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Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying, that everything beautiful is perishable, that everything we love will eventually be taken from us by one form of entropy or another, culminating with life itself. Suppose we agree that, as Rilke so passionately insisted, “for one human being to …

‘trump hasn’t been sworn into office yet but, as one U.S. senator recently said, he’s already delaying his legal responsibilities when it comes to signing an ethics agreement that has to be on file before a presidential transition takes place. The trump transition’s “unprecedented delay” is causing an issue with access to government records and even cybersecurity assistance, according to Politico. For example, according to Politico, trump’s pick to head …

News and information about current and future airports in Laos. Index Laos airports map International airports in Laos Attapeu International Airport (AOU) (Attapeu) [Inactive] Bokeo International Airport (BOK) (Golden Triangle SEZ) Luang Prabang International Airport (LPQ) (Luang Prabang) Pakse International Airport (PKZ) (Pakse) Savannakhet Airport (ZVK) (Savannakhet) Wattay International Airport (VTE) (Vientiane) Domestic airports in Laos Boon Neua Airport (PCQ) (Boon Neua) [Inactive] Huay Xai Airport (HOE) (Ban Houayxay) [Inactive] …

Artist: Ad Vitam Infernal Album: Le Ballet des Anges Year: 2024 Genre: Death Metal Web: https://youtu.be/MWampDm6JEY / https://doloremrecords.bandcamp.com/ad vitam infernal Country: France Quality: 320 Kbps Tracklist: 1. The Overture 2. And the Watchers Will Be Frightened 3. Shemihazah the Great 4. Asael (God Has Made...) 5. Enchain Them All! 6. A Peaceful Place to Wait... 7. Wandering Spirits 8. I Saw Everything 9. Free Will Has Set Us Free 10. …

I’ve been backtracking a bit. Whether it’s through improved flying skills, or greater knowledge of effective tactics, or just having access to all the Special Items now, I’ve managed to pass level 4 on Normal difficulty, with the result that I can start Normal games at level 5 from now on. I’ve also tried restarting from the very beginning on Easy. There are advantages to this: by the time you …

When Honeycomb was a small company, All Hands meetings had announcements and discussions. Discussions mostly took place in the meeting chat, where everyone can answer anyone’s question. Between that and the announce channel in Slack, information got out to the whole company. Or did it? It’s hard to check for understanding in that big a forum. We’re past 150 people now, past the number of people who can know each …

Last August I posted an item about the visit my brother and I made to the Fayette Art Museum the month before. In this post I wanted to offer photos and information about the city of Fayette itself.The town is located in northwest Alabama and is the seat of Fayette County. That county was created by the legislature on December 20, 1824, from parts of Marion and Tuscaloosa counties. The …

This is a shortlisted entry from the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024.If you like reading about philosophy, here's a free, weekly newsletter with articles just like this one: Send it to me! I see myself and a multitude of other Grasshoppers engaged in playing the most elaborate, subtle, and challenging games. […] And the Utopians will look back on names like Queensbury, Naismith, the Parker Brothers, even Rubix, with …

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Miller Oberman’s poetry collection Impossible Things is a mesmerizing elegy for a young child and thoughtful examination of the author’s own childhood. The …

During this past week we've been flung into a very cold, wintry spell and although it's been a bit of a shock to the system, it's been really very beautiful out there in my immediate vicinity. On Monday we woke to freezing fog and sub zero temperatures, the sort of weather which adds teeny droplets of ice to foliage and spiders webs and makes it look like they've been decorated …

Why is A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn out of print at Amazon? There is no Kindle or Audible edition either. This 1954 novel won the International Fantasy Award back in 1955. Being out-of-print is especially puzzling when you consider the other winners of that short-lived award: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1951), Fancies and Goodnight by John Collier (1952), City by Clifford Simak (1953), More Than Human …

I can’t believe another sci-fi stop-motion feature exists with the same plot as Mad God – Phil Tippett must’ve been so steamed when he saw this. Both movies’ worlds are packed with lore and backstory, which they mostly don’t bother us with, as we follow a little guy who descends into lovingly-detailed hellish depths on some doomed mission. This guy’s human body has been mangled so he’s been robocopped into …

The looming shadow Quote of the Day “The best photographers know what not to photograph.” Bill Jay Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Eric Clapton | Wonderful Tonight Link Long Read of the Day What If Echo Chambers Work? This is a really striking essay because it addresses a question that has been bothering me for a long time. Years ago (2012 onwards, to be precise), the political theorist …