or-TEE-lay 🇵🇭 Author of THE GROOM WILL KEEP HIS NAME. Editor @cntraveler. As seen in @esquire, @catapultstory, @buzzfeednews, etc.
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it's true, these brooklyn teachers are seriously dripped out in issey miyake
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On est quand même sur l’un des lycées les plus bourgeois de Paris.
Les jeunes du Lycée Henri IV rejoignent ceux de Louis Le Grand et les étudiants de la Sorbonne pour partir vers République.
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The opening of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) was interrupted by protesters last year. Even before, its announcement collided w/ reconciling precolonial history w/ postcolonial nations, art and culture preservation, and money. I wrote about it all. nybooks.com/online/2026/10/0…
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a well executed red eye is indistinguishable from teleportation
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I will travel across Japan
Searching far and wide
To go every Famima and
Purchase socks inside
FamilyMart's blue, green and white socks have become an unofficial fashion statement. Now, the convenience store chain has a new footwear line — but you'll have to travel across Japan to collect them all. japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/1…
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When the email says “any update on this?” and the update is I forgot it existed
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evil twinks used to win pulitzer prizes, now they complain about chicken tender theft and do amyl nitrate dancing
Frenemies in the early days before the troubles - Gore Vidal (b. 3 October), Truman Capote (b. 30 September), and Tennessee Williams, gay literary giants of the mid-20th Century 🏳️🌈
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one of the funniest things about the Pope's AI stance is he became very vocal AFTER meeting the Anthropic guys. imagine how odious you need to be to for the POPE to be disgusted by you
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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the way gay people on twitter have stripped this video for parts and made every permutation of reaction video from it like vultures to a corpse is honestly inspiring
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NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:
"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."
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the locals DON’T want you to know about galeries lafayette……………
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Profiled the elusive Mike Faist for @GQMagazine. We talked about his two-year absence from the spotlight, his return in @zoeinthecities' excellent East of Eden series, Challengers, churros, the rodent man discourse, and the magic trick of great filmmaking
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the heart is a terrible archivist… it keeps the strangest things
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