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Bertrand Russell: “The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich”:

last night I met a thief who stole the end of the year Basho

MARTIN SCORSESE eating pasta and pizza with his parents and discussing his early movies. Too much swearing, apparently.

Meet the 2023 U.N. Human Rights Council. Members now include: 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇨🇳 China 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇪🇷 Eritrea 🇩🇿 Algeria 🇸🇴 Somalia 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇧🇩 Bangladesh I wish I were making this up. I'm not. Today, 70% of UNHRC are non-democracies. Happy New Year.

On learning to write better fiction through playing a classic puzzle game electricliterature.com/how-playing-my…

How the world has evolved over the last century in terms of: - Child mortality - Life expectancy - GDP - Women's education - Basic water source - Basic sanitation [charts by Todd Jones 🦊]

I’m starting to get the same feeling in my stomach about “rubric” that I get from “evidence-based.” A bad feeling.

You can now use #VR to learn piano for free by Magic Keys #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AR #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality cc: Ronald van Loon Pascal Bornet Marcus Borba

The great thing about the explosion in the growth of administrators at colleges and universities is how it's freed up the faculty to really focus on teaching and research.

Goniurellia tridens is a species of fruit flies. Each wing is transparent and bears a precisely detailed image of an ant-like insect. While flying, the ants appear to walk and deter predators. [source: buff.ly/3I4SPCx] [📷 P. Roosenschoon]

What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.

finally, the last digit of pi:

Tears of the Kingdom is about how rotations in 3D space are non-trivial

/^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ This Regular Expression written in Perl checks whether a number is Prime. 🤔

Between 1890 and 1950, the average GPA at Harvard was 2.5. In 1960, it hit 3.0. Today, it's 3.8. ht David Perell

I think that's an SPQR code

from time to time I think about this post, which I think remains in the top 0.01% of everything I have ever read