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Text artist

Brooklyn, NY
Joined March 2009
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I went to San Francisco and wrote about tasteslop, AI alignment, the spoils of the apocalypse, microcelebrity nerd courtesans, torturing rationalists at their commune hype house, races of the future, corgi cafe, and naturalizing the hierarchies that machines spit back at us
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I agree with the sentiment but unfortunately you guys are sorely mistaken about the nature of Columbia University
Amigos tenemos una tarea. La hija de peña se burla de los pyos alzando fotos con remera “cobren impuestos a los pobres” mientras ella está una una Universidad de EEUU con nuestros impuestos. Escriban a esta universidad para que se le echa a esta hija de la familia de ladrones
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Anyway this has got me going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole of the War of the Triple Alliance
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Here’s an AI generated image of Venustiano Carranza with a fidget spinner and an autism speaks tie, one of the many innovative uses of AI in official contexts I’ve encountered in Mexico
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It’s too late, I’ve already depicted you as the agonized and weeping Tetlepanquetzaltzin and myself as the stoic Cuauhtémoc
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Mike Crumplar retweeted
On my Substack, I have published a translation of and commentary on “The Young Beast”, an early poem by the Palestinian-Chilean poet Mahfúd Massís. It’s an apocalyptic work that draws on the Book of Revelation, Song of Songs, Lautréamont and Whitman — link below, please read 🙏
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Buenas noches chicos
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Everything I have to say about the uprisings in France has already been said by Hölderlin but follow @MarlonEttinger for the on the ground reporting about it
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Mike Crumplar retweeted
"Digger is the best film I have ever seen" - Neil Young
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"-C'est pour quel lycée? -Pablo Picasso à Fontenay-sous-Bois, Monsieur le Président"
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Whats great abt his role is that essentially it’s a deceptive meritocratic lib whitewashing (the “sane guy in the room”) of a cientifico who was probably just as monstrous as the rest of the regime the play-within-a-play is satirizing
We need to talk more about how incredible Riz Ahmed was in Digger
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nitter.gq/mcrumps/status/2106824… also, once the discourse eventually catches up, ppl will prob talk abt the film wrt Children of Men more than to Eddington or OBAA (so the Cuaron defense here is apt), ie the film is like Children of Men seen thru the movie the ppl in its world would watch
Digger was brilliant, somehow Cuaron manages not to oversell it here even with this outrageous ChatGPT comparison to Antonioni and DW Griffith
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for example, just consider the energy of the Guernica scene here
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Digger was brilliant, somehow Cuaron manages not to oversell it here even with this outrageous ChatGPT comparison to Antonioni and DW Griffith
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fascinating that you admit yourself that you "don't know" what poetic response could possibly be adequate to auschwitz, yet nonetheless feel comfortable posting such a grotesque, vulgar dismissal of the problem. you should reflect on what has led you to this place
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How are they going to reclaim the dream of antiquity if they can’t even depict the penis in this pagan sculpture
The statue of Prometheus is finally finished. It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this. People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny. But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity. In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history. After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome. Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.
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Here’s Arno Breker, Hitler’s “official state sculptor,” by contrast (first pic is his rendition of Prometheus)
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laughed out loud at the bit in Tristram Shandy where the book completely skips a chapter and the narrator explains that he took it out because he wrote it so beautifully that it would have made the rest of the book look worse, therefore the book is even more perfect without it
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We asked the buzziest writers on the internet what their favorite commodities are—and the answers may surprise you!
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it’s insane how you basically have to reread any given book once every two years to rly have the slightest idea wtf you’re talking about
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Is there anything interesting to be said of the ci poems composed by Xi Jinping
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