What gets me is that after being inspired by logic, science (and Poe) to write Holmes, he took that break to pursue spiritualism and investigating fairies. It's fine, it's also just funny.

I knew this tangentially bc a dissident writer I followed and knew for a long time mentioned they were reading Dworkin a couple of years or so back, and not long after they fell down a TERFhole and went full crank right after that. In hindsight it was an early warning.

That's a phenomenal shot.

I remember when the word 'content' in that sense first appeared in the ad/PR biz during web 2.0, and how quickly the general pop started using it.

I think we are years and years into the process of 'content' becoming normalized, to the point that only the most egregious 'slop' films stand out, even to comparatively aware viewers.

entitled, belligerent, mediocre dickheads will always be anti-intellectual because people like Soyinka are a living 24/7 refutation of their nonsense.

yup, I was 13 when the book came out and my brain was done for weeks just at the scene of the old photos of the parade coming to life

It feels like Capitalism playing chicken with itself. Like it has come to believe its own propaganda, or perhaps it has a death urge.

They backed PUBG when they were only Bluehole and it paid for their whole empire - their cynical mobile-games operation was transformed by a single human auteur with vision, who put years into modding, gameplay and his aesthetic, until it was ready to change FPS games forever.

It's so depressing how easily people were taken in by the misinformation PR campaigns. I'm Gen X, and Depp was iconic, but his addiction and domestic abuse were well documented from very early on, it's nuts how anyone could be like, Johnny, surely not.

I wonder if they keep GPT alive partly as a desperate reaction to workers taking power back during lockdowns, using digital tools to work remotely, and with more flexibility. If they can't control us, they'' replace us. They hope.