I had to call a customer. I usually try to avoid calling customers because i am the poet of the soul.

Meme from the Simpsons, Moe (labeled Francis Fukuyama) throws Barney (labeled History) out of the bar, only for us to see in the third panel Barney standing behind Moe inside the bar

An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth - Center for Literary Publishing $16.95 Buy Book About the Book Author: Anna MoschovakisReviewed By: Racheal FestGenre: FictionPublisher: Soft Skull PressPublished: 2024Pages: 208 Book ReviewAn Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface ...

My review of Anna Moschovakis's most recent novel is up at @coloradoreview. I loved this weird, dreamy theory novel coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/an-e...

This one was fun to write

I've got a new story up at @lemonwoodquarterly.bsky.social. Click through! Bonus points if you recognize what's off about the Oneonta Wendy's parking lot? lemonwoodquarterly.com/permission/

so many berries

Today's Mission: Transfer wealth from my boss to my landlord I call it "Working a job"

You may not like it but this is the best economic system we can come up with

A monkey sitting on some land covered in dirt and dry grass. The image is from a news story with the headline: Chimps develop fashion trend by shoving grass in their ears — and in their butts. The monkey picture here has some dry grass sticking out of their ear.

A black-and-white photo of the actors from the film Planet of the Apes. They are in their ape costumes but appear to be in a fancy shoe store. They are getting fitted in some nice shoes by a salesperson.

you before and after following me

remember when we all thought defining neoliberalism correctly would help

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

Political post

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Looking forward to reading with a great cast of area poets this weekend the Gatehouse

I talked about a critical AI initiative I've been organizing for faculty on Tea for Teaching

amazing q&a with paul krugman

(Pace salsa voice) NEW YORK CITY!

Over 1000 people at Oneonta's No Kings Day protest, the most I've ever seen for ANY event in my eight years of living here.

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

California Admits AI Was Used to Write Bar Exam Plagued by Problems The State Bar of California admitted that AI was used to draft dozens of questions in the bar exam administered to aspiring lawyers.

Broke: "AI can pass the bar!!"

Woke: "AI can make people fail the bar because it fucks up all the questions."

futurism.com/california-a...

Trump Directs Justice Dept. to Investigate ActBlue, Democrats’ Cash Engine The president ordered an inquiry into ActBlue, the main Democratic fund-raising platform, in his latest move using the government to target political opponents.

If this were a report about any other country in the world, the headline would be something more like "Trump Expands Efforts to Crackdown on Political Opposition."

Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For Easter, we watched 2001: A Space Odyssey (first time for our seven-year-old), and honestly, for a secular family, it did kind of feel like going to church

The Drake meme but with Richard Nixon as drawn by Norman Rockwell: Panel 1 reads "Using the Drake meme". Panel 2 reads "Using the Drake meme but with someone even more problematic".

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Currently at work with a toothache