Well it’s not long sentence, but I did get to write this essay for @newrepublic.com! I strongly encourage you to join us.

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Nobody else is writing about this, so please re-post my two-part series about the imminent sale of what one expert calls “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Preservationists need to move fast.

Part one:

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Part two:

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Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

I was in the midst of writing a nice, fluffy rave about s2 of PLATONIC for my Sept column when I decided I really wanted to write this instead — so, thanks to @lauramarsh.bsky.social for enabling a last-minute pivot.

Quick thread of the great journos and critics upon which this essay is built 1/x

This is a scheme to pipeline people into using for-profit AI tech through exposure in the public education system. Even if you wanted guidelines for AI already in use, why would you develop them in collaboration with AI companies that want people to use their products as often as possible?

Kipnis on Agnes Callard:
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I wrote about all the ways Jonathan Haidt gets it wrong and how early Haidt would not have been happy with later Haidt.

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remembering David Lynch, for @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/1903...

I feel really lucky that I have an editor (hi @lauramarsh.bsky.social) who has supported me writing a handful of essays about TV form this year. I'm proud of this one about 3 BODY PROBLEM and the sorry state of visual style on streaming television. newrepublic.com/article/1781...

SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, one of the best shows on TV, ended last night with one last big number. This is what I wrote about it a few weeks ago. They left it all on the floor. newrepublic.com/article/1875...

why is this written like this lol www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

My review of Ta-Nehisi’s latest is finally up! Lots of context here you won’t get elsewhere.

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up with the novel of ideas!

Rachel Kushner wrote a perfect spy novel ft my favorite subject: Neaderthals

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I reviewed Alien: Romulus. I think it gets too caught up in fidelity to the franchise.

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My TNR essay about the Fall of the House of Usher is also kind of about the Fall of the House of Streaming in ways that might be interesting to folks with no interest in this show. FYI! newrepublic.com/article/1759...

This ruling seems good https://newrepublic.com/article/172830/warhol-goldsmith-supreme-court-ai

Gonna start calling ChatGPT's hyper-authoritative way of writing completely false information the Turing-Kruger effect

I would not be surprised if the pressure to publish at insane volume persists long after the social infrastructure that rewarded it is gone https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/05/no-need-to-shoot-the-messenger-its-muddled-ideas-are-doing-the-job/