Since you cannot read everything, or even most things, or even most of your own things, the library is released from its obligation to be a curriculum and becomes what it always was underneath: a landscape.
"Thirty Thousand Books, and Time for None.", Leo Umilio for their blog The Idle Gazette
My appreciation of this sentence likely comes in part from having spent the last week packing and deaccessioning my own books for this apartment move.
Periodic clogging by carcasses from the adjacent glue factory with a 200 foot chimney gave the bay its name.
Wikipedia entry for Dead Horse Bay
Submitted by Natalie.
Local fishermen call it mondele bureau, or “white man in an office,” because its pale, nearly translucent body apparently reminds them of a pasty-faced drudge hunched over a computer.
"I explore the world’s scariest lakes. Ghosts can never compare.", Geo Rutherford for The Washington Post
Via Erin.
The lazy cigarettes that dangle from lips drenched by everything but water.
"There’s a universal language of heartache in “Maps”", Niko Stratis for Paste
Submitted by Kelsey.
There’s only one Carolina now and it’s communist.
"Welcome to Chud Nuremburg", Ryan Broderick for his newsletter Garbage Day
Matt and I'm pretty sure someone else but I can't find it submitted this sentence:
The pedophile class and their incel gamer meat shield spent the summer playing with AI dolls and watching sex traffickers looksmaxx on Kick streams and now they’ll have to spend the next decade in Ms. Rachel’s re-education camp.
Matt and, separately, Angela, also recommended this one:
All of the major factions of the American right — Silicon Valley oligarchs, AI sex cult dweebs, Substack race scientists, Trumpist DC staffer goblins, psychotic Nazi wizards, and pickup truck selfie divorcés — are all on one app now.
I think these are both very fun, but I like the concise rhythm of the Carolina sentence.
The knowing added a layer of queasiness.
"Lab-grown meat was supposed to save the world. What happened?", Erin Somers for The Guardian
Lex submitted a paragraph from this; I think this was the best one from the paragraph.
It defeated the Colt M1911 pistol, which supporters backed as the most antifascist option on the ballot.
"Shots Fired: Why Half a Million Idahoans Voted For a Gun", Sophie Hurwitz for Mother Jones
The most direct path to doing durable good for American democracy, right now, is the one that leaves tire tracks across Elon Musk's stupid fucking face.
"There Is No Place In A Functional Society For Elon Musk", Albert Burneko for Defector
“Australia is a very bad place to question your sexuality on MDMA with NSA spies” might be a text you would wish to send to your friends, if you have had an extraordinarily complicated night out in Sydney.
"Struggling to spell ‘male chauvinist pig’? Apple’s grey list means your iPhone won’t help you", Aisha Down for The Guardian
Submitted by Wesley.
That’s what a tech boom is, more than anything else: a mass securitization event that happens to sell some computers, or apps, or agents, remaking the Bay Area in the process.
"The great vibes divergence", Patrick Redford for Oakland Review of Books
Runner-up:
Look at the feed of the elite media’s most prominent AI booster, Kevin Roose, late of the New York Times, and you’ll see a man blurring the lines between cynical operator and doofus through an overdose of meaningless jargon.
it takes just a moment for my body to digest the orbital goo and regenerate new eyes so i can complete the next task: finding the X
Why would they possibly touch each other when there’s all this math to do?
"Science Friction: An Argument for More Sex in Sci-Fi", Adam Peterson for LitHub
Submitted by Daniel.
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