Not sure what Orange Tsunami is all about. But, I have thee continents in my picks. Any of which, I suppose, could be tsunamied. Vive la futbol!

How Noah Baumbach Made ‘White Noise’ a Disaster Movie for Our Moment nytimes.com/2022/11/23/mag…

True then, truer now. nytimes.com/2022/12/30/boo…

Bill Nighy is fantastic. Once, he just had a great success on stage and afterward, this is what he felt about that: "I'm not great at happiness, but I'm quite good at relief." nytimes.com/2023/01/12/mov…

Amazing story! Truly. Bob Born, Who Brought Marshmallow Peeps to the Masses, Dies at 98 nytimes.com/2023/02/04/bus…

This is spot on, and excellent. Damn it. A Writer’s Lament: The Better You Write, the More You Will Fail nytimes.com/2023/02/11/boo…

In the last volume of “In Search of Lost Time,” Proust famously describes the transformation of himself as an author. nyer.cm/qGMEshc

I pay tribute to arts and culture writer Scott Timberg (1969-2019) whose posthumous book is published today. tedgioia.substack.com/p/boom-times-f…

Very good article about a very good journalist and even better person.

This is like AI without the “I.”

Texas woman gets pregnant. Texas woman has an abortion in Colorado. Texas woman returns home. Texas woman and boyfriend argue about the abortion. Texas man shoots Texas woman in the head. Texas woman dies. Texas.

Hardcore, yo.

RIP Martin Amis. Amazing talent.

“All we can do is breathe the air of the period we live in, carry with us the special burdens of the time, and grow up within those confines. That’s just how things are.” A Personal History by Haruki Murakami. nyer.cm/ZWjrFLj

AI is a significant danger to how humanity functions, no matter what “smart” people in tech say. For hundreds of years, scientists who create new technology have been wholly unaware of its dangers. It’s not a pattern of oversight. It’s happened so often, it’s how things go.

Why invent artificial intelligence when there’s so little of the real thing around?

“The Mets create imaginative ways to lose that other teams wouldn’t dream of,” writes David Brooks, “and they also come up with miraculous ways to win that the laws of probabilities would seem to render impossible.” nyti.ms/3D5ZERy

Congratulations! I look toward to reading it.