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Brendan McHugh

@brendanpmchugh.bsky.social

Extremely louder and incredibly gay. Writer/public historian/bookseller. 🦻 🐻 . San Francisco www.brendanpmchugh.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 6mo ago

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11mo ago

actually my thing is the best thing you could read about her because it knows what a memoir is www.patreon.com/posts/144031...

More and more, I hunger for the real story in this horrid morass, because every new detail that emerges convinces me that it's fucking interesting. Nuzzi was engaged to Ryan Lizza, who was dismissed from the New Yorker because of sexual misconduct allegations! And Lizza just published a blog claiming that Nuzzi also slept with Mark Sanford during the 2020 election! And Nuzzi recorded a song when she was sixteen called "Jailbait" where she sneers about seducing much older men! The real story exists, dammit—I can smell the sadness emanating off it like rot, all that selfishness and narcissism and addictive behavior. Now, it's not my business to moralize. Indeed, I'm starting to feel bad for Nuzzi because of how many journalists are gleefully moralizing about the skanky things she's done. Well, I'm guilty of plenty of skanky behavior myself, and so is every uppity journalist being all pious about how they would never and they could never and can you imagine. I can't judge about any of that. I can, however, judge a memoirist for declining to write honestly and therefore compellingly about her awfulness. I write honestly about my awfulness; it's a charge I take seriously; being a memoirist who refuses to do so is autobiographical malpractice.
Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends." The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2y ago

Others have remarked on this but the resurgence of the R word across the political spectrum is really wild? Like did I miss a memo about this? I expect it from some people but from others, you really can't come up with a better and more interesting way to describe people you don't like?

Jinwoo Park@jinwoo-park.com · 2y ago

Han Kang delivered her Nobel Prize lecture in literature on December 7th at the Swedish Academy. There was so much beauty and wisdom in that lecture, but I want to focus on her questions. Specifically, the questions that drive her literary force.