blasting on the cheese department’s stereo

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*Stevens Point Gazette*, 1895.

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