7. Orville Wright Was Still Alive When Hiroshima And Nagasaki Were Bombed (1945)
— Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) July 11, 2025
Orville was alive when planes were used to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Wilbur died from typhoid fever in 1912, but Orville lived long enough to give an interview expressing… pic.twitter.com/RNnYqqCfcQ
Something to think about on this beautiful Saturday morning
— Paddy McKenna (@paddymacc1) July 12, 2025
In 1976, Ireland had a three-month-long heatwave, and the world didn't end pic.twitter.com/d8tZJbb9bn
8. Oxford University Existed For Hundreds Of Years Before The Aztec Empire Was Founded (1428)
— Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) July 11, 2025
Historians consider 1428 to be the first year of the Aztec Empire, which ruled the Valley of Mexico until 1521. Oxford University in England, believe it or not, is actually hundreds of… pic.twitter.com/KeMzXI9e16
My brother owns a DeLorean.
— PUNS (@ThePunnyWorld) July 10, 2025
He drives it from time to time
This is the thing that is lost. Because the media class almost universally uses paid childcare--a nanny or institutional daycare--they assume that it's universal among parents of young kids. https://t.co/a5VPbD3IxL
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) July 11, 2025
Map of Alexandria, from 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-90), c.1572 pic.twitter.com/MhzycQTZYI
— Vintage Maps (@vintagemapstore) July 11, 2025
I'm not defending the way Bondi handled the PR on Epstein, as it was abysmal, but please keep this in mind:
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) July 11, 2025
The DOJ has been handling all of the Democrat judge-shopping lawfare with absolute skill and precision, masterfully defending Trump's policies while giving the Dems and…
Four years ago a donkey named Diesel went missing in Wyoming. He's now part of an elk communitypic.twitter.com/NVUCxlKb9g
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 27, 2025
Grandma is the sweetest! Her grandson caught her making sure all the burners were off.. always looking out for her familypic.twitter.com/iCpOL7XRAR
— Wolf of X (@tradingMaxiSL) July 11, 2025
new york city is just as much a post-industrial place as anywhere in the rust belt, but besides economic historians and old union activists, very few people intuitively think of new york city that way. i guess the difference is that the services "hand off" actually happened pic.twitter.com/ANRja1FG4R
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) July 10, 2025
A sleeping antelope incised on rock up to 10,000 years ago at Tin Taghirt, Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria pic.twitter.com/ui7xilW82g
— Oğuz Pancar (@opancaro) July 9, 2025
G.K. Chesterton, evergreen reminder pic.twitter.com/2m7jo8s2ow
— Istra of Glome (@tillwehvfaces) July 10, 2025
Crocodile's eyes are an engineering marvel: They are protected by a third eyelid, can track different targets, are retractable in battle, and can even see at night.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) July 10, 2025
📽: Smithsonian Channelpic.twitter.com/0MofjcWc9r
I like it better that way... pic.twitter.com/nf9CYxAVEJ
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) July 10, 2025
Actually, big 5 gets substantially more predictive if you use other-ratings as opposed to self ratings. Basically, ask a close acquaintance to fill out the survey on the subject’s behalf. This also makes big 5 traits much more heritable. https://t.co/w1wa1D9KxS pic.twitter.com/aQg43QulBO
— Hunter Ash (@ArtemisConsort) July 10, 2025
Today, New Orleans is smaller, poorer and more unequal than before the storm. It hasn’t rebuilt a durable middle class, and lacks basic services and a major economic engine outside of its storied tourism industry.The core problem was the inability to turn abundant resources into a clear vision backed by political will. Federal dollars were funneled into a maze of state agencies and local governments with clashing priorities, vague metrics and near-zero accountability. Billions went to contractors and government consultants while public institutions such as schools, transit, health care and housing barely scraped by. For example, one firm, ICF International, received nearly $1 billion to administer Road Home, the oft-criticized state program to rebuild houses.[snip]Today New Orleans ranks near the bottom among major U.S. cites for G.D.P. per capita and is one of the nation’s weakest employment markets. Its population is roughly 23 percent smaller than it was in 2000, with about 37 percent fewer Black residents. Economic output per person lags the national average, and while the city has seen modest recent job gains, job growth remains uneven and slow overall.[snip]Meanwhile, basic city functions remain unreliable — streets flood in routine storms and drainage systems fail. Housing costs keep climbing — a paradox in a city with stagnant population growth.
America needs to stop treating recovery as a one-time event. Cities are not machines to be fixed and forgotten. They are living systems that need sustained investment and constant evolution. That requires vision and talent, not just funding.
Everyone credits AC, but here's another reason the south started booming only post-war: it was full of malaria for centuries.
— Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban) July 10, 2025
The issue was not seriously tackled until FDR established the Office of Malaria Control, which later became the CDC. They eliminated the disease in 1951. pic.twitter.com/bZReRG2EjQ
Of course, this kind of argument is more normal in human history than the kind of policy debates we take for granted. Writing, a late invention, enables a level of systemization that is impossible in oral cultures. Which makes me wonder what the world looks like if reading…
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 8, 2025
The view from the surface of a Comet, an alien landscape captured by the Rosetta spacecraft during its visit to Comet 67P.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) July 10, 2025
📽: ESA/Rosetta/landru79 pic.twitter.com/oFtFql7jz9
... the number of journalists working in the US has dropped by more than 75% since the start of the century — from 40 journalists for every 100,000 residents to just 8.2 journalists now. https://t.co/oHoMFI99qz
— Michael Kruse (@michaelkruse) July 10, 2025
Everyone credits AC, but here's another reason the south started booming only post-war: it was full of malaria for centuries.
— Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban) July 10, 2025
The issue was not seriously tackled until FDR established the Office of Malaria Control, which later became the CDC. They eliminated the disease in 1951. pic.twitter.com/bZReRG2EjQ
Unpopular communication advice:
— Lulu Cheng Meservey (@lulumeservey) July 26, 2025
The best way for women in tech to be taken seriously is to talk more about tech, talk less about being women
You don’t see Gwynne Shotwell navel-gazing about being in a male dominated field. When she talks, it’s about space
Emilie Choi is one of… https://t.co/uBPb5bRGkB
In the remote desert of Libya’s Tadrart Acacus lies a geological enigma known as the “Valley of the Planets.” Among its most striking features are the peculiar disc-like boulders scattered across the landscape, resembling ancient relics from another world. These smooth, flat rock… pic.twitter.com/g2l2TSLwdB
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) July 10, 2025
"When I was a child, they told me children are our future. Then I grew up and now they're saying it's actually these new children. I know a Ponzi scheme when I see one."
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 8, 2025
--Norm MacDonald https://t.co/iLH9a0MSTm
The kind of vignette that makes history come alive. I had never thought about this, but, once told of it, of course would have worked out that way. https://t.co/8AjBZeuFJA
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) July 10, 2025
Virtus vincit omnia — “Virtue (courage) conquers all” pic.twitter.com/CPH6aCHv74
— Learn Latin (@latinedisce) July 10, 2025
A stars massive outburst captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) July 11, 2025
📽: NASA/ESA pic.twitter.com/voHpFpinD7
You may be really cool but are you Ashurbanipal waging battle with a writing device tucked in his belt so he can bust out some Cuneiform after destruction cool? pic.twitter.com/lokENc2aPz
— Erik Rostad (Books of Titans) (@booksoftitans) July 9, 2025
Percentage of European Adults Over 15 Who Smoke
— Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) July 9, 2025
France really living up to its stereotype here.
Which country surprises you the most (either higher or lower)?
Stats for all countries in the world: https://t.co/iAXnSgr2jA pic.twitter.com/tFmUvh05YX
Thanks to ecclesiastical estates & monks' account management, there is more quantitative information about farms in the high middle ages than any time until a modern census is taken. (below England, from Broadberry et al) pic.twitter.com/zRoPsa18qN
— Pseudoerasmus (@pseudoerasmus) July 9, 2025
Some Rules for Revealing LiesEducation can be a daunting task, leaving most wondering where to start. One place would be to familiarize yourself with the five rules on scams and hoaxes, which I wrote about in an article about how to spot fraudulent or politicized science. These rules, listed below, are applicable to more than just science, but also to human nature in general, especially to large populations.Rule 1: Follow the money!Rule 2: The truth does not mind being questioned, while lies cannot stand being challenged.Rule 3: The truth remains stable, while lies can shift precipitously.Rule 4: The government is always going to get it wrong, partially if not wholly.Rule 5: There are no coincidences in large-scale, man-involved events.
If European women start realising how dangerous and anti-woman mass immigration is, and it becomes socially acceptable for them to be against mass immigration, it could start an enormous preference cascade. A tipping point after which European politics will never be the same. https://t.co/SHP29YFnCQ
— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen) July 9, 2025
Common Baron caterpillars are camouflage experts like no other.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 10, 2025
They quite literally become one with the leaf.pic.twitter.com/tjgBZfgY09
Gold medal dad right here y’all. pic.twitter.com/ASgvd8gWHq
— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) July 7, 2025
Retraction rates: China vs OECD pic.twitter.com/tbxLWRd8cA
— Science of Science (@MishaTeplitskiy) July 9, 2025
What allowed the @USNavy to operate across the tyranny of distances! https://t.co/EMh8Sib3YQ
— Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️ (@mercoglianos) July 9, 2025
An archer fish can bring down insects and other prey up to 3 meters above the water's surface with super accurate shootingspic.twitter.com/av282WYtsh
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 10, 2025
At the age of 65 my Grandma started walking 10 kilometers a day.
— PUNS (@ThePunnyWorld) July 7, 2025
She’s 92 now and we have no idea where she is.
🚨🇦🇱 BREAKING: ALBANIA is no longer a Muslim-majority country, for the FIRST TIME since the 17th century.
— Legitimate Targets (@LegitTargets) July 8, 2025
This shift is accompanied by a rise in ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS. pic.twitter.com/quvs8FM6Tv
Military expenditure (as % of GDP) by world region since 1800 - @WIL_inequality https://t.co/rZmEd97zZK pic.twitter.com/fAgZtqvFlQ
— John O’Brien (@jlpobrien) July 8, 2025
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) July 8, 2025
- Carl Sagan pic.twitter.com/2jTIjIeq0L
He won a point in the under-8 TT championship. pic.twitter.com/fl07TdgjdS
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) July 10, 2025
'Vacations.'
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) July 7, 2025
The word is 'vacations.' pic.twitter.com/rPq4QINXmw
Remember that the entire purpose of Obamacare (passed in 2010) was supposedly to reverse this trend. pic.twitter.com/hVlIrzmBkP
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 7, 2025
Bourdieu was a prolific author, producing hundreds of articles and three dozen books, nearly all of which are now available in English. His best-known book is Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1979), in which he argues that judgments of taste are acts of social positioning. The argument is put forward by an original combination of social theory and data from quantitative surveys, photographs and interviews, in an attempt to reconcile difficulties such as how to understand the subject within objective structures.
confer status on the upper class at very little cost, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
250 years of Marine Corps rifles.🦅🌎⚓️
— 𝕃𝕚𝕖𝕦𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕥 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕝 ℙ 🪖 (@TheLtColUSMC) July 7, 2025
Which one did you start with?
How many have you fired—and which is your favorite?
I’ve got mine… do you? pic.twitter.com/vhGoVMpeVT
Res tantum, ecce, duas cupiunt puerique virique:
— Armand D'Angour (@ArmandDAngour) July 8, 2025
pulchras matronas militiaeque decus. https://t.co/kdmbcUkya7
'Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honour'
— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) July 9, 2025
Romans 12: 9-11 pic.twitter.com/DeyfgyGDWT
Are you being chewed on by an alligator or a crocodile? This map will help you answer this question. Source: https://t.co/uUwMAg2Ol2 pic.twitter.com/2Ac0duwD0G
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) July 7, 2025
Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.
Among the 'battle sarcophagi' that survive from the Roman world, none is stranger than the Portonaccio Sarcophagus, a remarkable creation of the 2nd cent. AD. Here, with as many questions as answers, is a picture-packed introduction to this unique object: https://t.co/iPkV28digV
— Antigone Journal (@AntigoneJournal) July 6, 2025
Marxism keeps returning over and over again because it’s the unacknowledged Jungian shadow of liberalism’s failure to provide meaning.
— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) July 7, 2025
And no matter how many times it fails economically, Marxism is never discredited for more than a generation at most because the point was never…
Class 57: The Second Best Model
— William M Briggs - Statistician to the Stars! (@FamedCelebrity) July 10, 2025
We want Pr(Y|X) where Y is a question about the world and X all/everything/in toto of what we assume is probative. That's not what we get usually. But we should! Here's why. pic.twitter.com/tD5y2nwtyK
New York Times realizing those crazy Jews would rather be alive and hated than dead and liked. pic.twitter.com/EePEZVw5Oj
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) July 7, 2025
African homicide rates are completely dubious
— Inquisitive Bird (@Scientific_Bird) July 7, 2025
That's what I argue in a recent piece. Consider, for example, Nigeria's homicide rate.
An organization that monitors homicides from news reports find >3x homicides than official counts, and household surveys suggest >10x. pic.twitter.com/1CEO0ThPqs
7. “Reason Is and Ought Only to Be the Slave of the Passions”One of the most notorious of Hume’s views about the passions concerns their relation to our practical reason. Hume locates our motivations in the passions. As noted in section 4, he treats the will in his discussion of the direct passions, identifying it as “the internal impression we feel and are conscious of, when we knowingly give rise to any new motion of our body, or new perception of our mind” (T II.3.1 399). If the will did not determine a person’s actions, we would have no way to trace those actions to their springs in character, which is the prerequisite for forming moral judgments.Hume is particularly concerned with analyzing our practical reasoning, our reasoning about how to act. Passions are the engine for all our deeds: without passions we would lack all motivation, all impulse or drive to act, or even to reason (practically or theoretically). This gives at least one sense in which “reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions” (T II.3.3 415). Hume also holds that the passions are not themselves directly subject to rational evaluation. In fact, it seems something of a category mistake to think that they could be either rational or irrational. Passions are impressions – strong and lively perceptions with a certain “feel” and a direction, or impulse. Reasoning, however, is a matter of connecting various ideas in order to come to a belief; it may apply to, or even form, the circumstances under which passions arise. But reason can generate no impulse by itself.On these grounds, many have attributed to Hume a belief-desire model of practical reasoning, in which our ends are given by passions (desires). On this view, reason is in the business of producing beliefs, but our beliefs are relevant only to the means by which we seek to obtain those ends: they do not determine the ends themselves. So, reason has only an instrumental use. But whatever its other virtues, this model does little to explain why reason “ought to be” the slave of the passions. It also seems inappropriate to reduce passions to desires: passions have a great deal more structure than their attractive or aversive directions, important though those may be. What seems central to Hume’s view is the inertness of reason, its inability to generate impulses for the mind (see Millgram 1995; for a different view that stresses the inertness of reason and representational states in general, see Radcliffe 2018). It is the inertness of reason that drives Hume to adopt a sentimentalist basis for the origins of our “moral distinctions” (T III.1.2).
Messengerby Mary OliverMy work is loving the world.Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird—equal seekers of sweetness.Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let mekeep my mind on what matters,which is my work,which is mostly standing still and learning to beastonished.The phoebe, the delphinium.The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.Which is mostly rejoicing, since all the ingredients are here,which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heartand these body-clothes,a mouth with which to give shouts of joyto the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,telling them all, over and over, how it isthat we live forever.
Gold & Ruby Signet Ring with Mesopotamian seal...
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) July 5, 2025
The origins of signet rings can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia around 3,000 BC. These early rings featured cylindrical seals and were typically made from materials like stone, clay, and metal and were often engraved with… pic.twitter.com/4zxzLtUOLi
Journalists don't like Occam's Razor, because it implies that events have more boring causes than the ones they'd like to write about.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) July 7, 2025
This is Nördlingen, a medieval city in Germany that’s been built on a Meteor crater. pic.twitter.com/FMqukmWrBD
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) July 8, 2025
Because every American has a private luxury carriage that runs on explosions. https://t.co/NqDeDFeGHj
— Foster (@foster_type) July 6, 2025
“Israel hates Christians!” - stupid people from planet Dumbass.
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) July 7, 2025
While, back in the real world:
📈 Israel’s Christian population: +414%
📉 Gaza, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon: catastrophic declines
When your enemies accuse you of something, always check what they’re doing. pic.twitter.com/0J86rYHug2
The 5,500-year-old Sumerian "Planifer"
— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) July 5, 2025
It depicts a star map for travelers. This is the kind of map the ancient supposedly "primitive" peoples had. pic.twitter.com/imeNIzKFp2
Funny to discover that people of the time - including David Hume and Edmund Burke - routinely referred to books like The Wealth of Nations as a 'performance'. Perhaps recognising that style and presentation do matter, hugely.
— Ben Cobley (@bencobley) July 6, 2025
Glass frogs are named after the transparent skin that makes their internal organs visible.pic.twitter.com/vQ1MtTMbEr
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) July 7, 2025
For most boys, the biggest missing "role model" is Dad.
— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) July 7, 2025
NYT acknowledging: "Growing up without a father at home, as 1-in-5 children do, particularly disadvantages boys, several studies have shown."
My recent @UVA report w/ @IanVRowe @RichardvReeves concurs: https://t.co/Zcm9Q5tYvd pic.twitter.com/Hwf6IGzC5l
The engineering curriculum of Werner von Braun: https://t.co/VvLGeFMPUe pic.twitter.com/8SWaxPnleB
— DWOT Casualty (@DWOTCasualty) July 5, 2025
Hayek on Keynes’ short-sightedness pic.twitter.com/m5HYIf2Cpy
— F. A. Hayek Quotes (@FAHayekSays) July 5, 2025
The discovery of a medieval axe with its preserved wooden handle on the island of Ledniczka in Poland 🇵🇱 is an exceptional archaeological find. While metal artifacts often survive the passage of centuries, organic materials like wood rarely endure, making this particular axe a… pic.twitter.com/iTyNLpVV7y
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) July 5, 202
You can expand up (or densify) or you can expand out. https://t.co/lEP0uM3Nc1
— Xenocrypt (@xenocryptsite) July 6, 2025
His name was Anton.
— Afshine Emrani MD FACC (@afshineemrani) July 4, 2025
The townspeople of Zborow, Poland called him “the village idiot.”
No family. No friends. He lived alone in a crumbling shack on the edge of town—forgotten by the world.
But when the Nazis came in July 1941 and slaughtered 1,000 Jewish men, then herded the… pic.twitter.com/sAiSOLo1JV
‘Parents are not interested in producing the “complete man” any more. They want to qualify their boys for jobs in the modern world. You can hardly blame them, can’t you?’
— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) July 4, 2025
‘Oh, yes,’ said Scott-King. ‘I can and do.’
Evelyn Waugh, Scott-King’s Modern Europe pic.twitter.com/A3ot8wTdga
The Cave of the Swimmers features 8,000-year-old depictions of human figures seemingly floating or swimming in the middle of the Sahara Desert pic.twitter.com/evAqp2Jl2j
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) July 5, 2025
Never forget the hard work Ben Franklin did to secure French funding for the Revolution. Ben Franklin’s Belles, by Norman Rockwell. pic.twitter.com/LyqFW8FleJ
— Hernan Cortes (@CyberPunkCortes) July 4, 2025
During the last 1 million years the average glacial cycle lasted 92,900 years & the average interglacial period was 18,200 years. The interglacial temperature rose on average 13.5C (global data). The average glacial period, or period of freezing, lasted about 74,700 years from… pic.twitter.com/0SBATfmpmW
— Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) July 4, 2025
Opium was widely used for food, medicine, ritual, and as a painkiller throughout ancient civilizations...
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) July 4, 2025
The opium poppy is a plant that has its origin in the prehistoric Mediterranean. A fossilized cake of poppy seeds and opium fruit dating as far back as 4,000 BC was… pic.twitter.com/ajMPWqpoOD
The Battle of Marathon in 490 BC was part of first Persian invasion of Greece. The battle was fought on the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica and marked the first blows of Greco-Persian War....
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) August 30, 2025
With the Persians closing in on the Greek capital, Athenian general Miltiades… pic.twitter.com/3n4d93NxQS
The recent European heatwave had no impact on global temperatures, but a huge one on alarmist news media. The severe cold spell in South America has caused global temperatures to plummet to 0.5°C cooler than in January, though this is not as newsworthy.https://t.co/1rt2oluj92 pic.twitter.com/KURglZUW6S
— Javier Vinós (@JVinos_Climate) July 5, 2025
Most people visit Rome for the Colosseum or the Vatican.
— Culture Explorer (@CultureExploreX) July 5, 2025
But Rome is a city of cathedrals.
And these 18 churches aren’t just places of worship, they’re where architecture, power, and beauty collided to shape Western civilization.
You won’t believe #3 and #4. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/xaMRmucVOq
Sorry Comrades „Economists“, free market works, and it works really fast. https://t.co/H49g2wKCwQ pic.twitter.com/2Sycm09Tfw
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) July 5, 2025
MACBETH Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?Was he not born of woman? The spirits that knowAll mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of womanShall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,false thanes,And mingle with the English epicures:The mind I sway by and the heart I bearShall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
At Wang Ch’ang-ling’s Retreatby Chang Chien
Translated by Witter Bynner
Here, beside a clear deep lake.You live accompanied by clouds;Or soft through the pine the moon arrivesTo be your own pure-hearted friend.You rest under thatch in the shadow of your flowers.Your dewy herbs flourish in their bed of moss.Let me leave the world. Let me alight, like you.On your western mountain with phoenixes and cranes.
My favorite edits:
— Lulu Cheng Meservey (@lulumeservey) July 4, 2025
- changed “a people” to “one people”
- changed “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable” to “We hold these truths to be self-evident”
Also, further down in the full draft, the word “subjects” is crossed out and changed to “citizens”
Just beautiful https://t.co/8HBnH8ZQag
Marcus Aurelius said this 2,000 years ago. It still holds up. pic.twitter.com/zCAVFeYQFT
— Seneca the Younger (@SenecaQuote) July 4, 2025
Greek Bronze Sphinx Figurine, Late Archaic, 5th Century BC. pic.twitter.com/oimNrDnqTp
— Ghost of Hellas (@ghostofhellas) July 4, 2025
Life expectancy has increased at every age in modern times, mostly thanks to curbing infectious disease. https://t.co/nBbb2A9IfX
— JayMan (@JayMan471) July 3, 2025
Legacy mainstream media unreliability.General English interpretation issues about things France.English and French language issues.The incident involves French Muslims threatening violence.
The screening was abruptly cancelled just before it was set to begin at 9 p.m., after a group of approximately 10 to 15 young residents from the neighborhood confronted and pressured city workers who were installing the equipment. According to Mayor Olivier Sarrabeyrouse (from the French Communist Party, or PCF), the group encircled the agents and issued verbal threats, stating something to the effect of: "If you install [the equipment], we will dismantle everything and put an end to your session." This implied potential physical disruption or damage to the setup, and the mayor described it as threats of violence against public service agents, noting that similar incidents had occurred in the same neighborhood in the past...
In Noisy-le-Sec, France, a planned outdoor screening of the Barbie movie was canceled due to threats from a group of young men who argued the film "promotes homosexuality" and "undermines the image of women". The incident, part of a free summer program, led to the mayor halting the event to ensure public safety. The cancellation sparked a national debate about cultural freedom and censorship.
Google Search AI is disintermediating legacy media in fact finding.
Grok AI is disintermediating legacy media in truth seeking.
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If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you.
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) August 14, 2025
I just learned that this defendant worked at the Department of Justice — NO LONGER. Not only is he FIRED, he has been charged with a felony.
This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven… https://t.co/l1jWVjLJPA
The @FBI arrested this individual last night.
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 14, 2025
He has been charged with felony assault on a federal officer. pic.twitter.com/GY2DBr9rUP
There’s no reason these things need to be in civilian hands. https://t.co/TSYkVcHqZN
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) August 14, 2025
Say you've gotten an idea for a thinkpiece. You've seen something on Twitter or read something in WaPo. It's made you Mad and given you a Big Idea about What's Wrong With the World. Probably it's the fault of Disembodiment or Disenchantment. It's certainly traceable to the Lack of Thick Community and is probably traceable to Nominalism.Sample: Young people aren't going on dates any more. William of Ockham's intellectual errors explain why.Here’s what you should do. Write down your hot take, briefly, and then put it aside. Demote it from Pitch or Take to Topic. It is not yet a Pitch. And your Take may be correct, but you don’t know that yet. Hold it as a hypothesis, however half-baked it is, but hold it lightly.And then ask yourself these questions. Write in response to them: names, phone numbers, addresses, and notes, paragraphs, other questions. These questions will not finish your piece for you. But, when you write in response to them, they will generate the ingredients that you will need to write something that is actual magazine journalism and has the chance to be good.1. Where is anything related to this physically happening? Can I go there?2. How can I test my hypothesis? If I were wrong, how would I know?3. What have some people who are wiser than me and who disagree with me and with each other said about this topic?4. Who has expertise in this topic?5. Who can I talk to who has been doing something practical related to this topic for more than three years?6. What scenes - as in a play - would illustrate this topic?7. What in my life makes me care about this topic?8. What is the most vivid personal anecdote that you can tell that would explain that?9. If I don’t have a vivid personal anecdote about this topic, who would? What is their anecdote?10. What secrets related to this topic can I find out?11. What statistics related to this topic can I track down?12. What institutions related to this topic exist and how can I get involved with them? (infiltration, interview, business records)13. Who has written about something related to this topic 50 years ago? 100? 500? 2300?14. What fiction or poetry has been written about this topic?15. What are counterexamples to the problem this stood out to me about this topic?16. What else is going on that might be a confounding factor: what affects this topic?17. Who can I talk to who has experienced the dire consequences of this topic, or other aspects of this topic, firsthand?18. What community can I visit where this topic is being suffered or countered? Who are the key people in that community?19. What adventure or caper can I go on to explore this topic?20. What historical parallels to this topic are there? Who are those people and what are those stories?21. What are the Golden Nugget quotes from interviews or other texts related to this topic that I almost certainly will want to include?22. Finally, for a Plough [Roberts' magazine] piece: How can what I have uncovered in this investigation help readers to live as though another life were possible?
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