Commencement speaker: I love AI and I hate all of you. They gave me a big check to be here. I love firing people at my big company. I bet none of you would get jobs at my business now that we have AI
(booing)
Commencement speaker: oh? What? What?
saying this on espn during the nba playoffs is honestly just an enormous deal, and deserves all the credit in the world. not hyperbole to say it could be life saving for someone
When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.
Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.
We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.
We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.
Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.
That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.
Said was beautifully dressed, although I think there's only a tenuous connection between intellectualism and an interest in aesthetics. Nonetheless, an interesting thing about Said is that he used tailors — real tailors — who are among the last to treat customers as real individuals in an age of mass production. My friend Eugene Rabkin, who's coming out with a book this fall titled Torn: Fashion and Post-Modernism, recently sent me this quote by Walter Benjamin:
“On the theory of dandyism. The tailor’s the last line of business in which the customer is still catered to on an individual basis. More and more, the person commissioning work plays a heroic role.”
If we're to take Marx's theory of alienation seriously, then having a relationship with a tailor — depending on how the shop is set up — can be a way to mitigate some of the alienation inherent in capitalist production.
C’est une blague ? Mais qui est cette personne et comment peut-elle être invitée sur ce plateau ? Parce que nous sommes des athlètes, nous n’avons pas le droit de donner notre avis ? Nous n’avons pas le droit d’être horrifiés par la situation ? Et au fait, rien ne sert de se donner un style, c’est pitoyable de reprendre le tristement célèbre « Shut up and dribble » de Laura Ingraham, vous n’avez rien compris malheureusement…