Editor @nplusonemag; published in @nybooks etc. Writing a book about meritocracy and Silicon Valley.
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Charles Petersen retweeted
Half of the reason that people become interested in movies in the first place is sex and dating and everything connected with eroticism on the screen. I felt that not to deal with all of that in its most naked form was to shirk part of what's involved in being a critic. (2001)
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The new gold standard for the what-happens-when-a-new-main-character-appears genre of historical writing. Kudos to Gottlieb for how he conceptualized and carried out the project.
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File under "that brief window in 2026 when AI was good enough to do something useful but not quite good enough to take your job, or kill all humans." silicon-valley-archives.gith…
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Charles Petersen retweeted
david bacon in the running for the most quirked up white boy to ever do it
A few years ago I was reading a lost 1988 dissertation on the immigrant women who actually made the chips in Silicon Valley, when I saw one organizer, David Bacon, described by a manager as "a one-man son-of-a-bitch trouble maker."
I knew then that I had to interview this guy.🧵
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Charles Petersen retweeted
Now bring back the Tour of California and the Tour of Utah.
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Canadian motorcycles refusing to pace an American thank god. #montreal
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TORITO REMEMBER ALL THESE YANKS HAVE DONE TO MEXICO, YOU CANNOT LET HIM WIN
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Del Toro and Seixas riding like there's a white jersey competition in the worlds. #montreal
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No part of my life, even Christianity, is more central to my childhood and youth and more repudiated now. Complete waste of time and probably essential to understanding how I became who I am today.
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I know we're not supposed to hype things but it just is true that projects that we're taking weeks of super annoying work with the old LLMs are now taking days/hours of not too annoying work with the new LLMs.
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Charles Petersen retweeted
as a scholar, i would never refer to heidegger’s hut as heidegger’s goon cave. i might think that, but it’s something that i would definitely keep to myself.
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Charles Petersen retweeted
Demi Vollering, Kasia Niewiadoma and Elisa Longo Borghini are all some of the most entertaining bike racers to ever do it and we get to watch them fight out duels at the peak of their powers
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Charles Petersen retweeted
Demi Vollering wins every race but all of them are like the greatest race ever so I cant even complain
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I love when idiosyncrasies of my bubble allow me to feel brave for having an incredibly popular opinion, such as "Breaking Bad was a good TV show"
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