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“Scammers feed on the greed and desperation of others, but in the end, they poison themselves with their own dishonesty.”
— Unknown
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“The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that some $4.7 trillion in payments from the Treasury Department were missing a critical tracking code which made tracing the transactions ‘almost impossible.’”
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“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”
— Carl Sagan
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Art doesn’t always need to have a message, meaning, feeling, or even an audience. But influencers do—they rely on having a message and people to engage with it. Don’t mix the two up.
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So many people are caught up in the ‘what’ or ‘how’ of what they’re doing; not many are asking ‘why?’
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
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Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others
“What’s so interesting is that we seem to intuitively understand that if we can get ourselves to believe something first, we’ll be more effective at getting others to believe it,” says William von Hippel, a psychologist at The University of Queensland, who co-authored the study. “So we process information in a biased fashion, we convince ourselves, and we convince others. The beauty is, those are the steps Trivers outlined—and they all lined up in one study.”
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Blue Cross Blue Shield $2.67 billion settlement checks sent soon. Who is eligible
“The lawsuit claimed the BC/BS plans illegally entered into an agreement not to compete with each other, and to restrict competition among themselves.”
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“Great minds don’t think alike. They challenge each other to think differently.”
— Adam Grant
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The Trouble with Art Biennials Today
“The mega-exhibition is a form fundamentally unable to bear the weight of its own contradictions.”