Look I didn't sleep for two weeks because I was sick then my dog got sick and now I keep looking at my spring break to do list and end up saying fuck it, there's a new Netflix series about dinosaurs
Okay wait this is actually a good reminder
It was 87 (too hot) in Richmond yesterday and now's it's snowing and accumulating a heavy wet pretty snow that's weighing down the green and red buds on the trees and my body (the earth) is confused
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“There were no books.”
“Most of the Time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That’s what it means.”
-- June Jordan
But if you want to subvert form, you *do* need to know, like, if you want to subvert the *police,* you have to know the underlying mechanics of their communication in order to change it.
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
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.
"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."
College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.
The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.
Link to the full resolution below.
There are 6 ads for AI in between this reporting about how fucked gen AI videos are re: war and information.
Just out here deleting as many accounts and subscriptions and apps as I can muster these days. I can remember getting my first iPhone, downloading apps and feeling like they were useless then, too.
This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.
Rob R is a soft butch. This is why. I won't be explaining. 💦🔥🤤
A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.”
Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.
The interesting thing about AI is how committed executives are to using it after it measurably fails catastrophically at its goals. Like there seems to be no limit to how badly it can fuck up and still be heralded as the future of technology
Miles my dream feeds on me like a school of small fish feeds on a sinking stone
Joe Wenderoth
i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need
One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*
the entire point of therapy is THE human relationship! lordy lordy lordy
A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.
Chromebooks are going to close the achievement gap! Learn-to-code programs are going to close the achievement gap! AI is going to close the achievement gap! [This shiny new tech thing that is funded by VC] is going to close the achievement gap!
people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"
I can no longer go to AWP! I'm caring for my old dog who keeps racking up ailments! But you should go to this great reading since I can't! Anything @riverriverbooks.bsky.social or river adjacent is honestly gonna be 🔥
Honestly it feels like we've been in varying shades of "emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting" for the better part of the last decade
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
Teaching is really fucking hard right now. I'm with you.
I'm not going to say Harper is singlehandedly responsible for Trump's victory, but this *is* the phenomenon that resulted in so many Americans having no idea what they voted for.
Across mainstream media, pundits refused to draw a clear distinction between Ds & Rs and lay out Trump's agenda.
Every teacher fighting against AI and the dehumanization of knowledge right now—meanwhile, the government using AI to murder people at long distance.
These things are not unrelated.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
