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Son has been fundraising for Gaza but no one has openly called out the silence of the institutions like this though.

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

Surprised no one has mentioned Borges, who was so good and such a godfather to many writers that his politics are barely ever mentioned.

But beyond that, Charlton Heston. Put on Ben-Hur on a flight recently, and what a movie and performance.

Seedorf and Ronaldo

Yeah

I have a question, and this is without judgement, but why do white people do that “…with this one” phrasing about their significant others?

We live in the stupidest timeline

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wow i put out my first longform fiction project! if you like my posts (and apparently almost 80,000 of you do) you will probably like it!

Never been so mad in my life

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“Brady is involved here not because he cares about the club, or even because he can pretend to care about the club in order to burnish his image. He's here because the world revolves around Tom Brady…”

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I absolutely would trust Nilay to build a good website. But SBN's brand has been completely set on fire over the last decade. Wizbang technology can't help you get around the fact that a social network requires people making posts other people want to read.

Vox fired all those people.

I recognize that I'm not an unbiased source here, and I legitimately wish Nilay and his colleagues luck...but I think it would be difficult to argue that SBN's problems over the last few years were primarily because their technical platform was insufficiently built to be a next-gen social platform

Working on a soccer book proposal

Like I said, you don’t have to pay attention to all of the PR about how AI will revolutionize human creativity or whatever nonsense, when the people deploying it are open that its main purpose is to devalue and destroy human labor. futurism.com/ceo-replacin...

I wonder what it is. Does anyone know? Maybe they’re announcing a new kit or sustainability program?

There’s a lot of evil people in the Trump administration and RFK Jr. is at the very top of that list.

“Why are we worried about John wanting to kill immigrants when he’s really good at Monopoly?”

It’s also such a funny childish idea of relationships when you think about it. His great insight is that people are fun to hang out with when you know nothing about them. As if someone’s morals and principles are dismissible parts of who they are.

And he does this little preening act for his alt-right buddies, who then pat him on the head and tell him that he’s better than the other Blacks, through the worst fucking sentences that you can imagine. Just a terrible fucking writer on a sentence and logic level.

He constantly argues, even as people are kidnapped in the streets and others are gunned down by police with no consequences, that the people who make an effort from the left to address injustices are under a kind of psychosis and the violence from the right is simply a reaction to that frenzy

For so long I’ve said that Thomas Chatterton Williams is a stupid man who can’t write or think, but there are too many people, including people I know, who are invested in his positioning that the race problem in America exists because Black people are too invested in it to move on

The Daughters painting is so haunting. There’s nothing sinister about it but there was a comment about it feeling like a still life, in the best way, that I feel like I agree with. It’s so large and unusual, and I love the mystery of the one daughter who isn’t looking forward.

Just wedded to a kind of silliness that I don’t have time for

Exactly. The technology is not being used to liberate us from work in order to create art. It’s being used to further accumulate wealth by those already with means and undercut the creative industries that have seen worsening conditions for years. UBI doesn’t seem to be where this is heading

I’ve been trying to avoid the silly responses to my thread but come on

I’m trying to be respectful but this is so stupid. A technology made to make human artists unnecessary, in a world that’s already hostile to artists, is not a technology that means nobody needs to have a job. You literally see what it’s being used for and yet are choosing some fantasy situation.

I might actually write about it because there’s one painting especially that makes me so happy