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Unintentional Conversation: Opinion, Criticism, and Ambivalence

Interlocutors: “The Firehose of Certainty” by Rumaan Alam, and “Ambivalence is Awesome” by Ian Leslie Everybody knows that social media contain a lot of ranting and pontificating and vituperation. We now have access to many different channels for communicating our thoughts, and we fill those channels up with our opinions about things. Essentially, Alam’s piece …

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  • The Case Against the Trauma Plot | The New Yorker
  • Outsourcing Virtue | The Point Magazine
  • A guide to Toru Takemitsu's music | Classical music | The Guardian
  • Highrises - HYTHA.CG
  • Asian Art — Katsushika Ōi (the daughter of Katsushika...
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