Time to make a Starter Pack for “Academics Who Refuse to Let AI Write for Them”?

Tonight’s plans

One of my favorite Ginsberg poems. youtu.be/1glr-tW-KQg?...

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

I was always jealous that my dad said he met Ginsberg when he and Peter Orlovsky visited Goddard College in ‘66. This photo is snag from the Goddard College facebook photo album. Sadly there are no recordings that I know of.

“Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.”

From Branca’s What’s Happening (1966), the moment when Warhol's sitting around with Ginsberg and Ginsberg says that they’ve come together to announce that they’re taking over the universe. Note that Mekas is filming as well. Some of his footage turns up elsewhere.

Found my insta post of Ginsberg's beard, which I saw in an exhibit in Paris ten years ago.

What are your favorite Ginsberg clips? Here's one that gets me every time.

My favorite piece of Ginsbergia is how in Hunter Thompson's 'Hell's Angels' the hyper-masculine and violent Angels are all terrified of the poet.

Ginsberg was a guest performer at a National Student Association convention I attended in 1967 or 1968. Somehow I ended up going shopping with him. I do not remember what he purchased. When the cashier offered him a receipt for taxes he said, “I don”t pay taxes.”

Yay! Here he is with Hugh MacDiarmid and The Clash:

Happy 100th to Allen Ginsberg! May his freak flag never stop flying.

This right here.

So like wtf tho

Audible from Providence all the way up to the NH border???? The fuck?

Gender studies remains the most vindicated major of all time

The option was either (a) accept that the relationship between gender and biology is complicated or (b) hand the country over to guys who say things like "our nation's teenage boys have too little sperm to develop the manly virtues" and America has MADE ITS CHOICE

This guy is running around using “low-T” as a slur. Regular Rambo over here. Chipmunk looking mf.

you know what would make DC more beautiful? more immigrants living in safety and abundance

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

imagine being president of the united states and getting snubbed by a group popular 40 years ago and best known for lip syncing and also one of them is dead

Sounds like all many of the performers Freedom250 announced will play the "Great American State Fair" were "booked" via a 90s band tour where they get automatically scheduled for stuff, but are now realizing this kooky MAGA event is not the Clark County Fair in Wash state. apnews.com/article/free...

hey chat what does it mean when AI executives are getting eviscerated on the commencement stage while skeptics get thunderous applause asking for 7 of my closest hyperscalers

A great opportunity to be Trump's arch nemesis. Comment by noon on June 3. savingplaces.org/monumental-a...

"We did nothing wrong by firing chemical irritants at a duly-elected senator" says a lot about where we are at as a country And none of what it says is good

We’re doing Hot Dickens Summer at our house. We’ve watched versions of Little Dorrit, Bleak House, and (high school nostalgia) Great Expectations. What should we watch next?

After reading the chyron (in a Richard Schechner voice): “The word *performative* doesn’t mean what you think it does.”

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

#OTD 1794: publication of #WilliamGodwin’s most celebrated novel, Caleb Williams, in which the servant Caleb denounces his murderous employer, Falkland, & both are morally destroyed by fake news, dirty tricks, & all the truth-twisting deceptions by which authoritarian governments maintain power.

Last night / Tonight. That’s what you call a good music weekend.

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

Musk could use his money to completely wipe out the Ebola epidemic in the DRC, and he’d STILL be one of the richest man-shaped things in the world. He thinks empathy is weakness.

Had no idea that this would’ve been his 75th birthday when I pulled this record out. A one of a kind artist, music personified

What corruption in this life, that it will let this man live!

"The A-grade will finally mean something, signaling to future employers and grad schools which students are in the top 20% of their classes. An A from Harvard now will likely determine much of their future success, which should *checks notes* make students somehow LESS anxious." Care to explain?

I genuinely struggle to understand what these people think is going on

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

A lost early Bill Callahan lyric.

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

A super interesting opportunity at the Whitney Humanities Center. The deputy director there, @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social, is awesome and you know I <3 New Haven. Please repost and spread the word!!

Omg fuck this guy

On a flight home yesterday from ORD, two charming young men sitting next to me struck up a flight friendship. What did they talk about? Sun Ra. The poetry they each like. Playing piano vs. keyboards. Felix & Ezra, YOU DID MY HEART SUCH GOOD. (Did I eventually insert myself in the convo? Uh, yes.)

@samplereality.bsky.social I think you have a winner.