I wholeheartedly recommend “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “The Year of Magical Thinking” with the latter perhaps being her best work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/arts/joan-didion-archive-nypl.html
Jononmastodon
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Twitter refugee. All about rhetoric, writing, teaching, futurism, and Star Trek.
"ChatGPT has no inner being, it has been nowhere, it has endured nothing, it has not had the audacity to reach beyond its limitations, and hence it doesn't have the capacity for a shared transcendent experience, as it has no limitations from which to transcend."
As a professor who teaches almost exclusively rhetoric and composition, this concerns the hell out of me. I *really* don’t want to think blue books are the answer, but…
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/technology/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-universities.html
“Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 previously hidden black holes feeding on stars and dust in the center of galaxies.”
The kid lost me at "I kind of hope that someone like Elon, or one of these freaky smart people…”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/mr-beast-science-live-several-hundred-years
Dewey Ritten 
There was something thats felt off about mastodon and I just figured out what it is: I'm not getting pummeled by ads and bright/loud videos in every fifth or sixth post.
In other words, I can just enjoy reading what people write without having to mentally prepare for regular sucker punches to my senses, or having to put this shit down before I have a seizure. No... im not kidding.
But that was normal everywhere... I didn't think anything of it until now. Somehow I still became normalized to those conditions.
Jesus... social media really is so unhealthy.
gilly yes that one‘But what is perhaps most striking about what he is doing is that it is unfolding in real time, as if he is writing from inside a storm, rather than waiting for it to abate.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/books/hanif-kureishi-twitter-hospital.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/books/hanif-kureishi-twitter-hospital.html
“Unlike the robot reporting used by news agencies such as the Associated Press, these articles — 75 and counting — are substantial financial explainers, not just fill-in-the-blank updates, and seem to be written with a more powerful AI akin to OpenAI's GPT-3.”
https://futurism.com/internet-horrified-cnet-articles-written-ai
“Well, you don’t drop out of school and learn how to write, so I was suddenly a straight-A student, and I went to college, and I had a whole different life than I ever would have had, had it not been for Roger Zelazny.”
https://www.wired.com/2023/01/geeks-guide-roger-zelazny-talk/
Secret Hippie