my buddy keeps posting stuff like this and I’m worried he’s getting too deep into the barbering subculture

book idea - kafka's metamorphosis but instead he turns into the Op Ivy guy

I can't 🤣 Over the past year, frog sellers in China have emerged as a social phenomenon, and their numerous interactions with local police and security officers have formed a distinct short video genre of its own💯

Speaking of DEADWOOD, good luck finding television dialogue this beautiful.

Leonid Brezhnev for J.Crew (circa 1981)

I've watched this so many times

My favorite Kissinger video was when he introduced his wife to Mao, who got his mind absolutely blown by the height difference 😅

I’d be the first guy to sit down with The Grinch and truly just fucking listen.

This computer generated shit really deep faking yall to try destroy all the top place winners …. Most people not smart enough to out beat the a computer they sheep! I can’t be destroyed through a computer I’m too outside

Pankaj Mishra in the LRB. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

I have a piece in the latest NYRB that tries to think through the material basis of Silicon Valley Trumpism nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

“There is no doubt that right-wing ideas have found a wider audience among tech elites during Biden’s presidency, as exemplified by Musk.” —Ben Tarnoff go.nybooks.com/4dW3X2k

great Ben Tarnoff here, with some super clarifying history nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories people tell — or avoid telling — can shape and even distort reality: “I am most concerned always with those that don’t have a voice.” cbsn.ws/4gJxe2g

They were a whole universe