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John Milton was 63 when Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes were published.

and he wrote them when he was completely blind!

Well, his amanuenses and slave-daughters wrote them, he just spoke the words

What are you referring to with his "slave daughters"?

Back in 2015 Twitter bragged that Periscope had been widely used the night before to pirate a pay-per-view boxing match. I thought that was odd.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/sports/periscope-a-stream...


I went to a minor national park over the summer (Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park) and there was a map of the United States showing all the national parks in the country with a "Gulf of America" sticker placed over "Gulf of Mexico".


I really badly want to hear that the sticker was cheap-looking, and even peeling.


Kind of looks like the Stonks guy meme.


That reaaally does look like the Stonks guy.

Man we haven't change much, have we? :D



"Milton, 42, and his wife donated more than $1.8 million to a Trump re-election campaign fund less than a month before the November election, according to the Federal Election Commission."

https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-...


He doesn't have a conscience.


My site has also recently been getting massively hit by Brazilian IPs. It lasts for a day or two, even if they are being blocked.


How do they deal with earthquakes?


Maybe he doesn't think consciousness is a computation.


Will the period between whole classes of jobs going away and a new social contract be short enough so that a Butlerian Jihad doesn't kick off?


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