Kingdoms & Idols [or mute {#digitalminimalism} @CalNewport_]

#DisturbingPeople RESPONSE: Don’t subscribe. re: noise with text bomb @CNBC @TMobileHelp @JohnLegere Got complaint from @TMobile subscriber #TTuesdays that he was disturbed by the continued pinging. As a @twitter and “writer”, I try to take advantage of the “free” #publishing.

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#Conviction #Confinement & #reformReformREFORM! https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-pen-pal-who-changed-a-president?utm_source=pocket-newtab

“Do what is more difficult and more brave. Reform! … Rise to the emergency. Disappoint our fears. Force the nation to have faith in you. … It may be difficult at once to inspire confidence, but persevere. In time — when you have given reason for it — the country will love and trust you.”

Excerpt mid-way through: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-pen-pal-who-changed-a-president?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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#Dragnet: Ever drink before noon? #MatthewMcConaughey: Rarely, although photographed famously before noon once on the beach with a six-pack, my favorite time to drink is instructive, “Before it’s too late.” #ColbertL8Show

Rarely, what is it Matthew McConaughey said, the time to drink is “before it’s too late.”

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9 Mins ‘Till Showtime! @MillerBeers @MarciWiser Laura Ingraham wearing essentials. I get it. Something to do with this PPE? Wigs? https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/johnrubens.wordpress.com/27209 In the old days, we couldn’t understand some of the controversial lyrics but only the song’s chorus, and on the transistor radio, sometimes no more than the song title. #IngrahamAngle Wigs?

@LauraIngraham wearing essentials. I get it. Something to do with this PPE? https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/johnrubens.wordpress.com/27209 In the old days, we couldn’t understand some of the controversial lyrics but only the song’s chorus, and on the transistor radio, sometimes no more than the song title.

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#Languages Others Don’t Understand #LauraIngraham

@LauraIngraham wearing essentials. I get it. Sexy mouth. Do you have something to do with this PPE? In the old days, we couldn’t understand some of the controversial lyrics but only the song’s chorus, and on the transistor radio, sometimes no more than the song title. @MarciWiser

@LauraIngraham wearing essentials. I get it. Something to do with this PPE? https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/johnrubens.wordpress.com/27209 In the old days, we couldn’t understand some of the controversial lyrics but only the song’s chorus, and on the transistor radio, sometimes no more than the song title.

Original Compilation:

@jack: Laura is hot. Do you have something to do with this?

Compare: Music or Art in the elevator.

In the old days, we couldn’t understand some of the controversial lyrics but only the song’s chorus, and on the transistor radio, sometimes no more than the song title. @MarciWiser

John Rubens compilation

April 14, 2020 11:30 am PT

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Silver As A Hedge To Oblivion

See also: The Shimmering Face of Evil by Arlene Rubens Balin (2018)

It’s who you are.

It’s not who you ARE! It’s what you are or you’re a victim of the who’s knows whom.

speculative fiction by John Rubens

droits d’auteur April 9, 2020 Milt Larsen’s Birthday.

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My Mom was right and my Dad probably thought the same. re: #MARIJUANA #cannabis; confined to quarters. @uber in news

God is a nag until union with him.

Influence: Fray John of The Cross, Discalced Carmelites of Castilia, 16th Century mystic-minded priest

MARIJUANA: Confined to quarters.

DAD: Not even there.

So be it.

Cuomo taught me something about suffering/purging of distractions from God. #StJohnoftheCross

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Twisted Vicarious Thrills

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Giving herself up

Rather strange. Easter public services cancelled in Fullerton, CA.

What did they think we’d end up doing.

“Get in the best shape of your life.”–Arnold Schwartzenegger

“Adulterer. Who are you?”

“Better than you.”

“Yeah, what did Christie think we’d end up doing.”

“That’s a plea to cock-block if I ever heard one.”

re: Kirby Wright blocked me.

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Excerpt from “The Atlantic” (online, March 27, 2020)

The idea was to partition formal languages into multiple levels or types. Each level could make reference to levels below, but not to their own or higher levels. This resolved self-referential paradoxes by, in effect, banning self-reference. (This solution was not popular with logicians, but it did influence computer science — most modern computer languages have features inspired by type theory.)

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