“It is in the nature of intellectual life—and part of its value—to gravitate toward the extreme alternative position, since that is usually the one most in need of articulation. Harvard and Yale pay some of their professors to tell the students that everything they believe is a bourgeois illusion, as the Koch brothers pay their foundation staff to say that all bourgeois illusions are real, and the fact that neither is entirely true does not alter the need to pay people to say it. The ideas we pay for, as Ayn Rand grasped when she looked at her royalty statements, are those which define the outer edge. We want big minds to voice extreme ideas, since our smaller minds already voice the saner ones.” ~Adam Gopnik #rereading
(I also read or read about Camus when I get stressed out). Facing History https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/09/facing-history
This is such an interesting & scary phenomenon — since this same bot had a different reaction when I shared a Juneteenth article. Whether you are using centralized or decentralized social media— you will be subject to a trial & jury of some kind— an architect’s desire for a space they deem is appropriate to their set of values.
Navigating spaces. Moderation is censorship. The paradox of life. nostr:note1ve77za9cu0r5qqryj6985v4l2f66flhrqxnr2yfs39ech9dytq3qzkl944
On my reading list:
“Fosse converted to Catholicism in 2012, quit drinking, and remarried. He then started writing “Septology,” a seven-volume novel written in a single sentence and exemplifying what he has described as his turn to “slow prose.” (The book was translated, by Damion Searls, for Fitzcarraldo Editions, in the U.K.; a U.S. edition is out this month, from Transit Books.) The narrator of “Septology” is a painter named Asle, a convert to Catholicism, grieving the death of his wife, Ales. The night before Christmas Eve, Asle finds his friend, also a painter named Asle, unconscious in an alley in Bergen, dying of alcohol poisoning. Their memories double, repeat, and gradually blur into a single voice, a diffuse consciousness capable of existing in many times and places at once.”
Jon Fosse’s Search for Peace https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/jon-fosses-search-for-peace
Where is the Bitcoin Bot— why is it not asking me to “focus?”
I love this one because it reminds me of a “study-hall” friend who I sat next to during Junior year— except we had Catholic School uniforms on & she was always getting in trouble for her skirt being too short. She was the only one who noticed I was reading raunchy romance novels instead of studying. She made me laugh! https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8JBV8VR/
Confession: When social media stresses me out— I open TikTok & watch ASMR videos to relax. If they ban TikTok— I will stream these beauties somewhere. Goosebumps.
why does it have (dangerous) next to sign in with private key?
The actor who plays Martin D. Ginsburg in the movie On The Basis Of Sex
Gabriel is great as well from Emily In Paris!
Thanks. Starting with first episode— Season 1. Jim is a great husband!
Maybe later! I’m watching some reruns of Ghost Whisper. Check out Ghost Whisperer on Hulu! https://www.hulu.com/series/5eb17798-3294-4071-a259-d0dc596f00f0?play=false&utm_source=shared_link
I watered them. Pittsburgh weather is unpredictable— not for the faint of heart. One must be flexible.
Thanks— will check this out soon!
Not yet— Pittsburgh weather is not my favorite. I waited to purchase them.
I bought them yesterday at a local shop.
Should I water my new porch plants or not? #[1] — 30% chance of rain before nightfall. 
You are welcome. I always appreciate the positive attention celebrities give toward literacy. I’m also a huge fan of Natalie Portman’s book club.