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using “you’re absolutely right” in casual speech
you: slopbrained, cogsec-compromised, unserious
me: clever, considered, enlightened
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Seeing a lot of deeply condescending “content” recently that’s like “Flannery O’Connor is Dostoyevsky for girls!”
But what if Dostoyevsky is also Dostoyevsky for girls and O’Connor is also O’Connor for boys? What if we all grew up a little bit?
the people yearn for PostSecret
Why strangers are swapping secrets at this underground L.A. supper club latimes.com/lifestyle/story/…
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hobbies include buying 10x more books than my current shelves can hold and building a future where they can be together
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I love going to @ChevaliersBooks and absolutely cleaning up: De Kerangal’s Canoes, Agualusa’s The Living and the Rest, Baltasar’s Permafrost, Debré’s Offenses, Elsby’s Violent Faculties, Cabezón Cámara’s We Are Green and Trembling
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we took the metro, we shared a taxi, we walked and made a series of small stops for fries water bathroom on the way, or we simply walked, in the administrative assistant-appropriate clubwear of our era
gen z is on tik tok asking millennials how we got home from a night out if we didn’t have uber lmao i don’t even remember omg
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new arrivals from @GalleyBeggars yes I did order the UK editions for the more visually appealing and dare I say quieter spines
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most responses to the criticisms voiced in this article seem to be hostile because they think they're women voicing an innate resentment of young boys but that's a misreading imo, what they're really saying is that Hatchet doesn't encourage any intellectual growth by design
Julie of the Wolves, Island of the Blue Dolphins, even The Keeper of the Isis Light also contain didactic recountings of bushcraft just saying
The first novel I ever loved was the survival classic Hatchet, but recently I’ve learned that a *lot* of women despise this book, and see it is as something they were forced to read in school to entice the idiot illiterate boys in their English class. I dove into that tension!
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performative Friday night bar reading is absolutely perfect for anyone who’s ever lived in one of /those/ buildings (me) (I still hear the ongoing lore a decade later)
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esoteric SMEs it’s time to shine
this is why I love working at @VanityFair
yesterday, I saw half our staff clustered around our fashion correspondent's desk poring over this photo. As José puts it, "The image has several discrepancies. The style and make of the Chanel Flap bag is inconsistent with others the brand has sold, and the Valentino shoes in question appear askew in proportion; their straps have several punched holes that the authentic Valentino style does not."
AI image detectors confirmed that yes, Olivia Reingold used an AI-generated image to make her point, without a drop of disclosure. Wild!!!!
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Ryan retweeted
Attacking non-critical consumer-facing infrastructure - like grocery stores - with pre-warned and limited scope cyber attacks is the best way to convince your population they need to harden their society.
It's really classic Ender's Game - you only get to use the weapon once, it has to destroy the enemy completely.
Real catastrophe is not spoiling meat, its multi-megawatt turbines that go beyond safe RPM, critical valves in chemical refining that report the wrong position, air traffic control networks.
Destruction of hard infrastructure that is replaceable on a year-to-decade timescale. Like a water treatment plant, transformer station, airport, and so on.
Food is the most high throughput thing in our society besides gasoline. It has a residency time of a few days on shelves, and so any total loss of inventory is recoverable on the scale of a week.
UPDATE: The European refrigeration cyberattack has now reached Italy and Romania, bringing the total to at least 10 countries affected across Europe.
In Italy, several Coop stores in Sicily were hit, including at least three in Catania and one in Palermo. In Romania, at least six stores have reportedly been affected.
Some affected businesses have yet to publicly disclose the incidents, meaning the actual number of countries and locations impacted could be even higher.
The full scale of this cyberattack remains unknown.
Countries affected so far: 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇴 Romania