P. Aiden Hunt (@P_Aiden

P. Aiden Hunt

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P. Aiden Hunt

@P_Aiden_Hunt

Philadelphia, PA

Joined April 2011

P. Aiden Hunt
@P_Aiden_Hunt
Jul 4
I actually think there are many ways AI can and does improve life. Outsourcing the human creative impulse to computer algorithms because you are creatively spent definitely isn't one of those ways.
P. Aiden Hunt
@P_Aiden_Hunt
Jun 30
Being called anti-Semitic for opposing political Zionism is like being called anti-White for opposing the KKK. The charge means less and less every day.
P. Aiden Hunt
@P_Aiden_Hunt
Apr 20
Just finished #DaveEggers' latest book, #Contrapposto, about the art world and the ambivalent relationship between art for art's sake and art as a commodity, due out from @AAKnopf in June. An excellent novel that I would definitely recommend.
penguinrandomhouse.com
Contrapposto by Dave Eggers: 9780593803509 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLER · THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art from Dave Eggers, the award-winning,...
P. Aiden Hunt
@P_Aiden_Hunt
Apr 10
Not going to dig into this too much, but it does seem more like writers are being paid for their publicity value in this case, rather than "awarded" a prize.
Helen DeWitt
@helendewitt
Apr 8
Now that the Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced I can talk about my failure to make the grade back in February, when I was told I had won a prize for fiction. Initially thrilled, then learned the prize was contingent on forms of promotion I was simply unable to provide.
P. Aiden Hunt
@P_Aiden_Hunt
Mar 21
Rewatching Pulp Fiction as a postmodernist text and come across the line, "Coke is f*cking dead as... dead. Heroin is coming back in a big f*cking way." With the opiate epidemic, it feels like Tarantino didn't know how right he was.