HeyJaredStephen Kessler
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- 12
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- Sep 25, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Santa Cruz Sentinel
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- Jul 10, 2026
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Stephen Kessler | The struggle to be famous for 15 seconds (opens the original)
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Almost every day I read or hear about some supposedly famous person I’ve never heard of — an actor, a pop star, an online influencer — and I wonder if I’m really missing anything. True, I’m about as unplugged as it’s possible to be and still exist in this wireless wild west of a postmodern media mess, but I’m also a writer in a newspaper (an admittedly ancient and endangered medium) so I should have a clue as to what’s going on in the world. But I find my personal world to be somehow shrinking,
Stephen Kessler | Apocalypse now: AI and the End Times (opens the original)
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And you thought nuclear weapons were dangerous. Or you were distracted from that for a while by Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and the threat of nuclear power plant meltdowns and catastrophic radiation releases, or routine storage of radioactive rods of spent fuel with half-lives of millions of years. But wait, now nuclear is making a comeback because it’s cleaner than coal, which not only fouls the atmosphere we breathe but speeds up global heating, which is wreaking havoc with weather everywh
Stephen Kessler | Cassandra cast a cool blue spell (opens the original)
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The death last week, at 70, of Cassandra Wilson, in between Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem (and let’s not forget Wendell Berry), is another huge loss in our multicultural landscape. Wilson was the most awe-inspiring singer I’ve ever heard in person; the show I witnessed about a dozen years ago at Kuumbwa Jazz was one of the most unforgettable I’ve ever attended anywhere. Her stage presence was strangely mysterious in its self-possession, in the inwardness with which she projected a soulful subj
Stephen Kessler | A night on the beach at Viareggio (opens the original)
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Sixty years ago, on my first trip to Europe with my friend Dave Mann, between our sophomore and junior years of college — I was 19 and had already been infected with the poetry virus — we were driving up the Mediterranean coast from Rome in the VW Beetle Dave had picked up in Hamburg, it was the middle of summer and there were no vacancies anywhere we stopped. We pulled into Viareggio around sundown. Viareggio, to an English major, resounds with myth. Percy Bysshe Shelley, the early 19th century
Stephen Kessler | All the sad and mad young toxic males (opens the original)
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If you were to write a novel or a screenplay featuring a professional fraudster and shamelessly self-enriching sexual predator as president, cage fights on the White House lawn, IndyCar races in the streets of the capital, testosterone supplements pumped into the troops to stoke their aggression, and the elevation of white male supremacy and female subservience as 21st-century cultural norms imposed by executive order — even as dystopian satire — it would be laughed off the desk of most editors
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