Jeff Pearson

Solutions to get oil out of the Persian gulf, wrong answers only

When we say the Citizens United ruling put a price tag on our democracy, this is what we mean.

LORRIE MOORE How to Become a Writer First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star / astronaut. A movie star/missionary. A movie star/kindergarten teacher. President of the World. Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age — say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire. It is a pond, a cherry blossom, a wind brushing against sparrow wing leaving for mountain. Count the syllables.

Lorrie Moore

this week's 404 Media pod is out! we get into how AI can drag someone from curiosity into delusion, how the FBI got protonmail data, and that extremely messy anti-porn app breach

The Man Who Broke Into Jail In Nashville, a criminal-justice activist commits a baffling crime.

Are people reading/talking about this story? It's one of the best in the New Yorker in a long time, in my opinion. Absolutely wild. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Here are my top 10 dog mayors!

This was always niantic's specific and real business model.

I played that game that they did first/before pokemon, and it was immediately clear their platform was always about gamifying geo data/imagery collection.

Always worth remembering they were spun out of goog.

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

Iran Has Been an Imminent Threat to the U.S. for Forty-Seven Years “The threats posed by Iran to the United States, while potentially serious, weren’t imminent. So Trump and his officials have redefined ‘imminent’ ...

"Some will say that a 47-year-old threat doesn’t sound so imminent and that I don’t know what the word even means, and don’t really understand how language works. To them I say: photosynthesis. Followed by: This is not the time for linguistic nitpicking."

A.I. Checks in After Bombing Iran to See If You Still Think Its Bubble Is Bursting “In order to strike a blistering 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced artificia...

"The assembly line of the twentieth century didn’t exactly stall because people worried about human life. That’s on you, humans."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

"In a sense, all translation, all writing is a palimpsest.

In finding words and phrases we use, in summoning voices to reflect the music that we hear, we draw on all the writers and translators we have read, all the plays and films we have seen..." 1/2
- Frank Wynne in translator's acknowledgement

How lucky can one guy be? Such a kick to see my little rondeau in the first issue of PORTICO alongside work by Aaron Poochigian, Amit Majmudar, Christian Wiman, Jason Guriel, Victoria Moul, Dana Gioia, and others… porticoquarterly.com/poetry/dino-...

Great work by NYT showing Trump's war is the most unpopular ever. Supports my argument (see below) that in some ways the public rejection of Trump across the board is a very heartening development:

government

should never involve non-human oversight in any capacity that affects living, breathing people

education

should never involve non-human oversight in any capacity that affects living, breathing people

art, literature, creativity

should never involve non-human oversight in any capacit

"You want me
to describe my
white cotton
panties, tangled
mass of hair. My
bones..."

—McLeod Logue

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Solidarity against AI theft means everyone. You can't campaign for 'don't use the word plagiariser' while using the image plagiariser. @societyofauthors.bsky.social

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.

That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.

The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

My family runs a solar water heater panels that are shipped most places and affordable way to have a hot shower or offset hot water heater energy usage. heliatos-solar.myshopify.com

CFA: Philosophy of Psychiatry & Lived Experience Workshop June 22 online

Deadline 20 April

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What’s your sign?

“Stories move in circles. They don’t go in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and hard as finding your way home.” ~ Naomi Newman

Okay LFG #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! I’m Mary, + this is my 10th year in games. I’ve been AAA and indie, everything from narrative director to contract writer, and I’m now a senior writer at CD PROJEKT RED.

I’ve got two wee children and a very lorge cat, 50+ houseplants, + many unfinished manuscripts 💕

During the pandemic, I had days when I felt I was by myself on a shore drained of the tide, dragging a stick across miles of wet sand. There were also days when I was a boy again, sliding down a snowy hill on a flattened cardboard box. And there were days when I remembered the teacher who made us memorize a poem each week, and when we asked why, she said we might one day find ourselves in a wreck at the side of the road and we would recite these poems to stay alive.

Rick Barot ♥️

A beautiful reminder of what poetry can do.

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

Much rather read one of these than any ai;dr.

How Can a Locomotive Pull a Long Train That’s Much Heavier? For railroads, it’s all about managing static and kinetic friction.

For railroads, it’s all about managing static and kinetic friction. www.wired.com/story/how-ca...