It’s true that I know at least four guys named Dave and none named Bank of America.

"Paid Phones", Daniel Kolitz for The Baffler

Using a subway ad to sell an AI trading agent to an “executive commuter” is like killing an ant with a shotgun.

"Are Brain-Rot Transit Ads Ruining Our Commutes?", Matthew Choi for Streetsblog

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Reverence is flattering but the noises of life and garbage are better.

"A bare-assed communion of the heart", Lili Loofbourow in her newsletter Some Personal News

Also bangers:

I found it eerie, like watching surgeons squabble over which procedure to try next on a corpse.

The bus ride from Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales has much to offer the female misanthrope in want of silence.

Living a life of horizontal leisure between teaching and writing, counterpoised with decisions made in fear of tummy aches, gave me the overall impression that I lived with a permanent hangover like a feckless baroque aristocrat afflicted by a moral consequence like gout or scurvy.

"Contempus Mundi", Jo Livingstone for A Fucking Magazine

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Who benefits from this hallucinated history of desire’s political economy?

Rooms are wide enough to photograph well and narrow enough to furnish awkwardly.

"Boerum Decorum", Elmo Tumbokon for New York Review of Architecture

Samuel Alito blasted the media for using the term to create the impression that the Supreme Court 'is deciding important issues in a novel, secretive, improper way in the middle of the night, hidden from public view,' just because the Supreme Court is, in fact, deciding important issues in a novel, secretive, improper way in the middle of the night, hidden from public view.

"Supreme Court ‘Shadow’ Docket Is Now Bigger Than The Real, ‘Transparent’ One", Joe Patrice for Above The Law

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Pattinson's Hansen is ceaselessly, hungrily aware, reactive, always reading the room with such a lizardlike intensity you half-expect to glimpse nictitating membranes every time he blinks.

Review of Primetime by Gene Weldon for NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour

All the big meaningful elements of life are just a collection of little tasks that you have to do one at a time.

"Meta's New A.I. Agent For Losers", Rusty Foster for his newsletter Today in Tabs

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Gum is like the bird shit of people.

John Wilson in The History of Concrete

I am, unfortunately, the kind of materials science and supply chains dilettante who genuinely wants to watch a documentary about concrete so I was mildly disappointed this movie was more about ADHD as documentary filmmaking method. But I also am a guy drawn to artists who bring their truest, weirdest self to their work, which is John Wilson's entire deal, so it ultimately won me over. (For a very different but equally true and weird documentary take on concrete, I recommend Architecton).

As a Nigerian man, I only fear God and my mother’s slippers.

"Me and My AI Against the World", Jerry Falade for the newsletter Publishing Confidential

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