#Autonomous

There's a persistent idea in modern historiography that there were no "individuals" in the Middle Ages (you know, "artists were just craftsmen that's why they didn't sign the altarpieces they
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Ending #Failoverconf is @jpaulreed saying hi to his mom and maybe talking about Resilience Engineering Resilience gets convoluted because there’s a lot of “R” words that tend to get intermixed
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When I look at my own intellectual and moral trajectory, I find my values mostly unchanged, but my models of political and historical reality changed dramatically between 20 and 40.
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My first impression of Watch Dogs 2's writing is that they *understood* the words they were saying—which is more than you can say for most media about the internet—but lacked
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Breathing is a function that is both conscious and unconscious. Only we as humans can breathe consciously. Breath is the bridge between physiological processes and our other koshas. I find
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"...one of the many crimes of capitalism’s terraformers – besides incubating coronaviruses by destroying biodiversity – is their theft of untold proletarian sex hours via the imposition of work, &
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1/An updated look at what’s happening with Sweden’s approach, starting with below from 2 days ago.Ambassador @OlofsdotterK had predicted late April that Stockholm could reach herd immunity sometime in May.
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As the son of two ministers and brother/cousin of several more ministers - today’s announcement puts an immense amount of pressure on leaders, specifically Baptist leaders.Here’s how that works. 1/?
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IMPORTANT: This email shows that #France never stopped trying to get what it sees as its share of #Libya since 2011https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12900 Also this from 2 months into #Libya uprising against
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1/ A month ago, I landed a full-time PM offer @Microsoft based on competence, not credentials.I had a very unusual path to PM, but I’m humbled by how much I’ve
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Zhao Nanqi 趙南起 (Korean: Cho Nam-gi) ethnic Korean 3 star general of China. He was born Cheonju, southern Korea under Japanese Occupation in 1927. Migrated w family to Manchuria in
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Do the #Kurds wanna hear really important information about Iraqi #Kurdistan?#TwitterKurds I'll say it in a group chat. I don't wanna waste my time with trolls. So if any of
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The Ancient Biafran KingdomThe kingdom of Biafra is estimated to have existed around the 10th Century and ended toward the begining of Slave trade in the Region.The kingdom is bounded
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It’s often said that you can’t change other people, meaning you can’t force them to show up for themselves in the relationship. You can’t make them with through their shit.
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You've hopefully read @jonathanliew's brilliant article on the silence re Pakistanis in the IPL. ()I've been digging into this the last few weeks. Spoke to the PCB. (Tried) to speak
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When @Anandwrites criticized our obsession with freedom, he sparked a knee-jerk response. But "freedom" is an essentially contested concept. It means very different things to the slaveholder & the slave—and
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