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Building Dreams With Virtue Homes
Be taken on a custom home building journey with the team behind Virtue Homes...
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For Saint Augustine of Hippo, writing in North Africa in the fourth century,
authentic attention placed us in relation with the divine.
For Saint Ignatius of Loyola, holed up in his cave in Catalonia in the 1520s,
what he called “attentive contemplation” was both a daily practice and a moral imperative.
During the Enlightenment, close attention emerged as a virtue essential to knowledge and disciplined investigation,
-- as demonstrated in 1740, when the natural…

Opinion | The ‘Attention Economy’ Is a Lie
It started in a laboratory. No one could have predicted where it would end.

“The real question, then, is not ‘what can we do?’, but ‘what are we afraid to do?’ Whose comfort are we protecting when we ask safe questions? Whose illusions do we preserve through politeness? Solidarity is not an optic; it is a disruption. It is noisy, uncomfortable, often isolating. It pulls reputation apart rather than polishing it.
…
We are too fluent in the language of outrage, too comfortable in the posture of virtue. History will not absolve spectatorship, even when specta…

When solidarity becomes spectacle
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity.

We are flying to Germany in 2 weeks. It's a redeye. I’m very tempted to show up in pajamas for the flight. If it were domestic, I would for sure do it. I’m hesitant to add another reason for Europeans to dislike Americans. Or would wearing pajamas on the flight virtue signal that I’m not one of “those" Amaricans.

Now, if the leaders of the world -- people who are leaders by virtue of
political, military or financial power, and not necessarily wisdom or
consideration for mankind -- if these leaders manage not to pull us
over the brink into planetary suicide, despite their occasional pompous
suggestions that they may feel obliged to do so, we may survive beyond
1988.
-- George Rostky, EE Times, June 20, 1988 p. 45

Ach ja, in der inzestuösen Berliner Medienbubble spricht man also mal wieder lieber über MmB als mit. Oder allenfalls 'mit' solange sie sich für eine wohltätige Rührgeschichte eignen und fürs eigene Virtue-Signaling.
Bei Gegenwind macht man dann lieber erst mal dicht.
https://archive.ph/mmHBw

The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
John Joubert, Worcester Cathedral Choir & Adrian Lucas:
🎵 There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
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ASPI 12.11.2025
Resilient critical infrastructure is its own deterrence
"The ability to absorb disruption and keep operating isn’t just a technical virtue; it’s a signal. If an adversary believes that disruption will be temporary and costly to sustain, the incentive to strike is reduced."
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Our collective intellectual culture seems to have calcified around a cohort of thinkers who achieved prominence roughly ten years ago and have been coasting ever since. 
This isn't about Malcolm Gladwell specifically, though he'll appear as a recurring character. 
The Gladwell formula, if you haven't encountered it, goes something like this:
take a subject that seems simple,
complicate it with research that seems to undermine common sense,
then re…

Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation
Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.)  The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest exploration of how some counterintuitive thing is actually the opposite of what you'd expect, a David Brooks meditation on character and virtue, something by Michael Lewis about how

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit
of justice is no virtue.
-- Barry Goldwater

Polarization from Rapidly Rotating Massive Stars
J. Patrick Harrington, Richard Ignace, Kenneth G. Gayley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12500 https://arxiv.or…

Polarization from Rapidly Rotating Massive Stars
Stellar rotation has long been recognized as important to the evolution of stars, by virtue of the chemical mixing it can induce and how it interacts with binary mass transfer. Binary interaction and rapid rotation are both common in massive stars and involve processes of angular momentum distribution and transport. An important question is how this angular momentum transport leads to the creation of two important classes of rapidly rotating massive stars, Be stars defined by disklike emission …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
JMMR feat. Stuart Bogie:
🎵 Virtue Signaling 139 BPM
#JMMR #StuartBogie
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/7hyzlvEDeHrml81rP0rMGz