Jake

I’ve never wanted to be famous but I wish I was just famous enough to go on that last meals show where they prepare all the foods you love and talk to you about death or whatever

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of every AI datacenter. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the OpenAI headquarters.

Yes all the time

“No no, you don’t understand, I did it for money!”

Remember that every person working in an ICE camp can quit their job today with no legal repercussions. They’re not in the military, they have no legal obligation to report to work if they don’t want to.

Let’s just remember that when their defense attorneys start explaining why they worked there.

My kids have this mermaid book and every page is like “when I stare into the sea / I know that’s where I’m meant to be” and it’s one of the bigger examples I know of how things read very differently when you’re depressed

DBH had an article/essay about Federer and he goes on a tangent about how doing a personal profile of an elite athlete is a hard assignment because they’re such boring people, because they’ve only done one thing obsessively since they were eight years old.

Try reading a good book for once sweetie

I like that my brand is basically:
- sad
- likes the whale book

Haven’t read In Our Time yet, but I’m a big Old Man and the Sea boi

On a long enough timeline, burying someone is just putting them on a conveyer belt heading toward cremation

Gotta read it again!

That said, I’ve never made any claims about my taste

The Bell Jar is bad
Song of Achilles is bad
All but like two Hemingway books are overrated
I’m proudly conflicted on Call Me By Your Name

On the genre side, the Three-Body Problem and Red Rising are bad

What’s the opposite of a Midas touch

Some of you never read watership down as a child and it shows

Could use prayers for an urgent intention, in your kindness

How dare

Begrudgingly conceding and giving respect to one (1) of the Great Lakes.

Depression! on the Metro

Yeah, he specifically said in his remarks that Italian-Americans had better remember this when they have to vote

“Dad movie” = “movie that got me in my feelings about parenting and kids”

Saluted the tricolore during my commute this morning

(Of course, the smooth brains in executive board rooms assume they won’t need employees or artists now that they have the almighty AI. Or they’re just hoping the bubble doesn’t burst before they retire and cash in all their stock options.)

I know a bunch of illustrators and graphic designers who DREAM of working for Disney, who have seen it as the apex of their profession since they first picked up a sketchpad in middle school. Can’t think of a more effective way to turn off an entire generation of potential employees than this.

They can’t all get oligarch-funded podcasts whenever a democrat gets elected

Even my conservative lawyer friends know that the Trump era will end and they’ll still have student loans to pay back, so they want to be employable. It’s literally only the wealthy ones who are willing to do anything visibly aligned with this administration

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