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They should investigate how many people have wasted their youth posting on Twitter

Back in 2001, Houellebecq was hounded for hate speech related to his novel Platform (which depicted an Islamist terror attack shortly before 9/11) and other comments on Islam. He moved to Ireland to avoid all that, stayed for a decade. Where would he go now? Ireland doesn’t seem like a good place these days. Maybe he will wind up in the USA.

Revolutions in film and television tend to follow technological change. 1910s — Feature films 1920s — Sound 1940s — Television 1970s — Portable, low-cost filmmaking 1980s — VHS 1990s — Cable 2010s — Streaming 2020s — AI AI will allow for a lot of independent creative experimentation and to shows and movies that would not otherwise have been made.

I’ve just landed in Miami. My first time setting foot on American soil! I’m so excited to explore a few American cities while I’m here for the upcoming @realAmRen conference, where I’ve been invited! I can’t wait to meet American patriots and activists! 🇫🇷🤝🏻🇺🇸

Becoming slightly obsessed with this video of an annoying afternoon drive-time radio DJ from the 80s. He kind of rocks

Have known good looking men who lived off their gfs or had older women spend money on them I think this is very good and has good literary pedigree 19th c French novels pls consider this lifestyle

W.H. Auden talked about this:

Imagine being flown out to Cape Cod by a multimillionaire and he's buying you Chipotle slop instead of fresh produce, Atlantic seafood right off the boats, lobster rolls...

When I see young people at a dark, glamorous bar, I want to tell them, “This feels like a long chapter, but it’s going to be one of the shortest in the book.

Her (2013) is still the only good piece of art thinking about LLMs and that's completely an accident