A reminder that the statistical majority of the text you encounter now on the Internet is not actually meant for you as a human being reading, even if it happens to resemble legible prose. #Textpocalypse

Currently on a Caltrain, in San Mateo, CA, listening to two AI bros (one of whom is French) plotting how to publish scam articles in reputable scientific journals as a method of proving their skills.

Last teaching day of 38th grade but who’s counting.

Sphinxing today, but still my favorite creature.

Electric Caltrain named Nancy Pelosi being pulled by a diesel locomotive = everything’s a metaphor now.

Just here to offer my perspective.

Don’t get me started.

Now that the AI overlords are *literally* lining up in Rome, seems an apt time to repost this…

Abundantly on board with the new programming on my block.

Curiosity and imagination as survival imperatives, not nice-to-haves

Did not expect my main plumeria, long dormant, to make such an auspicious comeback this spring.

“AI” in the form we’re experiencing it—political, educational, and commercial forced adoption—is social engineering and ideological indoctrination at a scale and speed only the most dystopian narratives have imagined. Truly Cassandra and gaslight feelings to be witnessing and objecting in this era.

No I will not.

It’s been hard for me to accept this bit of Twainian wisdom, but it’s paramount. If you’re winning most of the fights you pick, you’re either picking the wrong fights or you’re picking the wrong side.

Was pretty thrilled to give early editions of Marianne Moore's Complete Poems to our graduating Science Communication cohort on Friday, where MM becomes instructive for her approaches to metaphor and revision and compilation. But the inscriptions and bookplates in these books were also the best.

Now that’s an epigraph.

Polishing the Burghers of Calais (has got to be a metaphor for something).

When you’re already having a good morning and then unlock a literary life goal.

Caturday night.

Might be the healthiest plant I’ve raised 🌵.

Satire > evil.

Unexpected morning rainbow over SF. 🌈

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Lunar envy.

How I feel when hearing stupid arguments about the inevitability of AI uptake.

Enjoyed a very pious Easter service hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco.

This particular moon.

Oh so now copyright matters.

Finally made a visit to the Ralph Ellison Memorial on Riverside Drive, below the apartment building the author lived in for many years.

Finally had a moment to read this. Such an essential reading of the current tone of AI-adoption rhetoric.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Winter veg.

A sobering piece on the deliberate randomness and brutality of organized state terror, by @mashagessen.bsky.social.

I really wish someone/anyone at @caltrain.com could find a way to honor the GoPass purchased by my employer. Or at least instruct their conductors to stop harassing me when it doesn’t show up on my card until they can fix the problem. #clippercardnightmare

Increasingly convinced that “nothing new under the sun” arguments are not only lazy but intellectually dangerous.

Mirror for the sun…

I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.

“a torrent of untruths, half-truths, smears, and innuendo has been unleashed by the White House”

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Wish for 2026: “Come healing of the reason / come healing of the heart.” - L. Cohen.

This is way better than the CA high-speed rail I voted for in 2008. 🙃

Might have isolated the only sunny spot in the Californias this morning.

Important thread, about the pernicious difference between what we might be inclined to call “new media” in our time and earlier print and digital forms.

Update: gato is fully settled in.

Annual x-mas road trip with the gato (now a connoisseur of hotel linens).

People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.

Did my annual Christmas shopping @greenapplebooks.bsky.social. And noticed this mural for the first time. Might be a creationist now…🍏😂

i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.