Brian Phillips

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NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉writer (The Ringer, Grantland, New Yorker, etc) 🦉 last astronaut to walk on the surface of the sun

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(gasping, clutching the newspaper with trembling hands as I catch up on what I missed during two weeks in the remotest part of Mongolia) beloved author Elena Ferrante is one of literature’s most tantalizing WHATS????

Everyone should know for context that this was not far from another piece of street art that read BITCH I MISS YOU FUCK

Mongolian street art baby

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"no, I'm not related to Trent, but I am a big industrial fan"

I just want Trix

oh nothing, just hiding in a cemetery for five hours as part of my normal workflow for hiring a college baseball coach

Do you guys think The Ringer would let me expense……..a satellite

Anyone have any experience using Starlink (asking for someone who will be in the middle of nowhere for two week)

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At LSU did Baby Gronk A stately pleasure dome decree

Don’t know how but this story was released too early? @edsbs.bsky.social and I don’t land in Ulaanbaatar till later this week

Rocks from the far side of the Moon landed in Mongolia on Tuesdayarstechnica.com The mission has significance for the Moon race between China and the United States.

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But now thanks to the power of AI you can generate an image of Gideon Yago with massive breasts while using enough energy to power a hospital for a day

Today in always save backup PDFs of your clips if you're a journalist in the year 2024: MTV News has vanished variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

About a year into my brief run at MTV News I signed a new contract, and one of my conditions was that they *not* publish a long essay I’d written for them. This felt insane, but I cared about the piece, and even before we all got fired it was clear that this was how the place was going to operate

Today in always save backup PDFs of your clips if you're a journalist in the year 2024: MTV News has vanished variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

spent 15 minutes trying to figure out if he’s more Kermit or more Fozzie

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She sees you staring at her terrarium.The thing inside is metal, trussed, with a light on top. "My pet radio tower!" she says. "It was the runt of the litter. Wanna try it?" She tunes her stereo. The sound of care-free gurgling tumbles out of the speakers, and the tower's little light blinks happily

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DOGS: (losing shit at delivery vans outside) ME: I agree that two vans is a provocation

Here is a sentence that was professionally published in a media outlet that generates around $16 billion in revenue annually. Unfortunately one copy editor costs $17 billion

when my media friends explain to me that they’re still on Twitter for selfless reasons, and not merely addicted to likes

Me whenever I see someone post about how the Twitter experience has once again somehow gotten even worse for them, a person still actively using Twitter

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"the year is 3403 AD, crime is legal and cop's are illegal, only one man is willing to break the law to make the law legal again: Crimecop"

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We're at the end of the Rot-Com boom - every single weird, stupid concept (metaverse, crypto, generative AI) is a symptom of an industry that realizes that there isn't another trillion-dollar market to sell into having a dangerous, expensive mid life crisis. wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/

The best opportunity humanity ever had to name a village Puddletown-upon-Piddle and they blew it. Haunting

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you can pooh-pooh whether or not this is going to matter in the long run and you may well be right, but please focus on this: I assure you that Donald Trump does not want this, and in fact is quite mad about it.

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Any machine can be a smoke machine if you operate it poorly enough

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proudly mixing glue into my pizza sauce while I await my destiny as the virile king of a post-singularity robot harem

sounds amazing, can’t wait to read their work

yes? I'm sure there are ton of writers that have this idea of a narrative and get bogged down/stuck by things like giving their worlds/NPCs/scenery useful descriptions. Both on a Macro scale and a "I know I want an important encounter to happen in this town. Any town. Give me a town."

a bottleneck of writing is writing

“A bottleneck of writing is sentence generation—getting ideas into sentences…That is a big task. That part is really costly in terms of cognitive load.”

How can students use AI to improve your writing?- Fast Companywww.fastcompany.com The professors call their approach “restrained generative AI,” and they’ve already built a prototype software tool that is being piloted in 10 courses at the university this semester.

the one thing they make that’s good at off-roading

still love the implant though

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Corporation overrules faculty vote https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/22/harvard-corporation-overrides-faculty-vote-disciplined-seniors/

The Harvard corporation insists it stays out of academic affairs This will be an interesting test of that stance https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/metro/harvard-protest-discipline-graduation-faculty-vote/

I loved it when future president Applum Lemonum Coconut led the Badgers to the Elite Eight in 1984

thank you google ai, very cool

I’m moderately biased (married to the author) but this is great: www.aliciakennedy.news/p/the-desk-d...

The Desk Dispatch: Page, Stage, Plate?www.aliciakennedy.news Siobhan Phillips on Madhur Jaffrey, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and the recipe form.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Boasts: "No Man Can Stop Me"

holy shit, man walks on fucking moon

I had no involvement whatsoever in instantiating a legal paradigm of in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind and out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. Mrs. Phillips briefly established this regime in response to a neighbor whose praise for her begonias was “lukewarm at best”