Category: Politics
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mutually assured distraction: a plea for generative disarmament
What if a re-run of the Cold War, but in addition to stockpiling nukes, we also stockpiled ideologically purified knowledges with a savagely short half-life, as if in some nightmare that even Philip K Dick might have shied away from making into a cautionary tale?
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nothing was learned
It may be too much to hope that this is the last gasp for the “horror movie Cliff Notes” approach to history.
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the Way is the way things are
This year’s big meta-project is, in a nutshell, to worry less about things.
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let’s just act with a bit of [a] sense of humility
The weasels are looking forward to their ride on the merry-go-round.
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get into the trenches
It’s no fun when insufferable people are right. But it happens.