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HugoLindgren @HugoLindgren

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Joined December 2007
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LEX: You think plants, like when you eat them, are they screaming? LEVIN: Probably not screaming in the way that we would be screaming. However, there's plenty of data on plants being able to do anticipation and certain kinds of memory.
Lex Fridman
@lexfridman
1 Oct 2022
Here's my conversation with Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin) about biological robots and how to understand and control complex biological systems, including intelligent lifeforms on Earth and beyond. youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod…
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I would tweet nothing but NYT obituaries if only the NYT didn't already take care of that. Here is another true gem, a graphic designer who created Beatlemania, directed a porn movie, played jazz with Charlie Watts, what a life. nytimes.com/2021/11/16/arts/…

Bob Gill, Graphic Designer Who Elevated the ‘Message,’ Dies at 90 (Published 2021)

He was a groundbreaking master of the visual pun, part of a generation of designers for whom the aesthetic was in service to the idea.

nytimes.com
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"punk rock Dorothy Parker" -- this is a good one nytimes.com/2021/11/18/obitu…

Overlooked No More: Ruth Polsky, Who Shaped New York’s Music Scene (Published 2021)

She booked concerts at influential nightclubs in the 1980s, bringing exposure to up-and-coming artists like the Smiths and New Order.

nytimes.com
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cganz@mehpatrol
20 Sep 2021
The New York Times's official Wrens correspondent @HugoLindgren has an important update on the Wrens. nytimes.com/2021/09/20/arts/…

The 18-Year Wait for New Wrens Music Is Over. Sort Of. (Published 2021)

The New Jersey indie rockers promised a final album. Their day jobs and families have expanded, but the band’s two creative forces kept writing — separately.

nytimes.com
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And Wall Street hates arts and crafts.
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You can find Gail Sheehy's story on the excellent longform resource @TheStacksReader thestacksreader.com/a-fistfu…

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Milton and Gail both passed away last year.
One lesson, I think, is that great journalism is arts and crafts, not industry.
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... but because the issue includes a riveting, deliciously biased account by Gail Sheehy of how Rupert Murdoch swindled Clay Felker out of @nymag
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To fund @nymag Clay Felker had played ball with Wall Street, which stacked the deck against him in a way he did not understand.
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Helped my father in law Walter Bernard collect the last of his things from the building on East 32nd Street that he shared for 50 years with Milton Glaser.
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Which Milton Glaser had saved not because he was a huge Bee Gees fan ...
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Among the little gems I rescued from the trash bin was this issue of @Rolling Stone from 1977
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Did anyone happen to notice this awesome, funny, totally entertaining book cracking the @nytimes nonfiction bestseller list?
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But now @nuthousenj the first Oedipus and the Mama’s Boy to write a bestseller.
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Hardly fucking fair.
Love this Adam Schlesinger song — talk about finding poignancy in the mundane open.spotify.com/track/6FeBk…

All Kinds Of Time

Fountains Of Wayne · Welcome Interstate Managers · Song · 2003

open.spotify.com
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Adam Schlesinger was the grandmaster of that. He could be funny and break your heart at the same time.
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Next best thing to listening to his songs to remember him is reading this exuberant tribute by his buddy (and mine) @samiamhollander variety.com/2020/music/news/…

Remembering Adam Schlesinger, a Friend and Fellow Songwriter Who ‘Wanted Everyone to Win’

Songwriter Sam Hollander remembers Adam Schlesinger as a friend, peer and "living, breathing, victory lap" who "wanted everyone to win."

variety.com
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