I had a repair shop loaner that not only got rid of the rear-view mirror, but also obstructed the view out the rear windscreen so you couldn't even see out by craning your neck. I was LIVID.
Joseph Rezek
@rezekjoe.bsky.social
English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Emily Wilson now in the ATLANTIC- more against Nolan’s Odyssey: “In these times of hatred and misinformation, we need more than the ‘apparent magic’ of deceptive images. We need art that is truthful about the costs and the necessity of compassion“
A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside It
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is full of contradictions about deceit and violence.
theatlantic.com
A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
nytimes.com
See also: digital cameras instead of wing mirrors on buses.
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16h agoI was in a friend’s rental car and in place of a rear-view mirror there was a mirror-sized digital video feed of the back of the car. They replaced one of the most reliable & intuitive safety features in a car with a digital surrogate that could glitch at any moment. KEEP ANALOG SAFTEY FEATURES
I was in a friend’s rental car and in place of a rear-view mirror there was a mirror-sized digital video feed of the back of the car. They replaced one of the most reliable & intuitive safety features in a car with a digital surrogate that could glitch at any moment. KEEP ANALOG SAFTEY FEATURES
Bed bugs are right twice a day! Bret Stephens: “I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.” (gift link)
Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. (Gift Article)
It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.
nytimes.com
Tina Turner’s historic, epic, re-brand and comeback in the early 80s is the stuff of legend. Tell the children she didn’t always have that hair!!!
Ellsworth Green@greenellsworth.bsky.social · 2d agoTina Turner in a studio portrait, Los Angeles, 1983.
I had a dream I was on campus and I sat at a table all by myself but then the deans showed and called a meeting of chairs & directors where I was sitting.
Not suppressing links is the single most important difference between this website and the rest The most important thing however is it’s where all the nerds are, my people
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d agothis is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Absolute scandal NY Magazine did not interview me for this article
What god drove them to fight with such a fury?
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2d agoYou guys I’m at dinner with a friend and she doesn’t know anything about the ODYSSEY WARS 😱
You guys I’m at dinner with a friend and she doesn’t know anything about the ODYSSEY WARS 😱
I’m totally lying there is actually one important email I’m waiting for ! Lmao
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3d agoNo emails finding me here!!
Sometimes you’d have an episode of the golden girls that was bad and you’d have to wait a whole week to see if the next one was better and then when a sublime one hit you talked about it for weeks!
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
The COVID lies are insane WE WERE ALL THERE IT WAS SIX YEARS AGO
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
This is way too familiar. I grieve for every person who knows what that kinda fear feels like.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
Being a gay dad is so funny because why are my shorts literally shorter than my son’s (he’s 9)
up with heists! and i'm in print many times over singing whitehead praises also: this is the plot of MOLL FLANDERS
Noctambulate@noctambulate.bsky.social · 3d agoThe legendary kingpin Uncle Rich in Colson Whitehead’s COOL MACHINE divides his heists into those he does to meet obligations and those he does for sport: “A man builds his legacy. It accrues. And one day you have to hang your hat. Three money jobs and three personal jobs. Then I’m out.”
what an odd way to frame this. Wilson and Nolan work in different fields and absolutely aren't colleagues. It's not like she can pop into his office to offer some suggestions for his monograph
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d agoSUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS