Can't remember reading a publication cover to cover like this, I started reading and had to finish before bed because of the conversations and collisions between pieces, the surprises and intimacies all together✨ thanks
@whitneymallett
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I grew a lot as a writer this year. There's more immediacy. When I read things I wrote even the year before, it feels like I'm trying to talk from underneath a layer of ice, like a person trapped underneath a frozen pond. BEST OF 2023 thread
So much art/media/content is just made to bait people into feeling smarter than it rather than strive towards truth, beauty, or transformative experience
Klarna is using AI to replace / automate its marketing images, cutting its budgets for stock photos, photographers, designers, etc. This is the immediate commercial effect of generative AI with no copyright protection: job destruction
My grandmother passed away. I hadn't spoken to her since I was 6. Sometimes I thought about reconnecting. It really hit me you don't have all the time in the world for these kinds of things
The worst thing about the mainstreaming of polyamory is how it compromises the plausibility of erotic noir thrillers that hinge on infidelity and blackmail
If I look impossibly stylish and beautiful and a little scary will everyone believe all of my opinions are true and perfect even if they are very obvious or make no sense?
𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐓𝐈𝐏 𝟑: DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT
You have the creative freedom to exist in entirely new ways in the online world
So don’t chicken out.
The screen’s your stage. Whether larger than life or completely anonymous. Try on a new you.
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@whitneymallett
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Margaret Thatcher on TV
Shocked by the deaths that took place in Beijing
It seems strange that she should be offended
The same orders are given by her
I've said this before now
You said I was childish and u'll say it now
Remember what I told u
If they hated me they will hate u
They don't stop using passive voice "Several patients have died as a result of the Israeli military assault" — this is grammatical gymnastics and there's only one context the ny times ever uses it
In uber pool with couple for less than 3 minutes
-he mansplains david Bowie's stereo recording innovation
-then plot of his mother's children's book
-about mom: "she's great but she really babied me"
Reading
@nicolaiarips
piece, which I really liked, I also realized that maybe an it girl (or the definition of it girl that makes me most envious) is someone who has an intuitive logic for the overwhelming dizziness of consumption