Tobias Wilson-Bates

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

The Luddite Renaissance is already upon us.

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

Would love to read more on this. Is there a readily accessible resource?

I don’t know if podcasting is going to save you from that

-Frankenstein’s Monster

Your inexorable gravitation towards radio

Gyllenhaal: it's about the bride
Mary Shelley: whoa whoa whoa hold on a second there
Shelley: the bride of WHO?
Gyllenhaal: you know
Gyllenhaal: [tapping nose] frank
Shelley: ha ha ha
Shelley: you sly bitch

Gotta love Economic analyses that are like “it’s easy to misunderstand these market signals as a bad omen for the economy, but it’s important to recognize large scale suffering is in fact what the system is optimized for so this is mostly fine”

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This series is SO GOOOOD OMG bsky.app/profile/phdh...

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Ugh, I love it so much. Having my dining room redone with a WM-inspired print.

Basic

Especially since the second half was pretty mid too

“The water would be supplied by Carvins Cove Reservoir, the primary drinking water source for Botetourt County and much of the Roanoke Valley” 👍

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

One of the best things I ever wrote came from the effect that the Leftovers had on me. And yes, Jon, I agree! 💚 variety.com/2017/tv/colu...

Beautifully crafted.

I can read a bunch of stuff on the computer and diagnose myself, but if a company does that and misdiagnoses me without a medical license they would be liable. This isn’t hard to understand, is there some kind of gas leak happening over there?

-Walter Benjamin

I refuse to believe that you are not hip & edgy

Also didn’t they sort of speed run the entire extended underlying plot of the show in the movie?

For reference.

As Twain says “there are lies, damn lies, and then there are aggregate statistical output summaries”

The native language of a google search summary

And if you're pitching to this (which you should!), you might also consider putting in a proposal for this seminar, which might be a useful place to get feedback on a draft in progress! bsky.app/profile/akta...

Thank you for your sacrifice 🫡

Chotiner: walk me through your thinking here

Victor Frankenstein: A new species would bless me as its creator and source. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.

Chotiner: hmm. Could you give me some insights into your relationship w your mother?

Humans Sketched Oddly Precise Geometric Patterns Onto Ostrich Eggs 60,000 Years Ago Prehistoric humans had a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of geometric rules, as this study suggests.

Humans Sketched Oddly Precise Geometric Patterns Onto Ostrich Eggs 60,000 Years Ago gizmodo.com/humans-sketc...