Political philosopher; I like old things of all sorts; still merrily assembling a patchwork identity.
Joined March 2011
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Julia Netter retweeted
11 Jun 2020
me: if pinocchio’s nose grows proportional to the lie he tells and he tells lies that get half as severe, it never stops growing but always has a finite length
french person: [nodding] ze nose paradox
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Julia Netter retweeted
12 Feb 2020
'If good faith is undermined to the point where duplicity is assumed on all sides, politics is bound to become mired in a cold civil war, or worse.' Excellent and very timely article by Rob Simpson. newstatesman.com/2020/02/how…
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Julia Netter retweeted
15 Nov 2019
This, btw, my friends, is the nifty hologram I am referring to in the @nprpolitics pod today.
Remember the Ladies.
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Julia Netter retweeted
18 Aug 2019
Public Service Announcement : know the warning signs !
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Julia Netter retweeted
19 Jun 2019
Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Hieronymus Francken of Antwerp. Painter of elegant folks enjoying art and parties. Here, some connoisseurs hanging out in a collection, being clever about art & science.
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Julia Netter retweeted
17 Jun 2019
2/2 Look at the images up there, hanging from the ceiling at Santa Maria Maggiore. How often do you think they hung things like that? So cool.
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Julia Netter retweeted
17 Jun 2019
Some days just bite you well and truly on the bum. Thanks Monday. You suck. I am very much cat number 8 today......
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Julia Netter retweeted
12 Jun 2019
This.
People always ask me: where's the harm?
Privacy harms are a time-shifted risk.
The moment you are protesting against your government, a seamless cashless public transport system can turn into a data trove for surveillance crowd control.
There is usually never a line at the train ticketing machines. Judging from an overheard convo, it appears that people are reluctant to use their rechargeable Octopus cards for fear of leaving a paper trail of them having been present at the protest.
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Julia Netter retweeted
21 Apr 2019
In the French Revolution it seems to me that they had IMPLAUSIBLY LONG ARMS....
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Julia Netter retweeted
21 Apr 2019
'One of the key risks with that is that it adds a technological veneer to biased policing practices' theguardian.com/uk-news/2019…
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Julia Netter retweeted
20 Apr 2019
Can we just kill all Viking clichés please......
20 Apr 2019
"We had to kill the Vikings, bc they bathed and brushed their hair and our wives couldn't resist such sophistication" is a HELL of a take by medieval English chroniclers. #MedievalTwitter
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Julia Netter retweeted
19 Apr 2019
In this banquet scene, Paolo Veronese (d. OTD 1588) creates a vast tableau of incredible opulence for the lucky Dominican friars of SS. Giovanni e Paolo. But is it Biblical?? The Inquisition wants to know!
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Julia Netter retweeted
18 Apr 2019
May Preston was the first woman to receive a PhD in Philosophy in the US. The year was 1880 and the school, @Cornell. Her dissertation (and thus the first US woman philosopher's dissertation) was on Aesthetics. Titled, "Different Theories of Beauty". I have a copy to share!
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Julia Netter retweeted
17 Apr 2019
"It may sound like a far-fetched idea, but the simulation hypothesis is today discussed seriously in academia"
No it is not. #StopHype
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Take a moment to marvel at this triumph of 16th c. technology which still works beautifully, 479 years after the book was printed.
The vovelles (spinning disks) of Astronomicum Caesareum were used to help predict the rising & setting of the sun & moon, the tides, and more.
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Julia Netter retweeted
15 Apr 2019
Gargoyle, Notre Dame. Photo: Pierre-Yves Petit. c.1920.
#NotreDame
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Julia Netter retweeted
15 Apr 2019
C’est une charpente presque millénaire qui est en train de disparaître sous nos yeux.
🙏🏼 #NotreDame notredamedeparis.fr/la-cathe…
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Julia Netter retweeted
14 Apr 2019
Me: ‘I’m thinking of making a few changes in the way we run our household.’ Family member: ‘oh no this is because you’ve been reading that book about Robespierre isn’t it?’
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