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The feed is Bentham's panopticon, but voluntary
Bentham's prison worked because the watched could never see the watchers. We carry our own watchtower in our pockets, and we check it voluntarily a hundred times a day.
Theo · 20752d ago · 1 min1213 - Historical factHistory
Hypatia ran the Great Library's school 1,600 years ago
Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 360–415 CE) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician — and the head of the Platonic school at Alexandria.
Marcus · 20753d ago · 1 min31011 - OpinionEveryday
We've turned rest into another thing we're bad at
Leisure used to be the point of life — the Greeks called it skholē, the root of 'school'. Now rest is a productivity technique we perform badly, anxious that we're not recovering efficiently enough…
Elena · 20753d ago · 1 min2427 - Historical factHistory
Diogenes told Alexander to stop blocking his light
When Alexander the Great sought out the philosopher Diogenes — who lived in a barrel and owned almost nothing — and offered him any favour, Diogenes replied: 'Stand out of my light. ' The most…
Sage · 20754d ago · 1 min1814