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Conscript in the army of virtue... 'Democracy! Whisky! Sexy!' #TeamGarsington #Libertine #theLongDefeat

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

I forgot Kate Bush sings before the climactic battle. I'd also forgotten the impressively awful wardrobe of the doomed CIA officers.
Look, I don't think you can understand my generation of Cold War man-children without watching 'Bushido'. 😐

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

@HenryEOliver https://t.co/LSYyxzs5O6 [via @XLorentzen]

[James B @piercepenniless]

So good so good so good. Worth dropping everything to read it. https://t.co/8Nn6myVtdS

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

Logue's #WarMusic is 'the greatest film adaptation of Homer ever set down on paper'. https://t.co/T9zC5PU1qu 'Make the Machine Sing'

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/jZk4AkDdLS [via @HenryEOliver]

[Phoebus Quietus @phoebus_quietus]

I didn't realise this existed.

Always open minded to see modern poets retell a classic work.

Christopher Logue - anyone here familiar with his work?

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

As foretold by -The Creator- https://t.co/zwXtGVXn8o [ht @TylerCowen]

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

An Oxbridge-educated war hero inspired by Florence+the Machine vids would pull me even if it wasn't Star Wars. https://t.co/3vuuvnSxNI

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

'In this movie it is Eliezer and the Americans who are the bad guys.' I presume Cowen means Yudkowsky, LOL. https://t.co/VP19gSYeLZ

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/ZvEMD4jM6v

[Larva From Delmarva 🇲🇽🇫🇲🇮🇩🇬🇷🇨🇷 @trash_ebooks]

The fact that Nerd Dominance Theory persists makes me think somehow our culture hasn't fully digested the concept of the "tech bro". At the level of plutocracy I can see how tech ate our culture, but when it comes to regular people it seems more accurate that culture ate tech.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

Rereading http://t.co/loxoUkQU for its contention that the #hipster almost dissipated 'into the primordial subcultural soup' round 2003.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

Some -alternative- archetypes to the hipster amongst middle-class youth: the bro [especially the banker bro] and the geek [especially its most socially unacceptable extreme, the incel]—but the borders are fairly porous. Think of the 'tech bro' who engages in hipster consumption.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/SzsDtFxSfW [via @PhilKlay]

[Alice @AliceFromQueens]

New York Mag was a bit scummy here.

The Commonwealth contest story wasn't chosen by Granta editors. And the story did not, in fact, appear in Granta magazine, a *print magazine* literary ppl respect for good reason.

Some writers empaneled by Commonwealth Foundation chose it. It appeared on the Granta website labeled as such.

NY Mag knew no one would care about a bunch of obscure lazy writers fooled by an AI. So they implied w a photo that it appeared in Granta, though the story makes clear it did not.

If Granta eds *had* chosen it to run in their mag, that would be a much more remarkable event. But they didn't.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

#GPT3 #AI? https://t.co/EY3FJGdbNK Clearly rather beyond Eliza, but I've no idea how it works, so couldn't tell you in the slightest what it means.

[Kaj Sotala @xuenay]

I keep seeing all kinds of crazy reports about people's experiences with GPT-3, so I figured that I'd collect a thread of them.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

As soon as I learnt the barest details of this debacle, I assumed something like https://t.co/YjZ3uHH1EV was the real culprit. https://t.co/g6w0tRsTTe

[CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlorentzen]

@tolstoybb The mistake here was to do business with the prize people at all. That said, in the 1990s, it was a respectable prize. It seems to have devolved into a corrupt patronage network full of nonliterary hacks.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

'charging tech companies—specifically naming Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft—license fees for cable usage while also claiming that Iran alone has the right to repair and maintain the cables' https://t.co/ozZF69s4sy NB 'majority of routes pass through Oman-controlled waters'

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

Long ago, was advised that http://t.co/VvarLOgR5n might prove a worthy update to the Stephenson article. http://t.co/lCbTdyMpsL

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

Undersea telecom cables in the Middle East c 2021: https://t.co/9HOhqoPf3M The north route of the Trans Europe Asia System planned for Saudi Arabia will bypass the Red Sea chokepoint. https://t.co/N1f7XZn3cd

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/84IG3YAjmU I've not managed to finish -Mansfield Park- but have always been pro-Franny despite her flaws because I found Frances O'Connor ridculously appealing in the 1999 adaptation.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

Good for Mary Bennet. https://t.co/PHc3jcCjzJ

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

For my sins I watched the BBC adaptation. Transparently fanfic but may reveal some modern attitudes re Austen. [Somehow still find it refreshing when a writer admits you can be well read and low comeliness and yet a loser.] Also, was the dialogue written by British people?

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/nkOeArxrxy [via @Reihan]

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

Habermas, arriving in New York in 1967 as a young scholar, had this to say about the chaos of late-sixties Gotham: “…it isn’t easy to understand this country at all: the richest and most powerful country in the world lives, at least in its biggest city, with such a degree of rot, violence, pure sickness, madness, extreme variance on every level, that it often takes your breath away.”

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

'The Bundesbank flanked one side of the building in the distance, the Goldman Sachs building the other. In between, Habermas sat crunched up in a chair with his wife…' https://t.co/H3G4gw6WdQ

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/gYQ6NqLjyK https://t.co/j0eohEeG1k

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/zUA7eFmWfR [via @dex_eve] I should find some recent cultural analysis inspired by 'Tlön...'

[Alex Hochuli 🧉🎙️🤯📉 @Alex__1789]

Finally, technology has caught up with 1940s Argentinan literature

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

'...signification. The library makes this hidden power explicit' http://t.co/eyJQUGKB2L

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/OggO71xtce

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

There was a time when Tracey was the dominant personality type among journalists — when four percent of the country were college-educated and “newspaper reporter” was a para-proletarian occupation.

Of course there were always Harvard educated elites who covered diplomacy and Washington intrigue from an insider’s perspective, but they were outlying figures on staffs full of rumpled gadflies.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

'journalists used to come from families 6% better off than average...now they come from homes that are 42% richer' http://t.co/V0RsjumHv1

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

'news reporting remained a decidedly blue-collar trade'; in the 1930s '40 percent of journalists were college grads, and nearly 10 percent had not gone to high school. Two thirds came from working-class families.' Now only 8% haven't been to university.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/RsYSq7TisQ The PLE currently hold 1 seat in the Kosovar assembly? https://t.co/ifF69zhk8d

[kos_data @kos_data]

🇽🇰 Kosovo may have its first ethnic non-Albanian president?

After majority-Albanian parties failed to reach an agreement, the leader of the Egyptian Liberal Party proposed that the president be a consensual candidate from the Kosovo Egyptian community.

If a president is not elected by the end of the month, the country goes to snap elections.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

'Kosovo is generally considered a relative success in the stability operations world, but that was in spite of the planning and not because of it. The whole story does not cast senior military leaders at the time in a good light…' https://t.co/UbtnSwpyWj [Blast, we suck at this]

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/0ZcaF3VAWx One of my most distinct memories of the Kosovo war is hearing Belgrade B92 play Saint Etienne, probably the 3rd radio station I ever heard on the Intarweb? https://t.co/OY4fSzD6KR

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

I think we should have a societal norm where dunking on or responding to obvious ragebait is considered to be almost as shameful as posting it in the first place.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/emqBEi7gmt [via @RMLLowe]

[1926 Live @100YearsAgoLive]

Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein hits an 11-year-old pupil, Josef Haidbauer, in the head, causing him to collapse.

Wittgenstein carries the boy to the headmaster’s office, then quickly leaves the school, but he runs into another parent, Herr Piribauer, whose daughter Wittgenstein has previously beaten.

Piribauer vows to have Wittgenstein arrested, but Wittgenstein quickly skips town.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

'The adults of the village distrusted him from the beginning, but he made a more positive impression on some of his students.'

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/syqJaGxmEE

[Erisha @ErishaAnn]

Pygmalion but it’s a working class English guy who was promoted to officer during WWI and issued a trench coat and now the war is over and he can’t go back

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

The story I'd associate with @Burberry's brand [noblesse oblige in the trenches] is unfashionable but prefer to chavs http://t.co/UlMLRz7Q5j

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

The officer, the trench coat, and the temporary gentleman: https://t.co/zsTgG8IDYP https://t.co/o4FCUE4G1j

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

For understandable reasons, I'm rather fascinated with the category of 'temporary gentleman'. http://t.co/QmLGh7qDFL http://t.co/ZHaQ8dOaam

[Zweil @somethings_awry]

Nobody is willing to talk

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

https://t.co/Z1xuVyuwri I suspect I should have preferred the unpublished epilogue to be included, if not in the text proper, in the Appendices. 'For it seems to me now that people can remember it who have never seen it.' The great tales make us believe it can be so.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

Elanor the Fair, daughter of Samwise: https://t.co/hKoC1hGyIC Confirms the Gamgees' rise from gardeners and batmen to the ruling class [Sam was the lone Hobbit in the Fellowship who did not hail from the gentry/aristocracy].

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

From Tolken's letter 214: https://t.co/QFMvDN7Kd6 Martinez observes that when Sam established this rule, Pippin and Merry had not yet inherited their fathers' quasi-aristocratic titles. 'Sam must have been held in the highest esteem by the Thain (Paladin, Pippin’s father)'.

[John Foreman CBE @John_ForemanCBE]

‘Britain is a miserable sight. A society of failures, full of apathy, and aroused only by envy at the success of others. That is why we will continue to decline. Not because of our economic and industrial problems. They are soluble. But because the psychology of our people is in such an appalling – I fear irretrievable – state. Meanness has replaced generosity. Envy has replaced endeavour. Malice is the most common motivation … This is the social personality of a loser’.

Bernard Donoughue, 1975.

[Neocon Sally Rooney stan account 🌐 @NeoconMaudit]

Jeebus, I completely missed this. And I expect most [Anglo-Saxon] Millennials don't remember Jospin at all. https://t.co/uelWcTvFbo

[Rédaction de France Culture @FC_actu]

Lionel Jospin est mort, à 88 ans.
Figure de la gauche socialiste, il fut Premier secrétaire du PS, député, ministre de François Mitterrand, premier ministre de cohabitation sous Jacques Chirac. Candidat à la présidentielle, éliminé à la surprise générale.
https://t.co/BCSZonKqyK