Sam Iglesias

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saint laurent shirt and jacket, jeans and loafers (not pictured) tom ford

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I looked up, saw a camera, saw a guy had taken my picture, he came up to me immediately and showed me on the back of the camera and said “do you like it? $10”. I blew him off and kept walking and then realized it was actually a good photo, so I turned around and told him I’d take it. He offered to shoot more but I politely declined.

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I got paparazzi’d on Rodeo (street photographers lurk around) and decided to keep the photo lol

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I got paparazzi’d on Rodeo (street photographers lurk around) and decided to keep the photo lol

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anybody here use a wall calendar? what’s your favorite?

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Looking over X the last few days, hard not to come away thinking this was a massive unforced error. The right has gotten a little intellectually lazy of late. They think, “yeah yeah big overeducated words, the correct argument is the most heretical.” Nope. Persuasion & holding a coalition together still matter.

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Merry Christmas guys.

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lmao I’ll read the odyssey with you always Tim

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lmao, what are other boomer takes? that people should settle down and have kids? that we should police crimes?

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fair enough, I still think the larger point stands that there’s no (or let’s say scant) larger zeitgeisty legitimizing aesthetic to that cultural moment. again I think of the 60s and 80s. maybe that shows the moment’s illegitimacy or moral bankruptcy?

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examples of regimes that propped up the arts? or individuals? public broadcasting from the 50s seems to contain many great examples, such as the Bernstein Young People’s Concerts series. SF is architected where there’s an arts center adjoining city hall. Why don’t tech leaders spend just a little bit of time promoting attendance? I hate to say it, but Steve Jobs was the last tech leader I could think of who explicitly and frequently brought culture and the arts into the tech domain.

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And I agree btw, modernism can be very beautiful (I work in it every day).

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I’m not saying those are the peak. I’m saying that the same people who complain that say the renaissance or the 19th century represent a cultural peak don’t offer a plan to get back to a sense of civic culture.

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It’s a stunning fact that 4 years on, there’s not a *single* cultural artifact—not a song, a novel, or even a movie—that legitimately captures the attitudes and experiences of 2020 in America. Argue with the values, but we got some really dope music out of the 60s! A sea TikToks with 0 enduring standouts.

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ideally reclaiming national identity should come with both technological optimism AND strong moral/aesthetic signposts from our artists, who should be exalted as highly as our scientists and entrepreneurs. I see a shameful lack of leadership or influence from the current crop. take back the arts too!

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still find it minorly irksome that the tech right, for all its many virtues, seems to have no idea how it’s going to enable arts and culture to flourish. you can bellyache about how gothic cathedrals and renaissance sculptures are gorgeous, but like, what’s your actual plan to get us back there?

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the driver attention team at Tesla has to be the most despised hall-monitory ML team at the company

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excellent point

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I have four 🙈

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