Byron Hyde reviews The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology in SERRC,
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Trump and the MAGA enthusiasm strategy (Byron York/Washington Examiner)
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Austin Martin Has Reached A Crossroads – Twins https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/837339/ #AustinMartin #Baseball #ByronBuxton #LukeKeaschall #Minnesota #MinnesotaTwins #MinnesotaTwins #MLB #Twins #WalkerJenkins
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https://www.europesays.com/3330522/ Trump casts his midterm ballot early in Florida #AmyActon #AngieNixon #AshleyMoody #ByronDonalds #DanSullivan #DavidJolly #DonaldTrump #elections #MarcoRubio #MelaniaTrump #Politics #RonDesantis #SecretaryOfState #USNews #VivekRamaswamy #WashingtonNews
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https://www.europesays.com/3330253/ Trump casts his midterm ballot early in Florida #AmyActon #AngieNixon #AshleyMoody #ByronDonalds #DanSullivan #DavidJolly #DonaldTrump #elections #MarcoRubio #MelaniaTrump #Politics #RonDesantis #SecretaryOfState #USNews #VivekRamaswamy #WashingtonNews
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https://www.europesays.com/3329977/ Trump casts his midterm ballot early in Florida #AmyActon #AngieNixon #AshleyMoody #ByronDonalds #DanSullivan #DavidJolly #DonaldTrump #elections #MarcoRubio #MelaniaTrump #Politics #RonDesantis #SecretaryOfState #USNews #VivekRamaswamy #WashingtonNews
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https://www.fogolf.com/us/19359/ Driving dollars into McKinney: Extended CJ Cup Byron Nelson tournament contract to bring visitors, economic boost | McKinney #CJCupByronNelsonGolfTournamentInMcKinney #EconomicImpactsInMcKinney #EventNewsInMcKinney #GolfNewsInMcKinney #McKinneyTourismIndustryNews #McKinneyTourismNews #Texas #TexasGolf
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The mega-Maga contender in deep-red Florida who doesn’t want to talk about Trump
By Richard Luscombe in MiamiByron Donalds removed mentions of the president from his website and has barely uttered his name – will his ploy prove successful in a tight governor’s race?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/23/byron-donalds-florida-trump
#Florida #Democrats #USpolitics #USnews #Worldnews #Republicans #DonaldTrump #TheGuardian #RichardLuscombeinMiami
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Trump casts his midterm ballot early in Florida
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Donald Trump cast his ballot in the midterm elections Saturday, saying he…
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/64762/ Homestead tax amendment falling short in 60% support needed to pass, but many remain undecided, UNF poll finds #Amendment3 #AngieNixon #AshleyMoody #ByronDonalds #DavidJolly #Education #Environment #Florida #Jacksonville #money #Politics #Polls #PropertyTaxes #PublicOpinion #UNF #UNFPORL #vote #Vote2026
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Trump casts his midterm ballot early in Florida
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Donald Trump cast his ballot in the midterm elections Saturday, saying he…
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https://www.europesays.com/people/278309/ Trump casts his midterm ballot early in Florida #AmyActon #AngieNixon #AshleyMoody #ByronDonalds #DanSullivan #DavidJolly #DonaldTrump #Elections #MarcoRubio #MelaniaTrump #Politics #RonDeSantis #USNews #VivekRamaswamy #WashingtonNews
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/64070/ Greens MP Jenny Leong Proposes 12-Month Rent Freeze & Stronger Rent Controls #AffordableHousing #ApartmentRentalPrices #byron #Greens #GreensAustralia #Inflation #Inflation&Prices #JennyLeong #JennyLeongHousingMarket #Newtown #NSWGreens #Prices #PublicHousing #Renters #SocialHousing #TheAustraliaInstitute
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https://www.europesays.com/people/277386/ President Donald Trump visits Florida as campaigns for governor, Senate hit home stretch #AngieNixon #ByronDonalds #campaign #DavidJolly #democrats #DonaldTrump #ElectionDay #Florida #FortMyers #governor #HomeStretch #PresidentDonaldTrump #Senate #Tallahassee #Trump #wpbf
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/62328/ President Donald Trump visits Florida as campaigns for governor, Senate hit home stretch #AngieNixon #ByronDonalds #campaign #DavidJolly #Democrats #ElectionDay #ExecutiveBranch #Florida #FortMyers #governor #HomeStretch #POTUS #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #Senate #Tallahassee #trump #WhiteHouse #WhiteHouse&ExecutiveBranch #wpbf
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Revisiting the 2026 NFL Draft: Can Akheem Mesidor be a building block for Chargers defense?
The Los Angeles Chargers are 0-6 to…
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Revisiting the 2026 NFL Draft: Can Akheem Mesidor be a building block for Chargers defense? https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/1035194/ #AkheemMesidor #AlexHarkey #AustinBarber #BrenenThompson #BudDupree #BuffaloBills #ByronYoung #Chargers #EmmanuelPregnon #Football #GenesisSmith #JacobSpomer #JakeSlaughter #JoshAllen #KhalilMack #LoganTaylor #LosAngeles #LosAngelesChargers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesChargers #NFL #NickBarrett #RodneyShelley #SeattleSeahawks #TravisBurke #TuliTuipulotu #TylerBiadasz
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Revisiting the 2026 NFL Draft: Can Akheem Mesidor be a building block for Chargers defense? https://www.rawchili.com/5131760/ #AkheemMesidor #AlexHarkey #AustinBarber #BrenenThompson #BudDupree #BuffaloBills #ByronYoung #EmmanuelPregnon #GenesisSmith #JacobSpomer #JakeSlaughter #JoshAllen #KhalilMack #LoganTaylor #LosAngelesChargers #NFL #NickBarrett #RodneyShelley #SeattleSeahawks #TravisBurke #TuliTuipulotu #TylerBiadasz
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The mega-Maga contender in deep-red Florida who doesn’t want to talk about Trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/23/byron-donalds-florida-trump #Florida #Democrats #UsPolitics #UsNews #WorldNews #Republicans #DonaldTrump
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If it were true (it isn’t) that #Biden is responsible for the #affordability crisis, then #MAGA is admitting that they have done NOTHING for the American People in the 2 years they have controlled all levers of power. The alternative is that they have CAUSED the issue (the truth).
#voteblue #corruption #incompetence #VoteDemocratic #midterms2026
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/23/byron-donalds-florida-trump
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Once Bitten, Several Times Read: Revisiting Bram Stoker’s Dracula
October 22, 2026By my reckoning, this is probably my third or fourth reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (I have had different editions of this book, and I at present gratuitously have four different copies). I first encountered it as a teenager, during that awkward Gothic phase, when I had a particular fascination with everything morbid, macabre, Byronic, and vaguely supernatural. Naturally, vampires were part of the attraction. Yet here I am, considerably older, returning to the same novel, knowing practically every turn of the plot, and still enjoying it immensely. That is quite an achievement for a book whose capacity to surprise me has long since expired. Apparently, the Count and I have unfinished business.
Published in 1897, Dracula remains one of the most recognizable works of Gothic literature, although its actual narrative is probably less familiar than the creature it introduced to popular consciousness. Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, travels to Transylvania to assist an eccentric aristocrat with a property purchase in England. His host, Count Dracula, proves an exceptionally peculiar gentleman, possessing an alarming aversion to mirrors and an equally alarming appetite for blood. Harker gradually realizes that he is a prisoner in a castle inhabited by something profoundly unnatural. The Count eventually travels to England, where his predations claim the unfortunate Lucy Westenra and threaten Mina Murray, Harker’s fiancée and eventual wife. Enter Professor Abraham Van Helsing, that wonderfully eccentric Dutch polymath, whose knowledge of medicine and obscure folklore becomes indispensable in the pursuit of the vampire.
I have always considered the opening chapters among the finest in Gothic fiction: the journey through the Carpathians, the superstitious peasants, the Borgo Pass, the sinister hospitality of the castle. Stoker knows precisely how to manipulate atmosphere. His descriptions occasionally indulge in Victorian excess, but there is a delicious pleasure in that elaborate prose. The castle itself possesses an almost physical malevolence, its isolation intensifying Harker’s growing realization that the ordinary laws governing human existence have been suspended. Dracula, meanwhile, is terrifying precisely because he remains so courteous. There is something particularly offensive about a monster who observes impeccable manners while contemplating your destruction.
What distinguishes the novel structurally is its epistolary form. Stoker assembles the narrative from journals, correspondence, newspaper reports, telegrams, and even phonograph recordings. The result resembles an enormous dossier documenting an extraordinary criminal investigation. I particularly appreciate how this technique distributes knowledge among characters who possess only fragments of the truth. Mina’s painstaking transcription and organization of these documents becomes essential to reconstructing the Count’s movements. There is something rather amusing about an ancient supernatural predator being pursued through modern administrative efficiency. Dracula has survived centuries of wars and upheavals, only to encounter the formidable organizational abilities of an Englishwoman with a typewriter.
Stoker was remarkably industrious in researching his monster. His reading included Emily Gerard’s accounts of Transylvanian superstitions, which described beliefs surrounding the undead, the transmission of vampirism, and the gruesome methods of disposing of suspected vampires. From such traditions he constructed an elaborate supernatural mythology involving garlic, crucifixes, consecrated objects, burial earth, and the peculiar limitations governing a vampire’s movements. These beliefs originated in a complicated mixture of regional folklore and religious practices, which Stoker selectively appropriated and transformed into a remarkably coherent fictional system.
Then there is the inevitable association with Vlad III, or Vlad Țepeș, the fifteenth-century Prince of Wallachia, whose enthusiasm for impalement earned him a particularly unpleasant historical reputation. Stoker encountered the name Dracula through William Wilkinson’s account of Wallachia and Moldavia. The historical connection, however, is frequently exaggerated. Vlad was a Wallachian ruler, not the supernatural Transylvanian aristocrat of the novel, and the extent of Stoker’s knowledge of his atrocities remains uncertain. The association between the historical prince and the literary vampire has since acquired a mythology almost as extravagant as vampirism itself. History supplied a name and a suggestive reputation. Literature accomplished the resurrection.
Of course, Stoker did not invent the literary vampire. John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819) had already established the aristocratic bloodsucker in the person of Lord Ruthven, a mysterious gentleman whose social sophistication conceals a predatory nature. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872), which I have read several times, further developed the genre through its intimate atmosphere of seduction, obsession, and feminine desire. I admire both works, particularly the disturbing psychological intimacy of Carmilla. Nevertheless, Dracula represents a considerable advancement in narrative ambition. Polidori established an archetype; Le Fanu explored its erotic possibilities. Stoker expanded the vampire story into a sustained confrontation between an ancient supernatural evil and the institutions of modern civilization. His creature possesses a history, an elaborate physiology, and an entire system of vulnerabilities. The mythology becomes more fully realized, the threat more expansive.
The Victorian anxieties embedded in the narrative are particularly interesting to revisit as an adult. Dracula is a foreign aristocrat penetrating respectable English society, purchasing property and contaminating the bodies of its inhabitants. His invasion carries unmistakable anxieties about immigration, disease, sexual corruption, and the fragility of civilization. Blood becomes an unusually versatile metaphor, suggesting inheritance, vitality, sexuality, and spiritual contamination. The Count’s appetite violates the boundaries separating individual bodies, while his victims become participants in their own destruction.
The treatment of women invites equally interesting scrutiny. Lucy, initially innocent and desirable, undergoes a grotesque erotic transformation after becoming a vampire. Her destruction restores an ideal of feminine purity through an act of extraordinary violence. Mina, meanwhile, demonstrates greater intellectual competence than several of the gentlemen attempting to protect her, yet is repeatedly subjected to their paternalistic assumptions. I find these contradictions fascinating. Stoker clearly admires feminine intelligence while remaining attached to Victorian conventions of womanhood. His novel exposes some of the very anxieties it attempts to contain.
There is also a philosophical tension between modern science and ancient belief. Van Helsing, ostensibly a man of scientific learning, succeeds because he recognizes the limitations of materialist explanations. The supernatural demands an intellectual humility that the strictly rational characters initially lack. Yet the vampire hunters employ modern technology with extraordinary enthusiasm. Stoker’s civilization requires both the laboratory and the crucifix. Perhaps that is among the novel’s more enduring insights: human knowledge becomes dangerously impoverished whenever intellectual certainty hardens into an inability to recognize its own limitations.
My principal irritation remains exactly what it was during my earlier readings: Stoker’s insistence on rendering certain characters’ speech phonetically. Christ. Those interminable passages of dialect, especially the Yorkshire speech, remain dreadful obstacles to my enjoyment. I understand the literary intention, the desire for authenticity and regional distinction, but must every peculiar vowel be reproduced on the page? I am perfectly willing to suspend disbelief concerning an undead aristocrat transforming into a bat. Asking me to decipher several paragraphs of aggressively phonetic English is another matter altogether. Even Van Helsing’s peculiar syntax occasionally tests my patience. The story is sufficiently compelling without turning conversation into an exercise in linguistic archaeology.
Still, these annoyances are ultimately minor beside the novel’s astonishing cultural longevity. The Dracula of popular imagination owes much to subsequent adaptations, particularly Bela Lugosi’s hypnotic elegance and Christopher Lee’s ferocious physicality. Stoker’s creation has become a cultural inheritance, endlessly reproduced in cinema, literature, theatre, and popular art. Countless vampires have followed, including Anne Rice’s beautifully tormented immortals, but they remain indebted to the imaginative architecture Stoker helped establish. Ironically, Dracula himself is less psychologically accessible than many of his descendants. His motives remain largely predatory, his interior life obscure. Perhaps that opacity preserves his monstrosity.
Rereading Dracula has also reminded me that my literary pleasures need not always depend upon novelty. I am more conscious now of its ideological assumptions, narrative contrivances, and occasional absurdities. Its conclusion feels rather hurried after so elaborate a pursuit, and certain characters possess more virtue than psychological complexity. Nevertheless, the novel continues to command my affection. I loved it as a teenager for its Gothic atmosphere and supernatural horrors. As an adult, I admire the extraordinary imaginative labor required to sustain them.
After more than a century, Stoker’s Count continues to inhabit the imagination with remarkable tenacity. And after three or four readings, I remain perfectly happy to invite him in again.
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En el Londres victoriano, entre humo, hierro y ruido de fábricas, hubo alguien mirando más allá de todo eso.
Charles Babbage no veía números: veía errores.
Veía cálculos hechos a mano llenos de fallos, lentos, imprecisos… y pensaba que tenía que haber otra forma.Y la imaginó.
No una simple calculadora, sino algo mucho más ambicioso: una máquina capaz de hacer operaciones sola, seguir instrucciones, guardar información y ejecutar procesos paso a paso.
La llamó Máquina Analítica.Dicho así suena normal, pero no lo era en absoluto.
Estamos hablando de engranajes, ruedas dentadas y tarjetas perforadas funcionando como lo haría, un siglo después, un ordenador.
Tenía memoria, tenía una “unidad de cálculo” y hasta algo parecido a un sistema de control.El problema no fue la idea.
Fue el momento.El gobierno británico empezó apoyándolo, pero aquello crecía, se complicaba, costaba dinero… y dejaron de verlo claro.
Cortaron la financiación.
Y la máquina se quedó en planos, piezas sueltas y una visión que nadie terminaba de entender.Nunca llegó a construirse.
Y ahí es donde entra otra figura clave.
Ada Lovelace.
Hija de Lord Byron, criada entre ciencia y sensibilidad, tenía una forma distinta de mirar las cosas.
Cuando estudió el trabajo de Babbage, no vio solo una máquina rara llena de engranajes.Vio algo completamente nuevo.
Entendió que esa máquina no estaba limitada a hacer cuentas.
Que podía trabajar con símbolos, con patrones, con instrucciones encadenadas.
En otras palabras: que podía hacer mucho más que matemáticas.Podía seguir un lenguaje.
En sus notas —que acabaron siendo más extensas que el propio trabajo de Babbage— dejó escrito lo que hoy consideramos el primer programa informático de la historia.
Un algoritmo pensado para ser ejecutado por una máquina que ni siquiera existía todavía.Eso es lo fuerte.
Estaba describiendo el futuro sin tener forma de verlo.
Pero, igual que pasó con Babbage, el mundo no acompañó.
Faltaban medios, faltaba comprensión… y faltaba creer en algo que sonaba demasiado extraño para la época.Se conocieron en 1833, cuando Ada tenía solo 17 años.
Babbage quedó impresionado por su inteligencia y la llamó la "Encantadora de Números".Ada murió joven, con 36 años.
Babbage siguió trabajando hasta el final, rodeado de piezas y de una idea que casi nadie entendía del todo.Y el tiempo pasó.
Décadas después aparecerían nombres como Alan Turing o John von Neumann, que sí conseguirían dar forma real a ese concepto. Pero no partían de cero.
La chispa ya estaba encendida.
Mucho antes.
Hoy, en museos de Londres, se conservan fragmentos de aquella Máquina Analítica: engranajes, mecanismos, tarjetas perforadas… restos físicos de una idea que llegó demasiado pronto.
Y eso es lo que deja pensando.
Porque no fue falta de inteligencia.
Ni de creatividad.Fue falta de contexto.
A veces, la historia no avanza cuando aparece una gran idea.
Avanza cuando el mundo está preparado para entenderla.Y en este caso, dos personas ya habían visto el futuro…
solo que lo vieron demasiado pronto.La máquina original completa no se puede ver… porque nunca llegó a existir.
Se quedó en planos, ideas y algunas piezas sueltas.
En el Science Museum (Londres) se conservan fragmentos auténticos: engranajes, mecanismos y partes incompletas que Babbage sí llegó a fabricar.
No es la máquina completa, pero son literalmente restos del proyecto original.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
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