i think the thing is the payment for the article alone isn't worth it for them, it's only worth it if it comes with access to market to you, convert you to a recurring customer etc

oh yeah, he also made a movie called this is spinal tap the following year. the start of an illustrious career as a film director. who knew

The majority of human discourse seems to break down into “it would be bad if this were true so it’s not true” or “it would be good if this were true so it’s true” with a side of “you caused this bad thing to happen by telling me about it”.

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oh here we go

can't find that issue, but here's another one you did

and the context within which she said it was also super relevant

flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

-- H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu, 1926

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday, the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or [...]

time to write a book about Nintendo's philosophy of fun titled "On the Lack of Desperation and the Moratorium on Dreams"

Queen of Katwe Mira Nair???

The through-line of the necropolitics this decade is “I can’t breathe.”