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via the American Affairs Journal:
A Feature Not a Bug: Managerialism as Operating System
by Robert Bellafiore
published in their Winter 2025 edition
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A disproportionate number of Anthropic employees seem to be the children of novelists or poets. Still, their first stabs at screenwriting lacked a certain je ne sais quoi: in one scintillating exchange, the Human asks the Assistant if it’s actually important to add salt to spaghetti water.
~ Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker
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Live From Austin City Limits TV
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The British stumbled upon an unexpectedly powerful idea: Sever the symbolism of the state from the political power of the state, and bestow those two different governing roles on two different people. Power has little majesty in the British system. Prime ministers reside in an apartment over their office. People are rude to them all the time.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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John Shalikashvili – the American four-star general who served as the 13th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe – was born on this day – June 27, 1936 – in Warsaw, Poland.
He was a graduate of Bradley University, George Washington University, and the Naval War College.
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