Cole Frank

PhD student @ Carnegie Mellon. Interested in fiction, language, ML other stuff too

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

“Brainrot ain’t intellectual property” is a bar!

[synthiola 🎀 @FabianMosele]

Tung Tung Sahur explains his copyright legal battle

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

@ulkar_aghayeva Didion has an essay about the melancholy of formerly grand/bustling American locales like her native Sacramento, that I think gets at melancholy being the flip side of American dynamism
https://t.co/c16PzLwTrZ

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

@clairebergey Congrats Claire!

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

McCarthy telling Oprah "the subconscious is older than language" is one of the all-time great tv moments
https://t.co/ztVUbtHsYV

[FEAR GOD @FEARGODMINDSET]

Cormac was on a different level man

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

@patrickc More contemporary than the novels you cite, but Bachtyar Ali's The Last Pomegranate Tree is intensely compassionate

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

Boooooooooo
https://t.co/WGlZGutL0o

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

@bartlebytaco ah wow only now reading up on him I'm realizing this from patricia lockwood's first novel is about him

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

@brunellaism i'm neither a bolaño hater nor a "one needs direct experience of the things they write about" person but...the Detroit section is by far the weakest part of 2666

[fatih kadir akın @fkadev]

My son asking me a lot of questions. It’s a distillation attack obviously.

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

Behold our greatest living artist: TikTok recsys

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

Using KPIs to argue that your genAI slop screensaver art is better than Van Gogh is very funny

[NB @Noahbolanowski]

Refik Anadol Studio: "The average amount of time that a visitor spends gazing at 'Unsupervised' is 38 minutes. For comparison, the average viewing time of a typical famous work of art, such as 'Starry Night,' is 27.2 seconds."

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

@peligrietzer really nice work!

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

@WillManidis rationalists also to blame: "epistemic status"

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@ctbeiser

[love drops @lovedropx]

Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because -- and this is a direct quote -- he was concerned that otherwise he might "become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify". I have thought about this every single time that I've worked out since.

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

@brunellaism “Using social media” masks a lot of variation—in particular the distinction between active use (posting) versus passive consumption. And most ppl ain’t posting

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

@brunellaism “Using social media” masks a lot of variation—in particular the distinction between active use (posting) versus passive consumption. And most ppl ain’t posting

[Cole Frank @ColeVFrank]

@MarkdeSilva1 Recent TikTok trope of the “performative male” is a more mainstream version of this (didion, bell hooks, sally rooney, etc.). Is it a real trend? Idk