Tag: society
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Happy Independence Day!
Read this piece in Compact Magazine from James Vaughn, a historian, at the University of Chicago and find myself quite amazed by the unique historical event that is the 250th anniversary of The United States. The Persian and Roman empires have been in the cultural psyche recently, because America has warred with both Iran and…
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Slop & FIWB
Is slop the word of the year? Maybe so, or maybe it was in 2024 and I’m just behind. AI slop seems to have mode us realize the other places where we’re already doing slop. Where good aesthetics are absent or have all flattened into a unified, white-fluorescent, expression. And this tweet sums up what…