Sync’s rise has been hastened by changes in the music industry itself, where income has dried up for all but the most successful artists.
~ Ryan Francis Bradley via The New York Times Magazine
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.
~ György Lukács
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For two decades now, social media companies have been virtually untouchable, profitably floating above accusations that they normalize propaganda, addict children and degrade our character.
~ Tim Wu via The New York Times
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I am not going to New York, I am leaving Paris. That’s quite different.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~ John Ruskin
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In short, I can see only downsides to the Trump Administration’s decision to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk, particularly considering the far less costly policy alternatives it could have employed. One gets the sense that the people making these decisions at DoW are not acting with strategic clarity nor any respect for the basic principles of the American republic—not to mention in stark contrast to President Trump’s own stated vision of letting AI thrive in America.
~ Dean Ball via Hyperdimensional
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Most colleges today underinvest in student advising and mentoring, and in intensive internships and career development. Our standard testing practices encourage mindless cramming and dumping, rather than critical engagement. All students would benefit from more frequent, low-stakes, real-time, individualized assessments.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.
~ Dieter Rams
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My mother and I exchanged knowing glances, but we never said the obvious nor asked any questions on both of our minds. We knew there would not be much longer. There was nothing to say or ask that would furnish any useful information; inquiry, at that stage, can only inflict pain.
~ Dean Ball via Hyperdimensional
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In the past thirty or so years, the academy has replaced the church as the center of the liberal moral imagination, providing the sense of a community bound by ethics, a firmament of texts and knowledge that should inform action, and a meeting space for like-minded people.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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