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Okay, Emily Wilson, you pulled me in! I'm reading your translation of the ODYSSEY, first time I've read this poem since college. Let's see how it goes...

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Once you have a lot of money it becomes easier to get more money by doing nothing, which disincentivizes work. This is why all our billionaires post insane bullshit all day. If they had to work they'd be too busy to act like this, doubly benefiting society

One of the craziest things in American history happened once on July 27th. I wouldn't be surprised if you never heard it, but the story has everything and represents everything America is. But they'll never tell your kids. They sure didn't tell me 🧵

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

"As of 2024, there were more than 2,000 examples of places around the world where patrons have access to objects that might otherwise sit unused in a closet, garage or on a store shelf." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/a...

Tired: saying Nolan can’t write Wired: proving Nolan can’t write by citing excerpts from the script. Inspired: Writing a review of Nolan’s film that is so compelling, we immediately accept its thesis, Nolan can’t write

the whole piece is an extended exercise-as-prose. It’s saying, “this thing you’re experiencing right now? Kind of feels like gas? That’s called a visceral emotional reaction to authentic intellectual voice changing you into a living thing — AI can’t give you that.”

Kool-Aid Man bursting through wall: where's the goddamn amontillado, Montresor

Yn a worlde where the humanityes are being systematicallye defunded by both the righte and the lefte, the internet ys one big seminar about the meaninge of *The Odyssey.* Ther ys a lesson yn thys somewher. And the lesson ys: funde the humanityes.

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

I would not believe this is true if I hadn’t done it last night but apparently some cats chill out if you put them in a little sweater

Meet Roxy and Phoenix, the goats we took in after our big road trip last week! Getting everyone else to their homes was exciting and now we can get to know these two! ❤️❤️

We had joy, we had fun Setting phasers now to stun

12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.

10. Whatever one thinks of the film as a work of art, it's doing some good in the world, by generating big conversations, bringing new audiences to the cinema, and new readers to ancient literature. I hope it helps save the humanities.

7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled).

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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