📚️ Absolutely flabbergasted — in a good way! — that The End of Everything has won the Booker Prize. I take particular delight in reading the mostly negative comments from the confused NYT readers.
Their actual review, however, was quite good. Maybe that’s why the announcement didn’t link to it?
Is there a word for the irresistible, insatiable need of people to talk about themselves and insert their life story into any and all conversation? Something in German or Japanese, perhaps?
“Wall Street sheds $3.2tn as Democratic midterm sweep triggers brutal AI rout”:
The Democrats’ win in Congress was “a horrible day for America”, said a US portfolio manager with large positions in tech companies including Anthropic.
A: Gobsmackingly idiotic.
Q: Which two words best describe 2020s finance?
📚 When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut is a series of fictional stories about real early 20th century scientists. It has exquisite prose — I can only imagine what it is like in the original Spanish — covering up some pedestrian thoughts about tortured geniuses.
Vox Populi, Vox Dei
🍿 The Royal Tenenbaums could have come out last week and would still be groundbreaking. The Grand Budapest Hotel is my Wes Anderson favorite, but by being a notch or two less Andersonian, Tenenbaums make for a better movie.
📺️ Slow Horses, Season 6 did not disappoint. We will keep watching them as long as Apple keeps making ’em.
Or, @gruber, they do call the new MacBooks “Duo” but it is because they dual-boot to iOS. Eliminate the need for an iPad from both ends! Which is why it would never happen, but it would be a valid use of a good name.
🏀 We weren’t on the court during a breaktoday and the Nuggets lost by more than 20 points to lackluster GSW. Coincidence? I think not!
Mission accomplished.
NYT’s is an embarrassment. Their word games are the only thing keeping me a subscriber.
Congratulations to my fellow citizens! Now the real work begins.