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i got to meet her at the booker ceremony and she was really kind and generous. under the eye of big bird is an epic, epic tale

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cough up an organ. Every line is gold.

We use dead things to fuel everything from our body to airplanes, and I like think of it as necromancy, as I do of books whose creators have passed away. Our whole civilization is necromantic in how it powers itself and retains its identity. We don't just owe a lot to the dead; we are the dead.

literal idol worship

Korean American food is objectively amazing

why would anyone hire mckinsey if they can just ask chatgpt

Wilson’s for both! She does incredible readings in both Greek and English

Idk why anyone still tries to meet racism with empathy and respect. They don’t respect you. Punch them in the mouth. Be rude and hostile. The fuck they gonna do? Hate black people more? 🙄

i don’t think that guy was as “gifted” as he thinks he was

You know what’s actually nuts about this kind of shit? For millennia, girls have been immersed in cultures that put us down and was quite fucking depressing

IMMERSED

We did not respond by becoming violent monsters

I responded by becoming an egalitarian feminist

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the rage that we have felt *sigh*

have a lovely trip!

the way my body literally had a physical reaction to this comment because multiple traumatic editing experiences because of these kinds of overstepping sigh

sometimes you get a copyeditor who thinks they’re your editor and you have to be like—you’re not my editor hun

Indefinite Detention Is the New Normal in Trump’s America Thousands of other people are going to get put into detention of indeterminate length with far less recourse, which could stretch years.

Indefinite detention “has been used to great effect in authoritarian regimes and by other antidemocratic actors around the world, because detention is by itself life-altering, demoralizing, and hobbles legal pushback.” — @felipedlh.bsky.social @slate.com

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Korean edition of Toward Eternity displayed under a sign that says Foreign Fiction

that was kyobo seouldae. kyobo songdo put me under “foreign fiction”

i am LITERALLY a korean citizen 😂

i was at a kyobo here in seoul and looking for my novel that's been translated from english into korean and wondering if it were under "eastern fiction" (i'm asian), "western fiction" (the book was originally written in english and published in the us) or "korean fiction"—it was under "new fiction"

Moon. In a bright blue sky.

Moon. Some big beauty.

what brock turner did to chanel miller, how is that normal behavior? he had every privilege, reason, and incentive to not do what he did in that moment, did he learn otherwise from a youtube channel? at some point even teenage boys should be expected to think for themselves

i was inundated with right-wing r*pe culture growing up in korea but i don’t do the things these incels do, nor did i do them as a teenager. are boys truly this enfeebled of morals these days? or are we encouraging them to be so by treating them as such? instead of teaching them about consequences

Happy, Happy #WITmonth!💃🎉📚 In August we celebrate books written by women in a language other than English that have been translated.

Read (even if it's just one book), share, #NameTheTranslator without whom literature would be less rich. For more, do check out www.womenintranslation.org/witmonth

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

Unhinged. I fear for her safety

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Oh I dunno, no telling what these people are capable of, I’m glad it did not escalate…

you might want to get that looked at

The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked…

Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.

(Published May)
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i very cleverly worked around this problem by not having my mother at my wedding. husb and i have now been married nine years

i still have my 7th grade copy of the mozart season by virginia euwer wolff and have taken to collecting vintage penguin paperbacks while traveling in the uk—so many of them, so cheap, lots of them out of print. gotta watch out for mold spores though

I honestly feel this shouldn’t be too hard for someone to emulate, when lignan in paper breaks down it becomes similar to vanilla, so that cut with something like cedar would get one pretty close to the smell