racism

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On crypto-art, racism and outcome fantasies

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If you want to find mistakes with something, you’ll be able to find them if you tried long enough. That doesn’t inherently make the thing worthless. The only exception I’ve encountered to this truism…

We don't have a problem with the West, we're just obsessed with it

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How much do we not know about what Indian researchers are doing simply because Western scientists haven't written to some of them?…