I spent January on the campaign trail for Harper's Magazine, only to discover that — surprise! — much of the political press still hasn't updated its '60s era playbook for the digital era. Sayonara, Race for Second Place, sillier now even than it was in the moment

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If you have trouble keeping a journal, maybe it’s okay to stop trying. Dennis Tang on the joys of not writing it all down.
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Eclipse was underrated if anything. I get why people sacrificed humans for it.

Oh good, we've reinvented 'psychotically rambling to yourself'

perfect summary of introducing anyone to Evangelion avclub.com/end-of-evangel…

Thought these vegan chicken nuggets were Rachel Cusk books.

Sam Bankman-Fried came up with a list of 'probably bad ideas' after FTX's bankruptcy, now made public in prosecutors' sentencing memo.

The list included trying out the anti-woke thing on Tucker Carlson's show. He also mused on courting the alt-right.

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A running theme I've noticed among the people who are most mad at Jonathan Glazer: a lot of them really liked Zone of Interest, at least before the Oscar speech. Which suggests they only superficially understood it; they thought the point of the movie was that Nazis were bad.

If I was reading MFA applications, I’d take the top half of the stack and throw it in the garbage. Literary success boils down to luck, and I don’t want unlucky writers in my program

Bobby Oppenheimer get your country ass over here my momma says you been in the city Inventing a bomb as big as a damn bus

meanwhile, the Times

no one on twitter has the right to complain about losing an hour

Father John Misty lyric ass accident

it's called sandwalking and it's actually really important to not attract the shai-hulud

In other words, if your party holds a majority in Congress and supports you, you can attempt to overthrow the government without being disqualified from future office if you fail.

W.G. Sebald in an interview (1988):

“The past, horrendous though it is, with all its calamitous episodes, nevertheless seems to be some kind of refuge because at least the pain that you had there is over. … The presence of the past has something very ambivalent about it.

He's in his Borges era. He's been reading about Tlön