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William Weightman retweeted
1 May 2025
The average American has 3 eggs, but has demand for 15. So here are 12 photographs of eggs. I am a business man.
30 Apr 2025
Zuckerberg explaining how Meta is creating personalized AI friends to supplement your real ones: “The average American has 3 friends, but has demand for 15.”
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kid was cooking
kids will say things like “strawberries taste better when I’m wearing my strawberry socks” and I bet they’re 100% right and this subtle sense of aesthetic gestalt is socialized out of us
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William Weightman retweeted
14 Apr 2025
using the kierkegaard dash to show i’m human
13 Apr 2025
an easy tell if someone uses chatgpt is if they use the long dash (—) nobody uses that
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William Weightman retweeted
3 Apr 2025
By the way, here's the Tarkovsky explaining why he holds his shots as long as he does.
You don't necessarily have to agree with it, but it is his filmmaking philosophy. If you remove it, it is not a Tarkovsky film in any meaningful sense.
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William Weightman retweeted
3 Apr 2025
Here's the thing.
The stillness of Tarkovsky's images is essential to his filmmaking. He wrote about the importance of stillness and time in his movies. He described filmmaking as "sculpting in time."
These movements are antithetical to the entire point of a Tarkovsky film.
2 Apr 2025
This is unreal.
Someone just reimagined Tarkovsky using AI-driven camera motion.
What if the camera moved — but still felt like it belonged?
Let me show you what that looks like:
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William Weightman retweeted
3 Apr 2025
The globalization of news has made the whole world’s problems our problem, fostering a sense of powerlessness that’s led many to redefine morality from “doing good” to merely “feeling bad”.
C. S. Lewis noted this in his 1946 letter to Bede Griffiths:
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William Weightman retweeted
14 Jan 2025
Bill Watterson, the genius behind Calvin and Hobbes, on creating a meaningful life
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William Weightman retweeted
4 Dec 2024
December 4 is International Day of Banks. Both James Joyce and TS Eliot worked for banks and Eliot continued to do so even after The Waste Land was published. Ezra Pound said "it is a crime against literature to let him waste eight hours vitality per diem in that bank."
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William Weightman retweeted
30 Sep 2024
This is everything. In 2006, students from Xavier High School in NYC sent Kurt Vonnegut five letters asking the writer to visit their class. What he wrote back is one of the best things ever:
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William Weightman retweeted
27 Sep 2024
If you see this, and if you agree that no child should be a victim of violence, I humbly ask you to share this, to help others see.
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William Weightman retweeted
15 Sep 2024
Kurt Vonnegut, go into the arts
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William Weightman retweeted
28 Aug 2024
Gerald Murnane’s compact and highly finished style distinguishes him from other writers—Proust, W. G. Sebald, Rachel Cusk—who render the act of contemplation. nyer.cm/kBdzngi
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William Weightman retweeted
13 Aug 2024
If you have a few moments to listen to this interview as a parent with your child.
Possible one of the best post race interviews I have ever watched #PlayOn
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William Weightman retweeted
1 Aug 2024
Indigo Perry on visiting her old teacher, Gerald Murnane: “He said that what he most remembered about knowing me was how I once wrote about a girl who jumped up and down. I have no recollection of ever writing about the girl and her jumping up and down.”
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William Weightman retweeted
18 Jun 2024
“It is quite possible—overwhelmingly probable, one might guess—that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology.”
- Noam Chomsky
He was awarded the @ucddublin Ulysses Medal in 2013.
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William Weightman retweeted
19 Jun 2024
Søren Kierkegaard, go for a walk
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William Weightman retweeted
20 May 2024
Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:
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William Weightman retweeted
1 May 2024
R.I.P. Paul Auster. Here’s his unapologetic advice to young writers. Read ‘The New York Trilogy.’ Read ‘Leviathan.’ Read ‘Travels in the Scriptorium.’
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William Weightman retweeted
19 Jan 2024
I can’t quite believe that yesterday morning I got to interview one of my favourite writers: Gerald Murnane. Gerald has never worn headphones before so it was a day of firsts all round. You can hear our conversation on @BBCRadio4’s Open Book this Sunday afternoon at 4 pm.
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William Weightman retweeted
22 Aug 2023
❛I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things.
Poet and writer Dorothy Parker, born #OTD 1893 - relatable always, in her total defeat by writer's block.
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