Kevin Roose so desperately wants to live in the futures tech companies are selling that he’ll eagerly do their PR for them and buy into whatever illusions of intelligence they put in front of him so he can trick himself into believing they’ll actually be realized this time.
The time traveler crawled out from under his malfunctioning machine. He looked relieved as he said to himself, “This should be easy. It’s 1750 B.C. and I’m in Ur, but all I need is some quality copper.”
@Daojoan Reminds me of a Joan Didion quote from The White Album:
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Reading about Post Malone and Michael Bay's collab on a film about an 18-wheeler from heaven going back in time to England in the middle ages to defeat hordes of demonic zombies took me from eye-roll to "huh. I kinda want to see that..." in record time.
That happened to me last week, and since my wife was out of town and I lacked adult supervision . . .
The Ding-Dongs were better than I remember. I was pleasantly surprised. The Twinkies, however, were salvageable only with coffee as an ersatz tiramisu.
It’s cool how schools can’t punish pro-Nazi students because of the First Amendment but can mass arrest and suspend anti-war students because what First Amendment?🤔
Was a teenage boy years ago and read them all. Only “The Spy Who Loved Me” has really stuck with me. Tight little action/noir if I remember it right. The short stories were pretty good too.
Breaking: Polling expert Sir John Curtice has argued that another independence referendum WILL happen - because "the Union is in trouble".
'Making the case for the Union means explaining why Brexit is to Scotland's advantage. Good luck with that!’ he said. #youyesyet#scottishindependence
@slcw
I actually live in Florida and have to deal with the results of policies these schmucks install. Can’t stand these guys. However . . .
Given that Surgeon General Ladapo is African-American (literally born in Nigeria), perhaps call him something other than “witch doctor” because honestly it smacks of racism. I don’t want this guy to have any room to claim the moral high ground, since his policy choices will end with dead children.
Calling him a “quack” I think is the better option.