why use many word when few word do trick?

Recent publications have not yet passed the test of time.

Imagine being sanctioned for trying to read books.

This assumes that culture and academia work hand in hand, which is just in line with many right-wing conspiracies and plain wrong.

This is interesting. They really can’t keep you locked forever.

>released from prison after a decade

>Tommy Thompson, 73

No not _forever_ :)

This link said that his contempt violated a plea agreement and that’s why they were able to hold him longer than the standard limit of 18 months.

https://apnews.com/article/tommy-thompson-gold-coins-shipwre...

Which is such bull. His guilty plea was about missing a hearing, and they kept him indefinitely on another accusation

> If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland.

On one hand the author recognizes the scope of the “protocol wars” as a rational thing being irrelevant in the actually relevant time span. On the other hand, the author swears that they can bring rationality to a deeply emotional matter through discourse.

you are aware that he doesn't actually believe that he "[...] could have convinced [..]"

it's a manner of speech

a instrument of telling a story

a way to express how completely absurd "US getting involved into Greenland" is for anyone who understands the land (geography/weather) and people even unrelated to geopolitical aspects like alienating allies

My argument stands whether the author meant to be read literally or not. Below the surface it’s still about the tension of rationality and irrationality within social settings.

There are no natives anymore. For some time, really. Honestly I don’t even think there ever were.

The last time the world had an intelligentsia of this magnitude, the Tsarist State fell.

It sounds like people are being paid to push Erlang for agentic stuff. Cool story, but if I end up feeling like I need to “return to the 20th century” for abstractions, I’ll just use Lisp.

This is the first thing that comes to mind. However I wonder if not only the “general” vocabulary can be anonymized but also the underlying concepts and references, because they point to a particular place too.