The book titled “Bad Advice for Travelers” arrives August 2024 thru new Memphis, TN publishing imprint Giant Body. I’ll be in new york city this weekend with copies. Thank you to ppl who have shown love and support during this journey
Alex Honnold says he "mostly listened to Tool" on his record-breaking live skyscraper climb:
"It was mostly Tool. It’s just like a random playlist that I made, that I shared with production. I made it months ago while I was driving. I’ve been training to it a bunch. Basically rock music that I’ve liked my whole life. Part of the appeal of music is that actually it helps me with pacing. Each bamboo box had been taking me about five to six and a half minutes. I just know how long the songs are. So it gives you it gives you a sense of if you’re going fast or slow. But in this case, it all kept cutting out anyway, and I couldn’t really hear and I was kind of like, 'whatever. I’m just doing my thing.'"
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@shaggysurvives If the world revolves around the thing he is best at, how likely is it that he makes an ill advised pivot into something he’s not so good at out of a mistaken sense of hubris.
@matdryhurst Feels like an essential step with this is decoupling model training from an assumed anthropomorphic form, “human-like” or “god-like”. Not sure if this has been written about or discussed much.
Heartbreaking when you’re the first person in the club and then you take a break from the dancefloor and when you get back and there’s 5000 people there and they all hate you
Thrilled to finally be able to share this essay I’ve been working on for most of this year, on Vineland, One Battle After Another, and Trump’s second term as The Age of the Thanatoid. Thanks to @artillerymag for publishing it
I'm here at the hipster coffee shop and all the billionaires are saying tearful farewells to their friends while enjoying one last iced oat matcha latte
Maybe once a year I find a strange tool in my car. Not understanding its purpose, I press the button with a hole in the middle, releasing the spring activated window breaker that instantly pierces my thumb, leaving a purple blister.