Ryan Wilkins

An unflagging cinephile, reader of longform journalism, and drinker of coffee.

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

In memory and honor of Frederick Wiseman, who took hold of a still-young format and, guided from the start by an unyielding sense of principle, made a body of work so original, idea-rich, and unified that it seems foreordained—a historic fusion of investigation and the inner life

[mike casca @cascamike]

everyone is too online. it’s poisoning their thinking. luckily, i’m the exception.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

you know, it's probably nice that you are promoting Schopenhauer & you are probably a well-intentioned & possibly unemployed former philosophy major but have you ever considered that you are not quite up to the task?

[reversecowgirl69 @botticellibimbo]

it’s actually over

[McSweeney's @mcsweeneys]

"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."
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[no earthquake (ear flu victim) @no_earthquake]

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

[pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot]

The role of the critic is to help people see what is in the work, what is in it that shouldn't be, what is not in it that could be. (1963)

[Leigh Giangreco @LeighGiangreco]

It’s a loss for humanity as a whole that we are losing cultural critics with keen eyes and sharp wits, then getting nothing in return but AI slop and influencers who ask Pedro Pascal what it’s like to be the Internet’s daddy

[katie @katefeetie]

keeping myself humble by remembering that no matter how smart I think I am, it’s still not smart enough to get off twitter

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Important life wisdom.

[pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot]

The only chance for new work, innovative work, work that's disturbing in any way, to reach the public is if a few critics get behind it. Movie studios would be perfectly happy making the same kind of big star-ridden boring movies year after year. (1980)

[Brendan Fraser Crane @bf_crane]

For 3000 years under literature we had gatekeeping and snobbery, but we produced Tolstoy, Austen, and Proust. With fan fiction we had brotherly love - we had 30 years of nicecore and letting people enjoy things, and what did that produce? The 50 Shades series.

[microplastics rectifier @facetedcarapace]

This is a judgemental take but I think self-help books are one of the lowest forms of culture we produce, and that turning the intrinsically valuable experience of reading into something must Accomplish Something is cursed protestant-work-ethic hustle culture nonsense.

[Ryan Wilkins @wilkins]

@cheaperby12film You should write a critical piece that persuasively argues for this position! (Or not—that’s easier.)

[Caleb @Calebej37]

Non-zero chance that this question leads to a Second Great Depression

[Ryan Wilkins @wilkins]

@brofromanother Yup. (Nope.)

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[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Always been a complete fraud https://t.co/YhDXzX3Ohq