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C’était un de ces hommes politiques à plusieurs faces, sans conviction, sans grands moyens, sans audace et sans connaissances sérieuses, avocat de province, joli homme de chef-lieu, gardant un équilibre de finaud entre tous les partis extrêmes, sorte de jésuite républicain et de champignon libéral de nature douteuse, comme il en pousse par centaine
... See moreGuy de Maupassant • Bel-Ami (French Edition)
cleverest observer. Consider
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP), Anthropic's recently released Claude3 model, considered by many to be the current state-of-the-art in GFMs, sourced the constitution used to steer model behavior using Polis.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Still, it's hard to overestimate deKolta's influence on his generation of magicians. He began a cult of creativity that certainly inspired two remarkable performers who followed him onto the Egyptian Hall stage. One, David Devant, is remembered today as Britain's greatest magician. The other, Charles Morritt, is largely forgotten today, a peripatet
... See moreTeller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
what the French fin de siècle social theorist Gabriel Tarde called “the grooves of borrowed thought”71—patterns of thought that are unlikely to create any serious disruption of the status quo.