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Watching an episode of Babish: "God. How many things do Americans eat because they are depressed and diabetic?"

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Amazon is Momcorp

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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Photographic version.

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Such simple things feel subversive in today's world. For example, reading a paper book--a library book no less--in the center of SOMA, as techies march by in artifically streasd blue jeans and fleece, talking of ROI and bespoke mountain climbing hobbies, and share prices. I feel like Helen Schlagel.

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Today, reaching the end of Man in thr High Castle (the novel, not the dreck Amazon show): "Evidently we go on, as we always have. From day to day.... we cannot do it all at once; it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice each step."

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“First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.” ― Cecil Day Lewis #WritingSky

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"Fascism always fails. It is destructive and it is awful and not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails. It takes work. It takes fighting back. It takes throwing punches. It takes doing whatever it takes to beat it back, to protect those that are most vulnerable...."

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Has anyone called Bitcoin “Dunning-Krugerrand” yet?

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“White people - capitalists - have a slave fetish. That’s why they want AI. The only reason you want a robot to look like a human is if you want slaves.” - my dad

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We need to o recognize that, for many people, "taking action" may simply mean doing their normal work, or even just existing.

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Parthebogenesis Evangelion. n. 1. A manga that produces itself.

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🔬How did artists and scientific practitioners visualize their work in the early modern period? That’s the main question behind the online exhibition of rare books curated by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, @ariellaminden.bsky.social and Leendert van der Miesen. 🔗https://rarebooks.biblhertz.it

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I regret to remind mainly myself that revising is in fact the most important but typically least fun part of writing

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Twenty-five years ago today, the last "Peanuts" strip ran in newspapers. I'm taking this occasion to re-up my long piece on Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson in the LA Review of Books, still my favorite essay I've ever published. lareviewofbooks.org/article/sell...

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COME ON JUST THROW THE FUCKING RING INTO THE FIRE FRODO WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT

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Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

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Once more, McSweeney's is proving its chops at diagnosing American culture. This is meant to be funny... and it is... while also being pretty much exactly where we are now.

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Wrote about GenAI, the history of failed “revolutionary” book technology, and why the claims GenAI will transform literature never offer specifics. countercraft.substack.com/p/why-chatgp...

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excerpt from haruki murakami's "novelist as vocation". the whole book is really grounding to read & i recommend it to all my fellow creators tbh. however you feel about his work he is a really sensible person

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"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

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On discarding books, thinking with books, and acknowledging the process of living in a time of crisis. (Don't worry, the books will go to new homes, and not to a dumpster.)

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That feeling when you're watching the 1991 Russian meltdown only it's not Russia.

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Commending all involved in advocating successfully for the conservation of and revitalization of interest in this #PhilipGuston #ReubenKadish #mural in #Mexico. #publicart www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/a...

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What we are seeing now are symptoms of such a disease

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One day, Keynes hoped, "...love of money as a possession... will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease."

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buying maple syrup on Silk Road

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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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And I know pop culture politics is cringe, but I don't care. Andor was right about this. Find joy. Refuse to bow. Do what you love, don't stop. youtu.be/-asb8zTiuZ4?...

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Repression often fails.I was homeschooled by conservative parents and still turned out queer Don't give up

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This is a really shitty time. If you have something beautiful to share, share it, the world survives in part through joy

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For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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The only idea tech innovates is “what if we didn’t pay people?”

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No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you. Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

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If you're ever feeling embarrassed by a typo, just remember that whomever typed up NSC-68, the seminal Cold War position paper from 1950, turned "the Kremlin" into "the Gremlin" at one point.

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With a bunch of douchebro loser billionaires in the news every day lately, this story has been on my mind almost daily.

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Every time I buy a sandwich, I think of David Brooks

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