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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 17/07/2026

Hollywood adjusts to talking pictures.

Describe your favorite movie as boring as possible

Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 07/07/2026

So things happened! A senate candidate turns out to have as poor self-control as having a Nazi tattoo would suggest. Republicans pretend the Senate Majority Leader, in a coma, Is Just Fine. The US gives a shit about soccer now, in the worst possible way. And I got nice books in the mail today!

The three-book set of: How the Water Feels to the Fishes, by Dave Eggers; Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, by Sarah Manguso; Minor Robberies, by Deb Olin Unferth.

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 29/06/2026

Things feel hard today for so many of us, so here’s Charlie.

Charlie, a 15-year-old black and white terrier-poodle mix, lounging on my lap.

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 28/06/2026

Rare to read in a major US publication such a clear-eyed, unsparing perspective on US politics

The age of reasonable and ordinary politics had proved so effective that the liberals had joined the reactionaries in their enthusiasm for spying, lawfare, and ideological policework and had voted, via their representatives in the allegedly liberal party, to support bombing campaigns, dissident liquidations, and outright invasions of El Salvador, Libya, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Grenada, Libya again, Bolivia, Iran, Panama, the Philippines, Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan again, Yemen, Iraq for a third time, Pakistan, Somalia again, Iraq for a fourth time, Syria, Yemen again, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Somalia again, Afghanistan again, Somalia again,
Yemen again, Venezuela, Ecuador, Gaza, and Iran (again).

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 26/06/2026

“Ideological concessions” like universal childcare and rent freezes

Moderate House Democrats are warning they're prepared for "war" if incoming progressives and democratic socialists try to hijack the House floor to secure ideological concessions.

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 10/03/2026

What celebrity death hurt you the most?

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 16/01/2026

It's pretty easy to talk about affordability WHILE acknowledging the reality of what people are experiencing every day.

An email from Alexandria Ocasio Cortez reads:

Republicans forgot that people voted to lower their costs and to improve their economic outlook — and this administration is doing everything but that.

They are sending ICE into the streets.
They are invading other countries.
They are tweeting crazy sh*t.

But what they’re not doing is lowering the price of groceries.
What they’re not doing is raising people’s wages.
What they’re not doing is creating jobs, because we’re having horrible unemployment numbers, especially for young people.

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 16/12/2025

I would sooner eat broken glass

Email from LinkedIn telling me that 54 colleagues of mine are playing stupid games on LinkedIn, suggesting that I should not miss out on all the stupid fun

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 16/12/2025

Loving the context-free enthusiasm here

A screenshot of a page from penguinrandomhouse.com advertising Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchet, with an overlaid tab saying, Never miss a new book by Gustave Flaubert

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 30/11/2025

“Hey don’t you want a burger right now? Buy one for $100,000, get the second one free!”

OpenAl is exploring a range of revenue-generating initiatives to change its fortunes, including in-line ads within ChatGPT. Although a lot of it revolves around replacing human workers with Al, particularly in hospitality and customer service sectors. It would be theoretically far cheaper for very large companies to replace their human workers with ChatGPT, even if those contracts cost millions. That is, if it can provide customers with a satisfactory experience. Gartner previously projected that many companies turning to Al to replace workers are already reversing course. But I digress.

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 12/11/2025

So it goes. Happy birthday to Kurt Vonnegut. 📖

Kurt Vonnegut looking at the camera with his hands folded at his chin

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 26/10/2025

Thank you for leading this effort! I just donated an extra $100 to communityfoodshare.org:

Photo of receipt for $100 donation to CFS

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 02/10/2025

I think about this kicker a lot.

Those who haven't anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don't-whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. It's an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 03/09/2025

Someone reported Hannah Arendt to the FBI and I am deeply envious of Mr X’s daughter

Mr. X advised he felt that Hannah Arendt was very dangerous to the best interests of this country in view of the fact she is a professor who travels around the United States instructing at numerous colleges as a visiting professor. He stated his daughter changed her thinking completely after taking courses from Hannah Arendt at the University of California, Berkeley, California, in 1955, and feels that it was her influence which had influenced his daughter to go to Europe to study under Professor Paul Ricoeur.

The FBI determined that the nonspecific complaint did not warrant an active investigation.

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 03/09/2025

Virtual Babelfish would be a fantastic application of AI: www.macrumors.com/2025/08/25/a...

One rumor claims ‌AirPods Pro‌ 3 will partner with the iPhone's Translate app to deliver real‑time conversation translation directly through the earbuds. Imagine an English speaker hearing an instant English rendition of a Spanish counterpart's words (and vice versa) without fumbling with handheld devices. Implementation details are still thin, but the idea fits in with Apple's broader AI push.

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 24/08/2025

Come for the outrageous clickbait headline, stay for the Nabokovian Easter egg

"You're a pal," Jeffrey would tell me. I wondered if I really was a pal. I spent so little time understanding what he had to say, and so much time lost in my own world, thinking about William McKinley and wondering what tariffs were. Tariffs-what a beautiful sound that word has. Tariff: the tip of the tongue taking a trip from the glorious Ta to the explosion of riff!

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 09/08/2025

My favorite doctor and companion

The dentist from Little Shop of Horrors (Steve Martin) punching his nurse (Miriam Margolyes) mid-ballad

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 27/05/2025

Françoise Sagan is my spirit animal

Are you as lazy as people say you are?

It’s very difficult to be very lazy. It takes a lot of imagination to do nothing and you have to be sufficiently self-confident not to have a bad conscience. You have to have a taste for life, so that every minute is complete in itself and so you don’t have to keep saying “I’ve done this or that.” You need strong nerves to do nothing. Being lazy also means that other people’s opinions don’t matter. Nor does the idea of always having to prove yourself.

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 25/05/2025

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 12/04/2025

An graph of population change over time that shows exponential growth since 1750

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 10/02/2025

“at the expense of a larger statement” framing a photo of the American flag composed literally out of Black people

Screenshot of post of NYT review of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 04/02/2025

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally

Maurice Sendak drawing of three singing children, with the caption “A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream”

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 04/01/2025

Apparently we all got a mulligan

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 01/01/2025

this is the best kind of magic eight-ball

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 25/12/2024

popular Ludwig Wittgenstein songs

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 25/12/2024

TIL that Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is on genius.com

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 21/12/2024

I love how this sentence recapitulates in its structure and cadence the story James has just begun to tell in "The Turn of the Screw". A brief thread 🪛:

First sentence of Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw"

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 08/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day20 #BookSky

Cover of “The History of White People”, by Nell Irvin Painter

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 06/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day19 #BookSky

Cover of “Psychoanalytic Insight and Relationships”, by Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 06/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day18 #BookSky

Cover of “The Iliac Crest”, by Cristina Rivera Garza

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 05/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day17 #BookSky

Cover of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, by Jane Jacobs

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 04/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day16 #BookSky

Cover of “Composing a Life”, by Mary Catherine Bateson

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 02/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day15 #BookSky

Cover of “The Lonely City”, by Olivia Laing

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 01/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day14 #BookSky

Cover of “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, by Hannah Arendt

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Adam Vinueza @adamvinueza.me · 29/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day13 #BookSky

Cover of “Where the Wild Things Are”, by Maurice Sendak

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