Considering a new tool for the new semester: “Thanks for your email. This account is configured to bounce back messages determined to have been written substantially with the aid of AI. Please feel free to rewrite the email yourself and then send it again.”

Rigaut, 1929

A classic 1973 Bruce Pennington cover to ‘Children of Tomorrow,’ by A. E. van Vogt.

signs of the end

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterday

Arizona State University launches degree in content creation

the UK publisher and other stories puts out some great work in elegant editions. but! i’m surely not the only reader to find their use of a typeface which employs a tiny slanting mark in lieu of a round dot on lowercase i’s odd & distracting? like a minuscule acute accent

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We walked around the Llanberis Slate Mine (disused since the 60s). I was expecting Dr Who backdrops. It was much more postindustrial/deracinating. Like walking through Tarkovsky's Zona.

“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett @sublunary.bsky.social #babyeatbooks Read the whole interview at the link in bio 📕 heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/04/f...

“A Brief but at Times Illuminating Encounter”: Matthew Kinlin Interviews Literary Translator Frank Garrett

Frank Garrett is an independent scholar, writer, and literary translator based in Dallas, Texas. We spoke over Zoom about his projects in translation, philosophy, and specifically his ongoing work …

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well i sure hope more people go to jail

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Remember folks:

this was as good as I had heard & hoped, but more salutary & less darkly sardonic than I imagined. my first time reading MJH but likely not the last

“Thought is a labyrinth.” Guy Davenport

charles-albert cingria lying on the floor, blindfolded, under the piano. bc why not

“Children to be educated on the moon.” Jean Paul

calling out hypocrisy is like counting pebbles. better to lie in the hammock

as a beautiful hairstyle the mullet has been unjustly maligned

During the last year i edited this volume of 44 tales from ninth-century China. The translator, Max Massa, went all out, it’s an amazing piece of literature & scholarship 356 pages. Buy or preview it here: asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...

Jacob Siefring@jsief.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“What would please this Jingbo would be to descend the mountain on a stout horse in fine attire, then give my ear to melody and indulge in sensual delights, wander­ing between Chang’an and Luoyang.” Niu Sengru (c. 780–848; Tang dyn.), tr. Max Massa out on May 15 asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...

“Could you enjoy the luscious warmth of synovial fluid bathing the head of the humerus as it gradually rotates and collaborates in continuous liquid reorganization with the scapula and clavicle.” i think maybe i could if i try, Bill Evans

it might be time for what we used to call a “fanny pack”. i don’t care anymore

- one of my favourite walls - I stop to look for one moment and a new world appears

15 or 20 yrs, & it’s all new platforms, a new information ecosystem. become outmoded in record time. plunge into desuetude

A BILLION YEARS OF MISSING TIME The Great Unconformity at East Bluff, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin: 1.63 Ga Baraboo Quartzite overlain by a boulder breccia at the base of the sandstones of the Cambrian Sauk Sea (600-505 Ma). ⚒️

i have been informed that there is a new Alex Cameron album out in the world. i hope it’s far better than the last two; i shall risk a listen

in Ontario it is the “civic holiday”. what it means, no one can say

[making small talk] “so, how are you handling the cultural degradation?”

the view this morning from the heights, post-rains. once again, deceptively pastoral

How was your morning? My kid exclaimed “That’s not a body!” during consecration of the host, kind of an important part of the Catholic Mass

woke up & can’t sleep? time to listen to german music i don’t quite understand

An off-campus novel, where the plot is regularly interrupted by the protagonist having to catch the last bus home