this set of questions was way more generative, like I laid down some foundations for parts of my dissertation over the last 48 hours which feels really good
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-95/ this week in sentences: ghosts, born and born and born, tempts, boxed in
Wizard riddles update: I requested questions from my most annoying committee member first and they are pretty goofy but not actually hard?
"I couldn’t accept the moral calculus that prioritized the academic freedom of some U.S. and Israeli faculty over every other moral consideration, including the rights of the Palestinian people to be free from illegal occupation, free from violence, free from apartheid—and no less free to pursue research, scholarship, and learning than their Israeli counterparts"
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-94/ this week in sentences: gravity forgot itself, enhanced by the chancy, over a poem, pious disciplines, basically disreputable
https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-makes-the-majority-of-the-worlds-computer-chips-now-its-running-out-of-electricity/ this came up a lot in interviews when I did fieldwork in Taiwan in 2022. Glad to see it getting more coverage
A source in Lebanon tells me that there have been two mass roundups of Syrian refugees at Beirut's Martyrs' Square since Saturday. The Syrians had been displaced by Israeli airstrikes & were on the streets with scores of other IDPs. The source tells me she is certain that Syrians were targeted, because police went around asking people for identifying documents, presumably to avoid arresting Lebanese.
The Saturday arrests began late, around 22h00, just after journalists had left for the night.
Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.
Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped.
I like our side.