Everyone is Reading Lonesome Dove

Packy McCormick · 8 Sept 2026

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Our reading
The internet has fragmented media and culture into countless disconnected pieces, extending a fragmentation cable TV started decades ago.

Their wordsThe internet fragmented the media landscape into a billion pieces, like cable TV smashed it into hundreds before it.
Our reading
Large language models could become a new distribution channel that revives older works of culture.

Their wordsLLMs may be a new distribution channel for the back catalog of human culture.

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