I wrote about hit men's memoirs and the mob media circuit:
johnnyclafoutis.substack.com/p/true-crime...
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I wrote about hit men's memoirs and the mob media circuit:
johnnyclafoutis.substack.com/p/true-crime...
Thank you!
I wrote about French memoirist Edouard Louis
johnnyclafoutis.substack.com/p/ripleys-me...
I communed deeply with ChatGPT's fiction-writing algorithm here johnnyclafoutis.substack.com/p/machine-wr...
I wrote about Anora, Conclave, and No Other Land in a special Oscars special.
johnnyclafoutis.substack.com/p/anora-no-o...
I wrote about Nabokov's first novel, "Mary," which was published 99 years ago.
johnnyclafoutis.substack.com/p/nabokovs-f...
I wrote about the exhibition of Kafka's papers at the Morgan Library, up for another month:
johnnyclafoutis.substack.com/p/kafkas-han...
I wrote about Barry Lyndon, which turned 50 this year.
johnnyclafoutis.substack.com/p/barry-lyndon
Great clip. I think of Mick as someone who (charmingly) barely speaks English and so to see him speak passable French is so strange that at first I wondered if this was AI.
can anyone recommend a book about Pangea?
me too – good clean fun
Enjoying a book of John Updike's stories from the 90s, "Afterlife," and realizing that this is still basically my idea of what a short story is – even maybe what wisdom is. The "epiphany" story, of which he was the supreme practitioner.
oh no. no no no no this can't be happening
funny, this snapshot of an LLM is also a cross-section of my brain
you're getting too close to the secret, you might be in danger
I looked this up and was amazed it wasn't David Brooks
Is anyone out there writing anything interesting about AI? Everything I see is by boosters, doomers or haters.
"...the answer may surprise you! Stay tuned"
Kant get theah from heah
who's "they"?
Dick Cheney's going to dance on all of our graves
Communicating in pictures... so totally empty and boring. How Instagram could even have harmed anyone's life is a mystery to me
Watching a film (Wolf, 1994) in which I recognize most of the actors. Not just Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer, but the guy who played the judge on The Wire, the gym manager in Burn After Reading. The Bradbury Building, playing a publishing house. It's all one movie, we've been watching Movie
Fritzl-moding is goated when keeping all your possessions safe in place is the vibe
I don't I'm ever going to read a book with a subtitle again. I've read enough of them (6)
Picture of a paper towel dispenser with a diagram showing two hands pulling on a paper towel. The paper towel in the photo has two parts missing where the thumbs on the diagram were as if the paper has torn due to wet hands.
1924: In 100 years we'll have flying cars
2024:
What did you hope for the film? I had no expectations and thought it was unchallenging but entertaining
In fact the anti-war left was joining in the negative coverage, cheering and jeering the fall-of-Saigon images that were coming out of Afghanistan as we were leaving. They hate the USA!
great one