Paul Reed

Athena Polias: Aeschylus, commoners, women even. we got it all.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@peligrietzer It’s a nice distillation of the particular brand of American jaded exceptionalism and presentism. EPCOT level cultural references, blithe indifference or unawareness of the histories of other nations, bad at metaphors.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@katienotopoulos @goldman Every critique about AI slop should be directed at this book. Perhaps the last great human slop.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@PatrickCoffee Hearing that the Kelly clarkson store owner wrote dragons love tacos just hit me like a winter soldier activation code. She may be wrong, completely, entirely, unnecessarily wrong: the store must be destroyed.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@IHateNYT William Menaker, the financier?

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@matthiasellis @mcmansionhell There was no golden age of reading. No pre phone. No nothing. We are unfortunately at or near the golden age and it only looks so ugly because more people are in the picture.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@KnicksMSGN @alanhahn @nyknicks @HSpecialSurgery 4k blu ray please.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@IsaacLHarris Bill Simmons [more bleary eyed than usual]: I’ll tell ya. Wod Larry bird put up w Kevin McHale starting a sub stack? F no. No way. Is it aloud? Is it allowed? Maybe? Maybe! But what is this doing to our sport? My problem w alcohol is only 80th pct on my block. Next up: Pearl Jam.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@RadishHarmers My fear is we lose this moment of cultural hyper literacy. Where are our histories of the uncouth faux pas in 1930s Berlin theater? I can’t believe we invented pearl clutching. It can’t be our brains are soup compared to illiterate people w teeth and brain rotted with syphilis.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@rcdaut @havingaknapp None of those. Those are all wildly different authors as well.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@_Zeets Yes exactly. You cannot write that poorly and be so preening. It is a pond water take.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@Jesse_Brenneman @kisstheblade_ Lonesome dove has entered the chat.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@irishjacknyk @JLEdwardsIII Ty. Man. Poverty beat writer, this is beneath us. Give us back chris herring.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@jacobin “sitting there alone in vast dark theaters trying to come up with new adjectives to describe their own jaded disaffection.”

This alone: send the author to The Hague. You can’t say this while writing like this. Are the theaters dark? Are they vast? (!?!!?) jfc

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@jacobin Man stop being awful. We don’t need these entertainment tonight hit pieces on a tom cruise movie. This is embarrassing.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@Jesse_Brenneman Basically China’s perspective but with respect for democratic participation.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@Jesse_Brenneman I will lose all left credibility I don’t have but I think we should be both deeply antagonistic to AI capitalism (and concerned w effects on our cognition) and deeply curious about AI as a tech that can radically move us closer to the fully automated communism ideal.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@FredKatz My guess: he wants $60m a year not $50, split the diff and do 55ish front loaded so real value is close to 60 w time value of money.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@JohnsonBec32985 I am agreeing with you.

[Paul Reed @paulreed00]

@writingenjoyer Unfortunately a healthy signal, it gets worse, if you remain terminally online as you age and no one knows WTF any of this means.