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Maintaining this inner friction of the will is the means to freedom, no matter how uncomfortable and frustrating it might seem at times.
What Hannah Arendt Proposed as an Alternative to Authenticity | Aeon Essays
aeon.co
The Politics journalists’ practice, in contrast, set out, first, from the idea that a newspaper needs to meet the practical demands of its various stakeholders in order to remain in operation. Second, from the belief that today’s readers do not depend on the news for an understanding of reality—but do value the interesting and potentially useful facts and insights that journalists can dig up. The qualities that the Politics journalists valued in their everyday practice enabled them to work constructively under these actual circumstances. Having an eye for doable news items, taking the reporting process as a game, and knowing how to cut corners with their interviews were skills that enabled the journalists to make optimal use of their assignments to both sustain their newsmaking practice and produce more content that readers might value.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
But I think the real reason is that DWAC probably couldn’t have done this deal without lying. It’s not just that DWAC lied in its prospectus by saying it hadn’t had discussions with TMTG when it had. If it had told the truth — if it had said “we’re a SPAC that’s raising money to take Trump Media & Technology Group public” — it wouldn’t have been allowed to do its offering in the first place. A SPAC is supposed to be a blank-check company without any particular private company to take public. If you are raising money to take one particular company public, that’s not a SPAC. That’s just a regular initial public offering. You don’t just file for a blank check; you file for an initial public offering, with all of the regular disclosure about the company’s business and finances.
The APEs Can Be Saved
bloomberg.com
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