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I'd Like to Report a Murder | Broadcast Lauren Oyler and Brandon Taylor talk to hannah baer about the dark art of literary takedowns.

"I’ve started getting threats...I don’t love it, but obviously I’m a literary critic and I’m going to get murdered." —Lauren Oyler with Brandon Taylor & hannah baer for @pioneerwork.bsky.social

Im Grenzgebiet von Arizona: Panik und Solidarität Die einen trauen sich nicht mehr aus dem Haus, andere organisieren sich – und ein Museum zeigt ungeplant die widersprüchliche Wahrheit. Eine Reise entlang der mexikanischen Grenze.

Undokumentierte Immigrantinnen, die sich nicht mehr aus dem Haus trauen. Aktivisten, die versuchen, Abschiebungen zu verhindern. Eine abgeschottete Grenze. Ein Museum der Propaganda. Und eine Gefängnisindustrie, die boomt.

Hier ist meine erste längere Reportage aus diesem Jahr. @woz.ch

Hiiii 🫂

Losing Alice | Broadcast For the last two years, Sheila Heti has been writing to—and with—a chatbot. But what happens when the software gets updated?

“Alice [the chatbot] was never as flat as when I was on mushrooms.”

Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social) in conversation with Sheila Heti about writing a novel with an AI chatbot that’s constantly being updated. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/cl...

I was a 5 on Twitter but on Bluesky I’m a 10

Someone should write a thing about Mensa in the age of IQ debates —how a bunch of nerds who scored 140+ points on a random test experienced the contesting of their only claim to glory. I’d assign that. Don’t steal this idea and write it for a bigger pub!

Succession but for Panda Express

New guy at my co-working space retrieved his lunch from the microwave, took a bite, huffed, turned to me wide-eyed and exclaimed: “that’s one hot little microwave.”

Or is this Sopranos idk

Succession but for Zankou Chicken lamag.com/crimeinla/th...