S. N. Jaffe

Associate Prof (Research) of the History of Political thought at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, Italy. Tweets in private capacity.

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@polanskydj Retrenchment's just another word for plenty left to lose?

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@alexpriou have a blessed day

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@ae_stallings I am a ka-nillionaire!

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@dmarusic The notion that "good/sincere" people can't do terrible or stupid things is ... terribly stupid.

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@polanskydj Who?

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@marksjo1 Bot. James Bot.

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@DisruptConfess @sckimbriel Is AI coming for my job? (What did it say?)

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@RandalHendrick9 @amayor Polybius. (Unfortunately, he's dead.)

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@GregoryConti19 His posts were not just insightful. They were true.

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@ae_stallings The dreaded prOOF!

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@ae_stallings "That" makes sense.

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@sckimbriel Feting fetid feet by tweet to(e) meet the meter's métier?

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@marksjo1 Fake news. Deans don't have thumbs.

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@credenzaclear2 From your lips to their computer god's ears.

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@zenahitz Like AI-lcibiades I, Zena?

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@polanskydj Next thing you're going to ask us to do, David, is to focus on the capabilities of all the king's horses and all the king's men.

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@polanskydj You're coining the Thucydides clap now?

[David Polansky @polanskydj]

I wrote for@aeonmag with the estimable (though not online) Daniel Schillinger about the much-quoted but also much misread Thucydides, and how his readers are as prone to self-deception as the characters in his history. Give it a read:
https://t.co/h3omN8JReb

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@sckimbriel @MichaelRWear directed by Christopher Nolan?