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"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
-Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

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DJ Koze feat. Marley Waters:
🎵 Brushcutter (Very Short Version)
#NowPlaying #DJKoze #MarleyWaters
https://djkoze.bandcamp.com/track/brushcutter
https://open.spotify.com/track/7hIqeKwXShTFZQoqCbqYwZ

#ContemporaryContradictions #HashTagGames
Rules: include as many contradictions s you'd like. Can be profound or trivial. Each contradiction is stated via exactly 1 or 2 questions, no statements and not more than 2 questions. Try to group yours into a single post, rather than one post per contradiction, so that it's easier to see more voices when scrolling the hash tag.
Why does "race" work according to the "one drop rule" if you have Black ancestors, but according to "blood quantum" if you have Indigenous ancestors? Who benefits from this arrangement?
Why do we think of seeds as merely a reproduction mechanism for trees, instead of thinking of trees as merely a reproduction mechanism for seeds, especially since some plants can spend millennia as seeds but can survive for only part of a year after sprouting? Are metabolic activity or structural complexity really so important?
If Columbus discovered America, did Batu Khan discover Europe? What is an "Age of Discovery?"
Why don't corporations in the US try to lobby the government for a single-payer healthcare system where the government foots the bill for healthcare instead of companies paying to deeply subsidize their employees' healthcare? What benefit do they gain that's worth that cost, which in other countries is paid for via taxes?
Why is the cost of renting (which gets you zero equity) anywhere close to the cost of a mortgage (which eventually gets you ownership)? If the costs are similar but the benefits are so different, why does anyone ever rent?
Why do we obsess over the fruit/vegetable classification of tomatoes, but not corn, okra, cucumbers, zucchini, etc.?

Gaza Hunger Presents Trump With Moral Test Familiar to Past Presidents (Michael Crowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/trump-gaza-foreign-policy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p139#a250730p139

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Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
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(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

Trump’s appeal isn’t rooted in policy;
it’s rooted in style.
I He uses delusional bravado to cosplay as a rebel against a broken system that both parties helped to rig.
The Democratic establishment’s timid, survivalist politics can’t compete with that.
You can’t beat an immoral agent of chaos with risk aversion.
You beat him with moral clarity
— the kind that’s willing to sacrifice corporate donations, political comfort and maybe even your own career for t…

Opinion | This Is the Moment Democrats Have Been Talking About for Years
The party establishment is missing its chance to prove there is more to it than just outrage and opposition.

So if Mamdani's already Mayor, we can assume the Bedford Ave bike lanes will not be ripped out and we're about to get a whole shitload of new bike & bus lanes, right? Like, starting immediately?
Oh hang on, I'm being told that formerly indicted corrupt-af Eric Adams is still Mayor.

Coming on Tuesday, 1st of July: a suite of compositions for pipe organ and trumpet.
Three pieces that fell out of my soul in response to the latest wars.
Only on Mirlo and BandCamp (for now).
#PipeOrgan #trumpet

Vance goes after NYC mayoral hopeful Mamdani: 'He should show more gratitude to the United States' (Madeline Sherratt/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-new-york-zohran-mamdani-b2816370.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250830/p24#a250830p24