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u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’

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media will make u go Wow i wish i was 15 again and then u will think wow what the hell fuck am i even saying. for gods sake No i dont

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Years ago, I was still a little boy. A stranger came to us. He looked as if he’d been in the war.

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gnossienne

n. a moment of awareness that someone you’ve known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life, and somewhere in the hallways of their personality is a door locked from the inside, a stairway leading to a wing of the house that you’ve never fully explored—an unfinished attic that will remain maddeningly unknowable to you, because ultimately neither of you has a map, or a master key, or any way of knowing exactly where you stand.

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Oakland Tribune, California, May 28, 1955

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Two paths - Garni temple (I c.), Kotayk province, 2025

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"if i forget Palestine, i forget my self."

Homs-1959.

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𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔢𝔫𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥?

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Current copyright infringement by the LLM development companies makes me think of Aaron Swartz, who, back in 2010, downloaded just 70 GB of papers from the academic database JSTOR. He faced $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison, which led to his suicide in 2013. Swartz's goal was to make academic work more accessible to the general public, and those in power esentially murdered him for it. I suppose every immoral act is acceptable, as long as it yields substantial financial profit for the right people.

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

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there used to be a website called weheartit

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it’s fucking wild because one day you’re like i guess i’m not dying tragically young and you go to the store and you buy dental floss, ingredients for soup, and a bath mat

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my new desk set-up has got me feeling very productive.

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the semantic drift of the term "liminal" genuinely pisses me off and i know its petty. LIMINAL IS A TRANSITIONAL STAGE BETWEEN TWO STATES- OR. IF WE WANT TO WIDEN THE BOUNDARY HERE. IT COULD BE ON THE VERY EDGE OF BECOMING SOMETHING ELSE. just because something is abandoned doesn't mean its liminal. in fact, that shopping mall was MORE liminal when it was dying off and shutting down outlets every month than it is 5 years later when the space is fully abandoned.

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sad slav saturday

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Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet In the Cinema (1983), dir. Donatella Baglivo

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sometimes i say “i think” but actually i know. on account of being the knower.