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Stephen Kearse

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Journalist, critic, and author of novels Liquid Snakes and In the Heat of the Light.

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man this review has aged wonderfully

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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we should have been more skeptical of those Obama summer playlists

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the purpose of a system is not what IT SAYS IT DOES or what you want it to do but what it actually does.

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"This is a monumental retrenchment that students of history would expect."

I spoke with Kimberlé Crenshaw about the assault on DEI, "Project 2025," and her disappointment in legacy media for failing to meet the moment. capitalbnews.org/crenshaw-int...

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weird to see people daydream about how ~biden could fix this~ solving the executive authority crisis using executive authority would be disastrous, even if he were competent and liked—an "enlightened king" is still structurally a despot we need a new constitution

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The Supreme Court just overthrew the country and I’m still seeing headlines that are like “did you know Joe Biden is like, months older than his opponent?”

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So federal agencies can't interpret laws for the sake of enacting regulation, but they can obey wildly illegal instructions the president gives them as part of his "official responsibilities," do I have that right?

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messed around and read 8 books last month.

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I know art discourse is usually a proxy for deeper social issues, but it's funny that the epicenter of the nepo convo is entertainment, an industry built on unmeritocratic traits like hotness, charisma, and youth hard not to wonder if the real frustration is that many nepo babies aren't lookers

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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Chevron decision is a bigger deal than the debate

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low-key, age has become an ~identity~ and taken on a lot of the dumbass ideological power we give to identities ageism= systemic discrimination against older people because they are old saying an incompetent guy who happens to be old should retire is not a call to bar all elders from public life

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"a wise man told me, 'don't argue with fools'/cuz people from a distance can't tell who is who"

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Marie Brennan's avatar Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social
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A conversation on our Discord has prompted me to say again: remember, y'all, what really sells books is not the author talking about their work, but *readers* talking about it. Word of mouth drives far more sales than advertising or any other engine. So if you loved a book, tell your friends!

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a fascinating and also sad political etymology of genocide

"It’s no surprise then that when making it a crime after World War II, nations were careful to protect themselves."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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appreciate the honesty

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the new kehlani is glorious.

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millennials crumbling into pieces over light gen z teasing is so funny. are y'all really out here letting someone whose favorite movie is midsommar tell you what socks to buy?

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A federal court has found gunmaker SIG Sauer liable in the shooting of a man who claimed his P320 pistol fired when he did not pull the trigger. The second of several dozen lawsuits involving the popular handgun to go to trial, it’s the first in which a jury ruled the gun was defectively designed.

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asked multiple friends and we came to a consensus that this genre of person is now a scammer. salute

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the work required to make crispy, mcdonald's-style hashbrowns at home is not worth it

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perplexes me when people wish a novel they found too unwieldy gets turned into a movie or show I get that they are asking for a "smoother" experience, since adaptation often involves streamlining but they also seem to think visual media is inherently smooth and can't itself be disorienting

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a movie/tv trope that makes me laugh every time is the backseat ambush.

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I need the strangehold that drawstrings have on men's fashion to loosen by like 82%

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I don't see any value in adding credits to books if contributors still aren't paid better. I bet most assistants, editors, designers, etc would in fact prefer money to attribution

lithub.com/its-time-we-...

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this is not the afrofuturism I signed up for

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great lede, greater analysis

and lots of straightforward gems

"Look, I’m hating. I get it."

"A rap debate in a barbershop has a zero percent chance of consensus. That is what makes MVP discussions ... aimlessly fun"

"A corporation cannot lead the culture"

www.npr.org/2024/06/07/g...

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had no idea about the 9 month contracts. that's criminal

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the threat has been contained. shout out word counts

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