The tech industry realized in the 1990s that if you make digitization about “access” everyone will think you mean for “the public” and not for them and well here we are.
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The tech industry realized in the 1990s that if you make digitization about “access” everyone will think you mean for “the public” and not for them and well here we are.
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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Today is Reading Writers' season finale, and I’m honored to have on @williamcson.bsky.social, who brought us the conversation of my dreams. Buddhists, anarchists, anyone yearning for liberation—this one’s for you.
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Both showers and public transit rides have 3x multipliers to Thinking Time. You'd think stationary bikes would be too because they're both moving and mindless but actually they're 0.5x at best. Long flights have 10x to Thinking Time but only if you're in the sweet spot of tired but not TOO tired
The gravitational pull of Trump's immigration focus is sucking in basically every major federal agency, all of whom are being told to change policies and practices to enable ICE and related enforcement efforts.
From the @wired.com Inner Loop newsletter this week:
Rayne Fisher-Quann joined me and @jolivingstone.bsky.social for a discussion on women's writing and we covered a lot of ground: Vivian Gornick, Margery Kempe, novels of sexual degradation and obsession, female humor, etc. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.
frankly, I love the way they're thinking
In a 5-minute phone call to dispatchers, a federal immigration officer requests police backup last October to help with a kid tailing him on a motorized bicycle. "I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid," the officer said on a recording of the call obtained by OPB.
Overnight this aircraft completed its deportation trip to India. The migrant passengers were likely shackled for at least 59 hours.
This week's Reading Writers features novelist Nicholas Russell on a neglected Gothic master, and me losing my mind over Kenzaburo Oe's A Personal Matter
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An important conversation on today's Reading Writers, which also features an interview with novelist Maya Binyam: have you ever fallen out of a tree? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:
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I really appreciate this question. Thank you. You can help us by spreading the word through your networks. There are bound to be NYC residents in those networks. We need them to take action.
Reading about the Harriet Tubman's and John Brown's of the world is as close as I've come to a spiritual experience. Just a complete depth of devotion to a justice they would never live to experience. Impossible to truly embrace without being overcome by emotion.
thank you
“In an age of AI propaganda, we are reminded daily that ‘there is a perversion worse than evil deeds. ... It is to misname evil as goodness, to exalt it, parade it, honor it.’ It helps to read someone say so, like a gas mask for the soul.”
felt inspired to blog for the first time in a while because of good work from @charoshane.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social et al newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/what-does-it...
secret poetry reveal!
Charlotte’s new essay on why to make things and the metrics of (literary) success is so invigorating.
"I find myself thinking 'this isn’t sustainable' of the continual decimation of the media, which has been happening aggressively for at least ten years, but what do I mean by that? For whom isn’t it sustainable? In what way?" charlotteshane.com/blog/2026/2/...
I'm addicted to collaborating and I don't care who knows it! Got a bunch of stuff off my chest about publishing, book marketing, making art for free or at a loss, not waiting to be given what we want. Hopefully it is useful for writers as well as lovers of writing charlotteshane.com/blog/2026/2/...
"Jim Boyling, who infiltrated environmental and animal rights activist groups for five years, said senior managers turned a blind eye to undercover officers having deceitful sexual relationships with women, often lasting years."
oh yeah this is the good shit
I finally wrote my big essay about Daniel Berrigan! For anyone with an interest in non-violence, futility, the political/social/moral role of writing, and so much more, even if you've never heard of the man www.bookforum.com/print/3203/f...
“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said.
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
“Lorin Stein, the disgraced former editor of The Paris Review who resigned after accusations of sexual impropriety, forwarded to Wolff an email from the writer Stephen Elliott, who intended to sue the list’s creator… Epstein promises to ‘help anyway i can.’”
A teenager who was detained for 49 days over his friend’s killing at a SEPTA station contends police “buried” footage that showed he was innocent.
Now he’s suing the city and transit officers.
Talking on the phone is so intimate.
loveeed listening to Jamie talk about the novel that is personally responsible for every time I have ever used the phrase “swimming-pool light”