Mattilda B Sycamore

FAKE LOVE orange graffiti on white wall with other graffiti

Tell me about it...💥🌠

They were all disputing about the war, about what Thu would do next, what A-lo would do next, what the CWG would do next. "Why do you talk only in abstractions?" he inquired suddenly, wondering as he spoke why he was speaking, when he had resolved not to. "It is not names of countries, it is people killing each other. Why do the soldiers go? Why does a man go kill strangers?"

this passage from le guin's "the dispossessed" seems relevant

That wing!🌠

sometimes I like to wrap myself up in the page

You can hover over the page, or you can enter it.

I say many things about France and some of the ways they do this is a whole mess but the deliberate choice to have and maintain a literary culture does have real material impacts

(Stared at the words. Changed speak at once to speak together, yes, there it is.)

Or, when you arrange and rearrange the words. For clarity. So the narrative flows in the intended direction. This is a different kind of writing. Both are necessary, both can rearrange. But when the internal meets the external, and they speak together, this offers a different kind of sustenance.

When you arrange and rearrange the words. For sense? Or maybe I mean sensibility. Shifting, moving in all directions. Palpating. The movement of thought, how to create a sentence in this way. Moving in all directions. So it never stops.

Here for it!💥

a pair of chocolate red sunflowers, a smaller one in front of a larger one

sunflowers

Daylight Suffering Time

Well, here we go again, Daylight Disaster Time.

“What are we pretending not to know today?”
—Toni Cade Bambara

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

But what is the duration of irrelevance?

Sex shop at the Guggenheim, we are ready👠🔥

This info was handed over more than a year after cops murdered a forest defender in cold blood.

There are no tech companies that won't sell you out, because such a company would never be allowed to do business.

Unbelievable that we have to watch for things like this now.

Disaggregate the language of movement from the language of law

A little writing goes a long way.
Or it can.
Right or wrong.
Write.
A long way.
Go.

Experience as a refusal of experience.

The texture of the language, where it tears.

Undercover French language inspector does sound like a fun job though, hello resume

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Now we have the Epstein files & a president who says what every president means. The war will last forever. Except. A marionette w/o strings, who is pulling the trigger. What is forever, except. How to stay out of the narrative, I mean how to write something else. If writing can be a dream without.

Maybe I was Farrah Fawcett in The Burning Bed, yes, I knew too much to watch this. Nuclear war in The Burning Bed and domestic violence in The Day After, how it all moves back and forth. If I say I knew too much to watch this, I mean I knew nothing except fear.

Back to worrying about nuclear war every day, no, childhood was not my friend. I couldn’t watch The Day After, but I thought about it every day, too many previews. That sign for the fallout shelter in the basement of DC apartment buildings, a cigarette machine and a sofa, how would this save us.

(When a public service announcement from the Union of Concerned Scientists makes you cry.)

(You know it’s really bad when you find yourself starting sentences in your head with “Even Reagan would have…”)