Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack
Novelist. Critic. Books about crooks. jacobbacharach.com Extended Greater Appalachia Joined May 2009-
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Pleased to say that I've been named a finalist for the 2026 Kukula Award Book Review Prize: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/08/202…
On the contrary, to have a spurious quotation as your most famous statement is one of the commonest signs of historical greatness.
I'm not a fan of Anthony Bourdain but there's something tragic about the fact that easily his most famous quote is something he appears to have never actually said. x.com/i/status/20640…
Some in the tech industry believe that AI will soon render sex obsolete imo, sex has staying power. Yet people are *already* substituting digital technology for real-world intimacy in myriad ways. AI-infused sex tech could accelerate that trend vox.com/politics/49116…
Which moment made you stop rooting for Tony Soprano?
None of the defenders of Western Civilization has ever encountered it.
It's odd to imagine that the 2-decade-plus trend of transforming college into vocational training can persist in an era of ML-driven automation. The opposite is true! Education and inquiry will reassert themselves; workforce focus will naturally decline.
@PradyuPrasad @tylercowen I hear you, but tbc he’s talking about higher ed, not elementary school. I think that higher ed should look much closer to workforce training, and in the workforce people will be using AI a lot.
This is a curious position, because Susan Collins votes with Trump/GOP ~95% of the time whereas the most conservative Senate Dems (e.g. Shaheen, Fetterman) are at <30%, so clearly there is something very meaningful to gain, and the calculation is simply *whether* that's worth it.
I wrote a sonnet about our very large pool.
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hearing from my friends who are....very much not high net worth individuals and live in the middle of the country...that their brokers are "allowing them" allocation in spacex
In the words of Erwin Schrödinger: "I insist upon the view that 'all is waves.'"
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More screen time for these actors.
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