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Randaconda posted:https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-tree-is-known-by-its-fruit?utm_source=pocket-newtab https://www.texastribune.org/library/data/texas-prisons/inmates/bruce-wayne-harkey/1112452/ Projected release date: 1/1/5555
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Empire of fantasy J R R Tolkien and C S Lewis turned Oxford into a vision of what they believed English literature studies should be: moral medieval fantasy, and decidedly not modern or concerned with racism. They elevated Beowulf and Sir Gawain while writing their own books, and inspired a generation of Oxford-educated writers.
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uggy posted:Actual double post. Arts & Letters Daily at https://aldaily.com
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:What are some current options for dealing with paywalls? Which one?
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The Strange Undeath of Middlebrow: Everything that was once considered lowbrow is now triumphant A long and rambling essay on the short history of the aspirational and derisible term “middlebrow”, that ends with some thoughts on The Last Jedi.
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christmas boots posted:As an aside, I've always thought it was funny that Shakespeare is something of the golden standard of "highbrow" literature despite the fact that a solid chunk of his output was slapstick and vulgar jokes. Just shows how artificial the distinction can be, I suppose. I think everything “highbrow” was once common entertainment for the masses. Except for ballet, that began dancing for kings.
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letthereberock posted:Jazz was once considered vulgar music for people with unrefined taste. This makes me wonder if one day poo poo like Black Metal will be listened to by old men sitting in big chairs with tumblers of brandy. You joke, but I’m pretty sure whoever wrote this retrospective of Bathory’s third album is exactly the type to sit in a big chair with a tumbler of brandy. https://thequietus.com/articles/22420-bathory-under-the-sign-of-the-black-mark-review-anniversary
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nonathlon posted:A discussion about QAnon lead me to this very interesting and very readable academic paper "Organised Psuedolegal Commercial Arguments as Magic and Ceremony", in which the author tries to make sense of the various arguments mounted by sovereign citizens, Freeman on the land, and other parties engaging in 'otherlaw': This looks like it draws heavily on Meads v Meads (https://freemandelusion.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/meads-v-meads.pdf), which is a truly entertaining legal decision.
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nonathlon posted:Wow. 188 pages ... interesting though. It appears that the judge involved doesn't believe the plaintiff is sincere, which is a point picked up in the other article: there may be a significant number of people practicing psuedolaw, who simply don't believe it, but find it a useful tactic. It’s long but better written than some books I’ve read. And it features sentences like, “However, why anyone would believe that American commercial legislation would apply in Canada is baffling.”
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I’m going to misquote the opening line just slightly because I think it should be used the opening for every libertarian project: “They dreamed of starting a libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out.”
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Opus 40 isn’t just a sculpture, it’s a place. For a small entrance fee you can spend all day walking over and around and through.
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A long time ago I was talking with a friend about Enemy At The Gates, and he said he wouldn’t watch it, because, “I support America over the Germans, and the Germans over the Russians.”
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Longform is shutting down its recommendations. Longreads doesn't do it for me. Are there any other good articles recommendations places? Daily https://aldaily.com Weekly https://philosophyasawayoflife.blog
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against shock by Sam kahn An essay about the sacred duty of the artist to push the envelop, and how that duty has been collapsing in the face of of a common culture that takes on the same goal. This isn't an essay filled with footnotes, it's the author struggling to create a framework for understanding the timeline of this collapse, from 18th century enlightenment through Nietzsche and Hesse through Coetzee, and understanding what art can do for the viewer if not shock.
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Solitair posted:I don't have permission to access this resource. That happened to me too, I just reloaded and it worked.
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https://medium.com/ian-mackenzie/love-will-be-the-death-of-us-7baa690dcd0 is the sad boner essay. https://medium.com/@alexandraerin/infidelity-will-be-the-death-of-my-marriage-1020720676ef is the parody.
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Seeing and somethingness - By Nicholas Humphrey Let’s begin with story about a person, DB, who lost their sight on their right side due to brain surgery. It turns out DB could still “see” via an older neural pathway that bypasses the cortex. But the problem is DB didn’t think “they” were seeing. DB didn’t know how “they” had the knowledge of where things were in their blindspot. Nicholas Humphrey starts from this strange phenomenon of “blindsight” to build his evolutionary theory of consciousness. His argument is that we evolved to react to stimulus, and at some point we evolved memory. Then, crucially, we created a mental model of ourselves to predict what our reaction would be to different stimulus. That mental model became our self. It became our consciousness. That’s the summary. The article has a lot more science, philosophy, and pictures.
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quote:The force of the implosion would have been so violent that everyone on board would have died before the water touched their bodies It’s a small comfort to know they didn’t suffer. I feel terrible for that kid though.
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-strange-and-turbulent-global-world-of-ant-geopolitics It’s about invasive, global, unicolonial fire ants. It’s also about how misleading the language and metaphors we use to describe their world is.
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Remind me of how many people have tried to solve “The Cold Equations” short story.
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“A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry” is a great blog with nothing but long form reads. My favorite is where he talks about why Tacitus’s Germania was a piece of propaganda and didn’t represent Germany at all. Unfortunately that is spread throughout a larger six part Fremen Mirage series, so I don’t have a single link. It’s somewhere in https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-i-war-at-the-dawn-of-civilization/
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