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Marblehead, Massachusetts
Joined February 2009
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¡Buenas noticias! Ahora se puede comprar mi libro "Ícaro hace piruetas en las nubes" desde cualquier parte del mundo. Por el amor-broma, échenle un vistazo y si pueden, cómprenlo. Estaré en la Feria del Libro Raro en Buenos Aires, por cierto.
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I’ve come to think @elonmusk ended up doing Dems and progressives a huge favor by turning this place into a fetid swamp of feral right wing freaks where the most prominent members of their coalition post like cartoon movie villains and think it makes them look cool.
Una de mis desgracias como poeta experimental es que casi todos mis experimentos fracasan. Hago lo que puedo y acierto de vez en cuando. Por suerte, el otro oficio, el de traductor, es menos ingrato, y entre fracaso y fracaso sigo traduciendo lo que admiro.
Is anybody else developing an aversion to short, snappy sentences, contrastive language, cliffhangers, lists of three, etc.?
Publication day: “Pattern Recognition” is up today at @RattlePoetry. Rattle means a great deal to me, and I’m especially grateful to @timothygreen for giving this poem a home.
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This is the football version of the Flynn Effect. Absolute standards rose sharply in a few decades via training, nutrition, science, and institutions—not because the "genetic stock" suddenly improved. Though IQ-obsessed racialists may grimace, culture and systems matter a lot.
We need to have a serious conversation about how overrated most of these legends were. This is a World Cup final btw😂😭
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#EfeméridesPoéticas 1844 Muere en Ciudad de Guatemala a los 35 años de su edad José Batres Montúfar luchador en las guerras y paces de su tiempo, topógrafo, ingenioso poeta admirado en sus días por sus poemas románticos y humorísticos. Un turdefors digno de su paisano @poitevin
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I’ll leave it here, but I find it astonishing that American colleagues I respect, in sports and beyond, are either celebrating or minimizing what should be obvious: overt political interference in a disciplinary decision at a World Cup is unethical, unacceptable and profoundly dangerous. Whatever one thinks of Balogun and the red card itself, the debate is now beyond it and precedent is indefensible. The integrity of the tournament depends on the idea that what happens on the field is judged by the rules of the game, not by pressure from political power.
To celebrate this is...baffling.
Cómo se ha devaluado el lenguaje y la argumentación cuidadosa. En esta época, casi cualquier necio armado con un par de memes y un puñado de insultos tiene más repercusión que casi cualquier experto.
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Independent analyses estimate that your actions to dismantle USAID and drastically reduce lifesaving foreign aid have already killed 700,000 people. Here are some of those people. 🧵xitter.cf/elonmusk/status/206944…
All DOGE required was contact information of the recipients to confirm that funding was not fraudulent. No validated medical funding was stopped.
Anything that appeared to be legitimate lifesaving funding continued and is now administered by the State Department.
If anyone had actually died as a result of DOGE, their names would be worldwide headline news!
On the other hand, USAID did help fund the Wuhan Virology Institute, which caused the deaths of millions, and the revolution that started the Russia-Ukraine war.
