Alex O'Meara

Author, Chasing Medical Miracles, journalist

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

Congratulations! I look toward to reading it.

[Chad Shank @hdfatty]

That took a lot of years of procrastination. How many?
The story includes references to cell phones that snap shut and maps that you print out…

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“The Mets create imaginative ways to lose that other teams wouldn’t dream of,” writes @nytdavidbrooks, “and they also come up with miraculous ways to win that the laws of probabilities would seem to render impossible.” https://t.co/wSWkeGOGIx

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

Why invent artificial intelligence when there’s so little of the real thing around?

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

AI is a significant danger to how humanity functions, no matter what “smart” people in tech say. For hundreds of years, scientists who create new technology have been wholly unaware of its dangers. It’s not a pattern of oversight. It’s happened so often, it’s how things go.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“All we can do is breathe the air of the period we live in, carry with us the special burdens of the time, and grow up within those confines. That’s just how things are.” A Personal History by Haruki Murakami. https://t.co/EMBvxqlcUy

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

RIP Martin Amis. Amazing talent.

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

Hardcore, yo.

[Nigel Duara @nigelduara]

@knicks_tape99 This was the crowd the last time the Knicks won anything.

[Don Lewis @DonLew87]

Texas woman gets pregnant. Texas woman has an abortion in Colorado. Texas woman returns home. Texas woman and boyfriend argue about the abortion. Texas man shoots Texas woman in the head. Texas woman dies. Texas.

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

@hdfatty @soydebisbee @DougStanhope @arizonalizards @gregchaille It’s a lot to live down. Or live up to. Hmmm….

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

@DougStanhope @arizonalizards @gregchaille Oh damn.

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

This is like AI without the “I.”

[Ted Gioia @tedgioia]

I pay tribute to arts and culture writer Scott Timberg (1969-2019) whose posthumous book is published today. https://t.co/Y8RJMYAWQI

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

Very good article about a very good journalist and even better person.

[L.A. Times Books @latimesbooks]

Scott Timberg was a culture evangelist. Why his work lives on https://t.co/9PqOeKXsCC

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

@hdfatty @audible_com Great book. “Then came the days of begging, the days of theft.”

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In the last volume of “In Search of Lost Time,” Proust famously describes the transformation of himself as an author. https://t.co/ldXo5lfK21

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

This is spot on, and excellent. Damn it.

A Writer’s Lament: The Better You Write, the More You Will Fail https://t.co/Q2acwIUNfS

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

Amazing story! Truly.

Bob Born, Who Brought Marshmallow Peeps to the Masses, Dies at 98 https://t.co/VmxkAeH2q7

[Alex O'Meara @alexomeara]

@DougStanhope Gulliver? Fuckin love this.