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Everything people have been saying about Persepolis is actually true about Arab of Future, mid-career Guy Delisle and a bunch of slop that doesn't even bother to dress the tourist lense through autobio, like Goodbye Ceaușescu!
Not Satrapi's fault and not quite what Persepolis is, but it did mark a turn in non-fiction graphic novels from introspective, formally challenging works about representation that give no easy answers towards easily digestible visual guides against US's official enemies.
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It's not a bad read. It's equal parts heartbreaking and heartwarming. But it's limited in its scope and that's alright because that's how personal accounts work anyway. Half of it isn't even set in Iran anyway and documents the author's coming of age in Europe.
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Yeah so I re-read both parts after almost a decade and tbh it's neither CIA propaganda nor the most dependable historical source on Iran (it doesn't claim to be so anyway). It's just one extremely privileged woman's personal memoir and should be treated as such.
Jun 6
Re-reading Persepolis just to see what's got everyone so mad.
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In fact, I think these covers represent very well the kind of story Severin thinks he's in for most of the books and play into the act of misderection that's the engine of the series.
This book opens with a perceptive selection of lines from Osip Mandelstam about death and is as much about the fragmented nature of personal-historical knowledge and what constitutes technology as anything else, but the cover does it dirty. Spec Fic needs better covers.
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Like, The Book of the New Sun is not Viriconium. The act of magic Wolfe performs is how he wrings out of a story that goes through all the motions of pulp something that ends being a meditation on the relation between knowledge and identity and the burden of history.
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Backrooms: to be a man is needing permission from a woman to kill yourself.
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Why do people act as if the problem with the Obsession thing is that a $750k movie made 200-300 millions and not that the movie absolutely couldn't have been for $750k without massively overworking people, underpaying them, paying them in kind or not at all.
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The complaining from yesterday about how Chapo don't have the sauce anymore was 100% prompted by Felix reiterating that Platner is a candidate for the stupids while not really caring about the discourse surrounding him.
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Like, do with this what you will, but Chapo have more or less the same amount of sauce they always had.
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It's interesting that while everyone dismisses them, MS seems to be pushing Copilot in VS Code and Copilot Studio in the direction where agentic engineering needs to go.
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Their skills frontmatter format is much more robust, with affordance for agent handoff, they've been pushing skill analyzers, observability and telemetry tools. A focus o prompt optimisation and model specific optimization.
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Why are there not good They Might Be Giants songs except Ana Ng and Birdhouse in Your Soul and also why those two are so good?
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Makes no philological sense. Vol 3 is compiled from manuscripts written before the publishing of even the first edition of Vol. 1. The determination of _market_ values from cost-prices is not a late-in-life discovery, but the starting point. If anything, 1 would contradict 3.
Marxism's most devastating critic wasn't Hayek, Mises, or any Austrian.
It was Marx himself.
Volume III of Capital, published after his death, destroyed the theory Volume I had built. 🧵
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Since he was clearly aware of cost-prices when writing Vol. 1 either
a) that notion is wrong
b) Böhm-Bawerk misunderstood Capital
c) Marx was to stupid to notice the contradiction
d) Marx was aware of the contradiction and was disingenuous.
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Vol. 3 contradicts Vol. 1 only in cases c) and d). Why would you claim that a work by a stupid or disingenuous person obviously contradicts something else they said in the direction you want it to find the contradiction?
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I prepared a scaffold for this github.com/alin-rautoiu/agen…
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if you want claude to be able to make slides for you, don't use claude design, use revealjs and have claude make them with html and markdown
it's such a nice experience
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Love that all the The Boys discourse led people to discover Veitch's Brat Pack and especially Maximortal.
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ALT A man watches a Youtube video entitled "The Secret Marxism of Space Jam." He asks himself "why am I still watching politics Youtubers." He weerily stares up into the sky and states "I am 33 years old." He takes a book off a shelf. He intently reads a boring historical tome entitled "Famous Naval Battles."
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