“Creating art is about growing the world and increasing its reach, and it has more to do with the act of creation itself than what is actually made.” — Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files
Category: micropost
Justice Sotomayor swears in Vice President Harris, The New York Times
“Truth defends itself particularly poorly when there is not very much of it around, and the era of Trump — like the era of Vladimir Putin in Russia — is one of the decline of local news. Social media is no substitute: It supercharges the mental habits by which we seek emotional stimulation and comfort, which means losing the distinction between what feels true and what actually is true.”
Timothy Snyder for The New York Times Magazine