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“The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies.”- Edward Snowden

“The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies.”- Edward Snowden

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“I don’t think character exists anymore.” –Rachel Cusk

“I don’t think character exists anymore.” –Rachel Cusk

... which is strange because this morning I was thinking exactly the same thing. However the thought is bluntly disputed by Brittany Allen. In her squib on Rachel Cusk's Life of M, more than likely about Natalie Portman, Allen writes, "Yet those are people, in her pages."

Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images

Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images

...There are few images to be found. One has to dig for them like an archaeologist. One has to search through this ravaged landscape to find anything at all... It's often tied up with risk, of course, which I would never shun, but I see so few people

"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

—it is the “narraton particles” emitted from the Oort Cloud that explain the capacity of a certain well-known terrestrial species for telling stories, or in other words for presenting as true what is in fact false. –"Back from the Oort Cloud: An Interview with JSR in PLOOI Magazine,