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Communicator, writer, cinephile, bibliophile, cats | Words in LA Review of Books, Atlantic, Frieze, Art Review, Virginia Quarterly, Public Books; etc anandimishra.com πŸ“© anandimi.substack.com

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Stockholm is Europe’s new capital of capital And with Sweden embarking on a borrowing spree, it is a bond trader’s paradise

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

08.12.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Before AI, I never heard writers talk about "refining" our work. We edited, we polished. I don't recall "refining" being a thing until AI decided it was a good euphemism for "edit" so as not to hurt people's feelings. Nothing needs to be edited or improved in AI land, only "refined," like a jewel.

06.12.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Γ‰mile Bernard, Funeral of Van Gogh, 1893

06.12.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

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the trees, the sun, the light

the trees, the sun, the light

just at the end of a snow squall you'll see for maybe ten seconds the weirdest and most beautiful light on earth. thats what you tell an old person when they ask you why you always have your phone

04.12.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 551    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

[Werner Herzog voice] He is monstrous, but in a more profound sense, Cookie Monster is also a victim

05.12.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1695    πŸ” 377    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3

Why did a BBC journalist need to ask a chatbot to identify the bits of this image which were edited? Surely it’s bleeding obvious? Do they think the chatbot adds more credibility to their story?

06.12.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anne Carson, Plainwater

06.12.2025 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Painting of a white woman in a long grey coat, red scarf and black hat walking to the left in a snowy rural setting with her two cats

Painting of a white woman in a long grey coat, red scarf and black hat walking to the left in a snowy rural setting with her two cats

Dee Nickerson, contemporary painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #ArtAdvent

05.12.2025 06:29 β€” πŸ‘ 705    πŸ” 143    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 7
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So it’s NOT my imagination

02.12.2025 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 936    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 21
A screenshot from The Simpsons showing that Duff, Duff Lite, and Duff Dry all come from the same pipe, a joke indicating that they're the same thing. In the original Disney+ version of this episode, the top of the frame was cut off, ruining the joke, which is the reverse of what happened with the HBO Max Mad Men thing.

A screenshot from The Simpsons showing that Duff, Duff Lite, and Duff Dry all come from the same pipe, a joke indicating that they're the same thing. In the original Disney+ version of this episode, the top of the frame was cut off, ruining the joke, which is the reverse of what happened with the HBO Max Mad Men thing.

This is such a mess. The HBO Max "remastered" version of The Simpsons reveals that Duff, Duff Lite, and Duff Dry all come from the same pipe. πŸ™„

03.12.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

I had an interesting conversation about The Calculation of Volume at work yesterday that helped clarify why I fell out of love with it over the second book. When one person experiences the impossible, it is a philosophical conundrum. When two people experience it, it becomes a political conspiracy.

03.12.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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this is temperature forecast for Gothenburg. we'll go into mid-december with temps as high as 9! we're so cooked 🀦🏻

04.12.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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26.11.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
A man says Good morning, everyone. It's

It's an absolute shitshow out there, today.

A man says Good morning, everyone. It's It's an absolute shitshow out there, today.

Morning Bluesky.

04.12.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 873    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 3
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β€˜The Chinese will not pause’: Volvo and Polestar bosses urge EU to stick to 2035 petrol car ban Exclusive: Swedish carmakers push to retain target as Germany lobbies to help its own industry by softening cutoff date

β€œElectrification will do the job. It is good for the climate. It is really important. It is also good for customers. It’s one of the very few environmentally friendly innovations that customers also will love," says HΓ₯kan Samuelsson, the chief executive of Volvo

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

03.12.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Headline: SAVED BY STOPPARD
Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: β€œIf there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of β€œadjuvant systemic chemotherapy”, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients’ survival.

Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia.
Michael Baum
Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

Headline: SAVED BY STOPPARD Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: β€œIf there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of β€œadjuvant systemic chemotherapy”, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients’ survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.

03.12.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 731    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 25
Illustration of eighties businessmen by an urban park in Central Milton Keynes

Illustration of eighties businessmen by an urban park in Central Milton Keynes

It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981

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RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...

27.10.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 116    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4
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Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute

24.11.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 319    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 54

There was a time when Lucy Prebble would tweet about her writing, research or just about any mundane detail from her life. And now here we are, in this desert where there are hardly any writers, editors tweeting about their day-to-days.

02.12.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this is why i will never give up my circa 2010 dvd boxset of THE WIRE. i don't give a shit about high def for older tv shows, give me the original aspect ratio (need to get my hands on an old simpsons boxset for this reason as well)

02.12.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3414    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 13
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top of a tight morning. 7am. 6 degrees. pitch dark out the window. rain falls interminably. my heart feels full in anticipation of snow that I'll then, in a Schuyleresque fashion, want to press in a book like leaves

02.12.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Fashioning the Future Can we rethink how we dress to be less impactful on the planet?

Something that really stuck with me from the fast fashion episode of Rare Earth, and is still cheering me up: sites like Vinted and Ebay are making a significant dint in fast fashion sales, and people are choosing to buy better quality clothes so they can sell them on. Less waste, wins all round πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

01.12.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence πŸ”₯

01.12.2025 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 24933    πŸ” 9650    πŸ’¬ 510    πŸ“Œ 824
2+7= _
I caNnot aNswer this qwestion, as it is agaiNst My reLigious principles.
Ω Ω‘Ω¨Ω¨
IT'S WORTH A SHOT.
aMI,
7 january 1986
NAITION

2+7= _ I caNnot aNswer this qwestion, as it is agaiNst My reLigious principles. Ω Ω‘Ω¨Ω¨ IT'S WORTH A SHOT. aMI, 7 january 1986 NAITION

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01.12.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4239    πŸ” 739    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 29

*woman

01.12.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fifteen Years

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

25.11.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5068    πŸ” 1365    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 145
A light-up acrylic Dickensian snowman.

A light-up acrylic Dickensian snowman.

"Dickensian"

27.11.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 401    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 12

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