Rose Mason
Autodidact historian, mostly central and eastern Europe
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"Why, said Montag slowly, 'we've stopped in front of my house.'"
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- trump and the oil industry can pull every lever they have to try to save the internal combustion engine but its king canute commanding the tides. the only question is whether killing ICE will also kill the US car industry, who are now already years behind China technologically.
- GM has a new battery chemistry it thinks will let it cut the cost of its electric pickups by around $6000. www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
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- This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur. Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur. (📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
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- I just checked on this, and indeed you're right. Thanks for that fun fact to know and tell!
- I refer to my local birds in Austin as "my little dinosaurs," but yes, this one definitely has a dinosaur look about it.
- New in PN: The new pope is latest sign that the world rejects Trumpism "Neither Pope Leo nor Mark Carney nor anyone else can save the US from what its own voters have done to it. But we all live in the same world, and any pushback against Trump is helpful and hopeful."
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- Whenever they use words like "woke" or ANY of their tropes, my 1st thought wd be to ask them in a calm, mild way, "I'm still unclear on what (name the word) means. Cd you please tell me so I'll understand?" The impoverishment of language necessarily leads to the impoverishment of thought. —Orwell.
- NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...
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- Moscow is offended by the German ultimatum and rejects it. Moscow, you have now 5h.
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- "That's the end of the discussion. You have now 28 minutes."
- The thing is: He didn’t just phrase this awkwardly - this guy’s view of the world is entirely shaped by eugenic ideas that he pairs with wild conspiracy theories. And then you have Oz talking about the “patriotic duty” to be healthy… Eugenics and aggressive nationalism - down that path lies evil.
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- I guess we now know how Vance became VP.
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