staff writer @newyorker // editor-at-large @thedialmag, @cabinetmagazine// jes’ grew carrier https://xitter.cf/t.co/YGtJel5CV8

Brooklyn, NY
Joined December 2008
Colson Whitehead’s “Cool Machine” is out today. For a profile last month in @NewYorker, we talked about his career, family life, and being a driven slacker: “I’m a really lazy bitch, but I have a punitive superego. The two go together.” newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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“In a world where state policy is shaped by A.I. hallucination, it’s cute to remember that consulting Wikipedia was once seen as irresponsible.” I reviewed Richard Cooke’s “The Last Best Place on the Internet,” the “human history” of an encyclopedia being cannibalized by A.I.
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The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read
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“Imagine a newspaper announcing that physical libraries will no longer be permitted to preserve copies of its past issues. That is effectively what is happening now.” theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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Wikipedia, which went online in January, 2001, is now the greatest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled. Yet in the last four years, it has lost 25 per cent of its traffic—more than a billion monthly visitors. Since the site recruits its editors from its audience, this dip also threatens its growth and quality. Many users have been intercepted by A.I. “It’s a cruelly ironic fate,” Julian Lucas writes. Wikipedia was the single most important training corpus in the history of artificial intelligence. Now artificial intelligence is threatening its survival. Read Lucas’s report on the future of Wikipedia: newyorker.com/books/under-re…
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“In a world where state policy is shaped by A.I. hallucination, it’s cute to remember that consulting Wikipedia was once seen as irresponsible.” I reviewed Richard Cooke’s “The Last Best Place on the Internet,” the “human history” of an encyclopedia being cannibalized by A.I.
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‘You Can See Everything’ is a shockingly intimate probe of Elizabeth Holmes’s beliefs and her persona. While Nathan Fielder plays the role of tricksterish inquisitor, co-director Lance Oppenheim imbues their interactions with cinematic flair. Already, awards prognosticators are speculating that ‘You Can See Everything’ could make Oscars history as the first documentary nominated for Best Picture. Its release caps off a whirlwind year for the 30-year-old. His first narrative feature, ‘Primetime,’ debuted in Venice less than 24 hours before the surprise premiere of ‘You Can See Everything’ at Telluride. Oppenheim’s eagerness to explore and his embrace of artifice in order to “find something real on the other side of it” have made him one of the most unorthodox documentarians working today. “Most people, when they’re going through something dramatic, the stakes can feel impossibly high. It’s almost like they’re living through a Hollywood drama,” he tells Alex Barasch. “But if you just observe it normally, through vérité means, you don’t really get that feeling.” Oppenheim has spent a lot of time thinking about what he calls the “inherently vampiristic relationship” between subject and documentarian. For ‘You Can See Everything,’ he had to suppress his queasiness about his subjects’ disapproval. “I have no idea how Billy and Elizabeth are going to react to the film. But everything that’s in there is the truest form of what Nathan and I experienced dealing with them,” he says. “I made a movie about it because that’s the only way I can really express my feelings.” Read Barasch’s profile of the director behind two of the most widely discussed films of the year: nymag.visitlink.me/qXYW9c
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Good news for people who said they wanted more of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM: all of the conversations are going to be available to watch in an archive. I spoke with director David Greaves for this month’s Operation Restoration for @TheAVClub. avclub.com/once-upon-a-time-…
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Honored and delighted to have had this conversation with Booker winner and again finalist, @MarlonJames5 Marlon James, hosted by @simplylovia Lovia Gyarkye for @HammerandHope. Link in comments!
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If your kids are in school they’re constantly being prompted to “relate” to some text… listen to Anne
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It was such a pleasure to write this brief musing on the marvelous Ming Smith's photographic self-portraits... and a pleasant surprise that my favorite publication @nybooks was open to placing it! (You can register with your email to read it for free.) nybooks.com/online/2026/10/0…
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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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Even as a non-religious person, I personally cringe at the hubris required to personally tell the Pope that you think your company has created an ensouled being, thus rendering Anthropic equivalent to God the creator. Further, that you did it for profit and it is now enslaved.
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1920, the first figurines for Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet began to take shape. Spheres, discs, cylinders and unusual materials transformed the human body into geometric figures. In 1922, the Triadic Ballet premiered in Stuttgart. An experiment in body, color, form and movement that would become an icon of the Bauhaus stage. #OskarSchlemmer #TriadicBallet #Bauhaus #designhistory #costume
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Quite a thing to say about a descendant of enslaved people.
JD Vance on Angie Nixon: "Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America"
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Now would be a good time to reacquaint yourself with Elizabeth Schambelan's writing on fraternities, male bonding, gang rape, and the relationship between hazing and counterinsurgency 🧵:
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love innocently writing something and slowly realizing you’re wading into a bitter scholarly fight that’s been going on since the 70s
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Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell @jvplive) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same @Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
HOW DID A UNIVERSITY SUSPEND PROTESTORS AND NOT ALL 7 OF THE GUYS WHO ÐRUGGED AND R@PED A GIRL FOR HOURS AND HOURS!?!? JUST WOW
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