Monday, November 17, 2025

I wasn't going to read it, because haven't we heard more than enough about these people, but then I saw it described as having an M. Night Shyamalan-style twist at the end, and...

It certainly does. When you're done reading.


Some related thoughts:

the item here on "f.o.b. voice" sort of gets at the same dynamic. the big LLMs are very good at producing glib, knowing, smooth prose in the same way that "the magazine industry" was very good at producing glib, knowing, smooth prose. but if there was demand for such prose we'd still have magazines

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— Max Read (@maxread.info) November 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM




(She's a former CNN White House correspondent)





Jewish space lasers are a deal-killer for me. Hard pass.

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Rep from Maryland



Vanity Fair going for the daily double, I see.

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— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The author's other articles





SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

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— Apoorva Mandavilli (@apoorvanyt.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM






I just realized the thing that set back social democracy in America a hundred years was Hunter Biden not inviting media elites on his cocaine benders and sharing his hookers and I will spend the next 48 hours staring at the wall.

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— Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM






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