editor & writer | context architect
Joined November 2008
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you can really tell who doesn't have an actual job by their stance on pangram
Pangram cannot tell the difference between AI-generated and AI-edited text. It has no clue where the actual ideas come from. Yet people weaponize that "100%" label to shame writers and wreck careers, hitting vulnerable people the hardest.
It is the exact opposite of everything we’ve spent years teaching about ethical AI deployment.
The irony is that Pangram's founder is drinking so much of his own Kool-Aid that he gets mad when committees rightfully ignore his meaningless label.
people love a curated selection but become LIVID when an antiquarian bookshop doesn’t want to deal with what is fundamentally extra recycling
Good morning. Please don't do this to bookshops or charity shops. We know you think you are being helpful. But, this ends up costing us money. We have to process & dispose of books that we never wanted or don't have space for.
Give or sell us books but please do not dump them.
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getting wild at the NYRB sale with Gaddis, Genet, Gass, Ginzburg, Glück, and authors whose last names start with other letters as well
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Loved this. “Relentless exposure is not sexy anymore, but depth is.”
"The opposite of brain rot might be intellectual curiosity."
metropolitanreview.org/p/the…
“The solitude of the study holds in suspension the spirit and the system: on one hand it encapsulates the sum of one’s aspirations and dreams and delusions; on the other, it embodies the aggregate of material conditions that makes the life of the mind possible.” – Hui, The Study
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personally my faves of the year include Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual, Enard’s Zone, Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries, and Straube’s Kiss of the Basilisk — each doing something unique (unhinged) in its category
Shockingly, when you read more than one book a year, you have plenty of room in your reading list to enjoy both trashy romance novels AND quality pieces of literature. It’s called having range!
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using “you’re absolutely right” in casual speech
you: slopbrained, cogsec-compromised, unserious
me: clever, considered, enlightened
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Ryan retweeted
Seeing a lot of deeply condescending “content” recently that’s like “Flannery O’Connor is Dostoyevsky for girls!”
But what if Dostoyevsky is also Dostoyevsky for girls and O’Connor is also O’Connor for boys? What if we all grew up a little bit?
the people yearn for PostSecret
Why strangers are swapping secrets at this underground L.A. supper club latimes.com/lifestyle/story/…
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hobbies include buying 10x more books than my current shelves can hold and building a future where they can be together
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I love going to @ChevaliersBooks and absolutely cleaning up: De Kerangal’s Canoes, Agualusa’s The Living and the Rest, Baltasar’s Permafrost, Debré’s Offenses, Elsby’s Violent Faculties, Cabezón Cámara’s We Are Green and Trembling
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we took the metro, we shared a taxi, we walked and made a series of small stops for fries water bathroom on the way, or we simply walked, in the administrative assistant-appropriate clubwear of our era
gen z is on tik tok asking millennials how we got home from a night out if we didn’t have uber lmao i don’t even remember omg
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