By far the funniest part of this insane post is that even the maniacs who believe this stuff are so media-pilled they refer to it as a 'leaked photo'. As if God, CEO of Heaven Studios, had included it in a press kit for awards season, but embargoed it til January 27th.
We'll be doing a live Arena show at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social celebrating 100 issues of @thedublinreview.bsky.social.
We'll have editor Brendan Barrington, contributors Sara Baume, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and @mrkocnnll.bsky.social.
Do come, it's going to be special...
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
“It is often said that many nonfiction books should really have been magazine articles; this one feels like a LinkedIn post mercilessly stretched to nearly three hundred pages.” —Mark O’Connell on Palantir’s founder’s first book
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
Yeah man, keep being patronising snobs, that’ll get liberalism back on the road
Terrible book, terrible guy, great magazine
Yes, in the same way your thermostat suffers from the pain of burning
Exactly the effect I was going for, thrilled I pulled it off
Catholic handbags!!
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Instagram ads have gotten exponentially worse recently, right? Just an endlessly encroaching tide of slop and cheap scams
Thank you!
The NYT talked to @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social and me about MARS, which opens tonight at Galway Arts Festival
I think that’s a solid assumption
Oo remembers lying awake after dinner at Combray for maman to give you a goodnight kiss?
Don’t tell me about a thing being “downstream of” another thing. I don’t want to hear it, and I won’t listen to it!
This is an X screenshot I can get behind. No more J.K. Rowling screengrabs, just Bryan Johnson being delusional about how well his age reversal project is going
Patrick Collison here, illustrating a mindset that is, in many ways, a simple misunderstanding of life itself
It didn't strike me that it might be one of those words you don't really hear anymore
For those of you who were simply too lazy to read my essay about MrBeast and the attention economy yourselves, here's me reading it for you www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
thinking again about this 2018 cover
Seems a little drastic, he could just shut them down in the normal way
(sliding out from under The Gyre on a mechanic's creeper, covered in grease) okay, bad news
This is on Thursday, and my last gig until after the Summer.
@urchinette.bsky.social @mrkocnnll.bsky.social and
@prasifcat.bsky.social
Tickets went in a couple of days but as there are frequently cancellations, @booksupstairs.bsky.social keep a wait list:
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‘Postliberalism’ is mainly books with titles like ‘The Fate of Civilisation and the Death of God at the End of the West’ by men with backgrounds as investment analysts
It’s a skeet, and you’re too cowardly to say it
I’ve had worse ideas, as you know
I worked in a hotel during a golf tournament when I was 18, and brought room service to Tiger Woods, who was sitting on a couch in his underwear watching himself play golf on tv
This essay is the best description of Mr Beast I have ever read: His oeuvre is “a Hobbesian gameshow of all against all,” and he “may not be the genius we need, or the genius we want, but he may be the genius we deserve.”
via @mrkocnnll.bsky.social
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