There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.
— Luigi Pirandello, born in 1867
It has been claimed that, when shove comes to push, all poems are ultimately about sex or death
Orwell at his own request was buried in accordance with the Anglican rite.
… many on the left now share an unacknowledged but common assumption that a good work of art is made of good politics and that good politics is a matter of identity. The progressive view of a book or play depends on its political stance, and its stance—even its subject matter—is scrutinized in light of the group affiliation of the artist: Personal identity plus political position equals aesthetic value. This confusion of categories guides judgments all across the worlds of media, the arts, and education, from movie reviews to grant committees. Some people who register the assumption as doublethink might be privately troubled, but they don’t say so publicly. Then self-censorship turns into self-deception, until the recognition itself disappears—a lie you accept becomes a lie you forget. In this way, intelligent people do the work of eliminating their own unorthodoxy without the Thought Police.
Vice: “Security through obscurity is out, security through tomfoolery is in. That’s the basic philosophy sold byTrack THIS, “a new kind of incognito” browsing project, which opens up 100 tabs crafted to fit a specific character—a hypebeast, a filthy rich person, a doomsday prepper, or an influencer. The idea is that your browsing history will be depersonalized and poisoned, so advertisers won’t know how to target ads to you. It was developed as a collaboration between mschf (pronounced “mischief”) internet studios and Mozilla’s Firefox as a way of promoting Firefox Quantum, the newest Firefox browser…”
It is, however, a food, not a drug. The researchers sound a little nuts...
It has been claimed that, when shove comes to push, all poems are ultimately about sex or death
Orwell at his own request was buried in accordance with the Anglican rite.
… many on the left now share an unacknowledged but common assumption that a good work of art is made of good politics and that good politics is a matter of identity. The progressive view of a book or play depends on its political stance, and its stance—even its subject matter—is scrutinized in light of the group affiliation of the artist: Personal identity plus political position equals aesthetic value. This confusion of categories guides judgments all across the worlds of media, the arts, and education, from movie reviews to grant committees. Some people who register the assumption as doublethink might be privately troubled, but they don’t say so publicly. Then self-censorship turns into self-deception, until the recognition itself disappears—a lie you accept becomes a lie you forget. In this way, intelligent people do the work of eliminating their own unorthodoxy without the Thought Police.
Packer, unfortunately, seems to take it for granted that our “elites” are indeed elite. But being taught what to think — and thinking accordingly — is not the same as learning how to think.
It is, however, a food, not a drug. The researchers sound a little nuts...
Spinach chemical should be put on doping ban list, say researchers - CNN
Ali Almossawi, author
A charming reminder
of the arguing techniques that undermine one’s position.Private Equity and “Institutional” Investor Owned U.K. Utility Engaged in Massive Fraud, Regulatory Evasions, Worker Coercion, Caused “Catastrophic” Environmental Damage
Abuses like raw sewage on beaches and faking regulatory filings make a U.K. water utility a new low in privatization scandals.
A Washington Post video story – This is how Google’s Chrome lets the cookies track you, imagined in real life – “Chrome has become like spyware for the company, allowing more tracker cookies than any other browser. The Post’s Geoffrey A. Fowler imagines how that might feel in real life, and gives advice for more privacy-conscious web browsing…”
ROGER SIMON: The Ghost of Hunter Thompson Lurks over Mueller’s Coming Testimony.
How Russia’s President Putin Explains The End Of The ‘Liberal’ Order Moon of Alabama
No, Mr Putin, western liberalism is not obsolete FT. Reaction to Putin’s interview with the FT yesterday.
Globalisation is dead and we need to invent a new world order The Economist. So what Putin said shouldn’t be that controversial?
