bsmall26h ago
> ... Novels like “Huckleberry Finn” and “Moby-Dick,” he wrote, represent a vision “so sentimental, so outrageous, so desperate, that it redeems our concept of boyhood from nostalgia to tragedy,” a dream in which the white settler is embraced by those “he has most utterly offended,” those he has enslaved and colonized. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/08/love-and-death-in-the-american-novel-leslie-fiedler-book-review
#LeslieFielder #USALit #NYMag #HuckleberryFinn #MobyDick
“Love and Death in the American Novel,” Reviewed

Becca Rothfeld on the literary critic Leslie Fiedler’s classic study of American fiction between 1789 and 1959, which was originally published in 1960 and was reissued by New York Review Books this year.

The New Yorker
MusiqueNow 🇵🇸 ✡️May 23

#NYMag

The Man Who Explains Israel to #JohnFetterman

#media #Palestine🇵🇸 #ApartheidIsrael

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/john-fetterman-israel-palestine-david-safier-aipac.html

The Man Who Explains Israel to John Fetterman

As the senator isolates himself from the Democratic Party and his staff, a little-known writer has become one of Fetterman’s closest confidants and a key adviser on Israel.

Intelligencer
LonelyBobMay 21
Vox Media's Jim Bankoff Explains Why He's Selling to James Murdoch
https://metacast.app/podcast/channels-with-peter-kafka/QSzDff1Z/vox-media-s-jim-bankoff-explains-why-he-s-selling-to-james-murdoch/Yc773gVB #Podcasts #NYMag #VoxMedia #AskPreet
SebastianFeb 26

Why AI Companies Are Suddenly So Worried About Theft.

Models built on scraped material are now getting scraped themselves.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-ai-companies-are-suddenly-worried-about-theft.html

#NYMag #Intelligencer #AI #News

Why AI Companies Are Suddenly Worried About Theft

Models built on scraped material are now getting scraped themselves, writes technology columnist John Herrman.

Intelligencer
Aslak RaanesMay 7, 2025

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> These days, professors will often state their policy on their syllabi — allowing AI, for example, as long as students cite it as if it were any other source, or permitting it for conceptual help only, or requiring students to provide receipts of their dialogue with a chatbot. Students often interpret those instructions as guidelines rather than hard rules

https://archive.is/2025.05.07-163447/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html

#nymag #chatgpt

JB aka J LeeMar 11, 2025
DC's clear Monday sets the stage as federal agencies launch into action while headlines heat up with GOP funding clashes, V.A. chaos, Trump flexing his grip, and wild DOGE rulings! #DCNews #MondayMotivation #WSJ #Politico #NYTimes #NYMag #TheJournal https://washingtonhorizon.com/horizon-cutting-room-links-monday-10-february-2025-2/
Horizon Cutting-room Links: Monday, 10 March 2025

Today is Monday, 10 February 2025. Federal agencies in the Washington, DC area are Open. Employees are expected to begin the workday on time. Normal operating procedures are in effect. Mostly clear, with a low around 37. Southwest wind around 3 mph. "GOP Government Funding Plan Sets Up Clash With

Chaedrol's Washington Horizon
(((JaneinNJ)))Aug 26, 2024

#rfkjr turns out to be an even better fit for #donold than we knew.

From #nymag: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Allegedly Had Affairs With 37 Women in 2001

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/09/rfk-jr-journal-affairs-diary-kennedy.html

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Allegedly Had Affairs With 37 Women in 2001

He kept a journal, and the ‘Post’ saw it.

Intelligencer
Pete WilkinsMar 26, 2024

This is an astounding read:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-huberman-podcast-stanford-joe-rogan.html

There's certainly a bit to reflect on listening to different podcasts.

#podcasts #nymag #huberman

U.S. Politics in Real TimeNov 1, 2023

Ron DeSantis Is Almost Definitely Wearing Lifts in His Boots

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/ron-desantis-is-almost-definitely-wearing-lifts-in-his-boots.html

#NYMag #RonDesantis #LiftsInHisBoots #FloridaPolitics #FashionChoices #PoliticalAppearances #Politics #News

Show threadNonilexOct 27, 2023

“Anything could & did. It would take 7 years for #MikeJohnson to get his silver bullet, for what was then #fringe to move #right to the #center. It would take only 8 years for him to go from an obscure state legislator to second in the line of presidential succession.”

- #IrinCarmon, #NYMag

#House #Speaker #Republicans #ChristianNationalist #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism #FarRight #FederalistSociety