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― Katstack Katstack! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
alright enough
― J0rdan S., Friday, 31 December 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Anything related to Mexico in the past year's issues has been pretty compelling, mostly by William Finnegan and Alec Wilkinson. The Jane Mayer article about the Koch brothers and the discreet establishment of the tea party is definitely worth reading. This week's Gopnik piece on postmodern desserts is a good read, too.
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Date and month/description of the cover of the issues you're referring to would be helpful!
― gr8080, Friday, 31 December 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
George Packer's essay on the decadence of the Senate was illuminating.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, and, both from around August, the profiles of Gil-Scott Heron and John Lurie.
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Friday, 31 December 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
A trick to not letting them pile up: if you're a subscriber, read a couple of articles online at work.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, December 31, 2010 3:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^otm
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 December 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
links would be nice too
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 31 December 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
recent fire:
Joyce Carol Oates, Personal History, “A Widow’s Story,” The New Yorker, December 13, 2010, p. 70
David Owen, Annals of Environmentalism, “The Efficiency Dilemma,” The New Yorker, December 20, 2010, p. 78
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 December 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
only abstracts are online for nonsubscribers for those i think
Some articles are popular enough to remain accessible to all (e.g. the Packer article on the Senate to which I linked above).
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 December 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
here's the one abt the koch bros - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
― just sayin, Friday, 31 December 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
A thread like this for all (literary/current event) magazines would be pretty cool.
― Mordy, Friday, 31 December 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Joyce Carol Oates article devastated me.
John Lurie article blew my mind.
― dan selzer, Friday, 31 December 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
dessert article was excellent, thanks for the recc
― Mordy, Saturday, 1 January 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
so john lurie is insane huh
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 January 2011 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
The review of the new Mao biographies.
seconded
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Saturday, 1 January 2011 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Gopnik's desserts article was like a magazine version of the No Reservations episode in Spain.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 1 January 2011 09:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Which is not meant as a negative at all! They make good companion pieces.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Saturday, 1 January 2011 09:50 (thirteen years ago) link
dessert article was good but gtf outta here w/ this
Finally, the server arrives with the Messi dessert, as Jordi fusses anxiously in the background. He presents half of a soccer ball, covered with artificial grass; the smell of grass perfumes the air. On the “grass” is a kind of delicately balanced, S-shaped, transparent plastic teeter-totter—like a French curve—with three small meringues on it, and a larger white-chocolate soccer ball balancing them on a protruding platform at the very end. A white candy netting lies on the grass near the white-chocolate ball.
Then, with a cat-that-swallowed-the-canary smile, the server puts a small MP3 player with a speaker on the table. He turns it on and nods.
An announcer’s voice, excited and frantic, explodes. Messi is on the move. “Messi turns and spins!” the announcer cries, and the roar of the crowd at the Bernabéu stadium, in Madrid, fills the table. The server nods, eyes intent. At the signal, you eat the first meringue.
“Messi is alone on goal!” the announcer cries. Another nod, you eat the next scented meringue. “Messi shoots!” A third nod, you eat the last meringue, and, as you do, the entire plastic S-curve, now unbalanced, flips up and over, like a spring, and the white-chocolate soccer ball at the end is released and propelled into the air, high above the white-candy netting.
“MESSI! GOOOOOAL!” The announcer’s voice reaches a hysterical peak and, as it does, the white-chocolate soccer ball drops, strikes, and breaks through the candy netting into the goal beneath it, and, as the ball hits the bottom of a little pit below, a fierce jet of passion-fruit cream and powdered mint leaves is released into your mouth, with a trail of small chocolate pop rocks rising in its wake. Then the passion-fruit cream settles, and you eat it all, with the white-chocolate ball, now broken, in bits within it.
You feel . . . something of what Messi must feel: first, the overwhelming presence of the grass beneath his feet (he’s a short player); then the tentative elegance of acquired skill, represented by the stepladder of the perfumed meringues; and, finally, the infantile joy, the childlike release, of scoring, represented by the passion-fruit cream and the candy-store pop rocks. I saw Jordi watching us from the kitchen entrance. He had the anxious-shading-into-delighted look that marks the artist.
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 1 January 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Would not recommend this one! People have been arguing about Jevon's Paradox for a century now, and the article doesn't really advance any significant new ideas. As a primer on the "debate" around energy efficiency, however, it's alright.
― hot lava hair (Z S), Saturday, 1 January 2011 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:42 (thirteen years ago) link
^ totally recommend that
― markers, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i read that one the other day, great stuff
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
it was interesting, lol scientists
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i liked this one, seemed like a great premise for movie: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_collins
― gr8080, Monday, 3 January 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Haven't finished it yet, but I'm digging the Freud, psychiatry, and mental health in China article (subscription needed): http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/10/110110fa_fact_osnos
― Mordy, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
The Patel story was amazing.
― dan selzer, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah needs a good 3rd act tho.
― gr8080, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
he only contributed a couple of articles this year but i always enjoy atul gawande's stuff: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande is probably his best piece this year
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
if anyone subscribes then feel free to webmail me the china/freud article kthx
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I would, but I can't figure out how to turn it into a pdf or another webmail suitable file.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
just copy and paste the text? or is it a different viewer thing.....no worries if that's the case
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
the lehrer article is indeed pretty good and supplies ~evidence~ for my distrust of falsificationism and the inability of some ppl to think of scienctific 'knowledge' subjunctively, tho it does show science self-correcting so i don't read it as a total excoriation of the method
The decline effect is troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that’s often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn’t mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn’t mean it’s true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.
The recent one on the Vatican Library was pretty sweet: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/03/110103fa_fact_mendelsohn
I really like Toobin's diptych on JP Stevens and... the other guy.
nakhchivan, FYI, digital subscription gives you access to this weird applet-y, un-C&P text.
― nomar little (Leee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, and that review of the new biography on Sergei Diaghilev was A+++++++ and really wish it was available to all humans: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/09/20/100920crbo_books_acocella
― nomar little (Leee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
you can c+p articles from an library institutional subscription, but the evan osnos china thing is from the jan 10 issue which is not on the library wires yet. if you can't get it nakh, bump this thread in a week or two and i'm sure someone from what the fuck am i getting myself into with this grad school stuff will help you out.
― caek, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Lamp, thanks for the Gawande link.
― Kip Squashbeef (pixel farmer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
ive been using a friends login for the subscriber stuff for a while and the interface is just so poor i dont usually bother to fuck w/it - seems theyd much rather you read the actual magazine - lol
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
^agreed. kind of why i started this thread so i knew which actual magazine to pick up and start reading.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
p interesting follow-up of sorts on the recent duchenne muscular dystrophy activism article -- they just had a spot f/ clay matthews sponsored by cadillac during the orange bowl
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
OK a TA I had in college had a poem published a few issues ago, woah.
― nomar little (Leee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
the whole Jan. 11 issue is worth picking up, the aforementioned freud in china article is amazing and hilarious, and it also has decent articles about belgium and why stieg larsson is so fucking popular
― symsymsym, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i know the concept of 'worth picking up' is still valid, even for subscribers, in translating to 'worth retrieving from the well-intentioned pile of unread NYers', BUT in general it's still worth remembering how insanely valuable subscribing to the magazine is when compared to buying a newsstand copy. like forty bucks, for a year, for it to be mailed to your house, which is the cost of like seven newsstand issues.
― schlump, Monday, 10 January 2011 11:53 (thirteen years ago) link
what is the point of an article like this? - http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/01/17/110117ta_talk_surowiecki
surowiecki doesn't have a single interesting thing to say here
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 January 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
He's just summarizing the various memes on this now that are being mentioned in newspapers and blogs without asking anyone where things could go from here--what is the future for unionized government employees, will there ever be more unionized private sector employees, how would this help in regards to the inequality differences that have grown since union membership has declined...)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 January 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
His column is like a monthly crib-sheet of conventional wisdom so you can sound like you know what you're talking about when you get invited to a garden party in Stonington
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 January 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
what is the point of an article like this?
to summarize and provide some context to a current event or idea its not really about 'saying interesting things' its just a primer? like i know being 1000x smarter than anyone else ever is your thing but i mean the section is called 'talk of the town' so yeah, it exists so the mag's readers can get a vague grip on an issue - the column (which john cassidy also writes some weeks) is supposed to be a gloss? & thats not really all that terrible???
― ⊚ ⓪ ㉧ ☉ ๏ ʘ ◉ ◎ ⓞ Ⓞ (Lamp), Monday, 10 January 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly tracer maybe u wld get more out of the articles u read if u didnt spend all ur energy snarkily coming up w/ reasons why u wld have done it better
― ⊚ ⓪ ㉧ ☉ ๏ ʘ ◉ ◎ ⓞ Ⓞ (Lamp), Monday, 10 January 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
dude there are a zillion interesting things happening with unions at the moment (the biggest of which imo is the belated but hugely important efforts to hook up with undocumented immigrants). i'm not sorry for wanting more out of a column called "the financial page"! this article could have been written at any time in the last 15 years - there is zero content to it!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 January 2011 17:37 (thirteen years 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
^^^^I’m slowly devouring this book
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:12 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
silly otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:18 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
k3vin otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:49 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
the london underworld story was great, yeah
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Monday, 12 February 2024 22:52 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (three weeks ago) link
I hated those intervenor lawyers so fucking much
― symsymsym, Saturday, 2 March 2024 23:59 (three weeks ago) link
yeah that article was pretty eye opening
― brony james (k3vin k.), Sunday, 3 March 2024 04:40 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
schulz also wrote the (in)famous cascadia fault article
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:04 (three weeks ago) link
I elected to not read that one
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:16 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week ago) link
what's the article related to that quote?
― fpsa, Saturday, 23 March 2024 01:01 (six days 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 (six days ago) link