I think it’s fair to wonder if some reporters knowledge that they will later write a book influences how they report certain stories, what they pursue, what sources they risk alienating, etc. in a way that’s still more subtle than an outright decision to hold back spicy details to boost book sales.

I agree that the issue is less widespread/less clear-cut than bluesky often alleges but I also don’t know if it’s the case that everyone should get blanket benefit of the doubt unless it’s obvious that info was withheld a la Woodward.

had one too many beers watching basketball and ended up buying a bunch of ferns on the internet 🤷‍♂️

recruiter at DS+R getting increasingly frustrated with his applicant pool

A problem I have is that one very successful format for nonfiction is “this thing you think is GOOD is actually BAD,” but everything I try to write is a version of “this thing you think is BAD actually IS bad but in a DIFFERENT, more COMPLICATED way” which is a harder sell

i think its kind of fair to say hundred years as poetic shorthand for 90 years

in 2026 dude would absolutely be working on the 6th volume of something called “the stormsword chronicles”

reading the count of monte cristo for the first time since I was a kid and having a lot of fun but am I crazy or is alexandre dumas kind of low-key bad at writing

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insomuch as the industrial revolution has lead to the decline of many of their natural predators and the production of large, park-like suburban landscapes filled with their preferred food sources—yes, geese are an industry plant

it would be cool if the music industry was a pure and honest meritocracy but it’s pretty funny to expect pr agencies to be the ones enforcing that principle

herbaceous plants are inherently sluttier than woody ones. that said, the sluttiest trees are pyrus, malus, and tilia in that order.

Me and my co-pilot killed the first ever class-5 kaiju then rode its corpse into another dimension, ejecting just in time to before my jaeger’s nuclear core detonated, sealing the breach behind us

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I think picking and choosing is more norm than exception. None of you have a godmother who goes to mass once week and sees her medium twice? No one in your church who was kind of weird about Vatican II?

Im seeing a lot of currently-secular, raised-catholic folks on here making fun of Vance for being an adult convert daring to pick and choose when he submits himself to the supreme pontiff, and while I get it, I think some of you guys are getting a little sanctimonious about it.

its plants with the energy of your friend who has 8 shots in the first hour at the bar before disappearing and then when you see them again at three AM they’ve been hit by a car, but they also acquired an entire deli ham and have picture of themselves with John Waters

Slutty plants are ones that grow wildly, without having any real plan. They shoot up four feet in a week, and then their stems all snap under the lightest possible, but then those stems somehow form adventitious roots and send up new stems, but then they all get a fungal infection, but then they

I’ve started categorizing plants based on whether they’re slutty or not, and I think this could be a major contribution to botany. Tomatoes, for example are slutty. Almost all cucurbits are slutty. Dahlias are slutty.

I think there is currently a slightly deserved overreaction in criticism to an are in which site specificity was considered the sole lodestar. I can see kimmelman just deciding he’s going to do this one on pure formalism, for better or worse

There is simply not a correct answer for “how bad should people feel about the economy“ (other than “there is poverty, which is bad”) and I just don’t think it’s worth having a debate about it other than in highly specific situations

I think insisting that the Amazon basin is entirely a food forest built on 100% terra preta is kind of a version of this, tbh.

I don’t have time for this today but if someone wanted to replace the norman rockwell freedom of speech guy with tommy lee jones I would get a lot of mileage out of that I think

Systems of understanding and imagining land, legal or cultural ideas of land tenure, patterns of social organization, etc. are critical technological forces in every society throughout history and a lot of those aren’t going to leave clear material or archaeological traces and that’s ok!

It is both true that colonialist perspectives have tended to make indigenous presence invisible behind a veil of pristine nature, AND that a hard-line distinction between natural and “improved” landscapes is itself a colonial artifact.

I think if the top line economic sentiment survey results don’t line up with top wage/COL data that’s maybe something interesting for behavioral economists to look into, but not really interesting enough to justify internet-wide arguments every week.

I do think there’s a distinction between “humans manipulated their environment in ways that leave traces today” and “the Amazon rainforest is man-made.”

There’s a thread going around here about precolumbian agriculture in the Amazon basin, and while I think that’s a really interesting topic I do think theres a risk of crossing over into ancient aliens territory on some of this stuff

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