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you don’t know where anything comes from
A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an excellent investigation exposing how the United States Mint buys its gold from Colombian drug cartels, despite a law that it should only purchase legally mined American gold.
The main thing...
the big leagues are calling
We get more calls than we used to.
In medieval times, your life would revolve around the few calls you got. You would wake to the rooster’s call, heed the call to prayer, gather with the town crier’s call, and occasionally be called to arm...
moloch and the machines
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brainrot, gooning doomscrolling bedrotting,
dissociating themselves through the enshittified ragebait clickbait looking for a dopamine fix,
nonchalant doomers repressing the AI overview o...
how to look at brainrot
What do you feel when I ask you to compare these two images?
The first is an AI-generated picture of Tung Tung Tung Sahur, and the second is Mystery and Melancholy of a Street by Giorgio de Chirico. The former is widely derided as “interne...
symbiotic virality
“Do you believe we are in a goondemic?”
I remember the question striking me as flippant. We were an hour into the forum—crowded by Berkeley standards—and all the other students had been asking more interesting, earnest questions about lang...
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