Tristan Bronca

Writer and editor. I tweet good reading which will very occasionally include stuff I write.

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

I wrote about glaciers, icebergs, the near religious experience of them, and the impossible task of trying to know them through names

https://t.co/SZTAlyavfP

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

Anyways I’m applying for a job as a manhole cover inspector and if I don’t get it, not sure I’ll ever recover

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

I am so tired of people making me feel like an idiot for repeatedly falling into open manhole covers every time I leave the house. I’m so anxious. Even when I’m *in* the house, I’m constantly thinking about how I should really try to not fall into an open manhole cover and yet…

[matargashti-pilled 🇵🇸 @dilrhubarb]

I'm so tired of lateness being viewed as a moral failing. I've been shamed for it my whole life because it's framed as "disrespect" (and no, it hasn't helped me be more punctual) and if I lost out on a major life opportunity because of it I don't think I could have ever recovered

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

@EnswellJones "I read it every morning when I got out the milk."

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

.@EnswellJones has always been a professional hero of mine, someone whose stories and advice I regularly find myself coming back to. I felt this.
https://t.co/PZeF9CxrWL

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

High school invited me back to talk to the youth about why they shouldn't let AI write their essays for them, even though I would for sure have been using it to write my essays for me

https://t.co/szrCHPyjO5

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

Going to write an 8,000 word magazine piece titled “Worshipping At The Temple of Consumption” and it’s just about me getting a Costco card

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes, 1496, 📸 via @MartinFLSheriff

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

It’s okay for hard things to be hard. On the subject of AI and writing, I like the way George Saunders puts it:

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

Thursday a.m. vibe check https://t.co/ZJzmui66qX

[chuck 🏔 @crowcialist]

The Cormac McCarthy last page is basically a genre unto itself, but it’s still crazy that he hit a career walkoff like this at 89 years old

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

"They have too much money and nothing going on. They have no swag, no smoke, no motion, no hoes. That's all you need to know." - Donald Boat, put it in a frame

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

Harpers' masterstroke here was sending a proper dickhead like Sam Kriss to profile some of the most objectionable people in existence. The magazine at its best https://t.co/260d1i7z95

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

Also dedicating a section of this story to a guy who conned Sam Altman out of a gaming PC — taking him to the Cheesecake Factory and then to Cluely HQ to put a finer point on the fact that they are borderline illiterate — was an inspired journalistic choice

[Prince Vogelfrei 🐦‍⬛ @PrinceVogel]

Maybe it all went wrong when we killed the whales. Maybe their songs kept the great dream together. Vast brains slowly, carefully ordering the world with actions subtler than the apes could ever see. God is dead. His blubber lit a lamp in London

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

I work at an ad agency. Things like Google and Meta ads are no longer optional.

I believe there's a not-too-distant future where I am professionally obligated to recommend this kind of advertising, and my personal repugnance is going to mean nothing https://t.co/LqFQEoYAvc

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

This post — which is good — also helps explain why LLMs seem good at a task if you’re new to or unfamiliar with that task but not if you’re already proficient

(ie writers think it sucks at writing, but non writers find it really useful for writing)

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/bDCdltFo0A

[Tristan Bronca @TristanBronca]

@perrymetzger @TheLincoln @davidzmorris So, you're not interested in novels, but you know AI is going to be able to write "a fine quality" one on the basis that it is currently able to provide "documentation...of excellent quality" and this should be obvious to everyone(?) because they already use AI. Got it. Thanks.

[History Defined @historydefined]

When Mike Tyson visited Italy for the first time (1991)