Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
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Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
When American students want a safe space, it’s because they don’t want to hear threatening ideas. For Ukrainian students, safety means learning without bombs falling. Very different concerns.
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We have to advance the public’s understanding of science. We need people to understand that when scientists change their mind, it’s a feature, not a bug. Scientists are supposed to change their minds.
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Jon Carmanica spends the majority of his time fawning over pop-confections like Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny or Kacey Musgraves. The pop that “matters” to Jon Caramanica is pop that matters, largely, for tween and teenaged girls.
Jon Caramanica is a bad cliché
Buuuuuuuurn
Every phase of life can be shopped for at Costco. Where else can you purchase a wedding ring, a baby carrier, and a casket? It follows your own life story—one does not experience Costco the same way before and after owning a home, or before and after having a child.
I Want to Live Like Costco People
I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate for much of my working day, I do not want to bark orders meanly. It makes me feel like a jerk.
AI Will Be Many Things. But Never Human. - Tetragrammaton
The hyperreal doesn’t mimic or imitate reality. It replaces reality altogether, making it nearly impossible for us to determine what is real, what isn’t.
meet clout-as-a-service: where weaponised FOMO meets digital gaslighting
Life and We're all going to die
I had some abstract awareness of clout-as-a-service, but this post really fucked my shit up.
The ability to enter into Bookworld is murdered by saying your account number out loud. I don’t know why that’s so, it just is.
New Japan, NYC, Soderbergh Bonanza, Too Much Movement — Roden Newsletter Archive
AI and
I kinda feel like fuck this shit. We’re keeping the em dash. How about AI has to use something else. Or better yet, who cares if AI uses em dashes.