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Alan Kay in 1977 might as well have been talking about AI in 2025 (via @hrheingold.bsky.social)
Vonnegut sprinkling several short story concepts/thought experiments throughout Breakfast of Champions reminds me of Invisible Cities.
Why newsletters: Essays instead of aphorisms; thinking in public instead of hot takes; taking one’s time instead of dancing for one’s dinner.

Plus, should you go to Bread Loaf?

And recommendations: @evanderlang.bsky.social, Adam Mastroianni, and The Trial on @criterion.bsky.social.
Why newsletters; should you go to Bread Loaf?; and recommendations.
Essays instead of aphorisms; thinking in public instead of hot takes; taking one’s time instead of dancing for one’s dinner hour after hour.
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Welles's definition of a director was someone who "presides over happy accidents." This might be an interesting film, but it won't be a Welles film.
The article explains at the end that this isn't some text-prompt exercise but rather led by "a filmmaker who’s spent the last five years re-creating 30,000 missing frames from the movie" and will "deploy a fusion of AI and traditional film techniques."

But here's the thing... 1/2
Forget “Discover” and “Following.” I need “Horrors” and “Funnies.”
Podcast: We are now without a doubt in the midst of a constitutional crisis. In fact, without co-equal branches of government, it is debatable if we can call ourselves a "democracy" at all.

Podcast ad break: Do you want your dinner parties to sparkle? Well...
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Today's Bradbury trio:
- Story: "Forever Overhead" by David Foster Wallace
- Essay: "Not-Knowing" by Donald Barthelme
- Poem: "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg
Bradbury trio, Feb 1, 2025
A boy with a problem, the usefulness of problems, and despair of the multifaceted problem.
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Today's Bradbury trio:
- Story: "The School" by Donald Barthelme
- Essay: "Rise, Baby, Rise!" by George Saunders
- Poem: "Good Bones" by Maggie Smith
Bradbury trio, Jan 26, 2025
Escalating death, the motorcycle-sidebar model of reading, and selling the world.
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