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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.

It's easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of television.

Small fungus-farming ants, Mycetosoritis hartmanni, in their subterranean garden. The fungus- a white stringy material- grows between the bits of debris fed to it by the ants. The ants then feed from the fungus- a true agricultural system. Texas. #ants #insects

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