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World’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok

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Post by Xmd5a »

dang wrote: post #2

I expected that to be a hit job but it's actually rather poignant.

poignant?

> His next major growth spurt came when his university career ended. When Oxford University rejected his master’s application in 2020, Edwards posted a video of himself crying, entitled “oxford university rejected my masters application… (sorry this video is sad)”. Social media rewards confession. Authenticity, sincerity and vulnerability were important – more important than orthodox intellectual baubles.

It's literally pathetic.

    pathetic
    /pəˈθɛtɪk/
    arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness.
    "she looked so pathetic that I bent down to comfort her"

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swang wrote: post #5

I had to go through a cookie request, a subscribe to us popup and then had to close another popup telling me I could only read two articles.

Prefix the whole url with `archive.is` e.g. `archive.is/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/01/the-world...`

This will work on most article sites to show you an archived version of it without any of these annoyances

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Post by dmix »

squigz wrote: post #7
swang wrote: post #5

I had to go through a cookie request, a subscribe to us popup and then had to close another popup telling me I could only read two articles.

Install uBlock Origin and you won't see any of that

uBlock doesn’t handle euro cookie banners by default
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