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"Nearly all autobiographies fail because the genre requires total honesty, and not only do few writers have the stomach for turning the razor on themselves, most still have one eye on future job offers...you’re usually reading a résumé, not a book."

Amida Falls in the Depth of Kiso Road, from A Tour of Japanese Waterfalls, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

#ukiyoe #woodblockprint

How "Tea" (चाय cāy Chai) became the favorite drink in the Indian subcontinent?

"people will say, 'Well, he may have treated his children, wives, friends terribly, but look at the novels, the poems, the paintings.' I think it’s a terrible equation...if the art legitimates cruelty, I think the art is not worth having."

Superb interview with the head of UK’s vaccine program- a former VC. She outlines how a VC mindset rather than a standard govt procurement mindset is what was required here. Lots for GoI to learn

This YT channel is a gem. 💎

“Tea must be universally renounced . . . and the sooner the better,” wrote John Adams, enroute to the first Continental Congress in 1774. Patriotic Americans agreed and embraced coffee as their favorite drink.

Happy Birthday, Dieter Rams! To celebrate this legendary designer turning 89, I'm streaming my documentary "Rams" free today worldwide.

Watch it here, free:

It's streaming now until 3pm EST tomorrow. Spread the word, and wish Dieter Happy Birthday. 🎂🎉

Hindu and Māori people, communities still connected to their timeless roots had a get-together at Apumoana Marae. If this kind of harmony and respect for each other's traditions existed in the more recent religions, the world would be a very peaceful place

@shrikanth_krish Absolutely. I wrote a note about this on @NotesOnLiberty

99% of the time it’s not worth screenshotting. This is the 1%.

Look how explicit it is: retaliation unless you submit to their pre-written narratives!

Founders, you need not be threatened anymore by media corporations.

Just block them and go direct.

@ShriramKMurthi That's an interesting title:

Showed it to the kid, now she knows what a scientific Journal is..

Quite happy to see the excellent set of papers in the JFP special issue on effects & handlers that @andrejbauer and I co-edited: . Many thanks to the authors, and the JFP editors-in-chief @jer_gib and @ShriramKMurthi for their guidance.

Sri Lankans began planting jackfruit trees to gain food self-sufficiency during British rule, and they’ve since helped islanders avoid starvation.

The OCaml compiler saw a huge jump in contributors after moving to GitHub, and the effect has persisted.

Source:

Making a vaccine isn't a sourdough recipe, but it's easy to crap on other people's hard work that's keeping you alive. People crap on Moderna and Pfizer while forgetting Sanofi, Glaxo, and Merck tried to bring a vaccine to market in 2020: all three failed.

Tool kit ....for drinking water security plan for villages .

Merck was responsible for bringing the Ebola vaccine to market but couldn't succeed with their COVID effort. Now they're in talks to replicate the J&J vaccine.

You Aren't Actually Mad at the SATs great that communist freddie says it. doesn't matter. freddie focuses on liberals broadly, but phd scientists with advanced stats backgrounds refuse to understand conditioning in the collider.

they want to believe

When we eliminate effort, we eliminate life’s pleasures.

"The honest competitor understands that while luck affects outcomes, it doesn’t affect effort. So he learns to take his pleasure from the daily grind."

@dhume @shrikanth_krish (1/n) "Separation of Powers" in global legal history: evidence from Indian Knowledge Systems seen alongside 'The Crown and the Courts' and 'The First Constitution'

@vakibs

@dhume @shrikanth_krish @vakibs (2/n) Eurocentrism and more in the 21st century: the case of 'Suum cuique tribuere (Ancient Rome, c.1000 BC–AD 565)' and 'A New History of Dharmaśāstra'

interesting

@compay this is a quick video (30s) on the "spiral out" motion to spread the batter:

The Church's crusade against cousin-marriage did not create the Western nuclear family, by @policytensor wow. this is really a really impressive post

Google paid Apple around $10bn last year to be the default search engine in Safari (which has around 60% of US mobile web traffic).

Phew! From:

A very interesting article on implications of the airborne nature of #COVID19. Ensuring ventilation in enclosed spaces may matter more than any other measure we are taking. 1/n

@btbytes chechen town Grozny 'liberated' by russians

google "Grozny 1995" (safari does not give direct link to googled page...)

like this:

@asc89 @freemarketUP @sura_puli @Frankisalegend1 @dylanhead94 @Scoundrelmonk @lataa_si @RSinghggnalways @12notout yes. It is not bimodal now, but might become so. @danluu has a good article -

The stunning plumage of the male Himalayan monal, which is the national bird of Nepal. @hbdchick @EPoe187

@btbytes Surprised as aussies were masters of “mental disintegration”
we have come a long way😎

pledge() and unveil() are gradually being adopted by operating systems other than OpenBSD:

@prathgodbole @btbytes @omarali50

@vjgtweets @btbytes @omarali50 Not quite royal family but aristocracy nonetheless.

This is his father-in-law

Unreal. I've always wondered how ransomware gangs converted bitcoin ransom payments to fiat. For a fee of 4%, this Russian exchange insider does anonymous cash drop-offs. Suggested cash-out amount is $1 million, which weighs 10 kg.

Source: ht @smdiehl

@dhruvabatni see

@sashachapin How to take a walk -

@elisa_freschi Or try

Ever want to read a vampire novel and learn a new database at the same time? Now you can!

Introducing Easy EdgeDB — an illustrated ebook that teaches EdgeDB through the process of designing a hypothetical video game for Bram Stoker's Dracula. 🧛‍♂️📖🚀

Calbright College, a new online public college in California, was finally audited.

The results? It has soaked up $175 million in public funds and graduated a grand total of twelve students.

Hi @anniecorreal: #Robbinsville allegations are serious. And until we have details, note:
-@BAPS is a large Hindu sampradaya (religious tradition)-not a 'sect'
-Alleging dual loyalty of American Hindus to Indian politics is a common Hinduphopic trope
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#AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Boston, Miami, and Houston -

@btbytes @calm_sutra Try ಮಾಡಿ - ಬೇರೆ ರುಚಿ