Alan Scherstuhl

@alansch.bsky.social

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Editor/writer hanging in there, thinking abt books and jazz. PW, NYT, Sci-Am, elsewhere on occasion.

Atlantic mag headline: A Conservative Rejoinder to the Manosphere
Seven examples of AI-generated science fiction dialogue using this same hacky sentence structure: “‘It’s not just aware,’ he murmured. ‘It’s intelligent.” And: “‘It’s not just remembering anymore,’ Malik whispered. “‘It’s arriving.’”
Excerpt from NYT article about food banks struggling in the face of Trump cuts. These paragraphs are about how happy one food bank was to score Cheez-Its after a semi hauling them crashed.
Cover of Neal Travis’s 1979 novel Manhattan, with a photo of a weirdly sexy/aggressive Apple
Edmund Wilson’s The Forties