Why do I get the feeling this isn't about early detection of health issues, and more about creating a huge database of full human body scans for use in AI nytimes.com/2024/04/27/bus…

““The greatest thing is to come up with something so good it seems as if it’s always been there, like a proverb,’ the poet Rene Ricard wrote of Haring. The next greatest thing is to come up with something so universal it can be sold anywhere.”
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My newest, on doubles and three-ways (CHALLENGERS), for The New Republic—

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'Forced to choose between a man-child and a trust fund baby, is it any wonder she chooses the sport of kings?'
Annie Berke (she/her) on CHALLENGERS 💫
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“To have AI strip all that away would be to render us wordless, thoughtless, self-less. Give me the shredded nerves and yanked fingernails any day.”
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Fascinating Colin Dickey piece on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s On Death & Dying, whom I’ve been trying to write a project around since Meryl Streep named her her most desired role decades ago

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SHŌGUN is over. The whole thing is just sitting there waiting for you now. There aren’t a lot of TV experiences like this right now — bask in its luxury!

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How did Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who came up with the five stages of grief, develop a serious case of denial?
Colin Dickey’s dive into On Death and Dying:
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I reviewed two books from what I recently heard referred to as the 'divorce-industrial-literary complex.' Enjoy! Especially all you married discontents. newrepublic.com/article/180388…

'The difficulty of writing ... is what forces the discovery of anything that is meaningful to writers or to their readers. To have AI strip all that away would be to render us wordless, thoughtless, self-less.' Samanth Subramanian The Nation newrepublic.com/article/180395…

For The New Republic, I wrote an essay about AI engines that write — or is it 'write'? Is it even the same process that we understand as writing? And what do we lose — or indeed gain — when AI supplants us as writers?

The answer will surprise you!

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This is riveting. newrepublic.com/article/178152…

'Roughly 13 percent of American jobs are writing-intensive, and they earn more than $675 billion a year. Many of these jobs are likely to evaporate'
Samanth Subramanian tangles with AI and its threat not only just to writing but to thinking:
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'The art of the novel doesn’t lie in the combine-harvesting of details and plotlines. It lies in how a writer selectively filters some of them through her own consciousness—her deliberations, the sum of her life, the din of her thoughts' - Samanth Subramanian

Top.
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'One city engineer said the common use of septic tanks within suburban developments was “like a person walking down the street with a silk hat on his head and a hole in the seat of his britches.”'
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I wrote about Civil War. newrepublic.com/article/180080…

The takeaway: 'we are at a crossroads. We can choose to arm our homes, to militarize our public spaces, to lock away those abandoned by society. Or we can choose to address the causes of poverty, isolation, and despair. We cannot choose both.'

Thanks, as always, to Laura Marsh

A true privilege to write about two new books in The New Republic:

'The Unclaimed' by Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans🥑 (@CrownPublishing)

'Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics' by neil gong (@UChicagoPress) newrepublic.com/article/178192…

Shogun grips you in a vise of attention: tiny details, a single tear, one glance — and then sets up a couple of loud smashy funny characters to careen around inside the paper houses. Loved this article!

West Point where, like James Salter, you can say you didn't learn anything and be done with it; then become a fighter pilot