MJ @OpenIsBest
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Ring, Amazon's doorbell camera company, says its tech just makes neighborhoods safer. Critics contend that it’s the largest privately owned surveillance dragnet in US history, with significant potential for abuse.
"Happy Bloomsday" Uhhh this is incredibly insensitive towards people who lack interiority. Maybe consider who your celebration of stream of consciousness narration is excluding
Rejoice, there's a new @KnowYrEnemyPod episode dropping first thing tomorrow morning, and, I shit you not, it's 2.5 hours on Leo Strauss's 1953 tour de force, NATURAL RIGHT & HISTORY, with brilliant friend of ours, and friend of the pod, Matt Dinan (@second_sailing)
Flannery O'Connor on the teaching of literature in school: "And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed."
Forcing kids to read things they hate just simply doesn’t work. Our reading philosophy at Alpha is simple: kids learn to love reading by reading what they love. Sure, it’s important for kids to be exposed to classic literature. But being forced to read highbrow literature as a
I never would’ve guessed the complete functional collapse of Google search would’ve arrived so quickly. But it’s here.
And I am a realist who understands computing and AI deeply, having worked in the field for over five decades - where I continue to work - both witnessing the changes as well as inventing things that made those changes possible. AI is useful. But I’m certain AI will not do 80% of the economically valuable work humans do today, for 80% of all jobs.
I'm a technology optimist. I’ve spent four decades studying disruptive innovation, from the microprocessor, the internet, mobile phones to OpenAI. I'm certain AI will do 80% of the economically valuable work humans do today, for 80% of all jobs, faster than most believe. The
“Wemby is just a bully. I dont want to see any crying from him when the Knicks give him a taste of his own medicine” Wemby after getting a taste of his own medicine:
hey do you want to watch the knicks game at the palantir popup in the west village. heard about it via a substack i follow by someone in the new media cohort from a top vc. david protein bars is catering. there will be lots of microinfluencers talking about their daily routines.
To the women in this country….I’m Sorry
i'm lowkey not surviving modelland
“The vibes are off in here, what do you say we book Wu-Tang Clan for Game 4?”
Wu-Tang Clan will reportedly perform at Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals Game 4 halftime show pagesix.com/2026/06/10/ent…
I was once courtside at a Pels pregame and, on his way to the hoop, Josh Hart hummed a little song in my direction. AMA
Glad I got here early… 😳 Wu-Tang Clan rehearsal for tonight’s MSG halftime show. 🔥🔥 More here, on the Game 4 Finals live blog, at @TheAthletic nytimes.com/athletic/live-…
Yesterday someone tried to tell me we're better off without literacy because writing is a means of control. My friend, those who seek your oppression don't want you literate. The ability to read & communicate is our best defense against tyranny. And they're taking it from us.
If you truly love the Knicks you will open up Alice Tully Hall for a watch party
If the Knicks win the championship this week, we will arrange a meeting between Jose Alvarado and Hong Sangsoo.
TLDR: No one blamed the Iraq War on Quentin Skinner or his students
The thing is, however dense the book and discussion, it wasn't a stretch at all to justify a long episode on Leo Strauss and this text in particular within KYE's remit: the connections to the American right are there (however ambiguous a figure Strauss himself). Skinner though?
Ahead of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, journalist @NoahShachtman details the intrusive surveillance machine that billionaire Knicks owner James Dolan has built at Madison Square Garden. "Every sports venue is going to have security measures, of course, and many of those may involve facial recognition. But no venue in the country deploys facial recognition so widely and weaponizes it in the way that James Dolan does. "He uses facial recognition not just to suspected troublemakers out, but more importantly he has all sorts of enemies lists, and those enemies include people that he might be in legal disputes with, people that might have tweeted mean stuff at him. "And in our story for Wired, maybe the most shocking thing was there was a trans woman who — for the crime of being trans — was surveilled by James Dolan's spy machine second by second, minute by minute, even when she went into the bathroom, when she came out, because James Dolan didn't want her close to the team."
Hercules and Nessus, by Giambologna, 1599
so my best friend sent me this song that Tyra Banks made herself for a dystopian young adult book she wrote over a decade ago and i'm being so serious i think she officially made the worst song of all time
This little intellectual revenge fantasy is a product of what Dosteovsky calls "underground syndrome" where someone waits in the shadows, fearing and loathing, and then suffers the illusion that by a single act they can invalidate an entire person's thought—let alone their life!
Imagine spending your whole life becoming an academic expert. Then a random guy online tells you that you are wrong about your own field. And he's right. But you can never admit that. Because it would mean admitting that your life was a lie. That is the dilemma of many academics.
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