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I tell the stories of people, organizations, and events through feature articles and profiles in print and online. Check out all my writing at my website: stephenneumann.com
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Steve Neumann 🌹
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Steve Neumann 🌹
@JunoWalker
Freelance writer telling stories for alumni magazines and other publications | [email protected]
Katılım Aralık 2012
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@norabird I like the bitter orange of Aperol, but I also like a good Lillet Blanc & Tonic or Spritz (w/Cava) or a Lillet Rouge Spritz (with club soda)
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i absolutely believe people like aperol spritzes while for me they are way too bitter and i far, far infinitely prefer a hugo spritz. but others have different taste!
meredith@noyeahobviously
I spent an entire month in Italy and tried an aperol spritz almost every day at apertivo time and every single time it was disgusting, it is a bad drink, people who say they like it are being performative!
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Teens at the park playing RHCP and kicking a hacky sack
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@accuweather Hey @MickWest I wonder how many ufo reports are people seeing things like this they have no context for.
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A stunning “sun candle” lit up the sky in British Columbia 🌅 This striking effect happens when sunlight shines through a narrow gap in clouds, creating a glowing vertical beam that looks like a flame.
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@freganmitts And I say it’s a bummer because it seems obvious to me that people’s values almost always override any accumulation of knowledge or love of wisdom. Though I imagine you would say that just means they haven’t truly acquired a love of wisdom?
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@freganmitts And the fact that up until ten years ago I believed philosophy could play an important role in getting society closer to the (lower-case) true and good. The past decade has been a real bummer in that regard.
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I've seen this paper floating around before and find this sort of pessimistic induction extremely odd. It's like saying there's been no progress in engineering because the need for new infrastructure hasn't decreased.
People simply don't get the purpose of philosophy.
John@ErrorTheorist
Here’s a paper arguing that there is no progress in philosophy. The author claims that if Aristotle visited a modern university, he would be amazed by modern physics but feel at home in the philosophy classes, since the debates haven’t fundamentally changed. What do you think?
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@freganmitts Though I guess I would say that philosophy can make progress in the sense of coming up with better questions to ask about the subjects of its inquiries….
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@freganmitts Definitely agree about the clarifying ideas/questions, identifying errors/fallacies, etc.
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@freganmitts Having “wisdom” and the “good” as the ultimate goal(s) sounds like you agree with Plato. Can you say more about what you mean by wisdom and the good? Are those metaphysical concepts for you? (Personally I find myself agreeing more with Rorty over the past decade.)
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Steve Neumann 🌹 retweetledi
I’m not saying this is exactly what’s going on, but the experiences I describe below are what inform my reaction to Helen’s situation:
Matthew Sitman@MatthewSitman
This is insane and wildly unjust—in all seriousness, is there no institution or benefactor who can help this brilliant writer be able to spend her time writing? Why the fuck would a literary prize make a writer record peculiar video promotional material? It's a WRITING PRIZE
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@TheExpanseVerse I want The Expanse series back 😫. Make it happen cap’n 🙏🏻
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Nutella may be having their moment in space, but we’re still waiting for Holden to get his endorsement deal for all the coffee he drank on the Rocinante! ☕️🙏🤪 #TheExpanse
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Latest in space@latestinspace
#NEWS 🚨: Watch as a random jar of Nutella photobombs the Artemis II livestream
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@rick_paulas Haha I see what you did there. Totally agree btw
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Two great bands! It’s a shame Kurt Cobain died in 1994 and Billy Corgan died in 1998.
Robb Skidmore@robbskidmore
Nirvana’s music does not stand the test of time. But the Smashing Pumpkins does. So ultimately Billy Corgan won out against Kurt Cobain. Nirvana was hugely popular but I never listen to it anymore. I find Smashing Pumpkins more musical and listenable. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is a truly great album. Nirvana’s best was probably Unplugged. What say you @batcountry1980 ?
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Scientists have an idea—and it involves materials from thousands of miles away. trib.al/oPiWIDT
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@vjoshuaadams @NaturalMagic777 I’m sure you know this, but Rorty found him useful: sites.pitt.edu/~rbrandom/Cour…
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@NaturalMagic777 It means that he’s interested in questions of meaning, rather than the causal accounts we would expect from science
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He’s only an “idiot” if you think — as he also mistakenly believed — that he was supposed to be doing a kind of science. But if you understand that he was doing a new hermeneutics, you can see he was a true genius.
Wild Bill Wellman@WildBillWellman
I think Freud was an idiot, but I’m not going to lie, Freudian psychology led to some of the best art of the 30s and post WWII Without it you wouldn’t have most film noirs, or the works of Alfred Hitchcock or Ross Macdonald.
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@SophieHaigney Great advice. Reminds me of when I wrote Denise Levertov telling her I wanted to quit being a CPA because it was killing my soul. “Just make sure to keep your attention on it only from 9-5 & don’t let it spill over.” Ah, if only. Still don’t have it sorted out 30 years later lol
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I got to quote one of my favorite lines of all time, which is true
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I wrote about financial anxiety, the arts, and the idea of a romantic life for @thedrift_mag this month
newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/can-i-make-a…
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