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Shane Farrow

@dtaspire

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Shane Farrow

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@quantian1 A masterclass in engagement churning. "What about X?" "Huh, you're right!" x100

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@blondehotcoffee Being put in charge of something you like doing is bad for your health but really addictive

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@vocalcry Um actually the era of subsistence farming predated the Industrial Revolution by hundreds of years and the mass exodus of serfs and farmhands to urban factories was due to a collapse in demand for agrarian labor due to significant increases in capital and trade The Syrian civil

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@AndroKing_ @VK_Vpered I wonder what made modern Kosovo turn its back on former Yugoslavia and the Iron Curtain. We may only speculate.

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@EmanueleDolce @FT His dead dog is the best economic adviser in South America.

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@KeenanPeachy Love this for her but I’m mostly here for the shaudenfreude of people that thought the secret to contentment was lost with modernity, when it turns out that having means helps a lot! Alright everybody, back in the mines.

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@stacycay “Capitalism pervades everything it touches; it subverts even causality, killing the dinosaurs decades ago so that their bits could be ground up and harvested into fuel for capitalist machines.” -Das Kapital, 9th edition

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@goetz_hal The amount of texts my girlfriend, an appeals lawyer, gets from friends that amount to “I did this, knowing this, can I be sued?” is wiiiild

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@NC_Renic This reads like a troll post, like people talk about losing their inheritance shorting copper because they thought the Olympics would lead to a perception-based downtown in the metal’s value. Then again, lying anonymous on the internet was a really formative hobby for me as a

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@HenryFitzempre @ItsSamG I think some people just like having sex and it’s not deep.

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@RadGeranium @edzitron At the moment it’s pretty unprofitable, so a lot of the discovery frontier is pushed by hobbyists and perverts. The shape of that Venn diagram will shock you

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@0xholdthedoor @coldhealing In his defense it was Alexandria Daddario

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@__tommyFR__ @energybants Damn if only we didn’t have all these cheap domestic depots of oil and natural gas, and could enjoy the communal blackouts and odd foreign bedfellows of economic powerhouses, France and Germany.

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@dissproportion @ScottsScr0te Reminds me how grossed out some people are when you say you’re trying to have a baby. “thanks for sharing you’re rawdogging?” As if choosing to have a baby is a casual decision or conception is an easy thing for every couple. It’s the same immaturity.

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@jaycaspiankang That had to have changed as schools moved away from epistemology and toward job training centers decades ago. I went to Johns Hopkins for health economics, worked on Yale and Harvard’s campuses. They’re all exactly as you would expect: smart, ambitious kids who could recite a

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@extradeadjcb I think there’s a certain signaling advantage to harping on student debt, given that all the replies are just going on and on about how bad America is Student loans are a great litmus test on whether your approach to personal hardship is your fault or an external system.

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@DJBranham I was told I was Jewish growing up. I took a 23andMe last year and found out that actually my dad was Mexican. Your mom could’ve saved me a lot of experiences out of JDate @DJBranham

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@eliseybell Kids like being involved with things. You’re gonna be hard-pressed finding anyone but a narrow band of non-parents, frustrated by what they presume others think of them, to tear this down.

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@CartoonsHateHer I’m really bullish on companion chatbots. Replika’s market was majority women over 30 iirc and the tech wasn’t that advanced. Throw in emulated emotional IQ, basic memory and a hole and there’s a market I think everyone is gonna be disappointed by.

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@piersmorgan Now if Mossad could do fax machines so doctors offices finally move over to email…

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@alex_here_now @cxgonzalez No! I grew up poor. Lot of people I know did. But the debate is intentionally framed by *certain people* as anti-poor because then their opposition makes them righteous! Make fares cheaper but punish fare dodgers and you got a stew brewin’, baby

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@AlexGodofsky Last night leaving the store my girlfriend was trying to take something out of my hands to carry while I was trying to balance everything. She apologized, and I said it made things briefly harder but easier in the long run, and both of us said “oh kinda like living together.”

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@JoePostingg Full stomach and an empty soul is how I’d identify after clearing out the humane society over lunch

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@Memoolyk @Wowhead Currency caps during a timegated event is some MBA wet dream to drive KPIs; I can play 12 hours on a Sunday; I can’t play an hour every day. Putting upscaled legacy sets behind 3 straight weeks of dailies sucks.

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@nearcyan A submersible sump pump and a good hose is like $100 and can save you tens of thousands of dollars of water damage in case of a rainstorm or pipe failure. Upgrading from a pager to a cell phone can also save you from irreparable harm depending on your line of work.

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@Jade_Geist @toptickcrypto @JoeKassabian One small step for man, one gallop for humanity.

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@BartonRMShaw @SwannMarcus89 Why are we lying that these jobs are hard or low-paying? Turnover is high because unions pushed compensation behind seniority.

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@RobotJox1990 @unusual_whales How we gonna round up these 20 million people? I can’t get 10 together for a BBQ, and this seems more ambitious.

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@revhowardarson The ILA protested against containerization, largely because it made things harder to steal.

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@AreteMonkey @nooriefyi I make around $150K working a fraction of those hours as an economist (I’m remote, but ~15ish/wk?). I make less than my partner, a lawyer, but watching her work 60+ hours informs me there’s no amount of money I’d take to do that.

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@netcapgirl my most used sticker of 2024

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Shane Farrow

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@IRLhandshake @cremieuxrecueil I use McKinsey work a lot in my presentations. Not their analysis, obviously, I need to be correct, but they have some of the best looking charts in the industry.

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@kitten_beloved Actually you’re both wrong and I’m right. You need so many resources to enforce a rigid ideology that we take for granted. The first Mars colony will be made of high-credentialed and self-reliant volunteers, and this talent will be attracted by offering significant personal

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@SnehaRevanur @EncodeJustice I hope among the lessons learned is to not put vicarious liability structures in a bill after being told repeatedly by industry of the impacts this would have on open source research.

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@kathrynfiona I’m starting a shell company exclusively hiring 31 year-old women to make oncology drugs and do open-heart surgeries, so let know if you have a few hours a week to spare.

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@Wowhead World of Chorecraft is not beating the allegations

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@maxdubler @chrisriver365 @revhowardarson And yet the median net worth is almost $200K. Paints a fuller picture.

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@JelfriTorres @unusual_whales Financial assistance from parents, under-the-table work. Gig platforms only report contractors after they earn a certain amount from the platform.

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@thecaptain_nemo Bryan Johnson was my favorite spectacle fight in FFXIV: Endwalker

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@JohnArnoldFndtn The majesty of the US highway system is as an 8th wonder of the world. Most criticism toward how car-centric America is boil down to how wildly popular the agency of personal transportation is.

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@DanHendrycks SB1047 was a bad bill because it introduced vicarious liability that would've killed open source momentum; that our liability laws are updated and made clearer with new technology was NOT the major contention

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@venturetwins It probably is a side project in design and marketing, but I love modern surreal art like this.

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@jules_su Well there's already precedent

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@unusual_whales It’s not a true bubble, people just don’t know how to deal with multimodality among imperfect substitutes in real estate: Single-family homes are not being built anymore. This is pushing their real prices up. Simultaneously, multi-units are being built and priced on prevailing

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@jaycaspiankang I remember as a 16 year-old being told about how good the small private schools were, Bates, Chapman, Oberlin, etc but now they face this existential risk because a) they gradually became indistinguishable with each other so they compete on diploma mill prestige, b)

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@RichardHanania as a former bureaucrat, I can’t express how much EASIER IT WOULD BE to implement these grand initiatives if we could INDEX WHERE PEOPLE LIVE I get the cons against IDs, but libs, where am I supposed to throw all this cash if I don’t know WHERE people live and WHO they are?

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@emre_mayo @Noahpinion Happens a lot in state and local govt. I wrote a fiscal note for the creation of an Office on Women’s Health for a certain red state. Never mind an office already existed by that name in the governor’s office. Never mind that a committee on women’s health already existed in

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@dissproportion Did he post more before he got dunked on? I feel like this is something a buddy would tell me over a few beers, content knowing I wouldn’t assume the worst.

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@robertsdionne @RiverTamYDN Great, I can scroll through my Robinhood as I listen to the neighbors move furniture above me. Maybe afterward I can admire the print-out of my accumulated YTD on the mantel after I was told I couldn't burn scented candles in door.

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@Gretcie @Toxoplamsa @Aella_Girl As an economist it wouldn’t destroy the economy at all so I guess I’m all ears too. But I’m presuming that the store owner isn’t obligated to sell at whatever the employee union offers. If a business and its assets are $3M and they hire 50 people who get paid $20/hr, while

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@KelseyTuoc SB1047 was a bad bill because it introduced vicarious liability that would've killed open source momentum; that our liability laws are updated and made clearer with new technology was NOT the major contention

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@BlondeHer24681 @vocalcry I think that can coexist with the summary that there just wasn’t as much need for the labor as there was before.

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@TheZvi SB1047 was a bad bill because it introduced vicarious liability that would've killed open source momentum; that our liability laws are updated and made clearer with new technology was NOT the major contention

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@growing_daniel @boxmceater Whoever out there took one for the team, appreciate it

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@jackinlondon @StuartJRitchie C-sections are also performed wildly beyond what we’d anticipate as medically-necessary for certain populations. I hope this guys sticks to second-fiddling in AI if it keeps him out of maternal care.

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@cremieuxrecueil For too long has the management of print journalism feasted on the fat of their margins

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@JoseManrique93 I think Trump won the debate since both had different needs out of the event, and he was closer to his win condition. Kamala had the harder job of convincing two groups of voters: those frustrated with Trump’s temperament but unhopeful about Democratic policies, and Palestinian

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@brian_callaci My complaint with modern economic pedagogy is that we undersell how necessarily reductive these models are, so we either a) inoculate a generation of students against economic models or b) worse still, create libertarians

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@sighswoon Just Stop Oil is outside your house with thimbles of Campbell as we speak

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@Tmp20432 @monclerboyx @Authw8 @Trust_Lion_ I have no idea why she wants to grab coffee after reading this twitter chain. 🫠

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@rob_mcrobberson @cain151714 I’ll go even further and double the bet; there will be MORE software engineers FTEs two years from now than during the peak of the Covid era.

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@chai_sapien @goetz_hal Oh I don’t mean from clients, I mean from our sweet but dumb friends

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@johnlray @AlecStapp @Seppie123456 Hottest take I’ve ever seen. I’m not even going to engage with it but I wanted to give you credit.

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@martin_casado This is like the Pokemon Go summer of 2016, but somehow far nerdier

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@cremieuxrecueil As a Californian, it’s beaten into us that our massive 00 fires were bad bushfire management and that controlled and delayed burns are important to prevent big fires.

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@extradeadjcb I’m not against some form of debt relief, but when the loudest voices can’t muster the humility to acknowledge their own role… why would I want to support a one-time $2T payment to affirm our country’s worst cultural tendency?

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@annaarthoe Anyone who *checks notes* isn’t going to be checking out any unread messages.

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@BeardoTrader @unusual_whales I struggle with him, because he’s obviously been a massive force for innovation and has inspired millions of makers. That can’t be taken from him. But his worst personal trait is pettiness. For someone who ostensibly has it all, it comes off as childish.

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@AllanLichtman @NateSilver538 I can’t think of a title less credentialed than “historian” in this context

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Shane Farrow

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@strubell @JeffDean It seems like you’re overreacting and @JeffDean is challenging the quality of your work, which is integral to finding the truth. Maybe time would be better spent doing your due diligence as a researcher than inventing hostility to dismiss the criticism.

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@cremieuxrecueil We need to make peace with the fact that economic models are so necessarily reductive that most of our research has a far smaller applicability half-life than other disciplines. Acemoglu’s prescriptive research was useful at time-of-writing; the growth of a middle-class in

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@MarcGoldwein @Noahpinion She responded to his buddy, Matt, in a slightly flippant way to say the same thing, so the pseudointellects are 🍆-measuring over who can twist her words the hardest

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@__tommyFR__ @Nahakamuzar @energybants I don’t trust your internet enough to send you links sorry

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@monguetown @Noahpinion Cheaper median rents, lower median tenancy tenure, higher rates of property maintenance, lower home values.

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@EnriqueDiazAlva @Noahpinion as an economist it’s always weird hearing ostensibly educated people like @Noahpinion say stuff like “rent control” never works, as if it’s not an incredibly impactful policy if you’re measuring it by its ability to increase housing supply, it’s ineffective; if you’re measuring

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@paymusclemommy @jjoque That’s what midwesterns do when they “Ope!” too hard

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@jsnellen3 @Hopeleslie1234 Jarvis run a correlation between the type of people you want at a dinner party in your own home and dorks who blame groups and concepts for being bleak

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@laurenbalik @Jimmy14624495 I don’t think they’ve exhausted their addressable market at all. OnlyFans has been continuously sanitized in the public image while adult video streaming sites see shallower and shallower seas for a multitude of reasons, from regulatory scrutiny to outdated ad-based revenue

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@CartoonsHateHer Big props for a really upsetting poll. 😎👍

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@chai_sapien @goetz_hal In her words about attorney-client privilege

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@tracewoodgrains I feel pretty disconnected from these “Harrison Bergeron, but unironic this time” researchers and policymakers. Is there no way to get funding without framing your research like it’s affirming the most annoying Reddit post you’ve ever seen?

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@jasminericegirl Idk if people want the nuance here, but Disney and Uber’s legal defense is that they are not liable parties for the suits, but if the plaintiffs want to make a case to include them, they must be willing to arbitrate.

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@kevinvdahlgren I think she read you like a book and didn’t want to have a Twitter argument at her job

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@thegartsy @SpeakerPelosi I don't think Speaker Pelosi meant to personally offend. I do wonder how you rationalize the conclusion that SB1047 wouldn't have had a chilling Effect on open source communities, given that the bill was written to introduce vicarious liability.

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@ns123abc breaking ground on a startup for a zoomer-free internet; extending some ideas from Planned Parenthood, pm for details

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@ajmikulak @RadGeranium @edzitron I love Overwatch. Never played though.

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@AlecStapp And now they get so mad about expanding service scopes under mid-level providers. SAD!

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@eigenrobot Retweeting this took courage

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@unusual_whales So folks costlier to insure than 10% interest get denied and closed credit cards and buy groceries between paychecks on payday loans? They capped interest rates on housing loans in the 70s to combat inflation and illegal collateral practices skyrocketed; my grandfather tells a

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@maiamindel At a self-interest level, I don’t know that democrats have offered anything to me or male peers, where republicans offer to tear down the structures advantaging the marginalized. My two issues are abortion access and the rule of law, and so I disengage with dialogue because

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@cremieuxrecueil My best friend’s dad was unfortunately a libertarian so when he left high school he worked a lot of odd jobs and never filed his taxes. We hanging out in the backyard five years later and he told me he was afraid they’d come after him for not filing all those years So I told

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@unusual_whales It’s like ratatouille but backwards

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@RobinBoardmanUK Damn, a world scientist? I’ll have to weigh this against my priors of stuff I’ve read from continental and galactic scientists.

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@unusual_whales Alaska’s annual permanent fund dividend (PFD) is between $1600 and $2500 each year, funded by the unique “sovereign” wealth fund it has from its oil deposits. I don’t know what Oregon has going for it that this isn’t going to be a massive misappropriation.

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@aidan_mclau @gfodor Right now their ability to fundraise is contingent on generating positive speculation about their capacity; if consumers reveal that the emperor wears no clothes, the short-term revenue won’t be worth the loss of financing opportunity during future fundraising rounds.

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@keysmashbandit graphic design was my passion as a tween/teen but I remember all the art kids told me it wasn’t real art because it was digital now watching them all lick the boot of digital art mediums while this existential AI threat looms high made me realize: it’s not art, it’s poetry

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