@Seamus_Malek But why is Robin Williams interested in Touqueville?
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Attaul Munim Zahid
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Araghchi thinking Americans remember General Westmoreland
Seyed Abbas Araghchi@araghchi
Americans haven’t forgotten how, even as hundreds of U.S. soldiers were dying in Vietnam, and the outcome was already clear, General William Westmoreland was flown home to reassure everyone that the war was going well — that the U.S. was “winning.”
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How beautiful that everyone now is craving people writing with there flaws.
Jonathan Birch@birchlse
I now assess students through in-class writing, and it's just a delight to see things crossed out and misspelled and those little ^ signs that show a person is thinking.
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Arithmetic of loss | Review of Mirza Waheed’s Maryam & Son
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y’all do so much work to avoid reading and writing
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD@MushtaqBilalPhD
A lot of academics still think AI apps generate fake references to papers that don't exist. They are living in 2023. You can easily integrate a database of 280M research papers with Claude and ChatGPT to get answers with references to published papers. Here's how to do it:
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“When you see a man defending a degenerate leader, know that the person desires something from the leader!”
- Imam al-Chorchori
zāād al-Ma’aād@Alghurabaaaaaa
Imam Al-Barbahari رحمه الله said: When you see a man cursing the leader, know that he is a person of desire. [Sharh As-Sunnah(136)]
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"Kaeshur, like any other living language, is essentially a speaking language — a medium of understanding and explanation. It does not depend on written texts."
Spoke to Kashmiri poet, linguist, and critic, Shafi Shauq, for this Sunday's Bookmarks column:
frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/sha…
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But if you didn’t want to be proved wrong, if you didn’t want to be altered or antagonized in ways that you could never predict, why would you read at all?
newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
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Years ago, when my still-receptive mind was dazzled by 'The Sense of Style', I half-agreed with Pinker on writing, but sensed something off. As @automachination sharply argues, it’s the arrogance and his fundamental misunderstanding of writing as art.
automachination.com/failing-arts-s…
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Clearly I can't be the only one finding the imagery problematic and funny?
Firstly, menstruating shouldn't be equalised with horror/zulum.
Secondly, really? Menstruating?
Thirdly, it's weird. Really? Menstruating through the trees?
That's more weird even on an aesthetic level
dihaZ@_Poetic_Outlaw_
...the day they hung him in Tihar and stitched his grave into the cement of their parliament, the Chinars outside my window began to bleed as if history was menstruating through the trees.
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Performative-reading phenomenon appears less like a newfangled way of calling people pretentious and more like an odious reflection of society’s increasing deprioritization of the written word.
newyorker.com/culture/the-le…
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As an aspiring bookshop owner, this felt so warm. A beautiful story of a bookshop owner sharing her hopes and heartache of fulfilling a life-long dream: setting up and running a bookshop. 'Because bookshops make everything better, don’t they?'
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For those who come from outside, it is a city you fall in love in and fall in love with, only to find yourself, in time, falling out of favour with it or discovering it has fallen out of favour with you. But it never leaves your imagination. @the_hindu
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