They are missing a key ingredient: the conceptual dementedness of average internet users.
"Is A.I. the Greatest Technology Ever for Making Dumb Jokes?", Max Read for the New York Times
Shitposting is the bouncer at the edge of oblivion.
Andrew Thaler on Bluesky
Felt resonant shortly after reading Max's NYT piece.
whistling softly, reaching with a slim, woolen arm
into the cart, he first balanced them over the wire
before realizing the danger of bruising
and lifting them back out, cradling them
in the crook of his elbow until
something harder could take that bottom space.
"I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store", Eve Ewing
He's essentially Wolverine but the retractable knives are on his face.
"Cillian Murphy's cheekbone-iest roles, ranked", Lucy Ford and Jack King for GQ
Submitted by George. A while back I realized that complimenting cheekbones is weirdly just a way of saying "your skull looks good inside your flesh" and I wonder if anyone has said that to Cillian Murphy.
Growing up in a harbor predisposes one to retain quaint ideas about matter and thought.
Fish Story, Allan Sekula
A hell of an opening sentence. Some other highlights:
A crucial phenomenological point here is the suppression of smell.
It may well appear at this juncture that I am performing a grotesque juggling act at a triple funeral: a memorial service for painting, socialism, and the sea.
Steam tethered ships more firmly to the land, by a line that stretched back to the bowels of the earth.
I won't deny I'm sad to see a tree die a hundred years too soon.
German forester Andreas Saloman, through a translator, interviewed for an NPR story about bark beetles and climate change threatening German forests
The Dunning-Kruger effect is the hemophilia of dynastic capitalism.
"Little Privatized Suns", Elizabeth Schambelan for N+1
Submitted by Chris.