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As the spoken languages of Africa elevated tonality to a crucial role, the drum language went a difficult step further. It employed tone and only tone. It was a language of a single pair of phonemes, a language composed entirely of pitch contours.
The Information
James Gleick
The only escape from this destiny of victimization has been to ‘succeed’ – that is, to ‘make it’ into the class of exploiters, and then to remain so specialized and so ‘mobile’ as to be unconscious of the effects of one’s life or livelihood.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
The something “more intimate than just a feed of all your friends” that Zuckerberg yearns for would presumably be some sort of AI agent that knows all your secrets, is willing to talk to you about nothing but you and your needs, and will act on your behalf when it has calculated what is in your interests (or whatever interests the machine serves),
Two Riders Were Approaching
Rob Horning
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