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Hot take: Scarlatti (Domenico) is on par with Chopin youtu.be/LnRzeT8t5ZY

Though this doesn't apply to music in the same way as the visual arts because music is almost entirely abstract. Not much about music is obvious or intrinsic beyond basic consonance/dissonance & the grounding of melody in the human voice.We are all trained in one idiom or another

Stunning to look at Europe today: if China sells us ultra cheap sollar panels effectively subsiding our energy transition that’s the threat of autocracy. If the US uses coercion and blackmail to sink our economies that’s working together

Beauty is obvious. Ugliness comes with a lecture.

"Hallucination" is unacceptable marketing-speak for the shit language models excrete

this, arrests over speech, continued construction bans-but-in-name, superinjunction stuff, inability to maintain basic order while still collecting high income tax, all with both-main-parties support has almost entirely delegitimised the state for me x.com/mayaofspring/s…

Paradox: when I feel listless I make a to-do list to try to give myself a bit more energy. But I still feel listless afterwards, even though I objectively now have a list

The literary depth and disciplined reading habits of early 20th-century miners easily surpass those of many contemporary students, including some with English degrees.

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I weep to see the Britain that produced David Hume, Adam Smith, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, the birthplace of classical liberalism as we know it, reduced to this. There is none of that spirit any more

In Didsbury no less

I've met at least two very strong math/physics people for whom the humanities may as well be from outer space. Though one of them can write well enough, has enoguh vocabulary etc. to probably do well in a class. I have heard this sentiment directly from the other one