#Orwell

David Sligar

DavidSligar

orwell also believed that true freedom was democratic socialism, but whatevahttps://twitter.com/DaveSharma/status/1275940161172369409 Might come across as a troll, by my point is substantive. Orwell understood freedom included economic free

Penguin Classics UK

classicpenguins

'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past'Today we’re celebrating the 80th anniversary of George Orwell publishing in Penguin. #80YearsofPenguinOrwell /1 Orwell saw the

S. Qiouyi Lu 🍃 IN THE WATCHFUL CITY out 8/31/21!

sqiouyilu

can't believe 1984 is just "what if… the sapir-whorf hypothesis were true?" me: *squints at newspeak* so, chinese? german? sometimes my notes to myself look like this tbh anyway, I'm

Andrew Bostom, MD, MS

andrewbostom

1/On the 70th anniversary of Orwell’s death, 1/21/1950, worth noting that a year before he passed, Orwell gave the British govt a list of people he thought were Stalinist “crypto-communists,

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

For those who don't know, Orwell's 1984 was a thought experiment about what would happen if the Fabian Society gained the power of Stalin, which Orwell thought might happen by

David Robjant

DavidRobjant

Perhaps kinder intervention would be to actually write &publish 'supportive complaint' essay about what's good & dodgy in Orwell on nationalism that I intend, rather than try to quote tweet

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

The latest Made-in-Britain Tory political scandal is the "fuck the algorithm" A-level grades omnishambles, in which the Conservative party deployed a black-box algorithm to give rich students higher grades and

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Orwell said language is often used to dress up shabby thoughts, a tool of evasion rather than communication.“[Language] becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness

Just Jeff

jtbtruthseeker

I really got to thinking about the phrase #Kraken and began researching. I know with all the other comms and future proves past, it was never about the Rona, it

Jennifer Cabrera 😀 #SmilesMatter

jhaskinscabrera

'The result, to use Orwell’s words, is “a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans” – millions

James Bloodworth

J_Bloodworth

A few of what I think are the best pieces I wrote in 2020: How the British government - backed by contrarians scribblers and the Stalinoid left - enabled genocide

Noah Berlatsky

nberlat

math is a pretty rigorous truth system. within that system, there are strict ways to solve particular problems.https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1289224929536143361 the question is whether those systems are applicable in other cont

J. Moufawad-Paul

MLM_Mayhem

There are a lot of tweets about Orwell being an "anti-fascist" showing up on my timeline because of his journalistic work in Homage To Catalonia, and I find this bothersome…

Ian Dunt

IanDunt

You can't defeat nationalism *without* patriotism. People have a need to belong. Either the left and liberals have something to say about that, or they leave it to more sinister

Joshua Tait

Joshua_A_Tait

James Burnham and Arthur Koestler in Berlin, 1950, “that traumatic synecdoche of the Cold War,” as Burnham named it. Burnham was a member of the OPC, a military intelligence psy-op

The Free Speech Union

SpeechUnion

The Free Speech Union is disappointed to learn that Eton’s governing body has decided to uphold the decision to sack our member Will Knowland. No teacher should lose his or

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