Lauren Wilford

the advanced cinephile’s path

retweeting this because it actually helped me several times in the last few days. Sometimes a little somatic image/concept works for a mysterious reason

this is a powerful vision I need everyone to see

I almost tried to launch an official blog about media and tech and reality in 2021, which I now think is very funny. We’re all just riding along now; surf’s up, baby

reporting from the front lines of casual fine dining that the girlies are pairing oysters on the half shell with espresso martinis (with Irish cream!). I see it every day, multiple times a day, and have for years. A cursed combo unrelenting in its popularity

“the cat is out of the bag” is such a funny and good idiom. I don’t know why the cat was in the bag, but we all know what it means now that he’s out

AI feedback (“you raise a profound point”) creates a new market niche for the offhand, the critical or slightly dismissive, the kinds of response only a slightly jaded human being can currently provide.

I remember a word academics used a lot in the late 20th century: “fragmented.” In reference to a fragmented experience, fragmented attention, fragmented society, etc. Things have gotten so far from a “holistic” experience that “fragmented” barely registers now as a concept