things i always knew to be true but other people said better
things that make you go, YES!
things i always knew to be true but other people said better
People without culture will never significantly change the culture and I stand by that.
The Audacious Roundup
If no one wrote about romance or frivolity or joy or fantasy because times were too dark then we have nothing but despairing, didactic dramas. Making sense of the world takes so many forms! Some of them just engage the lineage of despair more explicitly than others.
The World Has Always Been On Fire
“The American,” he writes, “was an individual first, nothing second.”
Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
With big technology companies working hard to get us to use — and trust — their products, they have an interest in rhetoric that makes their products come across as not just human-like but as human-like in ways that support our goals; they’re leaning into this particularly hard with AI models that generate language. To call big technology companies... See more
The Best Book I've Read This Year
on describing AI as a “collaborator” — an inherently human role, by definition — in writing (and why companies are desperate for us to agree)
The very word slip suggests some sort of movement; you can't slip, after all, if you’re standing still.
How attending events can inform your writing & build community
“The old people? They die. Now it’s young people with the social media. After corona, pew! The internet!”
archive.ph
couldn’t have said it better myself
“[I’ve] been in the same body [my] whole life,” she says, recalling a realization she had during those trips. “I understood it. I was like, ‘These arms climbed the jungle gym. And they held an award on a TV show.’
archive.ph
this is so much easier to understand in my childhood home / hometown — my body is the same and it is floating in the same surroundings as it always has been. it has done these same things here (Lorde)
Nothing ages so badly as our intellectual history.
Neither Here Nor There - Urban Omnibus
research shows that those who ask follow-up questions are better liked by their conversation partners