All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.
I have a bias…
Cooper Dillon happens to be pretty into form.
Does anyone know the name of the fella who sells pinhole photography outside the Chelsea Market?
My debut collection of poems is over here! If you like them, and teach, I’d love to read on a campus or talk with your students! www.fernwoodpress.com/2023/01/04/e...
"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT
there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS
Even without insane and illegal wars, the thing about any dependency, including car dependency, is that once you’re dependent, they can do whatever they want with the prices.
Real freedom is choices. #UrbanTruth
Man, wait until you hear about how and where people drive cars!
if you’re trying to “save time” as a writer by using AI, i suggest you find another profession. it takes time to write well, time to write exciting books. it takes time to write one good poem. i’ve spent years on a single poem. the time spent learning one’s craft is everything
Looking forward to the art that comes from folks defacing all the money
Working on one of those poems that's not very good because a bigger idea is hiding in it. But I can see it.
I am begging Americans to realize that car dependency is a government policy and not something American cities inherently have to be
City of San Diego missing out on a major source of revenue during a historic budget crisis.
Downtown LA Mesa happens to be one of the most transit-connected places in the county. It’s not too difficult to get there without a car, and I hope more people explore that.
Did a car write this?
Do I know anyone who uses Polaroid Zink paper? I have a few packs I can't use, and am happy to pass them along.
You've taken enough time. Troll elsewhere.
Agreed. Nobody said they should be. But sending a polite decline is not being a jerk to an author. Not quite sure what you're doing here, pal.
Not sure I'm following what you're saying. I don't mean to get into some kind of Barthes/Foucault debate on the role of the author. Just saying that writers shouldn't be jerks to publishers.
Putting scholarship aside, I've never heard a writer seriously proclaim importance of their own work; it seems to me that's what an audience does. I'd even go far as to say that a writer would do well to trust their audience to engage a work on a multitude of terms that exist beyond an author.
Also, any conversation about additional housing that doesn’t include transit and non-car mobility is not as serious as it needs to be.
It's the air of being too good to be rejected by the press, as if they were forced to submit, and their work is just too smart for us. Maybe they should think about how long this game really is.
To the writers who respond to rejection with snark back to editors: you're doing this wrong. We're a community built on labors of love, and if you don't appreciate the people spending time with your work, you're in the wrong business.
I mean, I'm not a single issue voter either--since just about every politician has let me down on safety my entire life. It just seems to be such a silly stance. But I guess, in a city where most people love their abusive relationships with cars, a disdain for riding bikes is politically savvy.
Her comment that @obcycler.bsky.social was linking to, opposing bike lanes because of hills, is a pretty out-of-date argument. As if ebikes...or gears...haven't been invented yet.
E-bikes are hill killers, and a lot of people now ride them. Her argument seems to be out of date, at best. Anti-bike safety at worst.
Damned cars parked in the umbrella lane again!
In for the night after another magical #AWP26. Thanks, all yous, for another bunch of days of learning, comradery, and catching up with the creative world. Raise a glass to the long-run!
