On n'a jamais donné aux simples d'esprit autant de pouvoir qu'au XXIème siècle.
Naguib Mechawar
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The bookish neuroscientist ™
Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading Jeff Biggers on the Legacy of a Little-Known Writer on the 100th Anniversary of Her Prize lithub.com/remembering-... Books by Grazia Deledda @ PG www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature #nobelprize
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced next week. No chatter about it this year. I wonder why.
I predict that bookshops and libraries will soon have a "Pre-AI" section. The only section I'll visit.
Produit sublime de la créativité et de l'intelligence naturelles.
Whatever happened to nanotechnology? That was supposed to be really big. Also blockchain. Blockchain was definitely going to change everything. Most universities were meant to have disappeared by now because MOOCs. I wonder why we are not a bit humbler about predictions and technology.
Visited the Austrian 'Literaturmuseum' again yesterday, not least to check out the Thomas Bernhard exhibit again www.onb.ac.at/en/museums/l... There's an 'Ohrensessel' he designed on display, and you can sit on it. It is ridiculously uncomfortable, and not only because it is so low.
Je me demande ce que l'IA pense du troisième lien. #LesVraiesAffaires
The wonderful Svetlana Alexievich, unlocked in @parisreview.bsky.social . Read my friends, read: www.theparisreview.org/letters-essa...
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen
We were newlyweds. We still walked around holding hands, even if we were just going to the store. I would say to him, “I love you.” But I didn’t know then how much. I had no idea … We lived in the dor...
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From the look of things, I'm the only academic in the country who's not in the Royal Society of Canada.
Glad to learn that climate change won't wipe out humanity (BECAUSE A.I. WILL TAKE CARE OF IT FIRST).
Fiction is “the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease”, Edith Hope observes in Hotel du Lac. But which Anita Brookner novel should the ill-at-ease try first? My guide to her some of her best books, for @thebookerprizes.com:
Where to start with Anita Brookner: a guide to her best books | The Booker Prizes
Anita Brookner was a prolific writer and a master of both comedy and tragedy. Over the course of 28 years, she wrote 24 novels, winning the Booker Prize in 1984 with Hotel du Lac. But where should you...
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Michael Shallcross@michaelshallcross.bsky.social · 3w agoFascinating 15min audio interview with Muriel Spark from 1993, done to promote her memoir, 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑚 𝑉𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑒, discovered by scouring the endnotes of @drjamesbailey.bsky.social's excellent 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝐶𝑎𝑡 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝐵𝑖𝑟𝑑: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑘.
"Dante, for once, could you please not ramble about Beatrice over dinner?! My parents are coming over."
His name was Dante Alighieri, but people called him Dante because he was half-Brazilian.
This brought me joy. mehttps://youtube.com/watch?v=GTsgGu-9kIs
Anita Brookner on Art - 100 Great Paintings (BBC)
YouTube video by Culture Vulture Rises
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« C'est arrivé, cela peut donc arriver de nouveau : tel est le noyau de ce que nous avons à dire. » Primo Levi
Ce livre vient de dépoussiérer mes goûts littéraires! Je suis désormais un grand fan de Catherine Dufour.
"Je ne suis pas, messieurs, de ceux qui croient qu'on peut supprimer la souffrance en ce monde ; la souffrance est une loi divine ; mais je suis de ceux qui pensent et qui affirment qu'on peut détruire la misère." - Victor Hugo (1849)
Against data centers? Wait till they start building anecdotes centers.
Péter Nadas, écrivain hongrois, auteur majeur et primé, est mort à l’âge de 83 ans
Péter Nadas, écrivain hongrois, auteur majeur et primé, est mort à l’âge de 83 ans
Grand écrivain contemporain de son pays, Peter Nadas est mort mercredi à 83 ans à son domicile, a annoncé son agente littéraire à l’AFP. Récompensé par plusieurs prix internationaux, il laisse une œuvre majeure traduite dans de nombreuses langues.
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International student visa applications and approvals, Canada 2022-2025. We're down 90% on where we were three years ago. Given that intl student fees brought in about $14B at their peak, we're looking at the potential loss by 2028 of $12B of PSE income (or about 16% of the total).
My headspace is filled with this evil and malicious blubbery white male. (I'm reading Moby Dick)
