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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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via The New York Times:
Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race
by Sheera FrenkelPaul Mozur and Adam Satariano
published on April 12, 2026
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Robert Mapplethorpe, a student of photographic history, wasn’t conferring dignity on a taboo subculture; he was after great photographs, although he understood that one of the things that can make a photograph great is the charge of the forbidden. What unified his work, across subjects, was what the French call le glacis de la lumière — a polished, technically exacting finish.
~ Louis Menand via The New Yorker
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Resitance is by nature reactive; it is not forward-looking.
~ Mark Lilla
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Europeans are right to gloat they are not under the rule of Trump. But for all of Trump’s ills, I see him as a sign of the underlying dynamism of the US. Who else would have elected so whimsical a leader to this high office? Trump forces questions that Europeans have no appetite to confront, proud as they are in being superior to both Americans and Chinese.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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