Monday, January 9, 2023
And also, we're no smarter them, we just have more crude knowledge in part 'cause of them. But like, you know, they were just as clever as us, you know?
— Bhaskar Sunkara on people from ancient history, "Bhaskar Sunkara: Socialism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #349"
Sunday, January 8, 2023
How ur Kaws collection is gonna look to ur grandkids someday
— @artreviewpower100 via @sebastianstudio
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Artists are capitalists masquerading as visionaries.
— @jerrygogosian
Friday, January 6, 2023
In a single Ohio factory, Hoover boasted, the FBI had already signed up 133 "confidential informants," each of whom "believes that he is the bureau's sole source of information within that organization."
— Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Text doesn't exist without context.
— H*
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
McCarthy evidently believed that by courting Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, an avatar of hyper-performative politics, he could co-opt her wing of the party. He was set to offer her valuable committee assignments, and, according to Draper, had even offered to create a new leadership position for her. But her elevation would be valuable to other Trumpists only if there were concrete things they hoped to accomplish together. Putting Greene on the Oversight Committee does nothing to help those who aspire to her notoriety. They don’t want policy; they want airtime.
— Michelle Goldberg, "Leopards Eat Kevin McCarthy’s Face," The New York Times
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Hoover aspired to build the nation's most extensive collection of bullets, guns, cartridges, typewriters, tire treads, and paper watermarks, to assist local police in identifying scattered bits of evidence.
— Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Monday, January 2, 2023
This may be the end of using writing as a benchmark for aptitude and intelligence, Daniel Herman writes.
The work that ChatGPT—an artificial-intelligence program that generates sophisticated text in response to any prompt—can produce right now is better than the large majority of writing seen by your average teacher or professor.
— @theatlantic
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Each box corresponds to one week in an average 88-year lifespan, and every filled-in box is one that you have already lived.
— Instagram ad for 4K Weeks
Saturday, December 31, 2022
The truth is that power does not simply arrive. It has to be created, policy by policy, law by law, step by excruciating step.
— Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Friday, December 30, 2022
It's very good.
— David texting about Librería Torre de Babel while we were in the International Emerald Museum
Thursday, December 29, 2022
There's lots of things that I'd be tempted to buy, but nothing I can form a narrative around.
— David on items in the market stalls.
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
I like that he included the dirt under their fingernails.
— Kaya on Botero's Guerrilla de Eliseo Velásquez, 1988
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
We are all just inspirations for the record of ourselves.
— Ashton Kutcher, Vengeance
Monday, December 26, 2022
To prevent future large-scale losses to Overland Park's street tree canopy, the City is no longer permitting the planting of maple trees in the public right-of-way. Maple trees currently make up 35 percent of our street tree canopy, so if another invasive insect targeted maple trees, there would be an even larger problem.
— "Planning for the future of OP's tree canopy," OVERview
Sunday, December 25, 2022
A visit to this exhibition full of enormous exhibits will reveal that I have included 261 examples of items beginning with the letter E.
— Mike Wilks, The Ultimate Alphabet
Saturday, December 24, 2022
EXPERTS: 90% OF ONLINE CONTENT WILL BE AI-GENERATED BY 2026
— Article headline via @sebastianstudio
Friday, December 23, 2022
Almost all artists are sincere about what they do. But keep in mind what Oscar Wilde said: "All bad poetry is sincere."
— @jerrysaltz
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Joe Riedesel
Grandview Mo
— Cursive on a framed plank of wood in the workshop
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
It doesn't matter what you meant.
— The jock kid to Spielberg after the ditch day movie was shown to the class, The Fabelmans
