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Baseball doesn’t seem that hard. I feel like the players are just pretending.

Had fun writing for @flaminghydra.com about one of the maybe top five books in my life, it is connected to Boston and the Aesthetic Movement flaminghydra.com/issue-677/

It’s also hypocritical for a media ecosystem that will seize on anything from emails, Hunter’s laptop, age, conspiracy theories, and play the song for weeks when it faces the other way, regardless of timing. They do it all the time. These reservations are very selective.

I am practically alone in the fact that the last decade has made me more, not less, appreciative of the conventions of mainstream reporting. But the refusal to do more than to acknowledge yesterday's report from the House Judiciary Dems is beyond the pale

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Was just sent this book announcement by a friend and had to spread the word.

That’s so many people, goodness

RIP BOZO

Why do many college linemen wear knee braces but the pros don’t seem to do it as much? After injury makes sense but I feel like college linemen wear them a lot more.

Genre is not about differences in the fundamental forces that make the plot go. Genre is about putting on different costumes while the story explores whatever

“In the end, the question Fielder is most hung up on is: Does Holmes believe everything she says? I don’t think this matters much.” www.theverge.com/policy/10146...

There are so many words together that shouldn’t be together

The stakes are high in the sense that she’s not just some random person like most of his subjects usually are. He’s using his regular tricks on someone who is manipulating the entire process and is image-making through Fielder’s film. She’s not some unknown mystery. She’s doing PR.

That’s an observation the doc could’ve made, to Zito’s earlier point about low and high stakes subjects, but it’s way more interested in avoiding what we consider to be requirements to the documentary format to examine the format itself. Not right or wrong, I guess, but it’s a notable choice

Oh yes, Billy is insane. But so is she, he’s just the one making assertive statements. She hides behind him and her non-answers. She’s not in a forced relationship with him or think he’s doing wrong. Her walking away so that he’s the one discussing making money from the film shows the agreement.

It’s just hard to take these people seriously

Anyway, Champions League is on.

Boooooooooo!

Lol what’s this performance supposed to be? Crueler to who? Sympathy is not given out on a general basis of being a person.

Well, no. The point is that society generally doesn’t see those stories as sympathetic, evidenced by how often they are punished when they shouldn’t be. Holmes’s mythology and the subsequent sympathy is tied to her identity, and isolating her story away from the facts helps weaponize that.

But we don’t. It’s not about what we should but what we do. The movie is more about what Nathan and Lance are interested in as much as it is about what she hides. The film’s premise and those scenes have to be put side by side with why they’re uninterested in the larger story of her life and actions

Yeah, Wired wrote about them falling into her trap from the start as well. I think leaving that movie with the same conclusion is a bad thing and is a failure of the film, which could have been safeguarded by providing the facts of her behavior and scam.

She wasn't convicted for defrauding clients, but her company definitely defrauded clients and caused them irreparable harm by giving them test results that were 100% wrong

You’re only making me want to tax them even more.

Reread Invisible Cities this morning, and that man was really just writing one of the greatest books and challenging A Thousand and One Nights so effortlessly

His lungs? That’s so scary.

The evil tech companies are at the center of most problems