Most modern billionaires are just so tacky. Go endow a library. Fund research and get your name on a cancer center. Sponsor an eccentric polymath who’s obsessed with marble. Build a museum. Fund public parks. Back climate research. Create something that outlives your ego.
A lot of weird stuff happened to me this weekend, but I just heard Big Star’s “Thirteen” out in the wild and suddenly all is right with the world.
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Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs theguardian.com/technology/2…
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grocery shopping in the mornings when the store is fully stocked and no one is in there >>>>
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Fascism comes for the arts precisely because art is a window to empathy and humanity.
If you have the Criterion app and have never seen GHOST WORLD, please see it before it leaves after September ends. It’s a fantastic film that apparently some people need convincing is worth a couple of hours of their time. I saw it 9x in theaters for a reason back in 2001.
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‘Fleabag’ has been named the fifth best show of the 21st Century by New York Times.
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The Church - When You Were Mine
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Tall dudes at concerts be like. Ok I think I want to stand in front of this significantly shorter woman
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“Oh, it’s called love… yes, it’s called love.”
New Order – Play at Home (1984)
One of the most iconic Factory time capsules
All filmed at The Haçienda, July 20th 1983 the club still raw concrete, steel beams, sweat, and possibility. FACTORY RECORDS the blueprint to Madchester
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David Foster Wallace was an absolute stickler for punctuality and good grammar when it came to teaching writing. These grammar guides are from a Liberal Arts course he was teaching in 2002.





























