it’s funny how AI has made this even “more” true

I hope one lesson we can take away from this debacle is that curing cancer has just as much to do with politics as it does with biotech.

Pasts Imperfect (4.17.25) Saving, Celebrating, and Defending the work and the workers behind the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)

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Much more to say about this, but can't even at the moment.

Don't you mean Murphy's Awl?

A photograph of the poem “Lenten Failure I” by David Wright

Ashes, Ashes, We all fall…

Totall yawped when I read this

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”

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It's true everywhere that no good deed goes unpunished, but in academia it's doubly true, and the punishment for your good deed will always be MORE BUREAUCRACY.

Stocks fell sharply today as 5% of investors suddenly realized that it shouldn't cost a trillion dollars to make a machine that writes terrible poems.

I think I want to read a poem about an essay that becomes a poem again

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.

A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.

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On Small Business Saturday, Consider the Small Press The literary ecosystem can feel vast and overwhelming within an industry in major flux, constantly threatened by corporate greed and inefficiency. These realities continually challenge the sustaina…

Casie Dodd on why indie bookstores and small presses make up the backbone of the literary ecosystem.

I love this poem by @toddedillard.bsky.social

I’m here!

William Stafford (1961, from www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...