whereas before all we could hope for was a quick, painless death, now advanced technology offers us a quick, painless life
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shall remain nameless [Title] @sublunary.bsky.social , Afterword by David Markson @incastellated.bsky.social
All gold is fool’s gold. Robert Coover, Huck Out West
friends have been transforming their classrooms into NO ELECTRONICS zones, no phones, no laptops, no e-readers, nuthin' but paper and pencil and brains, and the student (undergrad) response has been uniformly 100% thankful and appreciative. they hate this shit! they hate being forced to use it!
which will be more $$$? Amount billionaires have to pay if prop 40 (billionaire tax) passes in California. or Amount billionaires pay to keep prop 40 from passing.
Poised on the very edge of the precipice, governments–using our money–saved capitalism. Manuel Castells, Rupture (Tr. Rosie Marteau)
🚨 📢 De Facto ep. 26 is now live! In this episode, Gerald Horne discusses his new book, "Slavery, the Slave Trade and the Roots of U.S. Imperialism: North Africa, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, West Asia, Ottoman Turkey, Western Europe and Russia" (@IntPubNYC, 2026).
Ep26: Gerald Horne on his new book "Slavery, the Slave Trade and the Roots of U.S. Imperialism"
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unsung masterpiece - darkest, funniest feminist fuck you of all time and simultaneously heartbreaking
Deep Vellum@deepvellum.bsky.social · 3w agoHappy publication day to NELLY’S VERSION by Eva Figes. A literary thriller for Brontë fans — about a middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia who checks into a small-town hotel under the pseudonym Nelly Dean with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it, or she, came from.
All the cameras have gone off To other battlefields. Szymborska
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US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit
A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accus...
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They give you little bullshit amounts of money for working...and then they steal all that shit back from you...consumer credit: buy shit, buy shit, on credit. He gives you little bit of shit to cool your ass out and then steals all that shit back with shit called *interest*. Ken Cockrel
Is Tara Blossom Johnson a satire? Google AI: No, Tara Blossom Johnson (known online by the handle H0pelessly_Dev0ted) is not a satirical figure. She is a recognized digital creator, online personality, and occasional model. ... Google AI: Or idk, maybe yes? How would I know? Why? Is she?
Tara Blossom Johnson (aka H0pelessly Dev0ted)@h0pelesslytara.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere can never be enough music in the world
So many things are enhanced, so many ways of being are calculated on your behalf to provide an experience. Between body and world, blue screens and encryptions work hard to help you seem to be here. Lia Purpura, Virtual
nothing new from Ben Marcus in going on a decade and getting irritated - any Ben Marcus adjacent authors (e.g. Jesse Ball) I should know about to satisfy my longing for another Ben Marcus collection?
We object to the conflation of the S with the T & E in STEM (See technệ, epistệmệ). The sciences engage us in the world and our lives therein. Technology disengages. The S belongs with the A (Arts & Sciences). The T & E can have the M. And as far as throwing us a bone with STEAM. No thank you.
if I were a former NFL player who didn't let his son play American football, I wouldn't give a shit that he scored in a World Cup game - I'd want to know why they put my son back in after a clear concussion
We don't get to make STEM more touchy feely. That's fair. But then you don't get to make the Humanities more *efficient*. Stay in your lanes you vapid morons.
Death on the Installment Plan / Celine
Nicolas Leblanc@ngrl.bsky.social · 3mo agoSuicide Bridge by Iain Sinclair
Immense gratitude to @bdralyuk.bsky.social for his kindness and generosity. One is almost embarrassed to share such words about one's own work. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/glos... @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
Eric T. Racher@ericracher.bsky.social · 9mo agoI am terribly pleased to announce that my book of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, will be published by Sagging Meniscus Press in the autumn of 2027. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
Packing for a visit to Oberfranken and realizing I'm bringing an A-list crew of Bluesky translators along @wordkunst.bsky.social @unpaginated.bsky.social @dances-with-voles.bsky.social @genesegrill.bsky.social
"When I see my name etched in marble or granite, I remember the stories told by my family of my uncle’s closed-casket funeral: a box of body parts & my grandmother clawing at the lid. When I die, I want to be anonymous, with no memorials…."—from "Blood Drive" minorliteratures.com/2024/02/07/b...
Better Shopping Through Living VI: Blood Drive — Frank Garrett
Growing up I was certain I wouldn’t live to be twenty. The name given me had come with a deadline. An expiration date. It would happen one Halloween. I was sure of it. Or a few days before. I was n…
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Frank Garrett@frankgarrett.online · 4mo agoMy literary executor better execute (as in carry out a death sentence on) every trace of my being and consign it all to the flames with my body.
Gracias to Gonzoid for giving these two fellows a home. 🫶 gonzoid.neocities.org/AlinaStefane...
Two Poems by Alina Stefanescu
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He was one of those men who are perpetually surprised at being in possession of a name, just as one marvels, in passing before a mirror, at possessing a face, and that it should be precisely the face that it is. Marguerite Yourcenar, The Abyss (Tr. Grace Frick)
Greater Austin Book Festival this Saturday at the Central Library in downtown Austin! Come and buy some books and hear me talk!
