Zach Winters
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Seldom Seen Smith does this approximately once every 50 pages in The Monkey Wrench Gang
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? Cluely has a use case? It gives you conversation cues when the restaurant can't Verify Your ID on a date so they have to bring you a grape juice
Lee declined to share Cluely's financial metrics just four months after boasting how quickly the startup is growing.
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On visionary experiences like Bistami's, whether you'd actually like to have one, and Harald Voetmann's Visions and Temptations
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Eerie. Imbued me with dread about aging and death. Includes a particularly effective portrayal of an irritating academic. Recommend!
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On an attempted political assassination and what happened in the aftermath (in Herat in 1427, that is)
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I wrote a review about a slightly curious book about messianism and progressive religion in America
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"So I guess we just keep taking on debt until, I don't know. People think we're Harvard, or something."
“Is the university functioning as a kind of tax-free pass-through organization?” Read Clifford Ando’s piece in COMPACT:
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The "Humanities" will survive. They have survived much worse. Whether the same is true for the institutions claiming to be their patrons seems to be the open question. But as the saying goes, you reap what you sow.
And it begins. No music history and theory, comp lit, classics, and on and on.
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I haven't seen analysis this childish in 20 years. The "good guys" and the "bad guys," give me a break
The FP’s @Coldxman on the myth of moral equivalence in Gaza: “I believe that in the war between Israel and Hamas, the Israelis are the good guys and Hamas are the bad guys. “I’m not saying that everything the IDF does is justifiable… What I mean is that Israel’s goals as a
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(This is properly a point from McLuhan, who was prescient on many things)
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An imperfect analogy, I think, but it is of course still true that each new extension of the self through technology can also bring an amputation (of previous technologies, or ways of thinking). This makes it very important to be aware of what you are choosing to autoamputate.
If you're using a sextant to calculate your longitude, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your knowledge of the heavens to a machine is an embarassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public
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The scenarios these guys always spin up for their commercials are very funny, though. Completely uncanny
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