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what i read and watch when the models are training and then pretend to have opinions about. some come with notes!
A short film about a writers’ room trying to script a superintelligence.
Case studies of neurological patients that read like short stories about what makes us ourselves.
A single unbroken sentence about a washed-up philosopher sent to the Extremadura to write about a wolf. The momentum of the prose is the point.
A woman’s refusal to eat meat spirals into a quiet, unsettling story about autonomy and the body.
Twin narratives, talking cats, and a dream-logic quest that braids myth into the everyday.
A hot-headed young teacher butts against small-town hypocrisy in this comic Japanese classic.
The original time-travel tale, and a bleak parable about class stretched across deep time.
The two-system model of the mind and the cognitive biases that come with it.
An argument for focused, distraction-free effort as the rare skill that compounds.
Doublethink, the memory hole, the boot stamping forever.
On the material conditions women need to write, and the cost of their absence from the canon.
Six nested stories across centuries, echoing the idea that lives ripple into one another.
A fireman who burns books begins to question a society that fears them.
Creation, abandonment, and responsibility — the monster is the one who was wronged.
Short stories of Indian and Indian-American lives, quiet distances, and small revelations.
A spare, devastating memoir of the Holocaust and the loss of faith.
Holden Caulfield’s restless weekend and the ache of growing up.
A boy inherits the memories his utopia chose to forget, and learns what was traded away.
The green light, the reinvented man, and the rot under the Jazz Age dream.
Four mothers, four daughters, and everything that gets lost and kept across the generations.
Gregor wakes as an insect; the family’s reaction is the real horror.
Gogol’s name as the thread tying together belonging, family, and the immigrant in-between.
Janie’s search for love and selfhood, told in vivid Southern Black vernacular.
Childhood, conscience, and a courtroom in the segregated American South.
Time, memory, and perception rendered in shifting interior monologue around a family by the sea.
Not a love story so much as a haunting about obsession and the moors.