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read some books 📚

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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 27/09/2026
specifically, resurgent interest in The Odyssey can only rightfully increase interest in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 27/09/2026
Hilda Doolittle (aka H.D.) needs a revival in readership
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 24/09/2026
I’m oddly compelled
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026
(middle aged man continues to read the newspaper): here’s another interesting fact. “OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278 billion over five years”. that means investors will be paying for OpenAI to actively degrade the so-called knowledge economy…
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026
I mean both views correct IMO and from different angles. Systemic racism and selfish familial neglect support — these two social phenomenon support each other
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
Even the most liberal person in the world can and often do use the racial makeup of a school as a proxy for the quality of that school for their kids. The mere fact they can even do that at *all* (and be correct most of the time) reminds you of the country we live in and its racist history.
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/09/2026
there’s a strong (let’s be grandiose) epistemic virtue in getting information slowly and steadily over time. I won’t elaborate now. I guess you’ll have to wait for it 😂
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
I think we OD on describing the bad shit people do so much we often neglect painting the picture of what does "good" look like because we just assume its obvious. Well, if it *was* obvious we wouldnt need this fuckin conversation 😂.
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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Does anyone know why human beings keep making these exact same mistakes? Because, burdened with the illusion of self, we are convinced that when the same shape of reasoning is wielded by ourselves, it must be more legitimate and amenable to these circumstances in some way. This is incorrect.
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 11/09/2026
guys let's all tear down all barriers between ourselves and the world and experience it all unmediated
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 11/09/2026
everybody lost their fucking mind this week
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 11/09/2026
shit getting more bizzare by the hour meanwhile autocorrect on my iPhone barely functions?
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 08/09/2026
🤣
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 05/09/2026
it takes one to know one
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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One day we'll find it remarkable and insane that humans thought that they could ever stop interpreting non-human complex behavior through human lenses, let alone the idea that such a thing would be more useful. (Compared to what? What's a non-anthropocentrically-derived idea of what "useful" means?)
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 22/08/2026
reading the I Ching is the same exercise as reading treasury bond market analysis 🐢
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 22/08/2026
James Joyce Ulysses is not on this website 😂
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/07/2026
moby-dick also needs to be a tv show and not a movie. if you aren't making the cetology chapter an entire hour-long episode you just don't have what it takes
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 21/07/2026
Seinfeld (to Odysseus in disguise): Oh! So you *are* the Sea People!
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 17/07/2026
I like the improvements in threading. this allows me to keep a more sustained conversation over a longer time frame, even if it’s just with myself. a useful social media ”hack” involves sustaining attention outside the medium so that you can come back with a solid orientation. keeps away nonsense
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 16/07/2026
I’ve been using my philosophy degree A PLENTY for work lately. ROI on that formerly useless paper positively skyrocketing 🚀
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Candy Chang @candychang.com · 12/06/2026
1,440 unique handwritten bits form a binary translation of Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi on the potentials and limitations of language. This is also how I obtained 3 months of back pain.
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 05/07/2026
guys let's all invent new english words to translate zhuangzi passages pretty
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 13/07/2026
What are you reading this week?
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 13/07/2026
I haven’t been on in a while. going to start with compliments. i love the hat + watch + glasses + ring + shirt combo in your profile pic @shimminykricket.blacksky.app
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 19/10/2025
People are different but not as remotely as different as many people want to believe.
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
My dad used to say this, so I have it on a post it note in my office. "May luck find you working."
May luck find you working.
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Do mathematicians rely on senses other than vision and hearing? 👉🏼 mathoverflow.net/questions/44...
mathoverflow.net
Do mathematicians rely on senses other than vision and hearing?
The senses of vision and hearing are commonly recognized as being important for the study of mathematics, with fields like geometry and topology relying heavily on vision, while algebra and number ...
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 05/10/2025
open.spotify.com/track/6eIfC6...
Coltrane adds: "I don't try to set standards of perfection for anyone else. I do feel everyone does try to reach his better self, his full potential, and what that consists of depends on each individual. Whatever that goal is, moving toward it does require vigilance." And as the performance shows, that vigilance is not without its tensions. Listening to Coltrane work through his own challenge may well stimulate self-confrontation in the rest of us. Each listener, of course, will himself be challenged in a different way. For many, the basic beginning will be that described by Don DeMichael in a Down Beat review of Coltrane: "This music... opens up a part of myself that normally is tightly closed, and seldom-recognized feelings, emotions, thoughts well up from the opened door and sear my consciousness.
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
If you don’t do anything else as a parent you’ve got to build up your children’s confidence. That is like the single most important thing for you to do.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 11/09/2025
Maya Angelou writing in bed, with a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bible. (1982)
black and white photo with a sepia tone of a woman dressed in dark clothing laying across her bed and writing in a journal; scattered across the bed around her are a variety of books.
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 03/09/2025
Stony Island Arts Bank! A Chicago treasure!
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I'm particularly pleased to have several sculptures from Mary Zehnder in the gallery for this show. A native Chicagoan, Zehnder studied briefly at the University of Illinois School of Art and Architecture when she was younger, but life got in the way. She returned to art later in life with aplomb.
A photo of a ceramic sculpture in a slender, limbless approximately human form, covered in warm natural tones with engraved patterns and an opening in the center in which a circular medallion-like extension of the piece rests.
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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 27/08/2025
At every level of this society, we just don’t value children enough.
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MOVED INSTANCES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @mothcompute.vixen.zone.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025
rust isnt special. you know what else is memory safe. a beautiful forest stream
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 26/08/2025
Lovestruck Books at Harvard Square is the most popular bookseller in town for the same reasons explained by Angelina Eimannsberger www.publicbooks.org/our-golden-a...
publicbooks.org
Our Golden Age of Reading (Online) - Public Books
There is an urgent need for new, more affirmative ways to participate in culture, especially against the ongoing systematic whiteness of publishing and the exclusivity of elite institutions.
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 22/08/2025
I like the prosody in Felix Klien’s explanation of Bürgi logarithms. He’s writing with purpose and with pride of his students and country in a time of (relative) peace in Europe ca. 1904
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Breddy Tidgewater @intelsebastian.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
May depend on how ambitious you want to be but I think for most people it’s healthier and more realistic to come to terms with the fact that you can’t really “waste” your life, it’s all just life. Just do good, try to make yourself happy and healthy and if you dont like something try to change it.
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 16/08/2025
I hadn’t thought of the visual and cultural connections between Basquiat artistic style and the signatures of Haitian loa until I saw this inset in Zora Neale Hurston “Tell My Horse” really obvious in retrospect
making the signature of Agoue’ta-Royo “Master of Waters”Basquiat painting “In Italian”
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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 12/08/2025
Everything the West brags about:“high living standards,” “freedom," “world-leading economies (GDP)", "happiness index", etc., is paid for by the plunder of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Every iPhone, every gallon of gas, every supermarket stocked to the ceiling: stolen labour & stolen resources.
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 11/08/2025
in case you’re wondering (you’re not) why Ishmael Reed calls out David Byrne as “invaluable in defusing some of the hysteria with which Neo-African religion has been relegated in the United States, a Protestant country” it’s because of Papa Legba youtu.be/u21-p4sTz4w
youtu.be
TRUE STORIES. Papa Legba
YouTube video by Wild Jerky
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 11/08/2025
“I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who suffocated our very breaths” — Anas Al Sharif in a posthumous message to be share in the event of his death
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 11/08/2025
Part of Hurston's received heritage-and perhaps the paramount received notion that links the novel of manners in the Harlem Renaissance, the social realism of the thirties, and the cultural nationalism of the Black Arts movement-was the idea that racism had reduced black people to mere ciphers, to beings who only react to an omnipresent racial oppression, whose culture is "deprived" where different, and whose psyches are in the main "pathological." Albert Murray, the writer and social critic, calls this "the Social Science Fiction Monster." Socialists, separatists, and civil rights advocates alike have been devoured by this beast.
Hurston thought this idea degrading, its propagation a trap, and railed against it. It was, she said, upheld by "the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a dirty deal." Unlike Hughes and Wright, Hurston chose deliberately to ignore this "false picture that dis-torted...." Freedom, she wrote in Moses, Man of the Mountain,
"was something internal. ... The man himself must make his own emancipation." And she declared her first novel a manifesto against the "arrogance" of whites assuming that "black lives are only defensive reactions to white actions." Her strategy was not calculated to please.
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 09/08/2025
figured this out. transferring blobs...
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Jared @mathbook.cafe · 08/08/2025
A retired mathematician brought a couple bags of her books into the shop today. The Coxeter was a good find— first edition good condition. I price it around $50 while bookfinder says there’s listings of very good copies in the hundreds
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