Brandy Jensen

the only good dating advice is that you must learn to bear your suffering well. the reason most dating advice skews conservative is because it shares with conservatism the view that suffering should happen to other people

There's a level of rich you can reach where the idea of being told no becomes unfathomable, and it probably shouldn't exist.

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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food. It calculated how much Gaza needs – but data shows how this is being withheld

Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period …

Even if every bag of UN flour had been collected and handed out … starvation was inevitable. Palestinians did not have enough to eat.”

Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy. The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.

Ms. Rachel forever

The New York Times Clarifies That A Starving Child In Gaza Also Needs Medical Care | Defector People are starving in Gaza. They are starving because the Israeli government is not allowing enough food to enter, and because what food becomes sporadically available can be claimed only by those…

The New York Times clarifies that a starving child in Gaza also needs medical care: defector.com/the-new-york...

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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Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

A month after my story for @defector.com, Crown confirms John Fetterman's political memoir is indeed still titled "Unfettered" and has a Nov. 11 release date. No mention of ghostwriter Buzz Bissinger—who I reported had a terrible time working with Fetterman—in initial book promo

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

ngl I think it’s fun for someone to give Agnes Callard a run for her money

The Sexual Experience Machine

Debra Messing remains a truly evil person.

Some More Stuff I Saw At The Tour de France | Defector VARIOUS CITIES (SOME ARGUABLY TOWNS), France — The Tour de France is over. I hope you enjoyed the racing and the 11 dispatches I was able to bring you from the race, on topics such as how language…

Patrick Redford wraps it up from the Tour de France: defector.com/some-more-st...

Simplicity by Mattie Lubchansky: 9780593701126 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From the acclaimed author of horror sensation Boys Weekend, a vibrant new graphic novel about a timid academic sent out from the walled dystopian security territory of New York City to investigate...

Let's get some w's in the chat for @mattielubchansky.com's new book, SIMPLICITY, out today wherever fine books are sold www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739012...

A Christian Nation Endless revelation

i thought this from @jackhanson.bsky.social was terrific substack.com/home/post/p-...

Hulk Hogan, lying inexplicably sideways in his open coffin, being visited by a chihuahua dog, who looks distraught. The people behind the coffin do too

I'm sorry, but this may be the funniest Facebook AI slop I have ever seen. Bury me sideways in my coffin, brother. Let my dog see

on the one hand we should want people to change their mind so we can stop what's happening now. On the other hand there need to be costs for the ghoulish behavior that got us here, as these people absolutely will do this again given half a chance

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Happy birthday!!!

‘Ugh! As If!’ Takes On The Enduring Appeal Of ‘Clueless’ | Defector In the mid-to-late ’90s, I was part of a girl gang that invaded suburban homes across the top half of New Jersey. We left our clothes strewn across various surfaces in your carpeted basements, ate you...

Millennials may be getting older, but our pop culture stays *the same age* (fun, I mean, HELLO, we're the kids of America)... making my DEFECTOR debut with a review essay on "Clueless"

-- many thanks to my editor @brandyjensen.bsky.social for her Cher-like guidance

defector.com/ugh-as-if-ta...

When you’re so busy crowing about your political motivations that you forget to pretend you did it for the Jews.

Can you imagine how mad he is. Getting away with a hundred different kinds of lawbreaking and suddenly not understanding why this one thing won't go away

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easily my favorite part of And Just Like That this season is how bad Carrie’s novel sounds

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Fire and thunder, here

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