Christopher Cox

Christopher Cox

@cwhe.bsky.social

Writer and editor, NYTM and NYM. Signal: christophercox.01

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Christopher Cox
@cwhe.bsky.social

"Kiyosaki’s life story is both bizarre and oddly familiar, intersecting frequently with what Philip Roth called the “indigenous American berserk”: atomic bomb tests, tsunamis, helicopter crashes, the EST movement, the Branch Davidians cult, and the bizarro futurist R. Buckminster Fuller."

Christopher Cox
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This story by @kerryhowley.bsky.social , my last as an editor for New York, is worth your time.

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Could the deaths at Camp Mystic have been prevented? Twenty-seven girls died in a Texas flood, dividing a community over whether it was an act of God or the fault of camp leadership.

nymag.comCould the Girls of Camp Mystic Have Been Saved?Could the deaths at Camp Mystic have been prevented? Twenty-seven girls died in a Texas flood, dividing a community over whether it was an act of God or the fault of camp leadership.

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"The Sacagawea found in the oral histories of the Hidatsas is both grander and humbler — more like a person, less like a symbol — than the one taught in schools." — @cwhe.bsky.social for The New York Times Magazine

nytimes.comWhat if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?A growing body of evidence suggests she might have survived into old age — which would entirely change the story of America’s most iconic Native forebear.
Christopher Cox
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What’s it’s like to be the only home standing in a neighborhood that burned: “I don’t ever want to see my house again. It’s a toxic-waste dump. My community is gone. It’s just a curse that my house is there.” nymag.com/intelligence...

nymag.com‘My Community Is Gone. It’s Just a Curse That My House Is There.’City workers and celebrities, teachers and tycoons talk about what they lost in the Los Angeles fires — and how they’ll rebuild.
Christopher Cox
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My wife got me a book on how to identify warblers by their songs, and each entry has a phrase to help you remember the rhythm of each bird’s call. The Colima warbler’s phrase is: “A colander of lima beans, dripping quickly and evenly, then dumped out.”

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Christopher Cox
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Golden-winged warbler Golden wings are all the Buzz, but soon fall from favor Louisiana Waterthrush To get to LA, go slowly down south, where they slur words, chat endlessly

Christopher Cox
@cwhe.bsky.social

My wife got me a book on how to identify warblers by their songs, and each entry has a phrase to help you remember the rhythm of each bird’s call. The Colima warbler’s phrase is: “A colander of lima beans, dripping quickly and evenly, then dumped out.”

Christopher Cox
@cwhe.bsky.social

Blackpoll warbler Pollsters, in black of night, knock softly, steadily, but have to get louder, louder Black-throated Blue warbler Very laaaaaazzzzzzzzy and spoiled, in blue smoking jacket, black ascot Canada warbler Each Canadian is very different; but the first one has a chip on his shoulder

Christopher Cox
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Cerulean warbler After I climb the steps to the fashion show my cerulean suit creates a buzz Black-and-white warbler Parade of 7 or 8 black-and-white carts, all with uneven squeaky wheels Common Yellowthroat Only in Wichita do common folk wear yellow bow ties on their throats

Christopher Cox
@cwhe.bsky.social

Number games: 2025 is the last time the square root of the year will be an integer until 2116. The last time it happened was 1936. Those turning 45 next year will share an honor with those turning 44 in 1936 or 46 in 2116. The 1936 cohort is dead. Will anyone from the 2025 group be alive in 2116?

Christopher Cox
@cwhe.bsky.social

In his By the Book interview this week, Billy Collins says he began copying other primates and peeling bananas from the bottom. I tried this for a while, and I have to say, the chimps are wrong on this one.

Christopher Cox
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Among other problems, peeling toward the stem forces you to dispose of the “seed” right away. Maybe if you’re a non-human primate you don’t care about that but I do.

Christopher Cox
@cwhe.bsky.social

Naught’s had, all’s spent.

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

What’s a line from a book that you think about a lot? For me: “Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”

Christopher Cox
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One more detail from the Schuyler interview: He says Edward Gorey (!) once told Frank O’Hara he would be murdered on the waterfront and Schuyler’s assessment was, Well, Gorey couldn’t have been more wrong. (O’Hara died on the beach, of vehicular homicide.) www.theparisreview.org/miscellaneou...

theparisreview.orgNot Enough about Frank: A Visit with James SchuylerFrom left, Frank O’Hara, John Button, Schuyler, and Joe LeSueur, ca. 1960. © Estate of John Button, courtesy of CLAMP, New York. James Schuyler was born in Chicago in 1923, grew up in Washi...
Christopher Cox
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This passage from Charles Duhigg’s OpenAI piece in the New Yorker is striking. Compare to Tesla, where engineers wanted to name their self-driving AI Copilot but Musk overruled them.

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