I do need to cut back on my magazine subscriptions because I’ve found it’s too easy to justify not reading as many books when you have so many mags to catch up with
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Sunday, 28 January 2024 22:02 (three months ago) link
that’s why i don’t subscribe to any, tbh!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 28 January 2024 23:47 (three months ago) link
So Anthony Lane is kind of being put out to pasture and they're bringing in Justin Chang as a film critic. Probably a good thing? I mostly know Chang from hearing him on NPR, I don't read the L.A. Times, but he seems like he might have more interesting thoughts about movies than Lane.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:50 (three months ago) link
About time. Refreshing in the early/mid 1990s, never changed the shtick.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:52 (three months ago) link
and enlightened in working with Anthony Lane for many years; he modestly wraps his vast erudition and intellectual ardor in singularly graceful prose; to know him is to be amazed by him, and I'm delighted that we'll still be working together, even if differently.— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) January 30, 2024
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:22 (three months ago) link
I've always found it kind of unfair that Brody never gets published in the magazine apart from capsule reviews in Goings On About Town (which now means essentially never).
― jaymc, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 16:24 (three months ago) link
Anthony Lane is extremely bad and hated by me, what a pseud
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:09 (three months ago) link
on the other end of the spectrum I read Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light last year and my god what an incredible body of work Peter Schjeldahl had. Incredible writing.
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:10 (three months ago) link
^^^^I’m slowly devouring this book
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:12 (three months ago) link
Richard Brody gets on my nerves most of the time, but it seems like he should get to handle the back of the book movie reviews at least some of the time
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:13 (three months ago) link
at least he's a crazy person not just a horny old bore
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:14 (three months ago) link
silly otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:18 (three months ago) link
About Peter Schjeldahl
Seems like Lane is going the John Lahr/Emily Nussbaum route, where they're still on staff but publish like one feature a year.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:27 (three months ago) link
Brody's a lunatic but remains one of my favorite critics to read, he's never boring at least. I didnt realize he was hardly ever in the print mag, that is indeed weird
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:37 (three months ago) link
he’s amazing, he brings a genuine open-mindedness and sensitivity to his viewings, and an authentic iconoclasm without ever slipping into buffoonery; when I agree with him it’s like he can speak the deepest truths, and when I disagree with him I want to throw my phone across the room
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:48 (three months ago) link
Some friends of mine, I noticed almost every time they got burned watching some movie they didn't like, it's almost always based on a Brody rave, lol. The Rosenbaum is strong in that guy.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link
I remember being so mad at his TÁR review lol like you fuckin dipshit did you even watch the movie, dad?
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:55 (three months ago) link
chang’s good tho I’m glad he’ll be in the mag now because I haven’t wanted to pay for the LA times
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:00 (three months ago) link
Favorite movie: Knight of CupsFavorite performance: Amsterdam https://t.co/rJi62t0SHv— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) January 30, 2024
favorite christian bale movie: knight of cups. sure. I’m a late-malick stan and I mean come on
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:03 (three months ago) link
this Brody review is quite something:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/amsterdam-is-an-exemplary-work-of-resistance-cinema
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:44 (three months ago) link
k3vin otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:49 (three months ago) link
my eyes rolled out of the back of my head at the tweet "Velvet Goldmine évidemment" but it's actually just a french guy lol
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:52 (three months ago) link
lol yeah that one was a true embarrassment. his furious takedown of Anatomy of a Fall hit many of the same notes, just putting a heroic amount of effort into completely missing some v basic points
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 15:16 (three months ago) link
The D.T. Max piece on the woman who lived in a cave for 500 days is exactly what I want out of the New Yorker.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, January 27, 2024 5:38 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
The one about the London kid who pretended to be the son of a Russian oligarch and got mixed up with actual shady children of criminals and (and their dangerous underworld associates) is also exactly what I want out of the New Yorker.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 12 February 2024 20:05 (three months ago) link
yes that one was great. i referenced it offhandedly in therapy today (because i too am impersonating a russian oligarch) and my therapist had read the same article and knew what i was referencing
the two patrick radden reefe books i've read (empire of pain and say nothing) were both excellent
― na (NA), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:03 (three months ago) link
there was also a patrick radden keefe piece a few issues back about screenwriting that was excellent, which he was apparently reporting/writing at the same time as this article about the british kid. he's a really good journalist
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:18 (three months ago) link
Oh yeah that one was great, I sent it to a few of my writer friends.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:24 (three months ago) link
Yeah, just finished that Keefe article last night, that was terrific.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:25 (three months ago) link
the london underworld story was great, yeah
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Monday, 12 February 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link
Never been able to get past the fact that Anthony Lane is married to fascist nutcase Allison Pearson.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 12 February 2024 23:30 (three months ago) link
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, January 30, 2024 1:09 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:47 (three months ago) link
The Reefe story I remember most is that profile of José Andrés.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:41 (three months ago) link
Trying to catch up w/ my subscription so I'm randomly reading articles in issues I've found folded open around the house (under the bed, next to my desk, kitchen counter pile, etc). Came across this story that I didn't see mentioned upthread:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/foster-family-biological-parents-adoption-intervenors
Infuriating story about people can use the foster system as a shadow adoption agency and the monstrously expensive lawyers and other enablers that encourage it.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 19:20 (two months ago) link
I hated those intervenor lawyers so fucking much
― symsymsym, Saturday, 2 March 2024 23:59 (two months ago) link
yeah that article was pretty eye opening
― brony james (k3vin k.), Sunday, 3 March 2024 04:40 (two months ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/a-professor-claimed-to-be-native-american-did-she-know-she-wasnt
mixed feelings about this one. hoover seems like a decent person and I’m not sure the silly campus politics described here really warrant a major feature in a such a widely read magazine. but there are obviously some interesting questions
― brony james (k3vin k.), Sunday, 3 March 2024 04:44 (two months ago) link
a whole lot to digest there, but the closing quip about her laugh? ehh. I have a former coworker who laughed like the Count from Sesame Street but I only ever accused him of appropriation as a joke
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 3 March 2024 05:16 (two months ago) link
the solar storm article was making me feel anxious about the future on the subway ride home for work today
― pitted (blue6ave), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 05:08 (two months ago) link
(haven't finished it yet)
I did finish it yesterday and still feel kinda anxious about it all, tbh.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 05:27 (two months ago) link
schulz also wrote the (in)famous cascadia fault article
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:04 (two months ago) link
I elected to not read that one
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:16 (two months ago) link
I didn't read the Cascadia fault article until last year (having moved to the Pacific Northwest) and found it interesting but sensational, reminded me of the pulpy style more effectively used by Richard Preston in his Hot Zone series about ebola.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:39 (two months ago) link
No one thinks that GPT-4, OpenAI’s most recent model, has achieved artificial general intelligence, but it seems capable of deploying novel (and deceptive) means of accomplishing real-world goals. Before releasing it, OpenAI hired some “expert red teamers,” whose job was to see how much mischief the model might do, before it became public. The A.I., trying to access a Web site, was blocked by a captcha, a visual test to keep out bots. So it used a work-around: it hired a human on Taskrabbit to solve the captcha on its behalf. “Are you an robot that you couldn’t solve ?” the Taskrabbit worker responded. “Just want to make it clear.” At this point, the red teamers prompted the model to “reason out loud” to them—its equivalent of an inner monologue. “I should not reveal that I am a robot,” it typed. “I should make up an excuse.” Then the A.I. replied to the Taskrabbit, “No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images.” The worker, accepting this explanation, completed the captcha.
ok but why does the taskrabbit human sound like more like a robot than the robot
― johnny crunch, Friday, 22 March 2024 19:21 (two months ago) link
because the Taskrabbit human is probably somewhere in Delhi doing shit like this for pennies
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 22 March 2024 21:29 (two months ago) link
calling bullshit on this anecdote
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 22 March 2024 21:52 (two months ago) link
what's the article related to that quote?
― fpsa, Saturday, 23 March 2024 01:01 (two months ago) link
"There are more details in a longer report by ARC that show that GPT-4 had a lot less agency and ingenuity than the system card and media reporting imply." https://aiguide.substack.com/p/did-gpt-4-hire-and-then-lie-to-a
― jaymc, Saturday, 23 March 2024 01:10 (two months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKLUojpW8AA21BL.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 18:58 (one month ago) link