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Roaming like a rover with my new Irish passport. No longer concerned where the periodic winds of Brexit blow. https://t.co/mPQr9DeUF1
🇬🇧 Katılım Kasım 2019
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@FirearmFury Winston Churchill carried one of these and it saved his life in a cavalry charge! From his biography, My Early Life.
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Well, that blew up!
For those just arriving, I write about what happens when symbols become infrastructure.
Peacock Angel of History@LapsusLima
People read “simulation” and think Baudrillard, but the Church has its own vocabulary for these concerns, and has been pondering idolatry, illusion, mediation, false likeness, crowd passions, hardened hearts, and estrangement from reality for two millennia. One could even say that Baudrillard is, partly, a late secular dramatisation of problems long identified by Christian anthropology.
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People read “simulation” and think Baudrillard, but the Church has its own vocabulary for these concerns, and has been pondering idolatry, illusion, mediation, false likeness, crowd passions, hardened hearts, and estrangement from reality for two millennia.
One could even say that Baudrillard is, partly, a late secular dramatisation of problems long identified by Christian anthropology.
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
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When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
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David Foster Wallace on why people struggle to read books:
(this was filmed in 2003 but is even more true today)
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This book is the ultimate guide to becoming a better reader.
It was first published in 1940 and became an instant bestseller.
It will teach you how to get more value out of every book you read.
Here are 12 key lessons from "How To Read A Book":
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@EDranir What are you talking about? You can’t copy this link
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You can no longer copy the links of video posts
Go touch grass
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just bought a new book i’m obsessed with the intro paragraph
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@misandreil @djofairchild Ah! I read his Prince of Thorns. This sounds a bit more light-hearted 😂
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A Soho tradition - sitting outside Bar Italia in Frith Street with a coffee (cortado) and a grappa. Opposite the early queues are out for Ronnie Scott's but otherwise the evening crowd is yet to appear. The price, at £11.80, is much steeper than I recall, but isn't everything now
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@simonmontefiore @ShippersUnbound Don’t forget to read WINTER after ‘Game, Set & Martch’ 🤓
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@paul_jkrause Player of Games and Look to Windward by Iain M Banks are favourites. As is Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. And… the Ancillary series by Anne Leckie.
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What is the best sci-fi novel you've read? There are many good ones. Great ones. Not just because he recently passed away, but Hyperion by Dan Simmons has to be up there for everyone who has read it...
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There are many times I’ve searched for a book and it’s out of print or not available on Kindle. And the PDF saves the day.
Nelly;@nrqa__
No need to pay for books in 2026 The internet is a free library if you know where to look Here are 12 sites where you can download PDF books for free:
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