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Nandini B.

@nandelabra.bsky.social
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Writer for hire. Vulture, Defector, Wired, Harper’s Bazaar, Ebert Voices, The Texas Observer, The New Republic, The LA Review of Books, The AV Club, Interview, Men’s Journal, Vice, The Week, Lit Hub, et al. nandelabra.medium.com/membership

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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Glad you're okay! Surprise surgery is low on my list of preferred surprises, hope you heal swiftly <3
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Are you okay?!
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They're drawing and writing now? I remember when they were BORN. 😭
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"I'm sorry, Aaron. I can't let you draw that."
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeah, I'm pretty sure *I'm* my dog's emotional support animal.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fine, I'll modify it to "He sounds like if Target greeting card section wished to be a real boy."
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every day I log on here and to a good 75% of posts I could write the same reply: "Amazing that we have to say/ask this at all."
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
His music has always sounded like a sentient greeting card store.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Once again I’d like to say fuck your metadata. The industry is not learning to live with AI. It is in fact causing an existential crisis with regards to authorship. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Publishing’s AI Reckoning
The industry is learning to live with the disruptive technology, for better and for worse.
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Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Love this movie.
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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“[It’s] a breathtaking hybrid of religious commentary, samurai action and family drama." @briantallerico.bsky.social reviews YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER:
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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother review: Like no other action film this year
A breathtaking hybrid of religious commentary, samurai action and family drama.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In his dispatch from Venice, @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social reviews THE BASICS OF PHILOSOPHY, DIANE IN THE LOOP, & LOOK BACK:
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Venice 2026: The Basics of Philosophy, Diane in the Loop, Look Back
The latest from Paul Schrader, the Dardenne brothers, and Hirokazu Kore-eda stud our latest dispatch from the fest.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Mercatus Center strikes again. He's probably besties with Robin "Incels should get monthly social security payments" Hanson.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I sometimes feel like I've gone mad because I refuse to interact with it. I've never used ChatGPT or Claude or anything, and everyone else is using it to plan holidays or outfits or editing emails. YOU HAVE A BRAIN. USE IT. What else was your education and cognitive development for?!
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
That Substack essay made me cry! So so good.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Welcome, STEM folks! Us liberal arts students greet you warmly!
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Larry @larryskorke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
STEM and Humanities alike must never forget their real enemy: the Business school
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The letter from 25 Fields Medalists defending the practice of mathematics uses revealing language, describing math as a "creative" endeavor sustained by human-to-human transmission.After decades of contempt for the Humanities looks like we're all Humanists now. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...
Often these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods and ideas, and citing relevant previous work of others. As in all creative professions, this raises severe attribution and plagiarism questions. Moreover, without the willing mathematicians who must take care of their development and integration into the mathematical canon, AI-conceived ideas would never become fully alive and the crucial human transmission chain between mathematicians would be lost.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The man's got TASTE.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Et tu, Guardian?
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aquapaint.bsky.social @aquapaint.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think AI cheerleaders vastly underestimate how much people hate it.
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Thanks, I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Getting the critical-thinking-destroying plagiarism engine to do the thinking for you is more or less the exact opposite of learning.
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Lenora Rose @lenorarose.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What if the thing I do is called thinking? Because so far the evidence is suggesting it makes people worse at that, and I'm worried enough about cognitive decline as I age from natural causes without accelerating it by outsourcing my brain.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I cannot stress to you enough how much AI is not "getting there" on journalism. It's making everything worse.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"I’ve been trying to write parts of this for twenty years, but it meant waiting for people I love to die."
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And when you don't reply the negging will get manipulative. "I'm just trying to help you. Don't you want to become a better writer?" And why is his name RAJ? Can scammers please use non-South Asian names, for the love of Christ?!
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sounds like an absolute blast!
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 10/09/2026
New clip! In which we discuss the “On Broadway” opening of ALL THAT JAZZ, and its relationship to A CHORUS LINE, with guest @splicedpersonality.bsky.social. Watch the full episode on YouTube: buff.ly/mXNcvDh Listen on Apple podcasts: buff.ly/uu1poBJ Listen on Spotify: buff.ly/FLOJjaj
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My dad had a beard then. When the second tower fell his (brown) boss came into his office and told him to shave it. My dad said okay. "No. Go home and do it now."
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The scream I had to suppress when I was listening to Trash Future and you shared that bit about how she said she voted against common sense environmental legislation because she [checks notes] is from Michigan. God forbid the auto industry experience regulations!
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I mean I'm an immigrant, I have brown skin, a name no one can pronounce, and post-9/11 this was enough to make me the daily target of racist bullying in the 6th grade but sure, shared bonds.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't do well on low and/or poor quality sleep and all I have is a 10-year-old beagle. A human child would wreck what is left of my post-covid mental health.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 11/09/2026
Our "Fun City Cinema" podcast episode on 9/11, and how it changed not only the city, but its movies: pod.link/1525341222/e...
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Tribute in Light
When the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center fell on September 11, 2001, New York City was changed forever: its skyline, its people, its mood. And its films were changed as well – some more…
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When I think back sometimes to how the daily news felt in those days, all I remember is anthrax anthrax anthrax WAR IRAQ BOMBS SADDAM OSAMA anthrax anthrax anthrax anthrax OSAMA OSAMA WAR WAR WAR WAR FREEDOM FREEDOM WAR WAR WAR. And if you weren't on board with this you were a traitor.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A loss indeed but a long life lived, she was almost a centenarian. Obv. the series is now heritage in many ways but that's the point, it IS heritage and Davies helped make it so with her work and decisions; I can see her name in my mind's eye in the credits fonts now.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today in good news!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
I shouldn’t be this emotional about a city deciding hey maybe kids shouldn’t starve all day Like how low is the bar. Anyway, thankful to the people who fought for this.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don't understand; it could kill us in a decade but we should definitely allow the health of our economy to hinge on the financial success of their companies?
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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
With the Toronto International Film Festival underway, @briantallerico.bsky.social previews the 20 world premieres that the team is most excited to cover. Read on for the full list:
rogerebert.com
TIFF 2026: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See This Year
A preview of 20 films we'll be covering from Toronto.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I mean, it's Texas. I cannot really overstate how bad it is down here.
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The school district in which I used to teach, which also educated me, has been taken over by the state of Texas, is now scripting every word teacher says, has cameras in every classroom, and is embarking on a pilot program with ChatGPT. It's abhorrent in a way I cannot fully express.
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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"With the school year now fully underway, I’ve been dismayed to see how the default position on generative AI throughout the educational landscape has been to ask how we might use it ethically, without considering that the answer to the question might be: “We can’t.”" --David Perry
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The pleasure is all mine. (I think it also stems from the same pleasure I'd get laying out my school clothes/backpack on a school night, you know? Everything is all tidy and arranged, all I have to do the next morning is put it on and head out.)
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's a fundamental part of why I miss living in New York. I felt the need to dress up living there; I genuinely took pleasure in it. Reminded me of the Bill Cunningham quote: "Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life."
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Nandini B. @nandelabra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NYT whenever anyone asks them if there's a difference between good things and bad things:
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John Mulaney: Who's to Say?
ALT: John Mulaney: Who's to Say?
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Danny Bowes @dannybowes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Catholic Batman" goddammit can WASPs have ANYTHING
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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wow yes, so brave of the hasbara show to do hasbara about the genocide. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/a...
nytimes.com
‘Fauda’ Braves Oct. 7, and Audiences’ Attitudes Toward Israel
The new season of the Israeli hit depicts the Hamas attacks and aftermath. It arrives as Israel’s artists face resistance overseas precisely because of how the country responded to Oct. 7.
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