Why Facebook and Google are incentivised to make their products worse
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
Guest Lecture
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Whatever the social effects of talk radio or the partisan agendas of certain hosts, it is a fallacy that political talk radio is motivated by ideology. It is not. Political talk radio is a business, and it is motivated by revenue. The conservatism that dominates today’s AM airwaves does so because it generates high Arbitron ratings, high ad rates, and maximum profits.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Campus Map
Dundalk Institute of Technology
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What determines a society’s health is not the existence of an elite, but the effectiveness of the elite, and whether the relationship between the elites and everybody else is mutually respectful.
~ David Brooks via The Atlantic
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Like human resources, the Democrats are a party of norms, procedure, bureaucracy, DEI initiatives, rule following, language policing, and compliance. It is in this way that the Democratic Party feels not so much infuriating and threatening, but just kind of an annoying bummer.
~ Mike Pesca
via The HR-ification of the Democratic Party
published by The Atlantic on November 12, 2024
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Guest Lecture
with Odd Arne Westad
via The Rest is Politics
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You can draw the blinds in a brothel, but people still know what you’re doing.
~ Iain Banks
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