The cover of my second book -with @eerdmansbooks - and the cover of my fourth book - with @BloomsburyAcad - are each from a 1919 YMCA social health poster series available through the University Minnesota archives. Judge these two books by their covers, and thank archivists!
I'm so looking forward to reading the new one, was just talking about it to someone yesterday!
You all know that actual brick and mortar libraries have digital newspaper archives and you can access current paywalled news online through your library, no? Get a library card.
Since I’m trying out being more clearly opinionated here: I think every Signal user who wants actually private messaging should do this right away
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Hokas also, preferred by the nurses it seems
Hospital game: count the number of Dansko versus Birkenstock clogs
Dad came through surgery and is in recovery! Long road ahead but omg the miracles of modern medicine
Heart surgery for Dad scheduled for Monday. It is very serious, no sugar coating it. But we're all together with him and he's got the best care possible I think.
"people are starving but THE ECONOMY is doing great"
hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY
I have created a Women's Pro Baseball League feed!
It's a work in progress as I need to hop in a meeting now, but I should be able to finish up the rest of the teams tonight.
Currently should catch most everything WPBL-related. I'm working on putting all player names into the feed now.
On my way to Michigan 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Dad is back in the hospital. Welcoming all prayers, good vibes, healing energies, what have you 🙏🏼
Ahrrggggggggggg 👀
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
If anyone famous is looking to hire a ghost writer, I would like to apply. Megan Rapinoe, maybe?
This is great - more of this please! Lots of books (especially queer books or ones by other marginalized authors) don't get the attention they deserve when they come out, so why not give them substantive reviews later? Plus this is a fantastic list!
It takes a certain kind of…narcissistic nihilism to look across the country at people self-organizing against something that is generally a fairly good material symbol of the intangible class warfare that has alienated them and say, “what a silly distraction from what *really* matters.” And yet…
I STAND BY THIS
I am sure I have mutuals who would be interested in helping in this way:
This quote has been with me every day since I first heard it and I love her so much for saying it.
Reliance on "A.i." makes people sloppier, shittier writers, which encourages sloppier, shittier reading, all of which makes people sloppier, shittier thinkers.
None of these "A.i." words matter, so no one gives a shit.
This is INCREDIBLY bad for people individually and for society as a whole.
My real hot take on this is that both editors and readers need to become reacquainted with the kind of writing that doesn’t *immediately* answer all your questions.
New release on Bandcamp Friday from MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER AND THE MOUNTAIN GOATS? 💃🏼
Writers write. 🤷🏼♀️
Writing 1000+ words to get to the ~400 that I need.
At some point my Super Powers should be kicking in, right? (Super Powers = something approaching normal energy levels)
My AWP FOMO has been significantly mitigated by the fact that I'm in the middle of eight weeks of iron infusions and all I wanna do is nap.
So far