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Of course, I have tried to explain what I meant by that, but afterwards I have invariably felt that there was more to be said than I had been able to say. Now I would like to attempt a better explanation.

The World-Ending Fire

Wendell Berry

And while culture may help to alter people’s awareness, it will do nothing to change the material inequalities and social exclusions which underlie so much political violence. Those things are part of a system, and liberals find the idea of a system rather distasteful. It smacks too much of rigidity and totalitarian thought. This is a pity, because without grasping social divisions in this context they will remain stubbornly unresolved, however much culture you bring to bear on them.

Britain Is Stronger Divided

Terry Eagleton

In the three years since ChatGPT’s launch, AI videos have come to dominate the social web, copying and sometimes supplanting the human artists and videographers whose work helped train the systems in the first place.

Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal business of AI video

Drew Harwell & Gerrit De Vynck & Shira Ovide & Chris Velazco & Dan Lamothe & Tara & Alex Horton & Nick Mourtoupalas & Eric Lau & Hannah Dormido

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