Extracting tribute from the vassal states of your network Kingdom in exchange for protection. Lindy.
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Girls with scars from cutting, that's something you (or at least I) don't see much of any more. (Praise God)
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If 'out of the heart the mouth speaks' I am sad to report (after an altercation with my brother-in-law) it was hate in there all along. Damn.
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Hoping Andrew McLuhan doesn't listen to the latest from Joe and Jordan. Peterson saying that MIT "just videotaping lectures" is a different medium (and message) to his "tightly edited", "background-image-filled" videos proves he doesn't know what a medium is.
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Reading chapter 8 of Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan and thinking of @ChanceswWolves. I'm the transmitter, I'm the tower... I'm a human radio station.
Understanding Media (McLuhan) has an insight almost every paragraph, but University as implosion and akin to young people rushing behind the medieval city wall is striking.
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Endurance training does not lead to greater strength but greater strength does lead to endurance.
That's an asymmetry.
(Barry Ross, Underground Secrets to Faster Running)
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Never read a book recommended by someone who is in a book club. Anti-models. Time is too precious for status-reading.
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Has anyone tried muting "AI, A.I., etc."? Does it mute practically everything or is it the saving grace it portends to be?
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