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Originality died well before the arrival of AI; we are currently in the most derivative period of human creativity since the Industrial Revolution.

— Stephen Marche Death of an Author (2023)

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The fruit of hyper-partisanship and a toxic informational environment is paralysis—paralysis at a moment of peril.

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You might say that the North won the war and the South won the peace. But that’s not entirely accurate. The North won progress. The South won heritage. The North won the future. The South won the past. And it is not clear at all which is more powerful.

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