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This is great if you read it in a Fox Mulder voice.

The book's first line really sets up a perfect opening shot for a TV version.

There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful article.

Ghostface Killah is yet to sue Action Bronson.

'I hope you die. I hope we both die' fits pretty well with Moby Dick too

The story goes that Hunter S Thompson typed out the Great Gatsby to get the flow of the writing. Quite a different approach to his infamous daily routine.

I enjoyed 99% Invisible's podcast on the seed vault, which I had no idea about prior to listening

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/

What is a good starting point for reading Baldwin?

Brilliant story. This reminds me so much of David Foster Wallace's 'Little Expressionless Animals,' I wonder if DFW was aware of the broadcast and took it as inspiration

Here's a unique penalty technique from Ezequiel Calvente, the opposite to the stutter technique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lXnoQdEunE&ab_channel=Rosla...

Sorry To Bother You from 2018 has a particular scene that runs counter to this idea. Very funny too

Really interesting. The whole article feels like an argument against his point; pointing out the varied meanings, implications and stigmas of 'mere' or 'able' just reminds me how great that ambiguity is for literature.

The line from Yeats' 'Second Coming' works with both meanings, mere meaning pure anarchy reflecting the nightmarish time and being a great oxymoron, and mere meaning small, less noticeable anarchy fitting the subtle terror of 'the falcon cannot hear the falconer.' Even without that as an initial intention, it shows how language and great writing both evolve together over time.

James Bloodworth's book Hired is a good companion piece. It covers what it's like to work in an Amazon warehouse in the UK, among other low paid jobs. I'm not sure if it was the tagline, but I think 'the last thing you'll buy on Amazon' would be a decent slogan for the book.

He has a tendency to get a little purple with his prose, but if you can get past that it's a good precis of low pay jobs.

Here's a link to the Goodreads page. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/37780792-hired

The Verge had a long read on life of Facebook moderators that is worth a read if you have the time. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...

Bill Bryson on Stonehenge:

"Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that...and then we can party!'"

(Yes, I only know that quote from Civ 6)

Kojima's a good example of how limitless creative freedom doesn't produce the best work. Tarantino is another. Even the best creative minds need a voice questioning whether a vampire licking a knife over and over again is a good addition to a spy thriller.

Unherd's review was a good read, the reviewer talking about how the book was wrong in an interesting way. https://unherd.com/2019/06/are-you-ready-for-fully-automated...

If you're interested in Assange, check out Andrew O'Hagan's piece 'Ghosting' about being hired to ghost write Assange's autobiography. It's in his collection 'The Secret Life.'

Love the big suit like David Byrne in Stop Making Sense.

In the higher positions, yes.

That's important from a product point of view. I see redditors unhappy about a specific community, I'm always confused why they're visiting that community.

It's a good distinction, but it doesn't solve the issue that problematic subreddits will continue to exist, even if I've customised Reddit to avoid them. I understood that was more Dan McComas's issue with Reddit, and with Twitter.