It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

Funny they’re trying to say “machines can be conscious”, when they still insist animals are not.

figured others here would enjoy this

I once heard someone reply (to the usual right-wing attempt to naturalise tribalism) that the same applied to siblicide, so he owed us an explanation for his apparent avoidance of it.

Mamdani will force wealthy men to pay tithes to support almshouses which will shelter the destitute, and also to open their houses and give food freely to everyone in their area unable to work through age or illness or disability

Mamdani will implement sumptuary law. Ladies will have to carefully measure how many ounces of gold are in their girdles, and wearing pearls on hats will be banned except for wives or courtesans of foreign mercenaries.

I did a study abroad in Greece in undergrad and a classics grad student chaperoned us; he has been an undergrad in Texas and told there, as he related once, that the best way to translate μέλλω + infinitive was "fixin' to". This was long before I thought to study Greek but it stuck with me

I am currently out of the philosophy department on parental leave. if this inquiry is about classes for next semester, please email the chair of the department. if your inquiry is about the nature or existence of the external world, please consult René Descartes' work

everybody gangsta until they see the poasts

lol she got his ass and he knows it

It’s come to this: ppl of decency, of all faiths, must rely on murderer & dismemberer of Jamal Khashoggi to obtain justice for Pals & real, meaningful peace. IDK how we parse this morally, but what better options are there? More genocide & forever war? It’s enough to want to live on deserted island…

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This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

The high court in Johannesburg has ordered an anti-migrant vigilante group to stop blocking foreigners from entering government health facilities and schools, actions it said were unconstitutional.

I did a seminar on non-fiction publishing this week and felt very old explaining that I wasn't even on public social media when my first book came out, and that I joined Twitter in 2012 because my US publisher recommended it.

A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect maps.nls.uk/view/218516888

Frank Kitson proposed the resegregation of Anglican services in Emergency Nairobi. I'm surprised trads haven't argued for resegregation—you can imagine them offering "visible Latino descent is strong defeasible evidence of violation of immigration law obstinate enough to constitute mortal sin".

it's funny that even after decamping to here, leftCaths still manage to live rent free in the zoomer integralist mind

Mamdani is going to implement Shalamar law. He’s going to make it a night to remember

Milan remain very good value for the scudetto: they've kept pace with the leaders while Pulisic and Leão were injured; all the other contenders have European football well into the new year.

Seeing a Successor of the Apostles refuse to stand up for the wrongfully imprisoned, the orphans, the widows the poor, the homeless, and the defrauded workers, many who are practitioners of his own religion:

Yet Bishop Barron can’t find a criticism of an administration that permits this. And Bishop Barron is an honorable man.

Samia Suluhu Hassan ran all but unopposed in Tanzania’s presidential elections on 29 October. The only surprise came from the streets when protests broke out. Under the cover of an internet blockade, security forces met the protesters with force. Our readers recount what they saw.

Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon

With shepherds like this, who needs wolves?

"More stubbornly refused to accept Henry’s twisted truth, and chose death, when he could so easily have returned to Chelsea, to his children and grandchildren, and his books."

My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them—as steps—to climb beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw the sandwich after he has eaten some of it.) - Wittgenstein

How to Do Things with Condiments - JL Austin

is a sandwich a speech act

New online: Nikhil Pal Singh on Zohran Mamdani. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

A nice review by Christopher Moore of Malcolm Schofield’s collection of essays on Plato. “But owning and reading through the whole book has the salutary effect of re-enchanting the study of Plato.” ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/how-...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome today to honor the memory of Pope Francis. "I came to him because I cannot forget what he did for Palestine and its people," he said. Tomorrow morning he will be in a private audience with Pope Leo.

INVIGORATED by the appearance, in Brooklyn, on my phone, of someone's wifi being called "Routers of Rohan"

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

Good to see the referee book Alonso for his views on personal taxation there at the end.

Agnes Crawford visits the Palazzo Farnese in Rome to admire the frescoes of Annibale Carracci – and from today you can see the drawings for its magnificent ceiling at the Louvre

Zohran quoted Nehru's Tryst with Destiny speech and it wasn't even his best line.

As a four-time immigrant who has learned how much you have to leave behind -- and how meaningful the things you can still hold on to are -- I was particularly happy to review Bee Wilson's new book about kitchen objects and the stories they tell. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/b...

Socialism: our style is impetuous, our defense is impregnable. we want to win hearts and minds, we want to feed your children (for free at school). praise be to Allah

New Mboya bio out soon, btw

With Mamdani's win, all of politics is East African politics

Tax & Spend discontinuednotes.com/2025/11/04/b...

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

Today I joined a @churchofengland.org delegation to attend a Mass in St Peter’s Square, during which Saint John Henry Newman was declared the 38th Doctor of the Church. The second British person, after The Venerable Bede, to be conferred this special title. youtu.be/BZNwSlSCEZA