“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social

academics writing lengthy end-of-year reflection posts that highlight how much they published + promoting their books as “the perfect holiday gift” = cringe

“help, I’m being oppressed” man writes in prominent article for prestigious magazine is an entire genre of article and really what the fuck are we doing here

‘Bachelard says an image can be “a giver of being”, “une donatrice d’être”. This is to suggest that the human mind and its images, in dreams as in the theory of relativity, are creators of each other. There is a form of liberation in this idea.’ Michael Wood: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Finally someone free speech enough to say, “Yes, but are you being fair to the concentration camp?”

Working to correct the numerous accuracies we found in the story.

‘Even the individuals closest to Suleyman had agendas that historians have taken decades to unpack and understand. The danger in sidestepping this work is being blinded by the sources.’ Helen Pfeifer on Christopher de Bellaigue’s account of Suleyman the Magnificent. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

They can now apply a Rwanda policy to nearly all asylum-seekers, what the fuck else do they want?

Episode 48: Elon Musk, Part 2 Over the course of several years, the richest man in the world lost his mind. His biographer didn’t seem to notice.

question: is dispossessing “immigrants from non-western countries and their descendants” by stigmatizing them racial discrimination or not? court of justice of the eu:

the level of delusion it takes to think that the modern right-wing would never stoop to mocking someone’s death is breathtaking

I’m surrounded by incompetence.