The single biggest issue with reading Obsession as a coercive control story is that it misses what a "monkey's paw" wish story is for.
The point of a "monkey's paw" wish is that a person gets something they think they want and finds out they don't want it. "Be careful what you
“When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark” https://t.co/UkZwbuqVqp
The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz: https://t.co/HEPHN4E54P
As a young man, Andrew’s behaviour was “so atrocious that a footman punched him in the face.” The Queen refused his offer to resign, “on the grounds that her son had obviously deserved it.” Sadly Andrew went on and on deserving it.
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a discerning audience makes art better‼️
I often remember this video & think about the audiences impact on art today bc now every critique is met with swarths of stan’s calling you a hater, but there is a very big difference between critique & hate and we’ve lost that I think.
at a time when we’re more isolated from each other than ever, the theatrical experience has never been more important. they may not be perfect, but theaters are some of the few places left that bring people of all walks of life together to escape whatever we endure in the day-to-day and allow us to laugh as one, cry as one, feel as one, and belong to something bigger than ourselves. even if you’re there alone, you’re never truly alone.
theaters are an essential cornerstone of every community, and i shudder to think of a future without them - one where the sadness and division that already corrupts our culture has increased tenfold and further eroded our empathy. the erasure of the theatrical experience isn’t just anti-art, it’s anti-humanity.
For @WIRED, I wrote about this week's stomach-churning Mad Men snafu, and about the larger perils of transferring classic shows into new formats: https://t.co/M6TuctpYDv
One of the best categories to gift is premium versions of everyday things, because people won't pay for them themselves and often don't know how to pay for quality if they wanted to. Here is my list of such things: