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Thrifting is not for the weak open.substack.com/pub/xtianjing/…

If you disagreed with the people who disagreed with the critic who disagreed with the body of work… then who’s flying the plane???

@saudahdeh Happy birthday king!!! Wishing u more gainz

Yesterday was the last day of me being 30…

Maybe they saw that McKay in S1 was too powerful so they really nerfed my girl this season... they even gave her a hoodie to make her look lame... biggest letdown so far tbh i need her to shine again!!!!

@Conqstantinople lower that waistband

Oh also!!! I know lots of us are demanding that she go back to her electronic era, but everyone and their sister is making electro/hyperpop adjacent music now. Her wielding of physical instruments (strings! brass!) in T!FG and this one feels refreshing.

I always love albums that perfectly soundtrack late afternoons - basking in the afterglow of a celebration while getting ready for a dinner party. Think Radical Optimism, and The Loneliest Time. Excited for this one!!!

It’s clear from the first two releases that she’s shooting for the narrow vibe gap between the sultry thrills of WYP? and the vibrant siesta of T!FG. They were cute attempts, but she finally hit the mark with this one open.spotify.com/track/0PEcIO2g…

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report for the day care they work at. The co-worker pointed to the words ‘juxtaposition’ and ­‘circumstantial’ as evidence of a machine-generated influence. “I don’t write in a casual way but a much more serious, precise way,” he says. “And I’ve paid the price for living in a ChatGPT society.” It wasn’t the first time Hewitt’s prose has been pegged as AI, and he thinks he knows why. He has a stutter, and when he’s typing, he can speak uninterrupted. It is a luxury he takes full advantage of. Hewitt is also neurodivergent. “Growing up, I had a strong obsession with writing,” he says. He was always given good grades in English, but now, with the massive uptick in AI-generated text, all the time he spent happily working to improve his prose strikes him as a liability. There’s a new entity among us, and it’s getting better at disguising itself. The mood is paranoid: This presence is ­producing a gigantic amount of language, much of it filtered through people we know, whether they’re using it for Hinge messages or LinkedIn posts. The effect is that everyone is trying to ­figure out who is LLM and who is human. Sometimes, we are getting it wrong. “People are going off vibes,” says the historical novelist Kerry Chaput, who was horrified when a reader thought a social-media post she wrote about her neurogenic cough was ChatGPT generated. Emma Alpern reports on the people — often non-native English speakers and autistic writers — being falsely accused of using LLMs to write: nymag.visitlink.me/kzDs4g

*this* close to muting the word “roguelike”

It’s me and my pokka green tea against the music

@Conqstantinople Jd pengen indomi

aku cantik aku NGOCEH

Sooo i made a photo blog open.substack.com/pub/xtianjing/…

@usedcha BAGUS BANGET PLIS NONTON SATU RT DI IMAX!!!!!!!!!!!

Visual spectacle with a ton of heart. I read the book and I can say it’s quite faithful while amping the thrills and wholesomeness. Please please please go watch it in the biggest screen possible for maximum enjoyment!!!

this scene in an IMAX… good god

Also: if you haven’t watched the trailer… don’t!!!! Go in blind for a treat!!!

Putting these 5 tracks as the opener means it’s either gonna fuck me up from start to finish OR it has a boring 2nd half