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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 6h

Day Three of ORB goes to Tech Week and looks askance!

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 6h

"The options on the table already had “Investor” or “Entrepreneur” written on them; I wrote “Annie” on mine." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/tech-weeks-t...

Tech Week's Towering Heights

Outsider Access, Jackson Square, Wednesday Night

www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 7h

"in the age of ChatGPT, there is almost something heroic about never shutting the fuck up about The Melancholy of Resistance." newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 9h

People say it peaks when nothing happens but for my money, the best part is when more cows come out

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 12h

I hadn't believed anyone could turn bela tarr's masterpiece into prose, until I saw what a real master of the Very Long Sentence was capable of. A salute to you, Mr K!

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 12h

Satantango is one of the best novelizations of a movie I've ever read, might even be as good as the film

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 12h

The "quick, post a picture of yourself with a laszlo krasznahorkai novel before the bookstores open to show that you're not a poser" challenge

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16h

Getting a little sick of these endless László Krasznahorkai hot takes

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 12h

careful, bodyshaming Taylor is what we are NOT going to do on this website

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 12h

gotta feel like if Taylor had gotten that album out a couple months earlier, the nobel would have been hers

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 13h

brodernists won this round

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 13h

brodernists go brrrrrrrrr

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

I said what I said, sideys can suck it

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

Oh you have to go for straight up top on the dome, no question

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

haha, "Dreams."

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

it all sucks again now, sorry

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

DAY TWO FROM TECH WEEK: man, all "tech" is really just AI, isn't it. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/pressing-tec...

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

just to keep you in the loop, that one cranberries song just came on in the cafe and everything got really magical and epic

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

see also East PaleSTEEN

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Tommy Orange

Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.

www.macfound.org

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 1d

how does that poem go? oh, right. first they came for trans people and I was like "I don't think the majority of the country is going to die on this hill"

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 1d

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 2d

At Tech Week in SF, an AI startup screens a torrented and ad-polluted copy of The Social Network, in between the most cursed trailers for the most hellish AI "films" imaginable....and ORB IS ON IT: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/initiating-t...

Initiating Tech Week

Social Networking with Zingroll, Marina Theater, Monday Night

www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 2d

Let's see how things are going on TikTok

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Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social · 2d

I just ordered a stack of Mark’s book to give away at the store.

ebbooksellers.com/item/9JsuMsJ...

Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.

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