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Inside, I ran into Jay Knowles, the Music Row songwriter. (It was a small town in a big city.) We talked about Nashville’s recent reputation as “Bachelorette City,” for which he offered a theory: although more than a quarter of Nashville was Black, the town was widely seen as “a white-coded city.” “I’m not saying this is a good thing,” he emphasized, but tourists viewed Nashville as a safe space, a city where groups of young white women could freely get drunk in public—unlike, say, Memphis, New Orleans, or Atlanta.
Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville | The New Yorker
Emily Nussbaum
Facebook is destroying the very fabric of human relationships, the democratic functioning of our state, and behaves like a dealer peddling in an addictive drug called anger. (9/)
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If writing amounted to, as Walter Ong once put it, the technologizing of the word (and print its mechanization), then large language models amount to the mathematization of the word.
Language Under Digital Conditions: Power and Action
Language Under Digital Conditions: Power and Action
L. M. Sacasas
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