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Say you’re in love and the words won’t come. Once upon a time you hired a poet. Petrarch farmed his longing out to the sonnet; courtly troubadours put silk on the tongue of men whose nerves were otherwise rubble. Shakespeare even wrote the instruction manual: Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love—Orlando pinning…

Every few months, corporate media stumbles across an old labor practice, slaps a new label on it, and acts like it just discovered fire. “Quiet quitting” was 2022’s viral phrase for something workers have been doing for centuries: giving only as much labor as they’re paid for. Michael Hiltzik’s Los Angeles Times column argued the…

Ask any teacher: the most dangerous time of day isn’t the fire drill or the test—it’s the moment you tell twenty-five kids to “line up.” Suddenly the room turns into a rugby scrimmage with backpacks. Classroom management lives and dies in those few seconds. But lining up doesn’t have to be pure entropy; it can…