And I just looked around at my quite nice house, and my good stereo, and all my records and books and DVDs and musical instruments, and thought "if you showed me this as a ten year old, I'd think it was literal heaven".

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Incisive writing about Apartheid & time in Sam Nhlengethwa's artwork, in which "The queue is the residue. The waiting is the inheritance". This is why we need artists and their interpreters. Thank you for sharing this article, @chrisroper.bsky.social. davidkrutprojects.com/artists/7507...

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First government-level partnership deal in Africa for @anthropic.com it is is with... Rwanda. South Africa and Nigeria have a lot to learn from Rwanda's approach. It should be at a reputation disadvantage, but somehow it keeps getting the Western outreach. www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

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AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"

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@chrisroper.bsky.social - Line in article, "St Peter’s Square had filled with tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the world, many of them millennial Italians and Americans" reminded me of picture I made in the square, thousands of people being hosed down in the heat.

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