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The Antidote to the Irreversibility of Life: Hannah Arendt on What Forgiveness Really Means
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgI have occasionally been asked why I’m obsessed with brands. The answer is that brands are things made out of belief. They are amorphous *meanings* that structure our relationships; they are already the same sort of thing that a religion or a culture is. With the cultural production service economy, and now with cryptocurrencies, all of the... See more
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
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Your milieu is not the same as your sister’s. It is an ever-shifting, individual configuration of information flows. The Twitter feed you have curated is a milieu. Your friend group (which is not the same as the friend groups of the other people in that group!) is a milieu.
It is by changing your milieu that you change yourself.
It is by changing your milieu that you change yourself.
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
Average True Range — Market Makers - Documentation
walrus-flower-cnxs.squarespace.com"The art market is neither a hero nor a villain but mirrors society’s evolving connections with art, value, and finance. Art can do many things; it can depict the irreconcilable and the absurd, whether loudly amidst the daily discourse of society or discreetly as insiders obscure the underlying allusions."
If Apple wanted to offer exclusive music, they would cut a deal with Taylor Swift. They have the cash to do it. They wouldn’t waste time on locking up Kalevi Aho. That’s so obvious I shouldn’t even have to say it, but (given all the smoke and mirrors here), I really do.
So we’re clearly dealing with the bad Apple here. And the fact that the company... See more
So we’re clearly dealing with the bad Apple here. And the fact that the company... See more
Ted Gioia • Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label
“There’s no way to make these systems without human labor at the level of informing the ground truth of the data — reinforcement learning with human feedback, which again is just kind of tech-washing precarious human labor. It’s thousands and thousands of workers paid very little, though en masse it’s very expensive, and there’s no other way to... See more
Devin Coldewey • Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' | TechCrunch
In the early 2010s, a new phenomenon emerged called an “Instagram wall”. In part, it was an outgrowth of the street-art movement of the 00s, a gentrification of graffiti that saw clean, officially sanctioned murals take over city walls, particularly in neighbourhoods where decrepit warehouses were plentiful. Street art became an attraction in and... See more
Kyle Chayka • The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
One thinks of Amit Majmudar, Christian Wiman, Tracy K. Smith, Ryan Wilson, and many others. These poets are only rarely published in prestigious publications (or, at least, publications with a prestigious legacy), and the group that should be the biggest supporter of these poets—conservatives—has tended to ignore poetry and the arts. When... See more