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Communications lost with Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen after Israeli navy tells it to change course – live

submitted 8 minutes ago • 5 comments

Agree with this. Also has the advantage that unlike all of the alternatives people on this website have advanced in opposition, it doesn't immediately crash into to 'so, basically, none of Beethoven's symphonies until he went deaf, and absolutely nothing in a church before 1900?'

submitted 46 minutes ago • 2 comments

imo, "a creative property capable of evoking a sense of the sublime" serves as a thin, but still useful expression of what art is

submitted 59 minutes ago • 2 comments

A thing that is IMO really striking about a lot of '[X] isn't art' are how *modern* the loadbearing assumptions are. It's really changed how I understand and think about how people acted in the past, to realise just how shaped by our understanding of the present we are.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Chess is an attempt to recreate emotions, the strategising, the brutal sacrifices of an ancient experience - leading a nation into war - into something that is experienced by a person on a little square board. How is it NOT art?

submitted 1 hour ago • 9 comments

I have a chapter comparing Rhodes and Musk in my book, When Companies Rule (forthcoming, Columbia University Press). Here's what exasperated corporate board members told Parliament about their inability to rein in one of Rhodes' many illegal and deadly schemes: Same type of dude.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

They’re all art. They’re all creative endeavours. Something doesn’t have to be good, or highbrow to be art. (But to answer the question as intended, the peaks of the form thus far: Disco Elysium, I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, Slay the Princess, Papers Please, The Sims, Suzerain)

submitted 1 hour ago • 7 comments

I think it’s a window into how *little* South Africa shapes Musk’s worldview that he’s essentially going ‘the state? Interfere with business decisions? Couldn’t happen!’

submitted 1 hour ago • 6 comments