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  1. Death's End Cixin Liu (2010, p.116)

    Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish. Similarly, when humans truly enter space and are freed from the Earth, they cease to be human. So, to all of you I say this: When you think about heading into outer space without looking back, please reconsider. The cost you must pay is far greater than you could imagine.
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  2. A knot of knots in a network of social relations, in a network of chemical processes, in a network of emotions exchanged with its own kind.

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  3. A family is not a thing, it is a collection of relations, occurrences, feelings. And a human being? Of course it's not a thing; like the cloud above the mountain, it's a complex process, where food, information, light, words, and so on enter and exit. . .

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  4. A cloud above a mountain is not a thing, it is the condensation of humidity in the air that the wind blows over the mountain. A wave is not a thing, it is a movement of water, and the water that forms it is always different.

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  5. Simple events, and more complex events that can be disassembled into combinations of simpler ones. A few examples: war is not a thing, it's a sequence of events. A storm is not a thing, it's a collection of occurrences.

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  6. Alt text for the second tweet: We cannot think of the physical world as if it were made of things, of entities. It simply doesn't work. What works instead is thinking about the world as a network of events.

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  7. Conversely, a kiss is an "event." It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones.

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  8. Alt text for the first tweet: The difference between things and events is that things persist in time; events have a limited duration. A stone is a prototypical "thing": we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow.

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  9. The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli (2017, p.99-100)

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  10. The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli (2017, p.98)

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  11. Computational Complexity as an Ultimate Constraint on Evolution Artem Kaznatcheev () (2019)

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  12. Anscombe's Quartet. Or, how to err with statistics. (Plot by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers)

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  13. First Law of Technology: Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. — Melvin Kranzberg

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  14. How Propaganda Works Jason Stanley (1995, p.20)

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  15. "There is a powerful democratic objection to inequality: inequality tends to lead to epistemic barriers to the acquisition of knowledge, ones that imperil democracy." Jason Stanley How Propaganda Works (2016, p.7)

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  16. Claude E Shannon The bandwagon (1956)

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  17. Thank you, . The map you gave me was a good one to follow!

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  18. "I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

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  19. "I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system."

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  20. "I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies."

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