I can’t imagine the level of mediocre entitlement that leads to “painters have too much prestige.” Like it’s not enough that creatives are broke, the problem is that they’re likable and respected.
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I can’t imagine the level of mediocre entitlement that leads to “painters have too much prestige.” Like it’s not enough that creatives are broke, the problem is that they’re likable and respected. -
There's a piece I published that I don't like very much (it didn't turn out very well) but which keeps getting cited periodically, especially within South Africa, and I've come to the depressing realization that it's mostly because it's not paywalled.There's a piece I published that I don't like very much (it didn't turn out very well) but which keeps getting cited periodically, especially within South Africa, and I've come to the depressing realization that it's mostly because it's not paywalled.
It was a general overview intended for non-specialists, but you can easily Google it. Am I an expert in any of the things I talked about? Not especially; I studied the U.S. side of the anti-apartheid movement. But again, you can find this, and other materials are harder to access.
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"The democratic denial has reached its apogee: a prime minister from the party that came fourth and didn't even take part in the republican front. We're entering a regime crisis.""The democratic denial has reached its apogee: a prime minister from the party that came fourth and didn't even take part in the republican front. We're entering a regime crisis."
Macron appoints conservative Michel Barnier as prime minister
The appointment of the EU's former Brexit negotiator, a member of the right-wing Les Républicains party, comes after almost two months of deadlock following legislative elections that produced no clear majority in Parliament.
Le Monde.fr (www.lemonde.fr)
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Going through the records of the AFL-CIO’s South Africa correspondence, I once found a memo with a handwritten note. In all caps, it read “GET ME ALL THE INFO YOU CAN ON CHUBBY CHICKEN!!!” and I’ve been haunted by my failure to learn more about what pr...Going through the records of the AFL-CIO’s South Africa correspondence, I once found a memo with a handwritten note. In all caps, it read “GET ME ALL THE INFO YOU CAN ON CHUBBY CHICKEN!!!” and I’ve been haunted by my failure to learn more about what prompted this.
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The best way to understand the #history of mental healthcare is that it should be understood as a political system because it's overwhelmingly funded and sustained through government action: even here, with insurance dollars, it's because of the ACA.The best way to understand the #history of mental healthcare is that it should be understood as a political system because it's overwhelmingly funded and sustained through government action: even here, with insurance dollars, it's because of the ACA.
This is grotesque because hospitalization should always be the choice of last resort, but here, there's actually a profit incentive to do so.
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One of the more unfortunate things I see online are mainstream liberals arguing with clearly marginalized people (trans folks, people of color, etc) about how they NEED to vote, and if they don’t, they’re going to face some consequences for it (subtext...Before anybody licks their chops and decides to vote-scold me: I’m voting, leave me the fuck alone.
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One of the more unfortunate things I see online are mainstream liberals arguing with clearly marginalized people (trans folks, people of color, etc) about how they NEED to vote, and if they don’t, they’re going to face some consequences for it (subtext...One of the more unfortunate things I see online are mainstream liberals arguing with clearly marginalized people (trans folks, people of color, etc) about how they NEED to vote, and if they don’t, they’re going to face some consequences for it (subtext: they deserve it).
This is not the path to electoral victory. Accusing them of being privileged for not voting is not helpful, and when it comes from a clearly privileged person to somebody who isn’t it’s farcical. Nor does it help to explain “the stakes” to somebody who feels those stakes so much more acutely.
But on top of being insulting and deeply patronizing, it’s a colossal waste of time and a way to pretend that you’re accomplishing something. People who are oppressed should be allowed to vent online without being vote-scolded. Just let them process? Let them be? Democracy will not be saved because you picked a fight with somebody who’s clearly going through something.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Jacques Pepin’s instagram is very soothing — an elderly Frenchman gives budget recipe walkthroughs. I could ask for nothing more.I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Jacques Pepin’s instagram is very soothing — an elderly Frenchman gives budget recipe walkthroughs. I could ask for nothing more.
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Again and again, people act like this technology is inevitable somehow, but it spits out absolute bullshit, is ludicrously expensive to operate, contributes to misinformation, and to fully utilize we would have to remake our whole power grid.Again and again, people act like this technology is inevitable somehow, but it spits out absolute bullshit, is ludicrously expensive to operate, contributes to misinformation, and to fully utilize we would have to remake our whole power grid.
Copilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibility
Martin Bernklau is a German journalist who reported for decades on criminal trials. He looked himself up on Bing, which suggests you use its Copilot AI. Copilot then listed a string of crimes Bernk…
Pivot to AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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But the Gallaghers were so much better at feuding than making music.@julieofthespirits There's a whole essay I want to write on how the Kinks' discography basically anticipated the next 50+ years of British politics and the weird grievance/nostalgia that has animated it.
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But the Gallaghers were so much better at feuding than making music.@julieofthespirits I also like the Kinks' output in whereas I don't like Oasis: the novelty is how much they detest each other.
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But the Gallaghers were so much better at feuding than making music.@julieofthespirits We can only hope the Davies keep feuding
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But the Gallaghers were so much better at feuding than making music.But the Gallaghers were so much better at feuding than making music.
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If Disney weren’t a bunch of cowards they would have put every single staff member at the Star Wars hotel in a Wookiee suit, and then when you’d ask them for fresh towels or a mint or whatever they’d just look at you and go “MMMMMRRRRRGGGGGHHHH”@jalefkowit One of the unsold joys of the Star Wars Holiday special are the minutes-long stretches of the Wookiees all shouting at each other with no subtitles.