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It's taken me a couple years, but I think I've finally chased down the lineage of stuff I'm interested in:

Plato
Proclus
Cusa, Ficino, Pico
Vico
Hamann
Peirce

If you want to know how endemic anti-black racism is in the USA, a 6 y/o from a respectably anti-racist family (participates in multi-culti stuff, etc) is coming back from kindergarten cracking jokes about "Africans."

There's a Russian mom here with the chunkiest sneakers I've ever seen. Makes me wonder whether Russians are ahead of us in shoe chunkiness technology.

CUSANUS MET PLETHON

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

CUSANUS MET PLETHON

Tonight I literally talked someone to sleep while describing Brunelleschi

Someone should make something /dark/ and /twisted/ to show how the culture of the US in the 1950s was secretly BAD!

The Ortega hypothesis posits that science progresses through the accumulation of narrow, modest, specialized findings.

It seems a fairly unobjectionable elaboration to argue that publication bias is a major cause of friction preventing the accumulation of modest and mundane findings behind leading research programs.

I propose that publication bias is a major drag force preventing the emergence of experimental consensus.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortega_h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicat

I will be forever grateful that I was introduced to bebop when I was a teenager. It's a Proustian wormhole for me.

Even if every human turned off every machine and disappeared overnight tonight, we have already caused a geologically significant extinction for the only known life-source in the universe

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Writing about climate change and civilizational collapse, feel like crying.

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