Agri Ismaïl
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I am complicit in this festival of horrors // wrote a book called Hyper
Fantastic Four: First Steps but they’re literally toddlers taking their first steps. Reed Richards stretches only while horizontal in bed between his parents. Sue is invisible at bath time. Johnny turns into the human torch if you cut his food wrong, and Ben is just one of those weird ugly babies
Why don’t more reviews come with illustrations?! This is delightful
Tom Fornoff@tom4noff.bsky.social · 2w agoHyper is a remarkable novel by @agri.bsky.social recommended by @c4noff.bsky.social, whose @coffeehousepress.bsky.social subscription introduces books she might not ever find on her own. For both of us, Hyper is a happy discovery. I've reviewed it at readthinkdraw.substack.com/p/2nd-genera...
Hyper is a remarkable novel by @agri.bsky.social recommended by @c4noff.bsky.social, whose @coffeehousepress.bsky.social subscription introduces books she might not ever find on her own. For both of us, Hyper is a happy discovery. I've reviewed it at readthinkdraw.substack.com/p/2nd-genera...
2nd Generation Refugee$$
Ismail’s Novel, Hyper, Explores Paths Through Western Materialism
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Honestly the two most fun games at this World Cup have been the Spain - Cabo Verde 0-0 and this utter madness right here.
This is well worth a read even if you’re already convinced LLMs are a boondoggle
EPOCH@epochliterary.com · 3w ago73.2 is at the printer, and 74.1 opens for submissions in two weeks! Please note we have a new AI policy that you can read on our submission page (TL;DR: we don't want AI-generated text), and a blog post from our editor on the subject, linked below.
star wars but all the droids upload everything they see and do to the company that manufactures them which incidentally is bffs with the empire
*Brödupproret 1917* Folket: Fred och bröd! Fred och bröd! Gunnar Strömmer: Det är direkt oansvarigt av de demonstrerande att enbart fokusera på bröd när Sverige har så många potatisbönder som har det ekonomiskt tufft just nu.
People being asked their four fav movies for Letterboxd always act as though an archangel at the pearly gates has asked them to account for their sins
If elections were held during the summer would green parties around Europe be more successful?
I knew someone who briefly made bank writing insipid motivational LinkedIn-posts for ceo’s and the like. Obviously LLMs have completely eradicated this market.
Emma Jacobs@emmavj.bsky.social · 2mo agoLast week Ferriss wrote in a blog post: “Using my own books as the cadaver on the table, [this is] what a fatality looks like,” mapping out sales for his five books — including The 4-Hour Body and Tools of Titans (my favourite title of the last ten years). as.ft.com/r/375f80ea-f...
Kommer alltid älska Linda Skugge för att när jag som sketen 18åring läste något hon skrev om Plath/Hughes i pressen mejlade jag henne o sa att hon hade FEL, så svarade hon med ett långt förklarande mejl, något hon absolut inte behövde göra
Flamman@flamman.se · 2mo agoI Maggie Nelsons bok om Sylvia Plath och Taylor Swift hittar författaren Linda Skugge en spegel för sin egen undergång – och viljan att resa sig ur askan igen. www.flamman.se/ingen-fortja...
Att mjölka kor och lyda sin make saluförs numera som ett livsstilsideal. I ”Yesteryear” får huvudpersonen smaka sin egen medicin, men trots fyndigt upplägg och tidsresor finner @agri.bsky.social en torr moralkaka där bäst-före-datumet står för dörren. www.flamman.se/hemmafruroma...
Hemmafruroman med kort bäst före-datum
”Yesteryear” är allt för ytlig för att avskräcka tradwives
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An outstanding review of HYPER over at A FEW MORE WORDS. www.afewmorewords.net/p/still-wait... @agri.bsky.social Thanks Christopher Conner!
Still Waiting On, and Needing, the Revolution: "Hyper" by Agri Ismaïl
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This is such a good essay on Gass: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/rev...
The High Style of the Hater | Nicholas Dames
If Gass entertained any escape fantasies, however, The Tunnel does not indulge them. It’s the big, the biggest, Man Alone in a House story. It’s an anti–systems novel, uninterested in conspiracist lin...
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Thomas Pynchon is the only realist writer.
Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 2mo agohey quick question, am I having a stroke
Min söndagstext, om vem främlingen är, Bekla Demhat Aksoy som nu ska utvisas och @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social nya bok. www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/M7P...
Hon lever efter våra ideal – men ska kastas ut
KARIN PETTERSSON Sverige börjar bli främmande för mig
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This, which made me laugh uncontrollably, reminds me that I often used to laugh uncontrollably while reading things on the internet. Not anymore, though. Which, come to think of it, is something else we can in large part blame on Peter Thiel.
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
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My agent told me today that there’s no way to receive funds from Turkey because the international bank system does not trust transfers from the country. Yet somehow we can deport *people* there and it’s fine.
Miran@hevalsson.bsky.social · 2mo agoIdag togs vår klient Bella av gränspolisen & fördes till förvaret i Märsta för utvisning. Bella är transkvinna & välkänd HBTQ-aktivist med bakgrund i den kurdiska frihetsrörelsen. På grund av detta har Säpo klassat henne som ett säkerhetshot. Om hon utvisas kommer hon gripas & utsättas för tortyr
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"To the contrary, voters are on average more likely to defect to the radical right when mainstream parties adopt anti-immigration positions, a pattern that has been particularly pronounced for established RRPs."
