Ken Radford

#autismawareness

[Tom Rose @TomRoseIndy]

Tucker Carlson’s “interview” with the great Jacob Rees-Mogg shows why he's is the most dangerous demagogue in America. He's an historical illiterate posing as a modern-day Herodotus.

This isn;'t really about ignorance or contrarianism. By “challenging” every settled historical truth, his aim is to erase every moral distinction and reduce history to a series of supposedly "unanswered questions"—all of which, not coincidentally, turn the decent into the demonic and the demonic into the decent.

Hitler's "legitimate claims" against Poland justify the conquest and destruction of an entire nation in the most murderous occupation in human history? Was defeating Nazi Germany even worth it? By asking these "so-called" questions, Tucker's goal isn't to illuminate history, it's to invert it.

Aggressors become victims. Victims become aggressors. Dictators are statesmen. Democracies defending themselves are warmongers. The guilt for history's greatest crimes are stripped of context, so responsibility can shift to the victims of those crimes.

Rewriting history to cast Nazi Germany as the victim and Poland—the nation Hitler invaded, occupied, terrorized and sought to destroy—as the criminal is the deliberate destruction of moral truth and a grotesque insult to a nation that paid in blood unmatched in the annals of human crime. @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @NawrockiKn @D_Tarczynski @radeksikorski @donaldtusk @marklevinshow @tedcruz @SpencerGuard @VDHanson

[Stuart Klinke @StuartKlinke]

Tree of the day

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The SPEAKER implies.

The LISTENER infers.

The DUDE abides.

[Stuart Klinke @StuartKlinke]

Tree of the day

[Dev Latimer @DevinRN88]

Half the books you were "forced" to read in high school are actually spectacular, you just didn't have the emotional maturity to understand them yet.

[Roger Boylan @BoylanRoger]

Morning coffee in Zurich.

[Dume @gietzschean]

The stunning Art Deco lobby of Detroit’s Fisher Building, designed by architect Albert Kahn and opened in 1928

[Stephen Gibbons @Gibboanxious]

“You shouldn’t feel upset that I haven’t seen the Star Wars films; I hardly see any films. I read... I was raised with Latin and Ancient Greek and poetry from Greek antiquity, but sometimes, just to see the world I live in, I watch ‘WrestleMania.’”

— Werner Herzog

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

four seasons at my desk

[Roger Boylan @BoylanRoger]

Ben Bulben, a flat-topped mountain in Co. Sligo, Ireland, in an area sometimes called "Yeats Country."

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

Bobby Robson of Fulham, Ian St John of Liverpool in action at Craven Cottage

[Shankly Glenbuck Village. @misshanks]

Today marks 45 years since my granddad passed away. To the world, he was a football legend.
To me, he was my grandy.
His legacy was about more than football. It was about people, community, believing something could be better — and having the courage to try to make it happen.
And he never forgot where he came from. Glenbuck was always part of him.
Forty-five years later, that connection is still very much there.
Legacy isn't what we leave behind.
It's what others choose to carry forward.
I hope we can continue to carry a little of his legacy forward.
Forever remembered. Forever loved. Forever in my thoughts. 📷

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Karnak - where Covid enabled a full-scale clean up, revealing hitherto unsuspected traces of New Kingdom colour

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Valley of the Kings by night

[𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀 @visualsofearth1]

Winter in Scottish Highlands

[Ali Partovi @apartovi]

I've come up with a novel idea for how humanity should deal with AI risks.

It's powerful and deceptively simple. In fact, it can be stated in one sentence.

And it relates to something I learned from Elle Woods. (thread 🧵)

[Stuart Klinke @StuartKlinke]

I was hoping for a gloomy day in The North Pennines today.
Be careful what you wish for.

[Art of Ireland 🇮🇪 @Art_of_Ireland]

Main Street, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan

By Padraig Lynch

[Stuart Klinke @StuartKlinke]

I'll be back in the North Pennines on Saturday searching for remoteness.

[Stuart Klinke @StuartKlinke]

We'll be back in Wester Ross soon for some beach life