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‘The Near Future X. Fighting On’ by I Fight Dragons
New I Fight Dragons album is great! “We’ll keep fighting on, long after the rest have wept and gone…”

Building a journalism organization that exists mostly (or only) on social media and other platforms makes a kind of weird sense. After all, where would Twitter or Facebook be without the commercial driving power of media organizations using and advert…

THE LAZARUS EFFECT Trailer: Olivia Wilde Comes Back From The
Dead To Wail On The Living

Stop resurrecting dead folks, guys. It never turns out
well.

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On the one hand, The Lazarus
Effect looks pretty generic. I anticipated
most of the beats in the trailer without knowing a thing about
it other than its title, and I bet you did too. You’ve seen
movies before, after all.

On the other…

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“There are “metrics” for phenomena that cannot be metrically measured. Numerical values are assigned to things that cannot be captured by numbers. Economic concepts go rampaging through noneconomic realms: Economists are our experts on happiness! Where wisdom once was, quantification will now be. Quantification is the most overwhelming influence upon the contemporary American understanding of, well, everything. It is enabled by the idolatry of data, which has itself been enabled by the almost unimaginable data-generating capabilities of the new technology. The distinction between knowledge and information is a thing of the past, and there is no greater disgrace than to be a thing of the past.”

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Amid the bacchanal of disruption, let us pause to honor the
disrupted. The streets of American cities are haunted by the
ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have been
destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture
industry. Writers hover between a decent poverty and an
indecent one; they are expected to render the fruits of…

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