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Nils Gilman pinned one tweet: People say adversity reveals character, but I say if you really want to know a man, give hime power. Rosa Luxemburg: “In effect, every legal constitution is the product of a revolution.” Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution. In the history of classes, revolution is the act of political creation, while legislation is the political expression of the life of a society that has already come into being....

January 19, 2023 · 4 min · un01s

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Start to read the condensed biography of Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank. This is to understand Dostoevsky’s works correctly with its political context of 19th century Russia. To read Dostoevsky, you have to understand the context. Two nice tweets from Steve Stewart-Williams. One is the brain. The other Physics is weird. Another thing is geometry in p5js in this github repo. Beautiful geometric shapes generated by code.

January 4, 2023 · 1 min · un01s