This is well worth a read even if you’re already convinced LLMs are a boondoggle

star wars but all the droids upload everything they see and do to the company that manufactures them which incidentally is bffs with the empire

*Brödupproret 1917* Folket: Fred och bröd! Fred och bröd! Gunnar Strömmer: Det är direkt oansvarigt av de demonstrerande att enbart fokusera på bröd när Sverige har så många potatisbönder som har det ekonomiskt tufft just nu.

I would kill or die for Larry

People being asked their four fav movies for Letterboxd always act as though an archangel at the pearly gates has asked them to account for their sins

A wonderful read, this

If elections were held during the summer would green parties around Europe be more successful?

Min femåring nu: …kan vi heja på andra laget?

I knew someone who briefly made bank writing insipid motivational LinkedIn-posts for ceo’s and the like. Obviously LLMs have completely eradicated this market.

Kommer alltid älska Linda Skugge för att när jag som sketen 18åring läste något hon skrev om Plath/Hughes i pressen mejlade jag henne o sa att hon hade FEL, så svarade hon med ett långt förklarande mejl, något hon absolut inte behövde göra

Att mjölka kor och lyda sin make saluförs numera som ett livsstilsideal. I ”Yesteryear” får huvudpersonen smaka sin egen medicin, men trots fyndigt upplägg och tidsresor finner @agri.bsky.social en torr moralkaka där bäst-före-datumet står för dörren. www.flamman.se/hemmafruroma...

An outstanding review of HYPER over at A FEW MORE WORDS. www.afewmorewords.net/p/still-wait... @agri.bsky.social Thanks Christopher Conner!

ok but also how cool is this poster

Wow.. nerves of steel

This is such a good essay on Gass: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/rev...

Thomas Pynchon is the only realist writer.

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hope you brought urine!

Min söndagstext, om vem främlingen är, Bekla Demhat Aksoy som nu ska utvisas och @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social nya bok. www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/M7P...

This, which made me laugh uncontrollably, reminds me that I often used to laugh uncontrollably while reading things on the internet. Not anymore, though. Which, come to think of it, is something else we can in large part blame on Peter Thiel.

My agent told me today that there’s no way to receive funds from Turkey because the international bank system does not trust transfers from the country. Yet somehow we can deport *people* there and it’s fine.

Episode 18, "Penelope"

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"To the contrary, voters are on average more likely to defect to the radical right when mainstream parties adopt anti-immigration positions, a pattern that has been particularly pronounced for established RRPs."

Hey man I heard you like 100 novels so

Good to see that the current Swedish government's decision to implement de facto retroactive legislation for 100,000 citizenship applicants is being covered in the international press.

"verify you're human"—listen, buddy, i'm trying my best

Ehm jag har läst Mindf*ck-serien

Now, *that's* funny.

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Prediction markets are presented as real-time measures of probable outcomes driven by collective investment. Which is what horse racing odds are, and we don’t treat those as more than a novelty. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Alexander Kluge was a pioneer of New German Cinema who never became a household name abroad—a towering intellectual whose resolutely uncommercial work was not designed to make him famous.

Olivia Rodrigo just outright cribbing Femininomenon huh

Why is every credit sequence to every tv show now ”cgi objects slowly moving” im so bored of it

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

This is interesting. I read my fair share of paperbacks and fully understand the practical aspects but given the choice I’d pick a hardback every time

Logging onto Bluesky in the morning and seeing the US users like they’re the day shift in the Pitt

Watch this all ends with the first Antipope since 1439 www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentag...

There are tv fight scenes, then there are Banshee fight scenes, then there’s Banshee s03e03 Nola v Burton

Always the writer is pressed into the form of the professional, which is the form they have spent their life escaping.

Its been 6 years when are the nanobots in my Covid-vaccine gonna take control I’m growing restless

Ännu en kurd är på väg att utvisas till Turkiet. Liksom tidigare fall bedöms hon på tillsynes lösa grunder vara ett säkerhetshot av Säpo. Hon har varken blivit förhörd av dem eller fått ta del av yttrandet som Säpo gjorde till Migrationsverket. blankspot.se/kurdisk-tran...

There’s an ambulance at a house opposite the kid’s daycare. How awful to be wheeled out at the age of 85 about to leave this mortal coil and the last thing you see are a dozen 3 year olds up against a fence shrieking AMBULANCE like they’ve just seen Taylor Swift

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX

Svenska värderingar: äta bark

Flight attendants were not paid during boarding???

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended