I’ve always disliked the claim that “poor people don’t have time to think.” The moment you treat wealth as a prerequisite for thought, you’ve turned intellect into a class privilege and the moment you treat faith as the absence of reason, you’ve committed the same mistake
Queridos escritores y escritoras, tenemos necesidad de vosotros, de vuestra imaginación, de vuestra creatividad narrativa, de vuestro pensamiento vivaz. Necesitamos todo ello para crear espacios de libertad y autenticidad en los que la gracia divina pueda hacer resonar la promesa de consuelo y paz. https://t.co/cN6LLYbCWe
when someone is edgy and also doesn’t want people to respond negatively to them it’s like Okay well then you have to pick one because you can’t identify as Provocative but Afraid of Provoking . that’s not real
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
I keep thinking about Backrooms, that it’s a movie made by someone young now, about people being trapped in and forced to wander and sift through the banal and garish detritus of the late 20th century, warped and monstrous things being built from flimsy memories of that era
Part of what's silly about the Emily Wilson fuss is people on twitter talk as if her Homer translations have the Greeks all go to therapy and work out their differences over cups of soy ambrosia and then you actually read her verse and it's metal as hell
When people realize this isn’t just true of “songs”, “movies”, “memes”, “influencers” and “celebrity drama” but the viral content depicting values, politics, “life events”, and ideologies, we’ll get somewhere.