#intellectualdiscourse

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-09-12

🀑 Oh, how delightful to see yet another overblown think piece about the walking soundbite generator, Charlie Kirk, as if we needed more intellectual napalm to save society. The irony of a "better way to work" being tied to this is almost too rich; calm, clarity, and must have taken a sabbatical. πŸš€
calnewport.com/on-charlie-kirk

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-22

πŸŽ­πŸ€” Oh, you didn't know Robert Musil's forgotten plays inspired his greatest work of fiction? Neither did anyone else, because who reads forgotten plays? But please, let's pretend this revelation is more than just intellectual name-dropping fodder for wannabe literary snobs. πŸŽ©πŸ“š
lithub.com/the-austrian-writer

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-04-17

πŸ” A writer waxes poetic about the "legendary" Jane Jacobs, whose most notable accomplishment was foiling the evil urban overlord, Robert Moses. Meanwhile, Hollywood churns out an animated flick featuring Jacobs as New York's , because nothing screams intellectual discourse like a cartoon battle scene. πŸΏπŸ™„
salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articl

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