Casey Boyle

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Uber president says Al spending is getting 'harder to justify'/ There's no clear connection between Al usage and productivity.
What are we to make of Janet F., this sign of the repressed, this Freudian slip of a female who, with a flick of a "u" (the U-shaped table at which she sits?), goes from Freed to Freud, Freud to Freed? Thinking of'her, I am reminded of Dorothy Smith's suggestion that men of a certain class are prone to decontextualization and reification because they are in a position to command the labors of others. 59 "Take a letter, Miss Freed," he says. Miss Contesting for the Body of Information 1 83 Freed comes in. She gets a lovely smile. The man speaks, and she writes on her stenography pad (or perhaps on her stenography typewriter). The man leaves. He has a plane to catch, a meeting to attend. When he returns, the letter is on his desk, awaiting his signature. From his point of view, what has happened? He speaks, giving commands or dictating words, and things happen. A woman comes in, marks are inscribed onto paper, letters appear, conferences are arranged, books are published. Taken out of context, his words fly, by themselves, into books. The full burden of the labor that makes these things happen is for him only an abstraction, a resource diverted from other possible uses, because he is not the one performing the labor. Miss Freed has no such illusions. Embedded in context, she knows that words never make things happen by themselves— or rather, that the only things they can make happen are other abstractions, like getting married or
Masthead: The Washington Post: Democracy Dies in Darkness Headline: Good night, stars. We are on the cusp of turning darkness into day.
25 February. Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment. I spent this evening at the family table in complete indifference, my right hand on the arm of the chair in which my sister sat playing cards, my left hand weak in my lap. From time to time I tried to realize my unhappiness, I barely succeeded.” Kafka’s diary entry on Feb 25th, 1912
Ken Burns shares 3 thoughts on upcoming 'American Revolution' seri...
Shiny metallic rainbow book cover of The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai
Book: The Beckett Trilogy…Molloy…Malone Dies…The Unnamable
Sticker that reads: You have NOT been paying attention
How much for 1 oz of gold right now? $3,287.79 Gold Spot Price (Today) Live Metal Spot Price: Last updated Jun 28, 2025 at 20:47 EDT Gold Spot Prices Gold Price Change Gold Price Per Ounce $3,287.7 9 -$47.70 Gold Price Per Gram $105.70 -$1.53 Gold Price Per Kilo $105,704 .90 -$1,533.59
Sun Ra in front of a white car. Gold orb above his head like a thought he hasn’t finished. Cape burning orange into yellow— somewhere between Pharaoh and comet. The ground doesn’t quite hold him.
NYT headline: A Key to Trump's Success: His Genius for Lying
Pop up warning: “Slack is damaged and cannot be opened”
HEADLINE: New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone..followed by a picture line up of the company founders, looking like a cheap coverband at a wedding for the cousin you only know a little
Doing and making are acts of HOPE -Corita Kent