Cory Doctorow has a distilled take on AI and the internet. He expresses a lot of wisdom in the interview. A highly recommended read. The future feels only minutes away, chasing me. #ai #internet #sci-fi arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Mark Strand

“The real world has more to do with what is hidden.” ~ From ‘In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter’ by Saul Leiter (1923-2013) #Photography by Russell Tomlin.

‘What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.’ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

collecting all these pieces of companies abandoning AI

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete. - #JohnMyhill

The only way to Finnish your Ph.D. ...

Andrew Hemmert 💙 “Everywhere wants to be spring.” from NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRESS (Pitt Poetry Series) @andrewhemmert.bsky.social

Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

Every time that I thought I had come to the end of the Path, it was made known to me that this was the beginning of it. - #BayazidalBistami

If New Orleans teaches you anything, it’s that everyone is always on their way to some kind of parade. The whole of life is a p’rade. We are either building and decorating the float, riding it, throwing something from it, or watching it go by and hoping to catch something.…Continue reading

Doors fans! July 3rd is coming do you have your copy of The Doors Examined? Every aspect of The Doors is covered! Get your copy today or for The Doors fan in your life! tinyurl.com/mr3jfc9a #booksky #thedoors

“… Someday I’ll be a plant dying. I’ll draw myself up tall and brave, keep a stiff upper-limb, kiss the woollyworms goodnight for the season. Goodbye a while, damselflies! Bon voyage! …” @ediemeade.bsky.social in @louisianalit.bsky.social www.louisianaliterature.org/how-plants-d...

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. -- Lao-Tzu

Be the elephant you wish to see in the room.

Richard Siken ♥️ “Tell me we’ll never get used to it.”

All this experience out of thin air

54 Countries, One Survey, A Lot of Religion

The whole universe turned to fire. He was made of one and the same fabric as the whole universe...

Almost can't believe I'm saying it but STARLOG IS BACK, BABY. Beyond honored to serve as senior editor under the badass, brilliant @annaleen.bsky.social, with @jhoffman.bsky.social & @da7e.com on the podcast mic. Trust that you'll want to sign up for Jordan's weekly inbox dispatch, too: starlog.com

It is the nature of the visible to have an invisible lining that it makes present like an absence. - Maurice Merlau-Ponty, “Eye and Mind” (1961)

Let your language be for you what the body is for lovers. It alone separates beings and unite them. - Motto of literary magazine founded by Schiller and Goethe

It cannot be the aim of #education to turn out rationalists, materialists, specialists, technicians and others of the kind who, unconscious of their origins, are precipitated abruptly into the present and contribute to the disorientation and fragmentation of society. - #CarlJung

One acre of hemp can produce as much paper as 4 acres of trees. And we need the trees to fight climate change.

As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn’t go. -- Wendell Berry

Yesterday I received an email abt The Captured Dead & reminded me how good the story is/was. It's only .99 cents on Kindle, and watch as William T Sherman veers towards madness or the native American shaman Isatai has enlisted the dead of Sherman's past. tinyurl.com/The-Captured... #booksky

My June newsletter feat. an excerpt from a novel VERY early in writing process, but I think it's turning out really well! The Literary Mystery Series: Hemingway's Valise. eomail5.com/web-version?... #booksky

The rhetoric of unspoken hungering

This shimmering space, where imagination and reality intersect... this is where all love and tears and joy exist. This is the place. This is where we live. Nick Cave 🩵💚🦋

We don’t read the poets to understand the moment. We read poets to understand ourselves.. .The purpose of the state is to numb the senses. The purpose of a lyric poet is to wake them up.~ Ilya Kaminsky

"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night." — Isabel Allende

The Self, Meditation, and Letting the River Take Us There

“What are we in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything, and infinitely far from understanding either.” – Blaise Pascal

Not knowing, discarding everything, is the highest form of thinking. ~ #JeannedeSalzmann

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. - #BertoltBrecht

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew. - #RobertFrost

“Wonder impales you suddenly on a shaft of beauty.” — Robert Dessaix

“The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo and Apollo said, `You must change your life.’ When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.” -- Ursula K. Le Guin

Now, this breath to map a body

My favorite Vonnegut novel, which I have heard is fairly uncommon.

The first symptom of our awakening from our sleep is to SUSPECT we are asleep. - #KathrynHulme

"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table." -- W. H. Auden

A rehearsal for a vision

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." ~ G.K. Chesterton

Maybe someone else will find this of use. Increasingly feeling harassed and violated by AI in my email and browser, I wanted to see what I could do about it. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

We go through time to barely anything

And yes, I did hear the cat.

Wow!!!