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... One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. ...

Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69 (interviewed by Peter Stone)

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women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life

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you can't "protect trans kids" if you're too scared to interact with them btw

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right to opacity — from Glissant: the right to not be fully known, decoded, or made transparent; to resist being flattened into one meaning or one identity; a refusal or surveillance, overexposure, total explanation; a poetics of protection

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im gonna kill myself [remembers that suicide jokes make people uncomfortable] uhh [in valley girl voice] im like soooo totally gonna blow my brains out... [waiting for polite laughter that never comes] sorry [remembering that i apologise too much and i need to work on that] No im not

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much less alarmed by the 'cognitive impact' of LLM use than I am by the fact that so many people apparently believe your brain can atrophy or permanently lose function in the space of four months because you used fancy sparknotes to write a couple of essays

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The thing about making jokes about film snobs is that unless the call is coming from inside the house they're rarely funny and are, more frequently, unintentionally revealing about the creator's personal hangups, general lack of knowledge of the art form, and bizarre fury at the idea that someone, somewhere, might take it seriously

It's like if I was like "Lmaoooo look at me, I'm a mathematician! Look at me, dividing the hypotenuse by the square root of pi!! I don't know that calculators exist!" which tells you immediately 1) I am not massively knowledgeable about this 2) I'm very mad at a specific person or two who have 3) triggered a powerful insecurity

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kind of obsessed with this hinge response

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Daddy wants to take you to the Criterion Closet

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Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays