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The poet William Empson said life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can’t be solved by analysis.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
This is the genius behind the kvetching about “political correctness,” for instance: you get to keep talking the way you’ve always talked, but instead of having to worry you’re being lazy, you get to tell yourself you’re actually being courageous.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
In the beginning the internet seemed good.
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
don’t want to be diminished, and I do want to be glorified—not in one shining moment, but whenever I want.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Meghan Hannes, a cyber-insurance portfolio manager, remembers the moment she realised the ground had shifted, back in 2019. “My claims person called and said, ‘Hey Meg, we had seven ransomware demands this week, and they’re all for millions of dollars,’” she said