Virtue never has been as respectable as money.
~ Mark Twain
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Monthly Archives: January 2024
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You want to make it to the top? There is no top. However high you climb, there is always somebody above you. Mailer wanted to be Hemingway, Hemingway wanted to be Joyce, and Joyce was painfully aware he’d never be another Shakespeare.
~ William Deresiewicz
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For some people, social media is inconsequential — a cat photo here, a banana slip TikTok there. For others, it’s all-consuming — a helpless catapult into a slurry of anxiety, self-harm and depression. To each his own internet.
~ Pamela Paul via The New York Times
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Generative AI Statement of the Day
via University of California, Santa Cruz
The Generative AI Statement recently published by University of California, Santa Cruz can be found:
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Campus Life at
Minnesota State Mankato
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The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Liberalism is not averse to evolution and change; and where spontaneous change has been smothered by government control, it wants a great deal of change of policy.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
~ J.D. Salinger
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