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... and it takes decades for the state to relinquish the increased powers that were so casually granted in the time of crisis.

"... politics is always in need of more science." ~ John List More science in politics please, but not more politics in science 😎.

15 years. In Belgium, we would call it a flashlight relationships, but certainly twitter has been a constant throughout this period. Thank you for being around. Let's make the best use we can of this great platform. #MyTwitterAnniversary

222 years - a good period to declare a work of art as significant. According to Marcel Duchamp, the lifetime of a painting is ~50 years on average. I wonder whether it is similar for music.

The ultimate goal of the left is to preserve the right, or put more eloquently: The Shirky Principle – “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution” rogersbacon.substack.com/p/eponymous-la…

#GuerillaMarketing for the environment and its challenges.

Our spheres of influence are much larger than our personal spaces.

A list that keeps getting longer: greenwashing, pinkwashing, rainbow washing, purplewashing, sportswashing, redwashing, humanewashing, straightwashing, hetwashing, brainwashing grammarphobia.com/blog/2022/01/g…

When you have the slightest doubt about a quotation, assuming it fake is the safe option. --- Just think about how opportune it is to construct fake quotes, how easily they spread, and compare it with the relatively hard accessibility of great works.

A great question is kind and open-ended. It engages, inspires, informs, challenges, lets a recipient shine or leads to follow-up questions. And it doesn't need an answer, at least not right away. #greatquestions

How to manage expectations surrounding AI, which tend to be high, while avoiding to be dismissive? In other words, how to avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater? It's a good question to ask an AI bot.

"Who knows [but] one, knows none." ~ Max Müller A plea for comparative studies, made initially for religions. It was subsequently extended to languages, cultures and probably other subjects.