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Michael Robbins: “The great Russian Orthodox theologian Sergei Bulgakov wrote that ‘The sense of the end is widespread in humankind. Humankind has an instinctive knowledge that the world will end, just as a man dies.’ But apocalyptic traditions such as those of the Near East, from Zoroastrianism to Islam, are not universal. There is no Hindu equivalent of the ‘last day,’ for instance, and apocalyptic ideas entered Mesoamerican culture only after the arrival of the Europeans. As the Lakota historian Nick Estes has noted, ‘Indigenous people are post-apocalyptic. In some cases, we have undergone several apocalypses.’”
From The New York Times: “The similarities between Mr. Musk’s approach to Twitter and what he did at Tesla and SpaceX are evident. But it’s unclear if he will find the means to motivate employees at a social media company as he did with workers whose quests were to move people away from gas-powered cars or send humans into space.”
Amazon, Meta, Netflix: Why Big Tech is facing massive layoffs. (Youtube video, 5 mins)
“Image space is inconceivably enormous and hopelessly unsearchable. You could look at a thousand images a second for centuries and never find anything besides random noise.” (Youtube video, 13 mins)
