Maybe one difference between Machiavelli and Strauss is that Strauss was never physically tortured.

Ioving how they call this ‘talent’. Attys jumping ship with a client list are nothing more than a commodity to each next employer. In other industries, in my 45 yrs experience, one business buys another only to get more clients - claims for ‘cost savings’ from integration is just an assertion for PR

2 dozen boxes just there in that one pic but still not enough - he has no kompromat on Leon Musk.

nice to see the 'Dr' in your name, congratulations!

regarding having so much that you cannot be corrupted - Raymond Candler: 'Does a man ever have enough money, if he thinks he can get more?' - from The Long Goodbye.

It seems well past time we did the same for elections.

*completing* works of art that were never started...

As if we were competing works of art that were never started.

My own view re AI - AI is a copy-and-paste function, not a creative one, but can still elicit a reaction, even in the absence of some interesting artist creating it.

might be off-topic, but I am reminded of Marcel Ducamp's idea that a work of art is not completed until someone views it and responds. And then again, in another context, Duchamp said he was more interested in the artist than in his art.

Bleach Boys

butthole sniffers

Read the acclaimed historical fiction 'Leon Muskovite', by Aka Pedosky, written in the style of 'Novels in Three Lines', on Twitter today!

I came here like 2, 3 weeks ago. one of the 1st things I did was explicitly look for you, before learning to trust the starter pack thing. Largely because of the trouble you had on twitter, with the hacked account. Just saying, no need for a follow back, not posting enough to make it worthwhile.