Thinking back, I realize our complaint wasn’t so much about money per se as about financially privileged vs. less privileged characters. lithub.com/those-folks-...

I’ve been recalling how often, nearly fifty years ago, Ray Carver and I complained about the same issue. At one point in our lives, we lived next to one another in dumpy motel cabins near Iowa City that rented for $10 a night. lithub.com/those-folks-...

Who did this? I hope not AI

Engaged in the time-honored tradition of writing the slideshow for the presentation while waiting for the flight to the presentation

يومن مناسب للاستماع للشهيد الحى رمضان البرنس: open.spotify.com/track/2gsP9L...

Perfect allegory of the UAE feat USA relationship.

I am still amazed every time I see videos of people filming themselves while crying... This is the highest level of narcissism that any living creature can perform... They should sell such videos on OF or something

Naguib Mahfouz at the age of 95 — this was the last picture taken just weeks before he was admitted to the hospital, where he later passed away

في كارثة طريق القاهرة السويس الأخيرة، احتلت التريلا دور البطولة المطلقة، في خطوة تعيد ترسيخ سائقي التريلات بسهولة ضمن فئة "أعداء الشعب"، ه! manassa.news/stories/28090

تتحدث مع نموذج الذكاء الصناعي الموجود على موبايلك، تهلوس له بأيّ أفكار، فيصيغها لك بأسلوب أدونيس، تقرأه فتعجب بعبقريتك، وتذهب للنوم وأنت تحلم بنوبل. megaphone.news/long-read/%D...

I will leave this here as a reminder for the future... كس ام كل التيارات الإسلامية سنة وشيعة معتدلين ومتشددين من دمشق حتى نيويورك

Today's poem , I believe it doesn't need metadata.. If you know... You know

Kurt Markus - Young Man, for Yohji Yamamoto's Y’s for Living, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1988.

How no one wrote about decolonizing "J. R. R. Tolkien" We need Ebrahim Iron axe to take these clouds

It’s like they’re bleeding the global economy and burning through resources so they can promise AGI “next year.” For what? Who exactly benefits? Or are we just watching billionaires act out the sci-fi novels they read in high school, believing it’s their sacred mission?

In the last three weeks, the answers I received from AI modules, especially ChatGPT, are becoming more and more stupid. I can see they are getting more sophisticated and trying to be smart, but drafting a recommendation letter doesn't require super intelligence.

What an album,  It rises as a grandiose emperor's courtyard, abandoned by humans, but wild animals and gazelles with wide eyes roam through. open.spotify.com/track/1dp0MR...

The Prison and Justice Writing Program announces the 33 winners of the 2025 PEN Prison Writing Awards! The PWAs honor work created in carceral facilities nationwide in the areas of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Read the full announcement here: pen.org/press-releas...

The jars of Nag Hammadi library remind us: truth never arrives naked. It hides in symbols, waiting for a reader who knows how to open it.

We used to burn books to control the world. Now we just train models to rewrite them.

When Tsai Lun made paper from rags and bark, he didn’t invent a surface. he invented memory itself. Bureaucracy was only its first religion.

From Socrates who hated writing to Edison who preached the death of books... each generation believes it’s burying the book. Yet the book always returns, printed in new blood. #AI

This was the proper task of a history of thought, as against a history of behaviors or representations: to define the conditions in which human beings 'problematize” what they are, what they do, and the world in which they live”

The rapists and war criminals responsible for these atrocities will soon be seen at yoga and meditation retreats in India, or working as security staff at Adelson casinos in Las Vegas.

النعمة والمنجز الوحيد للاسلام هو الغاء الربا والفايدة على القروض، غير كدا في رأى مفيش اسلام، فيه بس نسخة معربة من الديانات التوحيدية اليهودية والمسيحية.

A U.S. agent tried to flip Nicolás Maduro’s pilot — offering riches if he secretly flew Venezuela’s leader into U.S. custody. The failed plan, which reads like a Cold War spy novel, shows how far the U.S. has gone to oust Maduro.

قصة صعود مريم أديلسون لتصبح "صانعة الملوك" في الشرق الأوسط وأمريكا، لا تتضمن فصولًا من السعى أو النضال أو العمل الشاق أو الذكي، بل أشبه ما تكون بحكايات نادية الجندي في أفلام الثمانينيات؛ امرأة تصعد السلم الاجتماعي من أسفله بلا عناء، ا. manassa.news/stories/27789

تتحدث مع نموذج الذكاء الصناعي الموجود على موبايلك، تهلوس له بأيّ أفكار، فيصيغها لك بأسلوب أدونيس، تقرأه فتعجب بعبقريتك، وتذهب للنوم وأنت تحلم بنوبل. megaphone.news/long-read/%D...

We cannot forget that the originator of modern political Zionism, Theodore Herzl, first wrote the occupation of Palestine as a science fiction novel, four decades before the Nakba. The speculative genres are as fertile ground for monstrous imaginations as they are marvelous ones. vajra.me/2025/10/

This is hilarious because why is this OpenAI’s desperate, scrabbling marketing strategy for women but the equivalent for men is ‘you can fuck it now’

While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code. n.pr/4qmYRCS

Scientists that won the 2024 IgNobel Prize for "discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus" have completed a successful first-in-human trial testing the safety and tolerability of enteral ventilation, a technique that gets oxygen-rich fluid pumped into the anus.

‘Reaching Heba in My Dreams’ arablit.org/2025/10/20/r...

Fort Bragg has seen alarming numbers of suicides, fatal overdoses, soldier-on-soldier murders, and shoot-outs with civilians in nearby Fayetteville, as well as many cases of drug smuggling in the Special Forces and the XVIII Airborne Corps. harpers.org/archive/2025...

✨The Great Sonic the Hedgehogs off Kanagawa✨

Dickey Center hosts journalist and author Ahmed Naji to discuss literary censorship www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...

"إن حياة الفرد الأخلاقي تقوم على احتذاء النظام الكونى، أما حياة الأوغاد فتقوم على معاكسة ذلك النظام الكونى" -جرافيتي في القاهرة 2012

His love of people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be

Joyce Mansour and Andre Breton 1960

أعتقد أن أغنية رعاك الله، هى أكتر أغنية وطنية عملها حسين الجسمى تعبر عن الهوية الاماراتية المعاصرة، فلا أظن أن فيه حد ثانى في الكوكب ممكن يغنى يقول: "أنا الأرباح، والفايد ورأسالمال"

Well… calling someone a ‘horny perv’ is a judgment. It’s as Foucault said... the Western mind can only interrogate and problematize sex.

I don’t believe in America. I submit to it. And like any true submissive, I climax on this twisted relationship of love, hate, and fear, the shiver, the tremble, the wetness before the first strike of the whip on your bare flesh.

As Anti-Poverty Week unfolds, we need to talk about the part of poverty the public conversation always avoids: the prison system. 🧵

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All immigrants start from nothing and often end up with nothing. But at least you do it freely, without having to prove yourself to anyone

كل اللى محتاجة انك تصحى... قربنا على سويسرا، ومن ناحيتى جبت لك دنيا جديدة بكيسها

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