Nate Hopper
@ndhopper.bsky.social
Writing a book about what the time is for Spiegel & Grau. Published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York, GQ, and elsewhere. Former editor at Time and Esquire.
"All you need to connect with Caveman Wakes Up is an acquaintance with disappointment and hopes that stubbornly, perhaps naively persist."
Friendship have been important fixtures of the indie world for years, but with CAVEMAN WAKES UP, they've really and truly Arrived. I wrote about one of my favorite albums of the year:
Album Of The Week: Friendship 'Caveman Wakes Up'
“He sounds like he’s dying.” When my wife — by no means an aficionado of diaristic indie country-rock steeped in melancholia — happened upon me listening to Friendship’s new album Caveman Wakes Up whi...
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May 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"All you need to connect with Caveman Wakes Up is an acquaintance with disappointment and hopes that stubbornly, perhaps naively persist."
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This is a really cool thing to know.
The word 'clue' was originally a variant spelling of 'clew,' meaning “ball of thread or yarn.”
Our modern sense of clue, “guide to the solution of a mystery,” grows out of a motif in myth and folklore, the ball of thread that helps in finding one’s way out of a maze.
Our modern sense of clue, “guide to the solution of a mystery,” grows out of a motif in myth and folklore, the ball of thread that helps in finding one’s way out of a maze.
April 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is a really cool thing to know.
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The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color
The ecstasy of “olo”
www.theatlantic.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"We seem to be turning away from the idea that health is a collective endeavor" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
Opinion | Covid’s Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear
What once belonged to all of us now belongs to corporations.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"We seem to be turning away from the idea that health is a collective endeavor" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
Jan. 12, 2025. (Triple exposure.)
January 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Jan. 12, 2025. (Triple exposure.)
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Music Teacher: How would we characterize D# minor?
Billy: I dunno, sad I guess?
Schubart: The soul's deepest distress, blackest depression. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, they would approximate this key.
Billy: I dunno, sad I guess?
Schubart: The soul's deepest distress, blackest depression. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, they would approximate this key.
January 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Music Teacher: How would we characterize D# minor?
Billy: I dunno, sad I guess?
Schubart: The soul's deepest distress, blackest depression. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, they would approximate this key.
Billy: I dunno, sad I guess?
Schubart: The soul's deepest distress, blackest depression. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, they would approximate this key.
What a lovely inversion:
January 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
What a lovely inversion:
A good word, this, for leaves on trees in poleward winters: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m...
Definition of MARCESCENT
withering without falling off… See the full definition
www.merriam-webster.com
January 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A good word, this, for leaves on trees in poleward winters: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m...
Still one of the greatest Christmas stories ever told: www.esquire.com/news-politic...
On The Road With The Big Red Dirigible Of Christmas Love
An ill-advised, somewhat risky, highly rewarding holiday adventure.
www.esquire.com
December 22, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Still one of the greatest Christmas stories ever told: www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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Isn't this a business-model problem, not a legal problem? It's impossible for many creative people to make money from their work without copyright claims. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 20, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Isn't this a business-model problem, not a legal problem? It's impossible for many creative people to make money from their work without copyright claims. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
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This is good. Some really interesting arrangements.
Sabrina Carpenter: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:20 PM
This is good. Some really interesting arrangements.
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I come back to these Leonard Cohen lines a lot when the world looks like shit
If you've got weird art now's the fucking time. Now's the BEST fucking time
If you've got weird art now's the fucking time. Now's the BEST fucking time
December 18, 2024 at 12:45 AM
I come back to these Leonard Cohen lines a lot when the world looks like shit
If you've got weird art now's the fucking time. Now's the BEST fucking time
If you've got weird art now's the fucking time. Now's the BEST fucking time
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1/ Here’s a story about how journalism works.
Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide *not* to publish.
We were recently looking at Pete Hegseth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted.
First stop: West Point.
Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide *not* to publish.
We were recently looking at Pete Hegseth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted.
First stop: West Point.
December 11, 2024 at 6:05 PM
1/ Here’s a story about how journalism works.
Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide *not* to publish.
We were recently looking at Pete Hegseth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted.
First stop: West Point.
Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide *not* to publish.
We were recently looking at Pete Hegseth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted.
First stop: West Point.
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~32,000 yrs ago a ground squirrel in Siberia stashed some fruit in a burrow, which was later buried & frozen. In the 2000s scientists unearthed the fruit & cultivated its tissue
It grew into this: a Pleistocene ancestor of the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)
📷/Study tinyurl.com/3esvztuv
It grew into this: a Pleistocene ancestor of the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)
📷/Study tinyurl.com/3esvztuv
December 5, 2024 at 9:29 PM
~32,000 yrs ago a ground squirrel in Siberia stashed some fruit in a burrow, which was later buried & frozen. In the 2000s scientists unearthed the fruit & cultivated its tissue
It grew into this: a Pleistocene ancestor of the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)
📷/Study tinyurl.com/3esvztuv
It grew into this: a Pleistocene ancestor of the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)
📷/Study tinyurl.com/3esvztuv
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From Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything", in the middle of discussing how biologists inferred the existence of the giant squid:
November 30, 2024 at 7:39 PM
From Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything", in the middle of discussing how biologists inferred the existence of the giant squid:
Pieces like this one are why we need magazines. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Pieces like this one are why we need magazines. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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Tens of millions of people across West Africa lost access to the internet in mid-March. Was it a coup, was it sabotage by Russia or Elon Musk trying to sell Starlink… rumours went wild.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Undersea Surgeons (Gift Article)
The cables at the heart of the lightspeed, globe-spanning internet run across the grimy, perilous, inaccessible deeps of the sea, in places no one ever sees or visits – until the cables break.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Tens of millions of people across West Africa lost access to the internet in mid-March. Was it a coup, was it sabotage by Russia or Elon Musk trying to sell Starlink… rumours went wild.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"ChatGPT and Gemini and their peers simulate factual information... but it’s essential to bear in mind that they possess no knowledge. ... Our artificial nanny apps weren’t designed as fact finders." www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
Bad Readers | James Gleick
Richard Powers’s new novel, Playground, features an artificial intelligence resembling the new generation of “large language models,” like ChatGPT and
www.nybooks.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:10 AM
"ChatGPT and Gemini and their peers simulate factual information... but it’s essential to bear in mind that they possess no knowledge. ... Our artificial nanny apps weren’t designed as fact finders." www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
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A mentally ill man sat on Texas death row for 36 YEARS without a lawyer and no one noticed - until now.
Excellent reporting by @amari-clare.bsky.social
houstonlanding.org/harris-count...
Excellent reporting by @amari-clare.bsky.social
houstonlanding.org/harris-count...
Harris County’s longest-serving death row inmate has a lawyer for the first time in decades
Clarence Curtis Jordan, Harris County’s longest-serving death row inmate, has legal representation for the first time in nearly four decades.
houstonlanding.org
November 22, 2024 at 5:16 PM
A mentally ill man sat on Texas death row for 36 YEARS without a lawyer and no one noticed - until now.
Excellent reporting by @amari-clare.bsky.social
houstonlanding.org/harris-count...
Excellent reporting by @amari-clare.bsky.social
houstonlanding.org/harris-count...
Hard to think of many musicians who've produced as many consistently lovely albums in the past 15+ years as Laura Marling (who I'm—embarrassingly—just discovering).
November 22, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Hard to think of many musicians who've produced as many consistently lovely albums in the past 15+ years as Laura Marling (who I'm—embarrassingly—just discovering).
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So soulful, Tia Wood. If you didn’t know she is indigenous … open.spotify.com/artist/0NPcT...
Tia Wood
Artist · 37K monthly listeners.
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:57 PM
So soulful, Tia Wood. If you didn’t know she is indigenous … open.spotify.com/artist/0NPcT...
It's a shame that, after a certain point, the longer I think during a day, the dumber my ideas get.
November 20, 2024 at 4:03 PM
It's a shame that, after a certain point, the longer I think during a day, the dumber my ideas get.
Thinking about how 'Anora' and 'Say Nothing' share a structure: two acts of fizzy enchantment, followed by a slower third of disillusionment. Would love to read someone smarter than me on if (and if so, why) they succeed in holding on to viewers through the descent—so they empathize with the pain.
November 19, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Thinking about how 'Anora' and 'Say Nothing' share a structure: two acts of fizzy enchantment, followed by a slower third of disillusionment. Would love to read someone smarter than me on if (and if so, why) they succeed in holding on to viewers through the descent—so they empathize with the pain.