This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Listening to Jason Molina today… if they think you got it they’re going to beat it out of you with work and debt whatever all else there is you got to watch your own back try to see the light of goodness burning down the track

the money is mine all mine mwahahhahahaa I hate it here.

A fun collab with @noahjgordon.bsky.social reviewing one of my top books of 2025. tough to give the book justice in just a couple thousand words! check it out, and do check out The Long Heat!

The world is hard right now. So, to help, I give you Bowie and Sherman. We don’t deserve dogs, but I love every day with them.

Very well and very efficiently said.

It’s January 5. There’s 360 days left this year. How can we do this?

The AI destruction of undergraduate education is about to get much worse. Yet universities do nothing but pander to the industry www.chronicle.com/article/can-...

Official calculation: 3.7 years taken off my life from watching Steelers/Ravens matchup in my lifetime. That was an all-timer.

Deep budget cuts and massive firing sprees shrank emergency response agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), considered a global crown jewel for climate science.

I made 26 pints of homemade chicken stock the past few days. The world (and america) are awful, but at least I have stock to last the year!

I’m not sure the world has ever seen a leader who was simultaneously so cruel and so terribly, terribly dumb

Mooned you!

A hawk visitor on this first day of the new year…

Professors and teachers: Consider assigning your students some of the many AI-related suicide/murder court documents. I'm going to in my creative writing courses. This could be relevant material in any classroom in which you think AI is a factor. Which is to say, all of them.

It's just a bullshit product designed to fuck everyone over except the billionaires. Stop using it.

Appreciate the shoutout on Lars guitar music list of 2025. I’m in the “Is that even a guitar?” category, and yes, it is, I made the whole record with my Guild D 55 and a drum machine on my phone. 🎸❤️‍🔥😜

Taking a good day to a great day

Strong winds mean I’ve filled the bathtub. We’re on a well. Iykyk.

The great @chuckwendig.bsky.social hits this one out of the park.

No, we don't have to accept hallucinatory, ecosidic creative stealing LLMs. The genie not only can be put back in the bottle, we need to do so. Accepting this as the state of affairs that we have to accept and going forward is an enormous mistake. www.patreon.com/posts/ai-and...

AI is destroying my livelihood as a freelance copyeditor/proofreader and I do not have the skills or inclination to pivot into the more personal, emotionally involved work of content/developmental editing. AI can get in the bin.

This.

Art lives in the process, in the struggle to grow and figure out the specific needs of the work, and in the arrival at a better understanding of the artist’s limitations. The product is just the end result of the art.

Nice Christmas evening…

If he dies tomorrow…

I covered this in my premium last week, it’s laughable! www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

One Battle After Another. Watched it for the 5th time tonight. As good as any film I’ve seen in the past decade.

"You have to use AI." ...why?

Generative AI is for losers. It’s so embarrassing to watch people debase real artists, the environment, and themselves for a sloppy, rip-off of a party trick.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

We can do even more.

Bowie is chillin’.

So, the administration that wishes we’d just give up trying ALSO hates essays? How very on brand. Head to the comments to co-sign our EIC @kristenmiller.bsky.social’s ✨holiday message✨ to the NEA. We’re not going anywhere. #literarycommunity #essay

It would be hard to state how devastating and senseless this decision is.

400000. Dead. Children. There is no punishment harsh enough for these ghouls.

Just picked up a new pair of sneakers. If you need a pair, hit them up! Great, attentive, helpful!

Virginia is full of hope and promise.

Can’t think of a better list of just the absolute worst people!

I don’t think we as a society have thanked @papapishu.bsky.social for obtaining, ripping, and uploading a master copy of the essential Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants, Jay’s 1997 HBO special and the best distillation of his one of a kind talent archive.org/details/rick...

"Proclaiming someone’s or something’s defeat contributes to it. It’s a form of sabotage." (And a way of giving oppressive powers exactly what they want.)

"Unregulated AI development will drive a surge in data center construction, [with] massive energy, water, & land demands whose impacts...fall hardest on predominantly Black, Brown, low-income, & Indigenous communities. This is a power grab [favoring] Big Tech billionaires." naacp.org/articles/naa...

Replacing working men with billionaires. Hard to imagine a better way of summing up 2025.

For the AM crowd, I wrote about a human-centered technology course I teach at Lehigh. The class focuses on finding your purpose in a time of automation and AI, and it's probably the most important class I teach nowadays.

Great show tonight by Johnson and Magnolia Electric Company at The Southern tonight. Saw them, with the late Jason Molina obviously, in 2004 in Wilmington, NC. Few writers have impacted me as much as Molina, and it was lovely to celebrate his songs and life. Amazing, amazing show.

"The house that mouse built, and which has been notoriously protective of its intellectual property, opened up the video generator, saw the videos featuring Nazi Spongebob and criminal Pikachu, and decided: We want in" www.404media.co/disney-inves...

Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.

Stealworkers

I’m feeling pretty low. Trying to focus on book I’m writing… if I get one more out… that’s my hope.

Almost was good enough.