@joelstein

Writer and creative consultant. Keepin’ it weird. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://xitter.cf/t.co/KkDpJ5oGm6

 Manchester, England
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Joined December 2008
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Andy Budd@andybudd29 Nov 2024
A wonderful essay on Ai by Stephen Fry. stephenfry.substack.com/p/ai…
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Pointless new hobby: collecting pics of fashion models looking sad / dead inside.
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Ronald meets Donald.
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100 year-old Transhumanism. This is "Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Time)" by Dada artist Raoul Hausmann, 1920. An early vision of a materialist machine-human & a prediction of the systemic dehumanisation to come in the 20th Century.
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Today I was crossing Hollywood and Highland, where peds & tourists cheered a just-married couple celebrating in the middle of the intersection while a fire ravaged a strip mall down the street. I've lived in LA my whole life, and this is the most LA candid I've ever snapped.
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“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems.” — Donald Kingsbury
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“The trivial is as deep as the profound because there is nothing in creation that does not go to the profound.” 
— Robert Duncan
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lol nothing to see here
Guardian news
@guardiannews8 Nov 2024
Cop29 CEO filmed agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at climate summit dlvr.it/TG4HyZ
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"Voting is more about *expression* than about consequences." — Eyal Winter
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“Our world is beautiful and kind, and it is also indifferent and cruel.” — @annehelen
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New edition of Weirdness Wins just dropped.
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This is what Oligarchy is about. Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest person in the world and the owner of the Washington Post, overrides his editorial board and refuses to endorse Kamala. Clearly, he is afraid of antagonizing Trump and losing Amazon’s federal contracts. Pathetic.
The New York Times
@nytimes25 Oct 2024
Breaking News: The Washington Post said it would no longer endorse candidates in U.S. presidential elections, breaking with decades of precedent. The Post’s chief executive said the paper was “returning to our roots.” nyti.ms/4eWYHMv

Washington Post Says It Will Stop Endorsing Presidential Candidates (Published 2024)

The decision was made by Jeff Bezos, the paper’s owner, according to a person with knowledge of the talks. Will Lewis, the chief executive, said the paper was “returning to our roots” of not making...

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Hmm.
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I wrote about how Peep Show paved the way for Succession, and Jesse Armstrong's searing insights into corporate bullshit, moral depravity and petty ambition. Feat Consultio/Consultius, Jaws the shark and the wanton discarding of iPads inews.co.uk/culture/successi…

Succession owes its genius to Peep Show

Succession might seem worlds apart from creator Jesse Armstrong's Noughties masterpiece, but its wit, darkness and skewering of corporate culture stands on Peep Show's shoulders

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Vivid Void
@vividvoid9 Oct 2024
Truly one of the great bangers
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A Dutch way of saying “we’re on it” or “we’ll take care of that for you” is we zullen dat varkentje wel even wassen. It means “we will certainly get that piglet washed” * read on for more porcine phrases from around the world (a big pig thread)...
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“I wonder whether the middle classes are feeling their own power waning; that, unconsciously, they’re projecting their doom for their own class status onto the world.” — Adam Curtis on climate change discourse
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“The more we preach “better habits,” and the less we adopt them, the worse off we feel. Starting the day checking email in bed somehow feels *even worse* when the world is telling we’re a loser for doing so. Judgement compounds our predicament.” — @KleinKleinKlein
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