@calebcrain
Into #birding, #CrossFit, & sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow" More at https://calebcrain.substack.com & https://steamthing.com. New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-crain
Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.
"But I don't think they make that much!"
Halve that. Halve it again.
Buried bodies near a NM ranch? New evidence that Epstein may have been murdered? The bolstering of Trump's teen-sex accuser? The Epstein Files have gone wild, and there's one thing we can say for sure
Federal authorities are tied to a massive coverup
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
“I have been losing sleep over videos from Iran. The people in them are losing their lives. The distance between those two sentences is the width of my luck.”
An Iranian-American reflects on what this moment means for exiles:
“An unbridled sense of creative mischief permeates Down Time, perpetrated by both the author’s sparkling prose and the characters themselves.”
Happy pub day to @mysoncool.bsky.social‘s hilarious, bittersweet new novel “Down Time”!
The pleasant scent of a future class-action lawsuit wafts into the room.
Text saying "You've read your last free article."
Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
In a way I’m kinda looking forward to Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump being the two presidents that future historians always mention together.
Charles V of Spain on Pizarro's execution of the Inca emperor Atahualpa: "De la muerte de Atahualpa somos muy descontentos, por ser muerte de un monarca y especialmente por haberse hecho en nombre de la justicia." And even he got a (show, ad hoc) trial.
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
Couple things here:
1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.
One of the better book dedications, I'm sure you'll agree
The only one who could ever reach me /
Was the son of a…
Just the executive chairman of defense tech company Anduril trying to buy Wired, cool cool cool.
How much of the pleasure of reading history is a delayed gratification of the wish to skip ahead to the part where you’re just reading about it?
Samuel Delany dedicated his monumental novel The Mad Man to me without ever having met me (and in fact only because of his reaction to a chapbook of mine that I thought had gotten lost in the mail)
* when I found out, I was at work at my desk and I fainted right to the floor
Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.
This photo shows the graves of schoolchildren killed by airstrikes in Minab, Iran — not grave sites in Indonesia or Brazil, contrary to claims from Grok and others online. Here's how we verified its authenticity. 👇
www.snopes.com/fact-check/i...
I wanna see one that begins with the Chotiner version of informed consent
Neguse demolishes Noem (2/2)
💪🫡
A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...
Whenever Michael makes a post like this I go and check the wastewater data for Kings County. We've never had so little COVID in Brooklyn than this winter, and I think that's great!
Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.
“Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here,” the scientist’s mom wrote back, when he asked her whether he should accept an invitation from Jeffrey Epstein.
I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Assassination never liberates, because having a dictator is a symptom—a sign that something is deeply wrong with a country—not a cause. (This is as true of America as of Venezuela or Iran.)
