In the same way every war movie is a pro war movie every skit making fun of rich influencers is a pro rich influencer skit
I was going to make a joke about how my Cuisinart was actually a form of AI because of how it cuts things on its own but then I realized that as a joke it could actually be taken as pro ai, in that no oceans are drained for my Cuisinart’s ability to cut things very small
tarzan of the apes (extremely naked and fully erect Philip José Farmer version) will sex-wrestle the rogue AI into submission while shouting "kreegah bundolo," which, as john connor has ensured through a time travel subplot, is the secret shutdown phrase backdoored into the mainframe
My preferred form of social media is buttonholing casual acquaintances on the street and demanding they look at pictures where I think I look good
I’m a little sad I didn’t see this before I wrote my right-on-red blog: www.reddit.com/r/nextdoor/s...
From the nextdoor community on Reddit: Don't stop at a red light just because I want to turn right!
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Saw an ad for a bank that emphasized the sterility of an AI-automated world and showed how you get human interaction at the bank, and once again thinking about cooption of anti-AI aesthetics to sell bank
When I was younger I had a pair of pants taken from an ex-boyfriend and at the time I thought I liked them because of lingering affection for him but I came across a basically identical pair of pants in the wild and it turns out they just look really good on me
I want to know if anyone showed Rachel Cusk the Tavi Gevinson Taylor Swift zine and if so what she thought
I want to know if anyone showed Rachel Cusk the Tavi Gevinson Taylor Swift zine and if so what she thought
I am reposting the link to mg Defector piece because I am proud of it but in order to add value I am also including a link to the Roz Chast Poky Little Parkway comic which I have always seen as a beautiful Utopian dream condenaststore.com/featured/its... defector.com/every-right-...
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A couple of blocks from my office is a steep hill. Sometimes at lunch I go out into the sun and walk up the hill. The hill is very California: asphalt so newly laid that it looks AI-generated; a handf...
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Defector gave me the chance to write about something deeply personal and meaningful to me, namely my belief that right on red is destroying our morals: defector.com/every-right-...
Every Right On Red Frays The Social Contract A Little Further | Defector
A couple of blocks from my office is a steep hill. Sometimes at lunch I go out into the sun and walk up the hill. The hill is very California: asphalt so newly laid that it looks AI generated; a handf...
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some words on Soraya Roberts, the best writer i ever knew
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I sat on the aisle at a movie the other day.
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Not that we need more examples of the enshittification of the internet but I was trying to look up the word eleemosynary the other day only I believed it was spelled eelomosynary and I could not find it at all and in 2007 it would have come up in 3 seconds
I am moving offices within my workspace and I have been dragging my heels on it and I finally just set up my computer and phone in the new office so basically I understand burning your boats on the beach more than anyone else
A poem that makes extended reference to Orpheus and Eurydice to describe the experience of driving with a baby who has gone quiet in the car seat
The most important thing I learned this week is that if you accidentally chew an Advil (or, I guess, if you purposefully chew an Advil) your entire mouth will start burning
Okay somebody needs to do a mashup of the business card scene in American Psycho with the calling card section of the Little House on the Prairie books
I understand that joking commentary about spam is the lowest of the low hanging fruit, but you have to admire how vividly this email invokes the image of a coming civil war
really great @maitreyiaa.bsky.social interview with @justinellis.bsky.social about his brilliant new book THE CRUELTY OF NICE FOLKS (which is out now, buy buy buy!) defector.com/justin-ellis...
My only antidepressant regret (and I’ve been on them for 15 years now) is that I didn’t start a decade earlier and the reason I didn’t start a decade earlier is a weird internalized version of this RFK Jr bullshit
Holly Anderson 🍇@hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5mo agowhere my Lexabros at
Well at least the Leafs have no first round picks to forfeit
Cut my hair so short my phone doesn’t recognize me any more
I was totally on board with the sentiment of this post when I first saw it, but now I’ve learned they’ve given ANN MCCAFFREY this treatment and I am incandescent with rage
Jake Casella Brookins@casella.bsky.social · 6mo agolike what are we doing here, which of these is actually going to fire the imagination of someone who's just browsing, going to stick in the imagination of a reader who will come back to it, suggest it to others
This is a sentiment you hear a lot from now-elderly people who grew up without a lot of material comforts. Their perceptual and material worlds were pretty well aligned! Now we basically all live in the perceptual world of the wealthy. It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing what they don’t have.
@greenbirds.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy dad grew up very poor in Philly but notes he didn't really realize it because everyone else in his neighborhood was in the same boat. Mind you, my dad is also very old.
I have ten million things I’d like to say about Helen DeWitt but I’m saving it for column I intend to pitch where I, the daughter of a classics professor, review novels and books involving classics for their realism
I propose that hockey teams start charging separately for the periods and marketing it as an initiative to make games more accessible. Also if anyone wants to hire me as a sports exec I am available. www.nytimes.com/athletic/712...
From $1,000 locker-room dinners to $96 selfies: How the Maple Leafs changed under Keith Pelley
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Marc Antony’s speech in Julius Caesar except that every instance of honorable man is replaced instead by poor critter