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gjm

gjm@mathstodon.xyz

<p>Mathematician. Reader. Fiftysomething. Cruciverbalist. Not very good at thinking of witty things to put in short bios.</p><p>I wasn&#39;t on Twitter before that nice Mr Musk suggested that everyone go to Mastodon, and I don&#39;t expect to be very active here, but who knows?</p>

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    I have just discovered that in the botched renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the company the Trump administration (corruptly?) hired to provide the filtration system that&amp;#39;s meant to deal with algae was called ... Greenwater Services. They really can&amp;#39;t say they weren&amp;#39;t warned.

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    &amp;quot;I am the most physically and verbally attacked public figure of modern times&amp;quot;, says Nigel Farage. Dude, even if we assume you only mean in the UK, there have been two literal murders of MPs in the last 10 years.

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    But the most striking aspect of the play at this moment is the terrible topicality given it by the war. We were at peace when I pointed out, by the mouth of Ferrovius, the path of an honest man who finds out, when the trumpet sounds, that he cannot follow Jesus. Many years earlier, in The Devil&amp;#39;s Disciple, I touched the same theme even more definitely, and showed the minister throwing off his black coat for ever when he discovered, amid the thunder of the captains and the shouting, that...

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    @cstross@wandering.shop These are almost certainly just typos, but just in case they have actually crept into the text: surely &quot;polstilion&quot; should be &quot;postilion&quot; and &quot;obnubliated&quot; should be &quot;obnubilated&quot;.

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    @cstross@wandering.shop I had a look through and see approximately zero things in the list that Musk, Zuckerberg, Thiel et al seem to be taking inspiration from (maybe #59 and #100, I guess) so I think it may just be that they look evil-overlord-like for other reasons. (I acknowledge that it&#39;s also possible that for some reason I&#39;m failing to notice the parallels. And I did mostly stop reading after the original 100 rather than proceeding to examine the later annexes.)