Remember when Zion Williamson, a 19 year old at the time, paid the New Orleans’ arena workers’ salaries for a month when the shutdown started and the owner, who is 73 and worth $3 billion, did not? I remember that.
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just to be clear I am looking for a handout and I want the government to hand out $2,000 a month retroactive to march
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Somebody turned the camera off but Al Jazeera just broadcast images of people with their hands up on board the Madleen.
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I don’t think it’s wild that the republicans and Blue Lives Matter people don’t care that a cop died. I do think it’s interesting that the police, who are capable of making a news story out of drinking a funny tasting milkshake, have been relatively quiet.
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going to be very funny when everybody gears up for a summer of hedonism and finds that after a grinding year all they want is care and intimacy and falls in love by like June 2nd
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Anne Frank died of typhus. Who is responsible for her death?
We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.
ALT Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.
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Everyone wrote their essays and did their studies and argued about "defund the police" and years later a man can still be held down by cops in the middle of the street as he begs for his life and says "they're trying to George Floyd me" and get tased seven times before dying.
LAPD officers tased and tackled a Black English teacher after a car crash, causing him to suffer fatal cardiac arrest, family say.
#KeenanAnderson, 31, died at the hospital while in police custody.
LAPD killed 170+ people since 2013, Black victims 4.4x more often than white.
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Shoutout all my millennials who are trying to make moves to plan the rest of their lives but are also keenly aware that there is no future
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America is deeply invested in the idea that hurting someone’s family licenses them (especially mom/dad/spouse) to do anything to protect them. We pump out movies, shows, and books about it. And now that masked men are tearing families apart people want to talk about Waymo Rights.
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At some point the simplest answer is that elected officials in big cities are afraid of the police.
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Not since the summer of 2020 has everything been so obvious and the sides so clear.
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The police all across the country are going to attack people in the streets today because a few of their own suffered the indignity of being investigated after they killed someone. In the morning, mayors will chastise the protesters and say these issues are tough.
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Nobody in Columbia’s administration should know peace in public. Nobody who does this to their students should be in education. These people are monsters who have cast their lot with genocide.
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I know everybody is doing their thing everywhere right now, but I just want to thank black people in Minneapolis for forcing the whole world into the streets. No matter what happens I will be grateful until the day I die.
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It’s too bad they felt the need to frame the euphoria thing as “messy behind the scenes drama” and not exposé of poor working conditions. I did sort of think the last five years or so would get people to stop treating the labor of art & entertainment as itself entertainment.
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Shafik knows her presidency is over. She knows you cannot tear gas campus and expect a commencement ceremony. She is a baroness wreaking vengeance upon teenagers to defend Israel and an investment portfolio.
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Marx is the father of the left because he was always like “the situation is intolerable! But what to do…what to do…hmm…maybe we could publish something…or start another little magazine?”
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I think more journalists should ask, maybe even write about, in a genuinely curious and good faith way: what happened to a party that captured young progressives and then lost them in a year?
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Biden’s plan is to white knuckle it through July, appear at a heavily protested convention, never appear after 8pm, then campaign in the fall as student protests start back up and he continues to call them antisemites. This, to him, is how you win an election and save democracy.
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Just learned I am banned from NYU’s campus for getting arrested in the spring. I do hope the film program stops talking about me as an alumnus though :)
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y'all whine about it getting dark early like you didn't move to New York specifically to pull tight a coat on a black evening while headlights bounce off wet streets and the wind blows so that you have to try the lighter two, three times just to catch this cigarette--your last.
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I’m out. I was arrested with the NYU faculty while the students prayed. Palestine will be free.
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Extremely upsetting that rap became the dominant sound in America, that it started generating wealth, that its idols became the avatars for white people who will never love an actual black person in their lives, and all along the people who make the music kept dying brutally.
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WKCR is currently airing a 50 minute long interview with one of the Hind Hall occupiers.
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I think there's a little too much "The Feds have a masterful, devious escalation plan that guarantees Trump's reelection" and not enough "if you hollow out social programs and rebuild the state for permanent global war there's only one button you can press during unrest."
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People learned that "taste" was in part constructed by class and have wound up with a world where "popular art" is the uncut product of increasingly consolidated capital. Snobbery is praxis now. We must bring it back.
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Nothing in Wretched of the Earth or the Oxford book on terrorism will teach students what they learn from their own administration sending cops in with flash bangs to kick them in the face and hurl them down the stairs over a disagreement about the college’s investment portfolio.
Students “radicalize” when their morally obvious demands are treated as a threat to institutional power. That’s it
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Everyone should be emboldened by the fact that the Israel attacks didn't work at all.
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Michael K. Williams was a star in the way that actually matters. When he was on screen I couldn’t look at anyone else.
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At some point, everybody in this city is erratic in public, is angry in public, is desperate in public. New Yorkers live publicly. It's too much to know that that plus being black and poor might get you killed, might get your killer celebrated.
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If you take everything Biden and Harris have actually done, not said, the obvious conclusion is that they consider the lives of even their own citizens in the path of Israel’s war to be worthless. $8.7 billion for Israel yesterday. Buy your own ticket today.
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In Boerum Hill, an older couple just stepped out of a brownstone and started banging pots and pans. Nobody on the streets reacted, so they added “Guilty! Guilty!” then walked back inside.
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A lot of other people have forgotten, but I bet mayors, and maybe presidents, haven’t forgotten that when politicians told the police to calm down a few years ago they said “No.”
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If I were in the mayor’s position I really wouldn’t be out here talking like an indictment is a conviction
NEW: @NYCMayor tells me why he felt the need to greet Luigi Mangione in Manhattan today.
“I’m not going to just allow him into the city. I wanted to look him in the eye and say you carried out this terroristic act in my city, the city that the people of New York love.”
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I was listening to an interview with consummate Hollywood guy Phil Alden Robinson. On a studio film he thought the Iowa dirt was too dull. The production designer spent weeks grinding bricks, mixing dirt, etc. to find the right, richer color for the base paths in Field of Dreams.
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the left has this idea that the government is paying filmmakers to make propaganda, but it tends to have things backwards. Productions go to the government and ask for gear. DOD reviews the script for their portrayal and if it’s approved they cut a deal.
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A few years ago the drift asked me and several others about art under Trump and my answer was: American cinema still cannot admit what the Iraq war was.
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The last time I felt hopeful everything was on fire and the police were retreating. Haven't felt it since.
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The Safdies excel in visually dense east coast urban environments. One glance at Chet’s IG and you’ll see that the name you’re all looking for is “Harmony Korine”
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The Biden Administration’s position that it can ignore the leahy law and send Israel weapons, but it cannot ignore the 1990 statute that defunds the UN if Palestine is recognized makes it pretty clear that the appropriate word is not “complicit” but “perpetrator.”
While Antony Blinken is telling Congress he wants to punish the ICC for indicting Netanyahu, he threatened to defund the UN, the World Food Programme and 'starve the world' if the UN recognizes a Palestinian state.
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Someone with access (and willingness to lose it) should do a piece on the five year anniversary of the NBA strike and ask the players and Obama if the deal to end the strike was a good one and what, specifically, were the achievements of that deal.
LeBron, CP3 and a small group of NBA players spoke with former President Barack Obama on Wednesday night, per @ShamsCharania
Obama advised them to play and maximize this opportunity to get their desired action items.
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The cops killed a 13 year old and the police, prosecutors and politicians immediately generated a lie about what happened and repeated it everywhere. The idea that you will undo that system through "better training" is an insult to the intelligence of the public and the police.
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Looking at the discourses I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of people just haven’t had sex, gotten in a fight, or just had a really good day in a long time and they’re on month 11 of trying to tweet through it and it’s just not working out anymore.
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“Order must prevail” he said. 10 years this summer since Ferguson. A decade of images like this, under three different presidents. They’ve brought us to the brink for “order.” It has never been clearer than in this moment that it is us, it is Palestine, or it is the abyss.
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I really do think more people should just consider what happens if you ask people to hold their nose and vote for a segregationist after the police, the national guard, and vigilantes kill protesters in the streets and then that man facilitates a genocide.
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"I think if a poor, black man frightens me he should be killed" vs. "what the fuck is wrong with you?" Really grim times.
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Many of you forgot Kanye used to have a blog called Universe City. Many of you forgot that, in 2008, he used that blog to recommend Synecdoche, New York. Many of you forgot about the Gondry/Kaufman/West nexus. I did not forget.
Kanye West is rebuilding his childhood home from Chicago inside Soldier Field for his upcoming DONDA event 🐐
(📷: @WestSubEver)
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The best not-Christmas-Christmas movie is Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love. It’s got it all: a bad boyfriend, an escort, an old man, jazz, alienation, incredible car shots, miscommunication, and lonesomeness pierced only by half-embarrassed attempts at generosity of the spirit.
official list of not-christmas-movies-christmas-movies that aren't d*e h*rd and are good
Eyes Wide Shut
Carol
The Holiday
Fanny and Alexander
My Night At Maud's
LA Confidential
Less Than Zero
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Checking in on a Western European country that elected a centrist in order to avoid a descent into fascism.
🔴Tension en cours sur la Place de la Bastille. Le canon à eau est de sortie.
#StopLoiSecuriteGlobale #Paris #MarcheDesLibertes #France
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Asked if the protests caused him to reconsider regional policy at all he said "No." and walked away. Not much more to say than that. You can decide for yourself whether or not genocide is a red line for you. It's not for him.
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In 2020 there was a coalition that had the flash point of a nationwide riot and protest movement around Black Lives Matter. That coalition voted for a friend of Strom Thurmond and the architect of the crime bill. Maybe young people are just stupid, maybe something else happened.
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layoffs, rising prices for basic goods, outbreaks of infectious disease, diminished state capacity for welfare provision, mass deportations to foreign black sites, disappearing dissidents…boy I don’t know
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Bill de Blasio says if you attack a police officer there will be consequences. When he is asked about the police beating people in the streets all night he says he hasn't heard of it. He must be driven from his position and out of public life.
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For college seniors, the summer before their freshman year people were beaten all over the country for demanding an end to cops killing black people. Now they are being beaten all over the country for demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza. Impossible to believe this is over.
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hope all my fellow lapsed catholics stay strong this weekend. I know the aesthetic is calling but we cannot make our return until we are in our 70s and embark upon a 900 page novel or 3.5 hour film about beauty, grace, damnation, penance and above all --love. Not our time yet.
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I know it's mostly about labor discipline for low wage jobs, but you gotta think at least some of this drive to curtail UI is people looking at last summer and saying "we can never again have millions of people with that much time on their hands."
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Hollywood abandoning movies being sexy in favor of just hot is directly related to its declining ability to actually make it believable that two people are 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 rather than merely in a relationship.
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We all know and love it, but Bookforum also published possibly the only good pan I've read in years. Most come across as auditions for stand-up comedy. This was more terrifying--the result of somebody actually reading and understanding his opponent. bookforum.com/print/2603/tho…
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If I were a former American ambassador I would not walk down the road of “there are no innocents in a country that does not depose its warmongering leaders.”
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In this document about student conduct & harassment policies Zionist is mentioned 7 times, Jewish is mentioned 7 times, black is not mentioned, African is not mentioned, Asian is mentioned twice, latine once, Muslim once. I find that hard to square with the experience on campus.
An interesting thing about this document is that "Zionist" is specifically protected, in great detail, in a way that other identity categories are not. nyu.edu/students/student-inf…
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For those who feel like it's too difficult, there has always been the option to make it about corruption. A cursory reading of recent news shows NYPD precincts were extorting bar owners and that's not including the comissioner's brother's, uh, Albanian ties.
Municipal socialists have to take on the police. If they can't do that then they can't govern. That is a pragmatic issue not an idealistic one.
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if you ever see the projects that are kicking around, the truth is people come up with these on their own. It’s kind of comforting to think there’s a big plan, but nobody at the pentagon needs to plan a thing, they just wait for the producers to reach out.
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Before we go full conspiracy theory I just want to remind you all that many of you got on the internet and insisted that fireworks were clearly a CIA psy-op as punishment for protests even though you could have walked down the street and asked the kids where they got them from.
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Anyway shout out to the institution that responded to black students merely pointing out that the faculty was very white by yelling at me for half an hour, advising that we be less afraid of criticism and asking if I had thought about how white professors felt. It’s been real🫡
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Obama's argument about rap being as nihilistic as Trump isn't wrong because it's a conservative 90s talking point or because backpack rap is a thing, but because it ignores the noticeable trend of rap during his presidency from ecstatic high life to haunted depression.
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I had never heard of this Jimmy Dore person until like a week ago and now there are articles about what he means for the left. What on earth are you people doing? There was a 50 state interracial uprising against the police six months ago. Get it together!
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I just...you're telling me that the black vote splits on generational lines just like it has with every other group? I'm hearing this for the first time.
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In 2001 the top three women searched on google were Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, and Jennifer Lopez. The top three men: Nostradamus, Osama bin Laden, Eminem.
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you know first stop gonna be instanbul
BREAKING: Judge Dale Ho has dismissed the historic corruption case against Eric Adams with prejudice — meaning the case is done for good, breaking with Trump DOJ, which wanted ability to bring case back in future
nypost.com/2025/04/02/us-new…
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I know the stereotype of young men on mattresses on the floor but whenever I think about mattresses on the floor the first images that come to mind are of Chantal Akerman and Susan Sontag.
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If a plain description of Biden’s plans based on public reporting and his actions sound like supporting Trump, your problem is not with me, but with his campaign. I think we’re facing a fascist threat here unlike any since Jim Crow. He should act like it.
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Since you invoked the gestapo, the official American position--shared widely by the government and the people--for the last 80 years is that if faced with the gestapo, total war until conditional surrender is morally justified. Where does destroying a waymo fall in there?
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lmao he just ended the address by holding up Kash Patel's book and advised everyone to read it so this never happens again
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At The Level Of Silent Cinema
I present to you my first AI story,
That's more than three weeks of work, concentrated in 4 minutes.
It's fun to use the most modern tools and start again at the level of silent cinema.
I hope you enjoy it.
animation by @Kling_ai
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I really think we need to redirect like 75% of trying to scold people in the streets for various failures to live up to (unclear) public health standards and towards the complete failure of government to react appropriately from the city to federal levels.
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I do hope all the liberals furious about the republicans asking for unity and healing realize this is what they sound like when they call for the same in the middle of black uprisings against the police.
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Says nobody’s Miranda rights were read. “That was a solid joke going around on the bus. We were asking where Miranda was.”
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Not doing this as a dunk, but because I think this is a better response. Here's what I said five years ago. People think it's just for kicks. In my experience, a fire in the road might make it impossible for a cop car to run you over.
If burning waymos will protect people's families then it's a good idea. But one of the problem with the genre of media you're describing is that going all Liam Neeson on people is unlikely to actually save your family.
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Breaking twitter by doing the Wes Anderson Cannes meme and it just says “white privilege” four times. Everybody’s typing furiously. Nobody’s seen the movie. Nobody knows what I meant. Nobody can say whether I’m right or wrong. I log off.
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An unpopular Democratic candidate, who knew voters had questioned his competence, spent the spring of an election year supporting slaughter and demonizing young, college educated left leaning activists. That’s who does a campaign’s ground game. I did not tell him to do that.
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Alice and Mati Diop are really the hope of fiction filmmaking. Saint Omer and Atlantiques make almost everything else look unserious.
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Protester is describing protesters—who had surrendered—being kicked in the face and chest. She was lifted by her jacket and slammed to the ground.
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Journalists, politicians, university presidents and writers have debated what "intifada" means for almost two years. But from the beginning, Israel was saying "human animals," was promising starvation. If it has been a question of language, it meant what it sounded like it meant.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:
"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."
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If you say someone is a fascist and you emphasize the importance of peacefully handing them power then what are you?
Per Harris aide, the Vice President discussed the importance of a peaceful transfer of power.
(VP Harris would preside over the certification of the electoral vote on Jan 6, 2025)
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“the crossroads of filmmaking and academia” does not exist. Filmmakers don’t read; academics watch tv.
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