Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Leo Robson, Law and Order — Sidecar Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’.

Leo Robson on Ari Aster's 'Eddington':

'It’s as if the sensationalism of the subject matter alerted Aster to the virtues of patience and modulation...'

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As cool Agyemang

#Lionesses #England

Which annual is this? I never know where to start with Dredd but love this art.

We are all Mrs Dalloway now For Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness was a method. Now, it’s a way of life.

Her “queer individuality” is public deity, and that the unexamined life is not worth living is inviolable truth.

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Just bought Burning Down the House by Jack Byrne

Crushing Banalities | The Point Magazine 2018, Germany. A bungalow, with anthracite walls and a flat roof. Jerome Daimler’s parents purchased it. They’re divorced now. He lives there alone.

‘a novel that truly said something new about being online probably wouldn’t mention the internet at all’

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Best cartoon around 👇🏻

Andrew O’Hagan · Everything Must Go! American Beauties

‘The Corrections chimes with a hundred pop songs and cartoon strips and American movies now: what it fails to do is what it does, and in its failure lies its success.’

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The White Male Writer is Fine, I Promise In Compact magazine, Jacob Savage complains that the “white male writer” is becoming an endangered species. But that’s a lazy, self-absorbed narrative that obscures the real threats to literature toda...

‘What we can say is that White Male Writers are no longer the predominant kind of writers in the American literary landscape, the way they used to be.’

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A great line on the milquetoast Kier Starmer:

‘An invitation to help shape an approach to a mission – who could resist that stirring call?’

How Relevant Are the Literary Jonathans? In advance of Franzen’s new book, Emily Gould takes stock of the scene.

Novelist Emily Gould takes a hard look at today’s literary landscape—and at how things have changed since Lethem, Franzen, and Safran Foer first appeared on the scene.

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Marketing difficulty | Blank The fantasy of the serious novel.

'We’re all looking for refuge from slop—the treatment of art as content, an aesthetic turn born of the internet and increasingly prevalent in the realms of movies and music and books. Seriousness is slop’s opposite. But what makes a serious book is up for debate.'

Is 2010 the earliest it goes? 🤔

‘Some of it will be missed; the part that cannot be put into words.’

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

There are now more than fifty LRB writers on Bluesky - including @torilmoi.bsky.social, @jessiechilds.bsky.social, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social and @bekadiski.bsky.social with writing in our new issue and on the blog this week.

Read and follow them here:
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

Use your excitement and relief to help a Palestinian in Gaza today - share their fundraisers, donate, use this energy to help them survive. They have a long road ahead.

Dusting it usually sorts that out

I’ve created an email template and link to email MPs about the danger of Musk and Twitter. Happy for anyone at all to use and share open.substack.com/pub/gemmacla...

i hope this ishmael finds you whale

Birds, vintage print. Robin, dipper, thrush, bluethroat, wren to name a few.

Morning.

Las Vegas police "taking all precautions" and looking for possible devices after Cybertruck explodes at Trump Hotel, spokesman says

A new study found that the British Empire's colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920. While the British stole $45tn in just over 200 years.

This is what the empire was really like, starvation.

Book Cover of the Day:

How do production companies like A24 fit into this as they are seemingly bucking the trend?

#MovieSky #FilmSky #Netflix

Elon Musk tweet: “Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know …”

The difference between Wikipedia and Twitter is that Wikipedia is intentionally a non-profit.