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Hugely honored to see THE SLIP win the 2025 Kirkus Prize in fiction. Thank you @KirkusReviews!
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For those of you who weren’t old enough to pay attention when Obama was president, this is the kind of stuff conservatives mean when they say he was the most divisive president in history. Same night Trump said that 98% of Somalis are low IQ and refuse to work, btw.
The majority of Americans like the cheesecake factory. It's a very profitable business. People go there on dates, for family meals, and to hang out. A good speechwriter or strategist would know this.
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Tech people want to write it off as "ludditism" but people intuit the oligarchs are buying up the country, the government, the land, and everything while openly disdaining the populace. Fanfic fantasies about tech oligarchs giving us UBI aren't fooling anyone anymore.
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I do think you have to understand the data center / tech backlash in the context of anti-democratic tech oligarchs who openly disdain voters and believe (correctly, to a large degree) they can buy the government
Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history.
Musk poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress. wapo.st/4igb5Kq
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These people live in a state that usually votes 40-45% Democrat and have never had to accept that those neighbors are full human beings. It’s going to be a difficult period of adjustment.
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Happy to be featured in the November issue of @TexasHighways as a “Texas author changing the literary landscape” alongside May Cobb, LaToya Watkins and Lawrence Wright. Story by Dina Gachman, photo Marshall Tidrick, in the ring at Lord’s Boxing Gym 🥊
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An interesting thing about AI types is they seem to have a hard time imagining that anyone could find meaning, purpose or usefulness in a job that is not their job.
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You had your 30 years of inanity, Texas GOP, time to wrap it up. @jamestalarico @GinaHinojosaTX 🥊🥊🥊
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It's gettin' real now: Sources tell @quorumreport that the Texas Senate GOP is quietly considering stripping all legislative power from the Lt. Gov. if the Democrat beats Little Gov Patrick: bit.ly/4Bfnnvb #TxLege
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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
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This is truly my favorite AI guy argument. "You know what makes me avant-garde? Using tech products that the richest corporations on earth----along with the reigning political administration--are pushing as hard as possible. It's super edgy to do what you're told!"
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Looking at how THE SLIP considers the act of boxing and the space of the boxing gym. It offers up the heavy bag as a space for imagination, for communing with our better possible selves.
#HittingTheBooks
Sections “Tomato Can” and “Like Me”
We meet two characters, David Dalice and Nathaniel Rothstein, back in 1998. NR is the disappeared teen and DD is his mentor.
But in these photos, I’m choosing to highlight some of THE SLIP’s depiction of the boxing world.
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New Talarico scandal: At home with the flu for a week
New Paxton scandal: At a previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife.
wsj.com/politics/polic…
New Paxton scandal: At a previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife.
wsj.com/politics/polic…
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