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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“Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you”
We're doing a TMK live show in San Francisco next week with the wonderful folks at @bayareacurrent.bsky.social and @dsasf.org. Come join us for a night of left-wing tech criticism!
Registration is free, encouraged, but not required: www.eventbrite.com/e/decoding-t...
(Everybody is 12 voice): everybody scores 12
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
Or is query naive?
Liberal Durham Guy, an insanely pure archetype
Harmless (derogatory)?
Happy birthday Joe! You are such a gem.
Frank Smullin rest in peace
Cruising around Durham, visiting all my historic spots
I’d like to reach out to my guy Marc at disquiet:
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Evidence is building that the repair work is going to be much more than anyone's consciously absorbing. There's an assumption that "states and locals" are where it's at for future governance, post-DOGE, but this is what's happening at that level in one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
It’s not even that funny or good, but I gotta say: Legal Eagles!
I'd always heard it was left-ish but Rambo pt. 1 really is a blast.
With both Cruise and Stallone their visceral commitment to performance serves as the underlying integrity of their characters.
Just like the opening bit where Francis is like "Apocalypse *is* Vietnam", Eleanor was like "my documentary *is* your movie"
Eleanor Coppola's Apocalypse Now documentary kind of renders the movie unnecessary
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This is excellent.
Outlets can just do this! No current events hook, not even a new release for the author, just 'this writer is good as hell' backed by a lot of close reading.
A screenshot from a scam website targeting authors that claims to work with Zadie Smith and Colson Whitehead both of whom are Black people but the photos of them are AI generated generic white people
Well today in AI scams targeting authors. I received an email claiming to want to include my book in a book club. Not only do all the photos of authors they claim to work with look AI generated but look at @colsonwhitehead.com and @zadiesmith.bsky.social and then look at these photos
SF Bay Popfest playlist to get you hyped - weekend passes go on sale this Friday!
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10am sharp, new music on @bff.fm:
-figure eight
-Flamingos
-What's Important
-DI LEO
-Sonny & the Sunsets
-The Letterwriters
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Reminder that we're doing a query critique donation drive for a shelter-in-place program here in MSP. Going well so far--we're at about $1700 and would love to get to like $2500. Come get your pitch critiqued!
Digital technology increases the efficiency of grids, but the AI boom is increasing the strain. Every bit of copper and steel used for bespoke power for massive data centres is not being used for the more pressing matter of decarbonization.
This is like that part in Fugazi Instrument where the couple says Margin Walker is their song
I've written up a brief script for anyone who wants to call or write your representatives regarding this bill (yes, even the ones you think won't care). PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE. This bill *cannot* pass.
You can find your representatives here: www.congress.gov/members/find...
Making one Snow Job out of two!
Events are eventing, all across Oakland (and only there): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
Y’know when the characters in a movie go to see a movie and it feels really meta? Well, with an “Ultimate Double Feature,” we play the first movie up until the point when they enter a cinema to watch a different film… then we play that film… then we go back to the first film to finish that story.
Get it. #ripMichaelSilverblatt
