ThePolymathicSpree

This is snake-handling 101. The snake-handlers believe snakes can be deadly. But they also need you to be in awe of their faithful handling, to confer authority upon them as the special, spiritually gifted guarantors of Snake Safety/Governance. Fear, fascination, and protection reinforce each other.

If you lived through Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond you would not be counting McConnell as gone. No ancient Egyptian fluid preserved bodies as well as Southern GOP Senator bigot fuel.

Each connected pay toilet will be called a Galt John

The disciples, reporting back after crowd asks for less of the fish.

For Thiel and Sacks it was encountering Black students at Stanford (who among other things didn't have to go back to a different sector of the Bay Area at night) and for Thiel the divestment movement on campus. "The subhumans are coming for me" has been his guiding light ever since.

I'm going to have to reread three Murakami novels to restore working vision to my eyes.

There are so many Summers stories beyond Epstein, Harvard community is just too dysfunctional and too afraid of its own involvement to have them come out. Could almost be a yearly Best American Larry Summers Stories edited volume.

"Joyful rigor" captures so much of what tech's approach to language, writing, interaction, and, nauseatingly, imminent "erotica" flees: intimacy, patience, care, how joy and suffering are each other's consorts not enemies.

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.