"Voltaire, me, Molière, Omar Khayyám, Lord Byron, and that - that's Salman Rushdie's chair."
The Blasphemers' Banquet, of 1989
Remembering Tony Harrison
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Tony Harrison RIP. He was so much more, but the anger, the energy, the thrill of V back in the day was really something
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These Tureen tests are getting crazy
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
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‘The world of giant digital platforms often turns on surprisingly small matters, such as whether or not users are willing to spend a few seconds doing something they don’t absolutely need to do.’
Donald MacKenzie on the history and future of Google Search.
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(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
Why is it always a children's book? When do we get a celebrity who decides to edit a Festschrift or prepare an annotated edition of a primary source text?
Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.
