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Monthly Archives: June 2025
Campus Life at the
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We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live.
~ Jenny Odell
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Campus Life at
the University of Virginia
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The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man’s land between the various established fields.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Campus Life at the
Cal State Long Beach
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You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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Men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The Romans, foreseeing troubles, dealt with them at once, and, even to avoid a war, would not let them come to a head, for they knew that war is not to be avoided, but is only put off to the advantage of others.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Campus Life at the
University of Oxford
Comedy Break
Grouch (Joker Parody) – SNL
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