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Must stay away from the Dublin art scene. Saw a rake of painted portraits today that reeked of narcissism. Dead flat, looking as if painted from photos. Nothing to do with anything I care about.

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In 7th grade my math teacher set us the problem of finding the centre of a circular arc. It's easy to do by finding perpendiculars to any two chords. Just thinking now about determining the second focus of an ellipse, given one focus and two points on the circumference. I think I have a neat way.

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Wondering about the strange trellis-like partition in these flats by Alvar Aalto (in Hansaviertel).

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If you live in New England, I have an art show all next month in Providence, RI. Opening is March 1, 7-9 at AS220 downtown.

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I have one of these posters placed where I look at it almost every day. It's an amazing drawing which took five years to make in the 1920s. The original is 147" × 101".(www.stpaulsshop.org.uk/p/8154/Isome...)

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Giuseppe Terragni's Casa de Fascio (1932–36) had a set of synchronized electrically operated doors. The connection with fascist ideology is made clearer by the German Nazi term Gleichschaltung, a word people I've heard mentioned in the last few days in relation with what's going on in the US.

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This is a funny one. Spirit levels are self-levelling; almost any other horizontal object wouldn't be. OK, but I'm not sure about the role of the corner or the colour gradient. The artist has made several other seemingly related installations.

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Some 70s concrete buildings were designed with the intention of rendering the concrete after a few years. This project involves a similar plan, but the rate at which the cladding material (cork) will weather is presumably much more of an unknown quantity. roar-architects.com/projects/nin...

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"[W]hether this quality of stability and fixity is an intrinsic element of print—or in a lesser extent of manuscripts—or whether it is something that has been imposed on the printed object by historical actors." I think this qualifies as an unexpected topic! www.openreflections.org/commentpress...

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Doodles are accumulating, but I need to make at least one more serious drawing.

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I think the beat in this track could be loosely be described as syncopated. But when Björk comes out with the word "transmutates", that's the opposite of syncopation... extension? Of course it's artistic license. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlMQ... Some people can't stand this sort of thing, I'm sure.

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I follow someone whose bio includes the salutary line "I am here to share my enthusiasms".

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"You need to recognize that to be disruptive it helps to know what people know." Neal Gershenfeld, 2015 www.edge.org/conversation.... He's understating it. If you don't know the domain, your disruption is going to be a bust

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

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It's been clear to me (as a layman) for ages that the legitimacy of judges is a pretty pure form of hegemony. This is one way in which the rule of law is vulnerable to attacks from populists. I really hope this doesn't happen now. I'm not sure if it's even advisable to make the preceding observation

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"It behoves us always to remember that in physics it has taken great men to discover simple things." (D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson)

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This interpretation requires Trump to be thinking of someone other than himself.

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"Objects can transcend utility to become conveyors of energy and creators of emotional links, reflecting our ability to transform materials with purpose and sensitivity," said Abramović That sounds like sculpture, not design. Somebody should have stopped her. www.dezeen.com/2025/02/14/m...

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The trait that Finns call "sisu" has beneficial and harmful aspects. There's a guy in this story (not actually a Finn) who keeps going when he should have stopped, and it kills him, tragically. youtu.be/CLlF0XQkmDg

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The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

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I agree with Aurelien. It really is that simple! But then again, just as there are far-right grifters, there are centrist/liberal grifters, who live off the controversy they help fuel. The liberal outrage machine is profitable for both sides.

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On the Gulf of Mexico issue: some general observations on the naming of seas, by F Ormeling. unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo...

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The thing about Cambridge in the 90s was that, once you left the central "gown" zone, it was, for the most part, an unpretentious fenland town. See the folk festival etc. Chilly and rural in winter. East Anglian. Small-time and not really a home counties place. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

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Barista just now, holding a partially made latte: "Are you opposed to skim milk?" It's not against my religion, no

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