Frederick Ingram

a bard for our time

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@KTHopkins There's LinkedIn for that.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

Maybe something really is afoot. #CubaLibre

[CIA @CIA]

“A aquellos que buscan crear un cambio positivo en Cuba – Este es el momento. La decepción de las promesas fallidas, la corrupción, y las vidas privilegiadas de unos pocos – Aprovecha esta oportunidad de crear el cambio que deseas a través de una asociación discreta con la CIA.”

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

Well there goes this year's Halloween costume 🤠

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

My contrary take is that I respect Lindsey Graham more, not less, for not “living his truth” in a public way that required all of society to clap for him. Dude kept his private life private, it was none of our business. The right for the most part actually lives by the left’s false claim to not care what people do in their literal bedrooms. I only care if a guy makes it my problem and parade in assless chaps down Main St. in front of the kids.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

There was an entire culture of “literary men” as recently as the 2010s. Like there was a genre of hipster white guy who wouldn’t stop talking about David Foster Wallace. For some reason, the publishing industry got incredibly hostile to white guys and now literary culture doesn’t exist anymore. They thought they could take it away and have it for themselves, but all they could do was ruin it.

They give Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Awards almost exclusively to books about race by black authors now, and nobody reads the books or pays any attention to the awards. Literature is dead and the big publishers are supported almost entirely by romance slop for white wine moms.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

Not just divisive & inflammatory; Brexit & SNP literally help divide & conquer EU & UK for Putin's benefit.

[Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01]

"You can be very confident that the Russians will take any divisive issue in our politics, whether that is Brexit, whether that is Scottish independence, whether that is migration, any one of these, and they will try and stir the pot".

https://t.co/yp0PVZCFHV

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@HMDatMI @grok who is this Lysistrata person?

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

Doesn't the #Cornell7 matter remind anyone else of the @ScottTurow 2006 novel #Limitations? Uncomfortable reading for sure. 📕

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@InezFeltscher I remember tagging like 50 copies of the Tupac book at Salt Lake County Library 😂 #FUBU

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

Mercor is looking for local political forecasters: https://t.co/N8gB0FB5gG

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@bethanyshondark To consent to that she'd have to be mentally ill, therefore she was unable to consent.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@wokal_distance Interesting point. Curious that it all went down around Halloween.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@MatthewKroenig Cringe du jour.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

A classic LLM hallucination. Receipts established the purchase of the bomb components, but there's nothing in that article or related press release or affidavit about the provenance of the sneakers. They were prominently mentioned, though, as part of the suspect's description.

[5% Fran @FivePercentFran]

Documenting an example of Google AI just flat out lying.
I asked if investigators linked the J6 pipe bomber's shoes to Brian Cole Jr.
It said the credit card statements proved he bought the shoes, which is not true.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@FivePercentFran @FXRegan That seems to be taken out of context, referring to a previous state: https://t.co/gCZMKf9D4A

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

A fun use of AI

[Ryan Pote @ryanpotebooks]

Cover reveal for the long awaited Clive Cussler Fargo Adventure series. On preorder for 6 years, the book has become a myth. A legend. Some would even dare say...a curse. Well, on May 25, 2027...all that may be true. And more.

Some treasures were never meant to be found...

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

By 1776 the average American soldier stood nearly three inches taller than the redcoat sent to put him down.

They were the same people. Same villages, same surnames, same blood, separated by three or four generations and one ocean.

The Englishman had grown up on bread and the game laws. His deer belonged to the king, his rabbits to the squire, and his common had been fenced.

The American had grown up in a country with no lord, no keeper and no forest law. William Penn wrote the right to hunt and fish into Pennsylvania's founding charter. Vermont put it in its constitution.

Colonial Americans ate somewhere between 150 and 200lb of meat a year each. Emigrants wrote the same line home for 200 years: we have meat three times a day.

Height is what a childhood of meat looks like from the outside.

England proves it from the other direction. In 1800 a 14 year old cadet at Sandhurst, raised on beef and mutton, stood about eight inches taller than a 14 year old from the London slums recruited for the navy.

So the English ruling class knew perfectly well what meat does to a child. They had the evidence at their own dinner table.

They simply kept it there. The ones who got away grew three inches and then beat them in a war.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@bourbonroad @EricBalchunas The melancholic music amplifies the melancholic news, i.e. that song "Home." 🥹

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@DEADLINE Gorgeous music. "Barely Breathing" was his biggest hit and worth noting in the headline, but could maybe be worded more artfully.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@RollingStone This makes me truly sad. His gorgeous ballad "Home" speaks to the moment.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

His lushly orchestrated, Rupert Hine--produced debut album was a life-changing event for this South Carolina--born songwriter and maybe myself as well. I used to cover "Home" and got to see the reluctant but ever gracious pop star in person a couple of times. 🙏

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Duncan Sheik, singer of the 1996 hit single “Barely Breathing” and Tony Award-winning composer of 'Spring Awakening,' has died at age 56.

Access the free article here: https://t.co/ll06CkCmE3