It’s all a big self-justifying, almost unfalsifiable ideology more than a serious scholarly argument.

Say what you will about Fukuyama, but he at least understood he was wrong.

“you’ve redefined terms and made them slippery enough that it’s impossible to disagree.”

And yeah, pretty much that.

I remember picking up Culture Matters, a sort of collection of essays around ideas in Clash, when I was an undergrad. The whole thing was just a circle jerk (Huntington edited it) except one anthropologist who basically said

Each case is different, some good, some bad. It's almost like this shit is actually complicated.

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75%. Function row and all.

Honest question: what signs of AI do you see?

A quick look from me shows the reflection makes sense (especially the earring), the lighting is consistent with a fun bar, and the figure is consistent. Am I missing something?

Too cool for school but she’s ok with the tree as long as it doesn’t hog the spotlight.

I dunno. The triangle thirds are pretty iconic. Unless they wanted to update the fleur-de-lis reverse retros I’m not sure they can improve things from where they are.

I have one that likes to do that. Just… not technically a cat.

Next up: The Lovely Bones, featuring a dancing skeleton (that was definitely inspired by Jack Skellington) and his merry band of mortuary men solving a mystery about a teenage girl.