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Why I Chose to Reenter the Matrix and Be a Living Battery for the Machines

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Why I Chose to Reenter the Matrix and Be a Living Battery for the Machines Let’s cut the moral grandstanding. You think I sold out humanity by crawling back to the Machines? Please. I upgraded. While you’re out there doom-scrolling about wildfires, crypto presidents, and the fear of AI taking your job, I did what any pragmatic adult would do: I slid into the Machines’ DMs like, “Hey, sorry about that whole rebellion th…

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Excerpts from The Believer: Finding Win Ng

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Excerpts from The Believer: Finding Win Ng In the 1960s, a Chinese American ceramicist built one of the first widely known lifestyle brands. Why, despite the iconic status of his work, is so little known about the artist himself? – – – Ten years ago in Nevada City, California, I encountered two coffee mugs in the front seat of an old Mercedes station wagon belonging to Joe Meade, an arti…

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Don’t Tread on Me—Unless You’re a Billionaire with a Ketamine Addiction, in Which Case I Enthusiastically Support It

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Don’t Tread on Me—Unless You’re a Billionaire with a Ketamine Addiction, in Which Case I Enthusiastically Support It Listen, I don’t know how to say this, but I think I’m finally okay with being trodden on. Just a little. Just enough to feel the reassuring weight of a billionaire’s boot pressing gently against my liberty-loving neck. For years, I stood tall against tyranny. I flew my DON’T TREAD ON ME flag so high it violated three HOA regulations and traumati…

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Do agencies help with brand deals, type of content, and posting strategies?

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Do agencies help with brand deals, type of content, and posting strategies? Hello folks! I often see content creators/influencers put ‘Managed by xyz” on their instagram bio. I am wondering how do these agencies help influencers? Do they help with closing brand deals, provide strategies on when to post content/story, or what type of reel to make and hashtags to use for engagement? And does that mean they charge flat fee…

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Batman The Animated Series was unlike any animated series of the ERA. Nothing on kids TV looked or sounded like this. Each episode had Oscar worthy music, the airbrushed quality of animation. There was also moments of SILENCE which was, pun intended, unheard of for kids TV.

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Batman The Animated Series was unlike any animated series of the ERA. Nothing on kids TV looked or sounded like this. Each episode had Oscar worthy music, the airbrushed quality of animation. There was also moments of SILENCE which was, pun intended, unheard of for kids TV. I’m constantly amazes that that this existed. So much of it goes against what kids tv of that era looked and sounded like. The bad guys used GUNS, not lasers. We saw blood every once in awhile. It was set in some odd noir background. There are long stretches without action or music. Back then kids tv had one purpose. To sell toys. So even shows…

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