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4 months agoHis politics got worse as he got older, but the early works by Mario Vargas Llosa are some of my favorite things I’ve ever read. The green house, the time of the hero (la ciudad y los perros), and conversation in the cathedral.
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I recently read The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz and it was excellent.
He’s a relative of the Allende family. He spent his childhood as a refugee after the US installed Pinochet and his family had to flee Chile. Idk why his anti imperialism would shock anyone.
Oh for sure, and further down in the thread they try to link her to the deaths of Aaron Schwartz and (somehow) Kurt Cobain. I’m not trying to say this is correct at all. Just responding to the question about her being a big Wikipedia editor.
Edit: here’s a hacker news thread that claims to debunk the theory
There was some “evidence” that she was a reddit power user. I had forgotten about it until just now, so I haven’t looked back into any of these claims or followed any of it since then, but here is a thread:
I think that’s the point of the tweet. Wasn’t there a big part of the campaign where they were calling her out for being a fake doctor? Like, they were insinuating that she was lying by calling herself “Dr. Jill Biden” when she didn’t have an MD. This seems like an extension of that - “see, she’s obviously not a real doctor because she didn’t diagnose this cancer earlier”
I made this comment about a year ago: https://midwest.social/comment/6247683
“A friend of mine is a non-native English speaker. He teaches at an elementary school and works with ‘English as a second language’ students. He casually mentioned that he always tells his students to take a ‘horse bath’ in the bathroom sink after recess if needed. He was traumatized when I told him that he’d misheard that phrase for his entire adult life.”
I mean, I love that this happened, but it was at 1 minor US airport and 3 minor Canadian airports (non-TSA). From the article this doesn’t seem like a widespread thing, unfortunately.