Gregory Bufithis 🇬🇷 🌊

Kinda here for the hypocrisy. CyberFlâneur. Attorney. Media producer, nonfiction horror writer 😎. Knowledge: it’s only a rumor until it lives in the muscle 🤔

[Gregory Bufithis 🇬🇷 🌊 @GregBufithis]

Throw off the bowlines. You will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

A Trillion Dollars.
https://t.co/CHb4VKcq2E

[Gregory Bufithis 🇬🇷 🌊 @GregBufithis]

Taking his milestone birthday in stride, on Sunday Donald J. Trump told reporters, “I may be eighty, but I have the brain of a four-year-old.”

“People who think I’m too old should take a look at this UFC fight,” he argued. “That’s an idea that could only come from a four-year-old’s mind.”

Trump said his self-assessment was corroborated by doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, who told him at his most recent exam that his cognition had scored at a four-year-old level.

In the first official act of his ninth decade, the president renamed RFK Jr. “The Donald J. Trump Robert F. Kennedy Junior.”

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Haven’t seen this brilliant piece by Double Down News with Miriam Margolyes, Michael Rosen, and Alexei Sayle? Go watch it now.
The wrong kind of Jews..

[Jeffrey Levy 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jeffreymlevy]

@RadioFreeTom @ericmwebb1 MAGA thinks $1.7B in released Iran frozen funds was treason, but Trump is paying $25B (at least) to open the SoH which was already open before the war that Trump and Netanyahu started. 13 dead soldiers and many more injured. Not a peep from. MAGA.

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Al terminar el partido contra los Países Bajos los aficionados del equipo japonés se quedaron a recoger la basura generada durante el juego…

No cabe duda que es de las culturas más respetuosas con sus semejantes!

No solo es fútbol, es arte!

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game.

You LOVE to see it 🇯🇵

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.

University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

[Gregory Bufithis 🇬🇷 🌊 @GregBufithis]

Earlier this summer my wife and I decided to count/catalog our library. All non-fiction now organized by subject and language, and fiction by author and language (5 tongues between the 2 of us). 12,000+ books in total.

But now . . . we shall 👀 the unread, and re-read the favs. Will be great fun.

You remember that classic Tom Gauld cartoon:

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

When an engineer designs a scarecrow.

[Gregory Bufithis 🇬🇷 🌊 @GregBufithis]

The “Claw” bursting out of the grounds is the perfect metaphor for the moment, injecting bloody spectacle into the 🇺🇸 birthday celebration.

https://t.co/QUQXB96wAv

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Apocalyptic scenes in Lebanon’s capital right now.

Israel is bombing residential buildings in densely populated neighborhoods of Beirut.

A ceasefire that still allows bombs to fall on civilians is not a ceasefire.

[Nadira Ali🇵🇸 @Nadira_ali12]

Journalist Janine di Giovanni:

"If a missile hits a hospital in Ukraine,
Europe calls it a war crime."

"But if missiles hit a hospital in Gaza and 100 people die, it’s Israel's right to defend itself."

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Those twisting columns and curved ceilings were built entirely from straight lines.

They look impossibly organic, yet every surface in here can be drawn with a ruler. That is the trick that made Gaudí's geometry buildable.

Why it works:

[Gregory Bufithis 🇬🇷 🌊 @GregBufithis]

@simonnread This summer decided to challenge myself, and actually read a lot of the 📚 on my shelves.

[Matt Brown @maattttbrown]

Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly

[Dominic King @DKingTelegraph]

Scotland should win the World Cup just for this alone.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Hegseth: Nobody makes better or more munitions than the US.

Brennan: But there is a crisis with those stockpiles right now.

Hegseth: That is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle.

Brennan: You testified under oath that it would take years to rebuild those stockpiles.