I'm getting pretty tired of arguments on twitter. I don't mean in a participatory way. I mean the shitty arguments themselves. They're just structured noise.
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Replying to @generativist
Twitter arguments make me think: "the point here is that officialese became his language because he was genuinely incapable of uttering a single sentence that was not a cliche" Combined with lack seeing from outside perspectives, twitter is certainly the scary kind of banal.
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Replying to @kaznatcheev
I should really reread Arendt. I read it at the beginning of my PhD, and I don't think that was a bad time to do so.
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Replying to @generativist
I just started reading it (I don't keep these sort of quotes handy in mind usually). I haven't formed an opinion on the book yet. I'm reading it because I fear that as careerist scientists, we can be very susceptible to the things Arendt was warning us about. That scares me.
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Replying to @kaznatcheev
That is a very very good reason for me to reread it.
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Actually fuck, this bumped it to the top of my queue.
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