Sham Jaff (shamjaff.bsky.social)

Let’s connect on BlueSky, please. bsky.app/profile/shamja…

There’s an argument to be made (though I won’t spell it out) that the New York Times is basically Jubilee with an advanced college degree.

I woke up with a stiff neck this morning and will not be able to finish the newsletter for tomorrow 😭 Need to rest a bit. Love you.

Jan van Aken = wine mom energy. Irgendwie. Ist als Kompliment gemeint.

Someone who thinks reforming from within is the only reasonable thing is being told “You are absolutely right!” by ChatGPT.

Too many em dashes? What’s next? too much love? too much joy?

Has Byung-Chul Han’s “Psychopolitics” been translated to Arabic or Sorani? I need to gift this book ASAP.

People don’t say this often, and I think that’s quite unfair, but I think Donald Trump speaks very good English. It’s quite remarkable.

I once learned about Parkinson‘s Law, and I‘ve never shut up about it since.

I‘m on TCMtok. Don‘t save me.

Freelance journalists: do you know of any media outlets or collectives that give freelancers access to Getty Images? I’m working on new visuals for my newsletter and want to stay on the right side of licensing. Tips welcome.

Being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize now means about as much as making Forbes 30 Under 30.

Fellow humans, the cognitive currency I once spent on chapters now gets siphoned into doomscrolling and endless tabs. Please help. How do I get back to reading regularly? I’ve tried short books, setting alarms, joining book clubs, restricting social media…

TIL that Darfur (in Sudan) is roughly the size of France.

Why are we making “prompt engineering” such a big deal? Nobody was hiring “google search engineers” in 2010s, even though that’s what people were using to code.