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Submission is even more unethical than domination.
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Those things which are separate long to be joined; those that are joined, to be separated.
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The only reason generative AI technologies like ChatGPT have a snowball’s chance of replacing mainstream professional writing is because mainstream professional writing has been devolving toward the vapid, voiceless, informative “style” of algorithmic writing for three decades.
Vicenzo Barney
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The Republican Party, in turning on democracy, has ceded the right to continue to exist. Period. You can't be permitted to work within a democracy if you have worked to end that democracy.
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If we were everything, there’d be no perspective, no contrast, no threshold across which awareness could move. Experience requires boundary, just as thought requires difference. To become is only possible when there is a not-yet—when we are not total, but partial, poised in relation to something else. One can only conclude that if there were a god, he would long to become human, craving the fragmentary, the contingent, the limited.
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Self-examination is not merely navel-gazing, narcissism, or psychology—though it may certainly be those—it is, at its most serious and disciplined, cosmological inquiry carried out by the only instrument available: the cosmos itself, rendered conscious in us.
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Sometimes the best way to honor tradition is by defying tradition—or ignoring it.
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