Eileen Ahn:
This was the very first time I had an electronic device of my own. Listening to the same 100 songs in the corner of my room or the backseat of the car made me feel like I was in my own secret hideout.
I was the only one in the room without a MacBook. The guy sitting in front of me slid
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Janus Rose:
But perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism—an individualist solution to problems that can only be solved by collective action. This, says Cross, is the primary way tech platforms
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Charlie Chaplin:
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need
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在看 Open Culture 这篇关于 Woody Guthrie 吉他的文章里,点进了一个The Guardian的链接,了解到在二战刚完那会儿他与 Donald Trump 亲爹之间的某些交集:
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李如一:
想起多年前香港朋友對於 Mac 的評論(還是 iBook / Powerbook 年代):對住部 Mac 係開心啲嘅(對着 Mac 的確是會開心一點)。不過開心時通常都做不出什麼好東西。
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Kurt Vonnegut:
The best advice from my own era for you or for just about anybody anytime, I guess, is a prayer first used by alcoholics who hoped to never take a drink again: 'God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the
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Louise Erdrich:
Resist your disappearance
into sentimental monikers,
into the violent pattern of corporate logos,
into the mouth of the unholy flower of consumerism.
Resist being consumed.
Resist all funding sources but accept all money.
Cut the strings and dismantle the web
that needing money
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Maria Popova:
In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge: We move through the world by impulse and emotion, then look back and rationalize our choices, declaring ourselves creatures of reason.
Elias Khoury:
“The Holocaust happened. The Nakba is happening.”
一直不知道还有一首 Bob Dylan 版本的 Yesterday,是他在 1970 年 New Morning 专辑录制期间和 George Harrison 一起演奏的。一开始还以为是 AI 生成的。