Thomas Bulen Jacobs

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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From the CringeTikToks community on Reddit: Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' ... Explore this post and more from the CringeTikToks community

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Remember the time other presidents hallucinated being offered the Nobel Peace Prize and then talked about it on TV and then weren’t immediately A25’ed?

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them…is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

Don’t lose track of the fact that 100% of the other presidents in history would be out of office for any of this.

From the nextfuckinglevel community on Reddit: The tallest living tree is a coast redwood tree known as Hyperion, located in Redwood National Park in California. Explore this post and more from the nextfuckinglevel community

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Have a wee spot of joy this morning

Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel Tech billionaire claims in a lecture about religion that the devil promises peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation

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Just normal shit for people with unlimited wealth and power to think and say

At least tomorrow is the Rapture, amiright?

Why do they all have rimless glasses and trim lil’ white beards?

I don’t think I’ve written a word in the last decade that wasn’t specifically geared towards making Stephen “Temu Gollum” Miller as angry as possible.

Post 189 When the church changes its mind

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It’s a good feeling when one of your favorite writers likes your spouse’s research.

Fully agree

There There by @tommyorange is indisputably one of the best novels I’ve ever read.

Agnes Callard’s Insistent Answers to Life’s Deepest Questions The University of Chicago philosophy professor invites readers to join her on the higher path, but she loses the spirit of her ancient Greek avatar along the way.

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I went to college with Mary Townsend. So cool to see her byline.

A Stranger Everywhere - The American Scholar The inner world of one of America’s great warrior poets

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lol

Just finished Alligator Zoo-Park Magic by @chhooks.bsky.social from Bridge Eight Press.

Read more indie writers, people!

Does someone else assign the movie after the fact?

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My scorching hot take, and, to mix metaphors, also the hill I’ll die on is that none of the prestige TV shows is half as good as people tell themselves.

New TV Novels | Lisa Borst It’s a literature of dimming stars, smoggy drives through flammable chaparral, frequent benders, prostitutes. Flash periods of productivity where somebody bangs out a script in a week. There’s at leas...

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“NOVELS ARE BETTER THAN TELEVISION. For a long time this thesis underwrote nearly all literature that tackled the subject of TV.”

HOW ECHOES OF OTHER BOOKS BECOME CHANNELS INTO YOUR OWN and then there are writers who thrive in the company of other voices, who reject the notion that more learning — more story — could ever make the task of writing harder.

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There are like 3 good Substacks and this is one of them

Finished @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social ‘s The Cosmic Color today.

Highly recommend. Can a story about gigantic living robot exoskeletons be tender? This one was.

He’s wearing his big boy pants today

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From my very good friend Sarah

Good luck, America

Raise Your Standards A qualified manifesto

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Holding up my book on a stage. I am wearing a black mask, a black T-shirt with white rats printed on it, and a soft velvet blazer.

Progress pride flag made from loops of colored paper, at the MLK Jr. Library in DC.

Neon Hemlock books!

Dave Ring and me, holding North Continent Ribbon behind a display of many books.

Rainbows and library readings.

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This is how I see Elmo:

A Song of “Full Self-Driving”: Elon Isn’t Tony Stark. He’s Michael Scott. The fallacy of the tech genius.

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@jvl.bsky.social kills it, again

Math and Beauty in the Age of AI Podcast Episode · The Quanta Podcast · 05/27/2025 · 21m

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Love this podcast from @quantamagazine.bsky.social