Articles from Cheeseburger Gothic
Primary tabs
Maybe log off Strava, 007.
Still blinking in wonder at this story about a Russian sub-commander who fired off a bunch of cruise missiles at Ukrainian playgrounds and apartment blocks, before happily heading out for multiple runs which he repeatedly logged on his jogging app. He was gunned down in the streets of the southern Russian city of Krasnodar.
These are not the Star Wars story bots you're looking for.
Not sure how I missed the kerfuffle at Gizmodo, where management’s insistence on running AI-generated copy started blowing chunks from the very first piece.
From WaPo:
We have Engaged the Borg: The Oral history of the battle of Wolf 359
This is pretty fucking amazing. You’ll need a whole weekend to enjoy it. Via @MarkJISC on the Hellsite.
I'll be back, with burritos.
So, I’ve ended up on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s email list. Don’t you judge me. Or Arnie. I feel that he’s atoning for earlier bad behaviour. His emails are good. They have nice training tips, as you’d imagine, but you also get the wisdom of Old Conan - stuff like these thoughts on friendship.
Maybe just a little wetwork? Just a smidge?
I get so many fucking scam calls and texts and emails now, and so many people have lost much money to these fucking scavengers that I wonder if there might be some appetite for applying, shall we say… kinetic solutions to the problem?
More nowhere men.
I forgot when I posted that bit about the Japanese guy you can hire to do nothing that I had this other link in my drafts fold to a column I quite liked at The Graun.
Nowhere Man.
I like this guy’s lack of get-up-and-go.
Worst book tours ever.
John Banville has a delightful piece in British Esquire about cursed books events. It made my bowels shake in recognition, especially the ‘smiling oldster in golf shirt and baggy shorts’