jo fornow

pseudo-intellectual superstar & metamodern darling

writing on the novel-as-form and sally rooney

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

ali smith posting

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Stately plump Buck Mulligan rode in a golf cart fatly

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

yup. ban the damn phones

[illi @theboyillinois]

I really really really really want yall to understand. I’m with kids and teens 7 days a week. They don’t want spaces, they want to go outside and be in their phone. We’ve had to stop so many after school programs because they only find interests in social media.

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

you won’t? you sure about that?

[некосаттвачік @nekosattva_chan]

posts like these are always a fascinating look into the mind of the cosmopolitan petty bourg because they're imagining a world where they're even more parasitic on the labor of others. you'll find no 'european tradition' of afternoon coffee among the people cleaning toilets there

[hannah @kittybunyhannah]

hong kong solo trip★

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

This was brilliant and also incidentally a vindication of the modernist project. Sorry haters

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

so what if i got an offer for a dphil at oxford... ?!?!?!?

[Qua Literam @asubparusername]

this genuinely might be the worst discourse we’ve ever seen on this site and, as usual, chauvinistic Americans are at the centre of it all.

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

real unfortunate that american police is so fucked that they really might shoot homeless people if called to police anti-social behaviour. without a complete change in policing i kind of don’t know where you go from there as a society

[Alex @chorizanthe]

I would just like the nice normie socialists worried about anti-social behavior in public to say what they believe should be done about it? Like if you want to incarcerate poor and mentally ill people please just say that so we can cut to the chase

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

i think that's by far the most baffling thing: the piece literally says 'if ai gets real good, it will result in mass layoffs, which will fuck the economy'. which ai boosters have been saying for years. and ai skeptics have been pushing back on, for years. like, what?

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

it is truly insane that this 'memo' scared financial markets because it is indeed all specious, unfounded analyslop. whose mind is this changing? if you bought in to ai, this is just some boring, simplistic extrapolation; if you haven't, this will do nothing to convince you

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Here is an annotated version of the Citrini Memo with my own intro. It's analyslop scare-fiction meant to ingratiate AI boosters and analysts/traders with tales of ultra-automation and socialist data center policies. Deeply embarrassing for all involved.
https://t.co/XwqdFMOoxL

[anna !!! :)) 🇵🇸🌸✨🌸🇵🇸 @frogs4girls]

absolutely radioactive timeline on this app right now

[just matt @questionableway]

this is just millenarianism. i, too, wish to live in utopia. but until then there are real problems which must be solved—among them, making public spaces pleasant and accessible. praying for a perfect society tomorrow doesn’t do anything make the bus/train cleaner & safer today

[just matt @questionableway]

there’s a sizable population on here arguing both that

-peeing on the subway is ‘pro-social’ behavior, actually
-the guy with tourette’s is an irredeemable monster

and i think you literally cannot rationally hold both of these opinions at once

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

compared to the u.s., european police are essentially nonviolent peaceniks — not a defense of european police, but americans have no clue how insane their justice system is compared to western europe.

[becca @kokorobitch]

a lot of yanks on here have what i’d call a noble savage view of police in other nations

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

London Underground. England, 1950s by Miroslav Šašek

[dinosaur @dinosaurs1969]

2010s children’s book series covers:

[picardie aurora @picardie_aurora]

chief of staff: Mr. President, very sad news. Queen Elizabeth has died.

joe biden [ munching block of Kerrygold butter ]: hot damn. we do that?

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

it's the greatest feeling in the world

[Vru @vrundasays_]

I truly wonder what it must be like to get such emails

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

to be clear, i staunchly support canadian independence their attempt to forge a new, non-american world order

[jo fornow @manicat2am]

ironically i think there are fewer cultural differences between the us and canada, whereas are there are fewer legal/historical/political reasons for scottish independence

[The Force Majeure Groyper 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ProgDirectorate]

there are a lot of american liberals who have the same attitude to canada that a section of english liberals do to scotland. finding their politics aspirational but arrogantly bristling at any attempt to pursue the actualisation of said politics