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But the thing about state-sponsored attacks is that they’re a bit like magic tricks: they operate at a scale which is absurd, which makes them unimaginable, and that’s why they work. Like artificial weather or guided influenza.
The Shock and Awe of State-Sponsored Women’s Fashion
Matt Webb
I’ve been thinking of a kind of article I commonly write:
1. Here’s some examples of *something* .
2. I am going to give that *thing* a name.
3. Now that we have a name, let’s discuss it as its own topic.
Examples: [edge case poisoning](https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/edge-case-poisoning/) , [mimicry](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/software-mimicry/) , [cleverness vs insight](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/cleverness/) , [constructive and predicative data](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/constructive/) .
Making Memes
Hillel Wayne
The love is not the love one feels for a job or a lover or any of the loci of intensity that most of us choose to say we love. It’s the sort of love you see in the eyes of really old people who’ve been happily married for an incredibly long time, or in religious people who are so religious they’ve devoted their lives to religious stuff: it’s the sort of love whose measure is what it has cost, what one’s given up for it. Whether there’s *“choice*” involved is, at a certain point, of no interest… since it’s the very surrender of choice and self that informs the love in the first place.
String Theory
David Foster Wallace
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