@writes__code

writing + editing @thefp email me: [email protected]

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It’s easy to start drinking Feel Free, a kratom-infused beverage sold as a ‘social tonic’ in over 30,000 stores. But it can be hard to stop. Withdrawal from Feel Free is "absolutely comparable" to getting off heroin, according to one woman who used both.
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Has AI slop reached the pulpit? It's complicated. Interestingly, Christians seem to have stronger opinions about AI-assisted sermon writing than Jews.
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AI writing is everywhere— including the pulpit. I talked to pastors and rabbis where they draw the line. Underneath it all, I found something else: hunger for a good old-fashioned church scandal.
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On gay twitter if you post physique and write about your vacation ennui they baselessly accuse you of being a secret racist
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I go back to the Bay (where I grew up) every summer. Every year, things feel a little more distant-- I thought I was just getting older. This summer I realized something else was happening, too.
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New longish essay from me about the closure of Silicon Valley’s only amusement park, the history behind the region’s weird optimization fetish, and how AI turned the Bay Area into a real-life episode of the Twilight Zone
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Theme parks are suffering from the same K-shaped economy that has come to define so much of American life these days—feast for the top dogs, famine for everyone else.
Josh Code
@writes__codeAug 25
California's Great America, the amusement park of my childhood, is closing to make room for more AI. This summer, I went to say goodbye.
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California's Great America, the amusement park of my childhood, is closing to make room for more AI. This summer, I went to say goodbye.
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I interviewed to Prabhakar last week-- when I asked her why the assigned the Moshfegh story, this is what she said.
The Paris Review
@parisreviewAug 4
Last Wednesday, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Plimpton Prize–winning story “Bettering Myself” found itself at the center of a lawsuit filed against a Florida college by one of its faculty members. Vinita Prabhakar, the English professor in question, is suing for wrongful termination after being fired for teaching the story, alongside works by Hemingway and Carver, in a unit on unlikable narrators. This week, we’ve unlocked “Bettering Myself,” published in issue no. 204 of the Review, from the archive. theparisreview.org/fiction/6…

Bettering Myself by Ottessa Moshfegh

My classroom was on the first floor, next to the nuns’ lounge. I used their bathroom to puke in the mornings. One nun always dusted the toilet seat with talcum powder. Another nun plugged the sink...

theparisreview.org
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This Madonna Rolling stone interview from 2009 has too many gems to count
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Replying to @B0Y_TR0Y
She's the funniest person alive
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Beautiful and slightly terrifying piece from @rosehorowitch in The Atlantic on the history of literacy and the end of reading-- I especially loved this bit about a random Civil War soldier, whose poetic talent was perhaps average for his time but would be award-worthy today.
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