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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Life experienced on phones and through social media leaves us lonely and alienated from one another; this has led to an existence that’s somehow at once both intensely individual and intensely tribal.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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Is your own existence so replete with equanimity you find no outlet for worry except on behalf of others?
~ Iain Banks
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via The Atlantic:
Why the Closing of Harvard’s Writing Center Matters
by Tyler Austin Harper
published on August 19, 2026
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For years, the architecture of higher education quietly encouraged students to believe that the point of a class, and indeed of the entire college experience, was the credential—that the teacher-student relationship was a transactional one that ended with a grade. But if the grade is the goal, and a machine can get you the grade, the machine is not a shortcut; it’s just efficiency.
~ Dan Rockmore via The New Yorker
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