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2025-06-19-17 Camus - distinguish melancholy from sadness
A `threads` gem from today: ber9ta : I steal time every morning > "Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and [...]

20250615 Tooze-chartbook
Bruno Leipold’s Citizen Marx presents a compelling, deeply researched, and elegantly written analysis of Marx’s relationship to republicanism, and it will no doubt become an important point of reference in future discussions about Marx’s thought.(1) [...]

2025-05-25 Westenberg - web as infrastructure
Joan Westenberg - May 24, 2025 a few excerpts: >... I think we're living through the same kind of transition right now, except instead of the telegraph disrupting newspapers, Al agents are disrupting the web. ... But Al agents are a new "user" type: [...]

From An Essay on Waiting
APAvar: Köhler, Andrea Year: 2017. _Passing Time : an Essay on Waiting_. Upper West Side Philosophers. Link: I am reading "An Essay on Waiting" by Andrea Köhler, and in a section called "The Lagoon of Dreams", [...]

David Roberts - narratives all the way down
David Roberts ‪@volts.wtf‬ May 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive [...]