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On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, REVERSAL, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Lit: Paula Weiman at Ash Literary. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother
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Minneapolis cartoonist Steve Sack has been on a roll lately.
He's been on the front lines of the ICE invasion and his cartoons are boiling with rage at ICE and Mad Emperor Piggy. Well worth checking out his Substack.
Can I pilot a mech Great question! Yes you can pilot a mech. If you ahave the correct permits to operate a mechanical vehicle If you are under the age of 19 if you are currently drunk if your mom is dead
this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldnβt give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me
Tech bro oligarch: The AI is... real... sentient.... it's feeling real feelings... we must do everything we can to protect it and give it rights
Also tech bro oligarch: Human females are basically cattle made to push out as many babies as possible, all of which I will neglect
I have been thinking about this line since dave posted it in my replies two days ago
say it louder for the people at the back:
Scholars are actually the ones who want coherence. Most people don't.
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
Alex & Marc are rockstars & this is going to be awesome.
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
A rectangular oil painting that features what appears to be a childβs body in a red empire-style dress with a white ruff and the head of an orange cat. The cat is wearing a crown and has a large cigarette dangling out of its mouth as it stares at us dispassionately. The background is mostly baby puke green with castle turrets visible at right and some bare tree branches in the top corners. Truly this is the most extraordinary piece of art I have ever seen
I saw this painting, so now you have to, too:
This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.
yesss! enjoy
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I am debating giving her Barthesβ Camera Lucida after
oh good! I only know Master & Margarita; maybe Iβll read Dogβs Heart when/if I get the e-reader back from her
Me: Hey for our trip, are there any books you want me to get for the e-reader?
Kiddo: Yeah there are a couple Iβve had my eye on, Iβll add them to the cart
The books were A Dogβs Heart by Bulgakov and On Photography by Susan Sontag
Kids are a continual surprise and delight
The end result of this data is a report that falls under SEC regulatory rules so I am absolutely not letting AI hallucinations anywhere near it
Iβm doing something in a big Excel spreadsheet for work and I get a popup
βCoPilot can clean up your data!β
lmao begone Satan
So I'm 1600$ away from being able to pay my rent. I'm trying to take care of a household of 6 people, only two of who can work right now, and with my longterm illness, I'm just not able to make rent this month, as a bunch of unexpected costs hit right in a row.
ko-fi.com/fooneturing
I've never used grammarly but if you have an account, I'd throw it in the trash and set it on fire because what the actual fuck
mind, KKR seems to be doing responsible markdowns / valuations in FSK and theyβre getting pasted too
unfortch on the HY/unrated side these private credit funds/BDCs all have a lot of weak sponsor-owned services rollups and mid software companies
Yeah BLK just zeroed another high yield private credit loan that was, like Renovo, 100 the quarter beforeβbut unlike Renovo itβs only a littleβun ($25m to an Amazon aggregator). The hero to zero shuffle twice in a row is uhhh not confidence building
Please donβt spread misinformation. Tomahawks fly at low altitude. Itβs climbing like a THAAD interceptor (we are out of interceptors).
Annnd JPMβs got that $15.5 bn EA loan which is going to be a goddamn disaster
Which apparently theyβre now trying to do mostly as junk bonds now
for fucks sake he went to HOTCHKISS
in the capitalist utopia of Connecticut
where private school is treated exactly how you think itβs treated