things i always knew to be true but other people said better
things that make you go, YES!
things i always knew to be true but other people said better
Anthropology teaches us that every society tells stories about why inequality is natural and inevitable.
I stumbled upon a brilliant piece by Mandy Brown that makes a clear observation: Those who sell us artificial intelligence are hawking ideology rather than technology. | Angelos Arnis
you don’t need to second guess the outcome when you trust the process that got you there
Tuesday Thread: Your Favorite/Most Influential Class
People without culture will never significantly change the culture and I stand by that.
The Audacious Roundup
Yes, it’s not everything — but if we can only cheer when it’s everything, we’re going to live sad lives.
Daniel Hunter • The real reason Musk retreated
If no one wrote about romance or frivolity or joy or fantasy because times were too dark then we have nothing but despairing, didactic dramas. Making sense of the world takes so many forms! Some of them just engage the lineage of despair more explicitly than others.
The World Has Always Been On Fire
nothing has actually changed other than your awareness
The World Has Always Been On Fire
regarding the world burning and always having been burning — (but on the other hand, things have also certainly changed)
“[I’ve] been in the same body [my] whole life,” she says, recalling a realization she had during those trips. “I understood it. I was like, ‘These arms climbed the jungle gym. And they held an award on a TV show.’
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this is so much easier to understand in my childhood home / hometown — my body is the same and it is floating in the same surroundings as it always has been. it has done these same things here (Lorde)
Nothing ages so badly as our intellectual history.
Neither Here Nor There - Urban Omnibus
“The old people? They die. Now it’s young people with the social media. After corona, pew! The internet!”
archive.ph
couldn’t have said it better myself