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Gritty’s evolution from mascot to meme to leftist avatar, explained - Vox
www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/24/18145323/gritty-explained-mascot-flyers-meme-leftist
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This is a great article about Gritty from The Ringer, but this bit here really reminded me of Christopher Guest's Mascots: In 1978, the Philadelphia Phillies introduced the city’s first iconic, fuzzy monster. The first performer to don the green suit full time was a Phillies marketing
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More than once I found myself temporarily hypnotised by the musculature and skin creases on my horse’s butt. That’s a weird sentence, but you’re going to spending a lot of time looking at a horse’s butt. It might as well impress you. Red Dead Redemption 2
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Red Dead Redemption 2.Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 I’ve been looking forward to this game for a while, and this article really whetted my appetite without getting into a lot of spoilerish detail.
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There is historical precedent, too. According to some urban planning experts, Broadway was New York City’s earliest desire line, following as it does the Native American-made Wickquasgeck Path, which is thought to have been the shortest route between pre-colonial settlements in Manhattan that avoided swamps and hills. Broadway is
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If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell. He stoked the hyperpolarization of American politics to make the Obama presidency as dysfunctional and paralyzed as he possibly could. As with parliamentary gridlock in Weimar, congressional gridlock in
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Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. Never stop when you are stuck. You may not be able to solve the problem, but turn aside and write something else. Do not stop altogether. Love what you do. Be honest with yourself. If you are
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In the cybernetic community, the moment (projected in the near future) when AGI matches then surpasses the intelligence of humanity is known as the singularity. It marks one fleeting point in time when humans will be equal in intelligence to AGI, then upholds it as unique in its world-historical significance.
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One of the journalists I spoke to said, “Well what would happen if this book made you, suddenly, really famous again?” Because, I said, the odds of me becoming famous for anything, my writing or directing or producing, all this stuff I’m doing now, are like, extremely low. But
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. -- Buckminster Fuller
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I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. --E. B. White https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._B._White