harlan talib ockey
@harlanto.bsky.social
reporter @ law360 / 🇺🇲🇳🇿 in 🇦🇺 / mostly a personal account, lots of music and tennis thoughts / opinions my own
GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
Is your teen texting about Krautrock??? Know the slang: • DTF = Damo's the funkiest • NGL = Neu! goes loud • OMG = Oooooh motorik grooves! • FFS = Faust’s fucking stupendous • TMI = Tago Mago's incredible • TGIF = These Germans is freaky • CHEUGY = Can has excellent unbelievable grooves
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Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?
Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.
spitfirenews.com
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
I feel like I’m going insane, there is, like, an actual Venezuelan government that still exists
With Nicolás Maduro out of power, the Trump administration is racing to assemble an interim governing structure for Venezuela.
the thing about attacking venezuela for oil is that we are already very close to a record global oil surplus and venezuelan crude is of pretty sub-par quality. along with every other absurd and/or illegal thing that's going on here
Question: Hey so about boots on the ground: do you envision US Military having a presence in Venezuela Trump: if they're needed to protect the oil, yes I'm furious but also it really is refreshing that he's like "yep it's about the oil"
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
a sad fact we have to accept is kids these days don't know how to summon back the fire witch to the court of the crimson king
aoty list. i look forward to discovering more things released in 2025 that may make this irrelevant
Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year
i should get back into posting on here. the geese album is a solid 7/10
We're back! First priority is to finally talk about "The Giver": thesinglesjukebox.com/chappell-roa...
Chappell Roan – The Giver – The Singles Jukebox
thesinglesjukebox.com
please check this out, everyone! there are so many great writers involved (plus also me), and the graphics are fantastic. thank you so much to all who worked on it :)
new issue of portable model available for preorder now!!! a bit delayed because my life was a mess for a couple months but here we are. it's all about the last five years. please consider ordering now as it really does help me so much !! preorder: www.twoflatpress.com/shop/p/porta...
NEW: Want to know how Kendrick Lamar's incredible Super Bowl halftime show came together? I got the scoop for you. www.wired.com/story/true-s...
The Wild True Story Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
From the start, Kendrick Lamar wanted to turn his life into a video game for his big Super Bowl halftime show. The team tasked with doing that knew what to do—right down to sourcing a vintage GNX.
wired.com
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.
Wrote about what it's like on the ground in LA right now. Thanks to all who have reached out, we are safe. Love this city now and forever. 🌴
Watching the L.A. Fires Close In
What it's like on the ground in Los Angeles as a Santa Ana windstorm sparks unprecedented wildfires across the city
rollingstone.com
two consecutive days of me immediately running to aus open qualifying after work has culminated in this
I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.
What happens when the internet disappears?
Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?
theverge.com
For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week harpers.org/archive/2025...
obsessed with this story. no one thought to check with boulos enterprises who their ceo is before now? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...
Trump’s Pick as Mideast Adviser, Massad Boulos, Is a Truck Salesman
The lore around Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, is that he is a billionaire dealmaker. Records show otherwise.
nytimes.com
just realized i've been subconsciously confusing ml buch with mj lenderman. wow these are very different artists