Seth B
@sboke
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literary adaptation • fiction • theater • film • teaching @uchicago • insta: sethboke • Gilgamesh!! https://t.co/seUnLSUIEP
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Joined December 2009
might be time for you to read Ray Bradbury's creepy and wonderful AI / holodeck family nightmare story "The Veldt" (1950). Prescient? Oh, oh yes
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It won’t hurt for the children to be locked out of it a while. Too much of anything isn’t good for anyone. And it was clearly indicated that the children had been spending a little too much time on...
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I am hopeful that Minneapolis voters will reelect @Jacob_Frey next week. I'd like to share why — as someone who did not like him when he first came into public life, but has come to respect and admire his leadership. 🧵
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'Weapons' is very good. Highlights include the finale as a riff on Cheever's "The Swimmer" and the 3 seconds of The Handsome Family's "Don't Be Scared" when the cop is driving
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"A Visit to Houseboat City: Floating Homes of Chicago's Strange River Colony" March 1, 1936
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Come to your confessional, the morning cried. Confess your love. - Pierre: or, the ambiguities
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a late afternoon proustian revery for the New England Mobile Book Fair
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women in PHLEGM (poetry, history, language, english literature, ghost stories, music)
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Gemstones premiere was incredible and yes, cinematic as everyone is saying, but more than anything...it gets TV. Brilliant and poetic one-off but it does further along the show's themes and also builds out the history and does it all in like an hour. McBride and Hill get TV
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2026 will be the hundredth anniversary of the invention of the Tilt A Whirl. What are you doing to prepare
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Large amounts of ketamine can make anyone feel like they rule the world. When should Americans start worrying about Elon Musk’s regular use? @shayla__love reports:
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Excessive use of the drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world.
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Read this thoughtful essay on Chatbots of the Dead! (by @amykurzweil) https://t.co/t0V1Rqzs1Q Makes clear, as so little writing on this topic does, that we are in control of the future rather than at the mercy of it
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We can now create compelling experiences of talking with our dead. Is this ghoulish, therapeutic or something else again?
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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s main contribution to pop culture has been to add an unprecedented amount of syncopation to all Disney songs
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“The Prisoner,” a British show about an intelligence agent who wakes up in a seemingly idyllic town, is the “perfect low-stakes, high-octane episodic mystery,” @shayla__love writes in The Atlantic Daily.
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Culture and entertainment musts from Shayla Love
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Addressing another person by their name can help build rapport. So why does it feel so awkward to say the names of the people we love best? @shayla__love investigates:
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Why calling loved ones by their name is strangely awkward
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Amazing David Lynch tidbit from the actress who played the jump-scare monster in Mulholland Drive.
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In 2025 the World Premiere of THE WORLD WE SHARE #TWWS will take place on 3 continents, linking young people from around the world in a piece about global environmental concerns. @dycireland @RSNO @sfgirlschorus @GondwanaChoirs @sboke
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Come for the interspecies empathy, stay for amazing storytelling, bee rock bands and the fragile beauty of sentience via @shayla__love in the @NewYorker
Insects are small, they don’t scream or bleed red, and many are considered pests; we tend to kill or mutilate them without pause. For @NewYorker, I wrote about the investigations into whether insects feel pain 🐝🦗🪰 https://t.co/HuK0YNwIxb
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