every adult was once a child but very few remember it what a long strange trip it’s been

Joined July 2010
I just think walking away from “you can see everything” thinking “Amanda Seyfried should really think about how she hurt Elizabeth’s feelings” is one of the crazier takeaways to have
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really? what a narrow view! Anderson did in fact write sympathetically & convincingly about girls & women; even Hemingway has a story from an adolescent girl's perspective, "Up in Michigan," that is a knockout; not to mention D.H. Lawrence, Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy & (not least) Shakespeare. if men can't write about women, women presumably can't write about men. educated people can't write about lesser-educated people, Black writers can't write about brown people, people from Maine can't write about people from Vermont, no one can write about anyone except the sickly face in the mirror.
Replying to @JoyceCarolOates
Yeah and he's a man purporting to write about a woman's inner life. I'll pass.
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There are only 130 US tech companies, public or private, valued at $10B or more (decacorns). That’s roughly 20 to 30 new companies per decade, for the last five decades. This year alone, with a quarter to go, there have been 42 decacorns minted privately. Either this is the most economically transformative event since the industrial revolution, or we’re getting a wee bit ahead of ourselves.
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like probably 30% minimum of the american population believes this btw
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Jason has a deep emotional bond with Paris and the French people
Let me redo the headline for you @nytimes: “Criminals loot Paris, beat police and light monuments on fire. Subhead: “Citizens are deeply concerned and scared for their personal safety. Election odds predictably swing to law-and-order candidates on prediction markets.”
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Be extremely intentional with your friendships — not acquaintances, not business partners, actual friends Try to pick high-integrity people — the right people Invest time in those relationships Cut or downgrade folks who are transactional or who don’t show up for you Reallocate that time and energy to the right people who do It's ok to be cutthroat about this, as life is the memories you create with your friends and family. Invest in making moments.
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God I’m tired of this stuff. The permanent underclass already exists and they’re not random people in the Bay Area worried about losing their white collar jobs
most people are not psychologically ready for the possibility of a permanent underclass
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram suspended the No Kings Instagram account for today’s No Kings' day of action. Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the account promoting Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary. Elon Musk promoted the fake story about James Talarico on his X while donating over $150 million to help Ken Paxton. Your reminder that Trump’s billionaire allies control what you see on TikTok, X, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and YouTube — and they have a vested interest in making sure Dems don’t take the majority, so Trump isn’t investigated.
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Many popular menswear headlines can be made more interesting if you add some political, historical, or technological dimension to them, rather than just tell people how to dress and what to buy. Examples: Boring: "Here's how to dress for the office." Interesting: "Here's how contemporary office dress culture reflects the last century of liberalism." Boring: "Here are the best shoes this season." Interesting: "Here's what Victorian shoemaking can tell us about AI." Boring: "Here are affordable alternative to this season's best bags." Interesting: "Here's how federal budget cuts have made it harder to spot labor exploitation in global supply chains, which shows up as 'hot deals' for consumers." Boring: "Here's how to dress hot and sexy." Interesting: "Here's a history of how people have covertly expressed sexuality through clothes during times when such expressions were taboo." I would argue that the more people engage with these histories and find deeper meaning in clothes, the more they're able to dress in ways that allow them to express what they want and feel satisfied by what they wear, rather than blindly buying whatever is on a "fall essentials" list.
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I love how Marsellus is so incredibly calm and relaxed while one of his own employees yells at him. Most bosses would be all like "I'm your boss, you can't fucking speak to me that way, your goddamn ass is fucking fired" but Marsellus is relaxed, repeats exactly what Jules says and then comes up with an even better situation than the one that Jules asked for. Not to mention, I fucking love, not just the way Ving Rhames performs this scene, but the way Ving Rhames performs every single scene that's in, not just in this movie, but every single movie that he's in.
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Elon is down 1.5m engagements in the last 5 days. Did something happen?
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I can’t stress enough that this would mean the complete extinction of human culture. You need art because it connects you to all who’ve gone before you; it challenges you to embrace perspectives not your own. Media generated to your exact preferences is the death of the soul.
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the Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient”
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We’re watching in real time a viable and essential leftist bloc, with access to political power for the first time in decades (if not longer), decide that the only moral course of action is to become a renaissance faire.
Mamdani is stone-faced as the protesters call him a traitor and sellout.
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The first mission of the Church is to help people be attentive to the profound questions of life: those concerning our origin and our destiny, as well as those concerning the meaning of love and suffering. The logic of profit at all costs and the manipulation of information risk exerting undue pressure on people to conform to a lifestyle centred on the consumption of material goods, but our hearts are made to look upwards. #GeneralAudience
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In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
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chris retweeted
Andrew Curran
@AndrewCurran_Oct 6
Replying to @MrNick11602484
Gasoline is actually made out of math.
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Ed Zitron
@edzitronOct 6
Bahahahahahhaah
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Mark Guiducci: “Do you know who Laura Reiley is?” Sam Altman: “I don't.” Mark Guiducci: “She is a journalist. She wrote an essay in the ‘Times’ last year. Her daughter committed suicide after speaking to ChatGPT. ChatGPT did not tell her to kill herself—” OpenAI Publicist: “Mark, We have two minutes left. I want to be respectful, but I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future and what’s coming.” Watch the two-part interview: vanityfair.visitlink.me/IRef…
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