A young man on the tram today told his female companion that he is "churning through Greek philosophy"

Just observed a bright green matcha crunch Krispy Kreme rotating slowly inside a glass display cabinet at 7-Eleven and I thought how is contemporary art supposed to compete with this

I'm really fascinated by this dataset from the AI poetry survey paper. Here's another visualization I just made. Survey respondents were shown one of these 10 poems, and either told that they were authored by AI, human, or not told anything.

At the cafe this morning I saw three men each having the same conversation with ChatGPT. They all wanted to know if now is the right time to sell their crypto

Every word of the year since I graduated high school

The Aeolian Moment: when a simple computational mechanism produces complexity, inspiring us to reflect that we may ourselves be simple mechanisms producing complex output. (taken from Coleridge's poem The Eolian Harp)

Hahaha the Louvre's password was Louvre lmao epic fail! (Quickly logs into online banking and changes password from "Louvre" to "Oscar" to avoid similar mistake)

I always thought it was dumb when literature ppl talked about writing as "a radical act" but with LLMs I think it almost definitely will become so, not towards any particular ideology but more as a radical refusal or assertion of cognitive freedom

(Helen Garner diary voice) how can something as scarily hip as The Paris End also be so clever and warm and endearing

I wrote about gold fevers past and present for The Paris End

Those who can do, those who can't post

Let's be very clear

We're doing a book!

Lacan

Wait there are 100 Australian songs?

My inbox is flooded with messages from loved ones in Gaza begging for a single meal of any kind to survive. Even people with some savings left can't find anything to buy. This is the worst Israel's starvation of Gaza has ever been! 10 people died from hunger yesterday alone.

Google maps leads you down routes with billboards for businesses that pay Google ad revenue

This is insane. No baby formula. For newborn babies. In 2025. Not because of a natural disaster. Because Israel is intentionally blocking it. Why isn’t every outlet covering this?

The writer formerly known as emerging

I wrote about Airbnb's pivot into "Experiences" for @theparis_end. They are trying to become the Amazon of Time