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Sources of truth
Sources of truth
Robert Reich offers sources where one might find some truth.
#news#truth
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Sources of truth
Pinboard tags again
Pinboard tags again
The behavior of Pinboard tags has puzzled me . I use a Pinboard account to create public tags for Orange Crate Art posts. The tags are suppo...
#technology
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Pinboard tags again
Towne Branch subdivision
Towne Branch subdivision
I photographed this tree — I call it the Towne Branch subdivision — in fall 2020 and 2022 and again in fall 2...
#squirrels
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Towne Branch subdivision
Mystery actor
Mystery actor
I did not draw the glasses. Leave your guesses in the comments. I’ll drop a hint when I can if one is neede...
#film
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Mystery actor
MERCURY ALERT
MERCURY ALERT
I saw this warning, with a proper diamond orientation, at my post office. Prohibited, yes, with good reason. But I think the messenger god —...
#signage
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MERCURY ALERT
Street arithmetic
Street arithmetic
Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy is Bushmiller-like today in its transformation of things into other things: a crosswalk into equals signs, a street i...
#comics#Nancy
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Street arithmetic
Scam alert
Scam alert
A fruitful time for scammers, who hope to catch their victims off guard as packages fly or creep through the mails at year’s end.
#life
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Scam alert
An interview with Wyna Liu
An interview with Wyna Liu
From The Atlantic, an interview with Wyna Liu, editor of the New York Times puzzle Connections “The Most Controversial Game on the Internet.”
#words
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An interview with Wyna Liu
A third law
A third law
“If there was one law for the poor, who have neither money nor influence, and another law for the rich, who have both, there is still a third law for the public official with real power, who has more of both.”
#RobertCaro
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A third law
Talking about contingency
Talking about contingency
From A Man on the Inside: “Every great thing in your life, when you look back on it, feels like a miracle.”
#life#television
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Talking about contingency
Wittgenstein’s Private Notebooks 1914–1916
Wittgenstein’s Private Notebooks 1914–1916
The humanity on view in the Private Notebooks makes them worth reading, but if you haven’t read Wittgenstein, there are better places to start: The Blue and Brown Books and Philosophical Investigations. I’d liken the Notebooks to a multiple-CD set with a recording session’s every false start, breakdown, and alternate take: for completists only.
#notebooks#Wittgenstein
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Wittgenstein’s Private Notebooks 1914–1916
Gibson sues
Gibson sues
Good news: “Trump Guitars hit with cease and desist from Gibson over use of Les Paul body shape” (Guitar World ).
#guitar
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Gibson sues