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Stephen Kearse

@kearse.bsky.social

Journalist, critic, and author of novels Post, Liquid Snakes, and In the Heat of the Light. Noreasontopretend.com

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Stephen Kearse@kearse.bsky.social · last wk.

in addition to search engines being shit these days, there's lots of terrible search functionalities on websites, and in apps and programs I can't count the amount of times I've searched for something *in quotation marks,* gotten no results, then manually found the exact phrase

Natalie Weiner@natalieweiner.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...

On Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every Era

Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...

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dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Stephen Kearse@kearse.bsky.social · 4w ago

This passage, from a reported story that features a half-dozen sources, only highlights the race of the black one. I find this habit, which I also see in a lot of fiction and politics coverage, annoying af. if race matters for one person, it matters for everyone bc that's how it literally works

In Clearwater, I went to lunch with two former Hooters Girls: Becky Moore, the company’s director of learning, development, and training; and Andrea Hill, the executive vice-president in charge of all Texas locations. At a high-top table, Hill, a sleekly dressed Black woman in her forties, took charge of ordering a spread of her favorite dishes—honey Thai shrimp, sweet-and-spicy Daytona Beach wings, deep-fried pickles, and snow-crab legs—and made sure that everyone had plenty of paper towels to wipe their hands. Hill was a college student when she was first hired at Hooters, in Chicago, where she’d be flying later that afternoon: her best friend, her “literal Day One” from her time as a server, was expecting a grandchild, and she was going to the baby shower. This sense of continuity turned out to be a prominent feature of the Hooters universe: Moore, a bubbly eastern-Florida native in her late thirties who started at the chain out of high school, told me about her “honorary nephew,” Chase—a teen-ager whose parents had brought him in regularly as a toddler.
Judy Berman@judyberman.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to share this project I've been working on for months: a long list of the most underappreciated TV shows of a dizzyingly overabundant 21st century. The research for this was so fun—revisiting great shows I barely remembered, finally getting to watch others that had been on my list for years

The 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows of the 21st Century

From 'Undeclared' and 'Bunheads' to 'The Knick' and more, these are TIME's most underappreciated TV shows of the 21st Century.

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