Good news of a poem acceptance today. I'll take it!

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Believe in your work. Stop ending papers with “More research is needed” and start concluding with “No more research on this topic is needed.”

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This painstakingly detailed account of a nightmare experience working with Google feels worth honoring with a read. So unprofessional and disrespectful of Google. news.artnet.com/art-world/ju...

投稿募集中 日本語でも可能です！

a boris kind of night

Reminder for the new year

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Shout out to the airport employee who pushed both up and down on the elevator and announced, "Screenshot!"

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

Been on a social media break. But happy to report that my work on Kojima Hiyori's collection "Water's Edge" has been shortlisted for the Poetry in Translation Prize, launched this year by Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions. Extracts up at granta.com/the-poetry-i...

LOL

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

lounging

now i'm seeing authors getting pumped about AI translations - and cheap AI-assisted translations (first pass is AI, then refined by translator) i feel like these people are not valuing their own writing, or the complex work translators do. it's not really a word-for-word thing.

evergreen

"my som"

layers

"It’s not that people actually think art is pointless. It’s that they are jealous of someone else getting paid to do it. They, too, want to be paid to make art. They find creation joyous, however small their attempts. There is art and there is work, and you only deserve money if you suffer."

If you live in Japan, I recommend printing some of these out and just having them on you. Sadly, I could have really used one last night at dinner... t.co/rOZdnPIHFb (the link goes to a download site with an ad that is annoying to close etc. but the zip and enclosed pdfs are legit) #NoHateOsaka

big taco with only a little meat

let's go!!!

There was a time when you could describe Gaza as an "open-air prison," and people would scoff at the ludicrous hyperbole, and now we're at "Gaza is an open-air death camp" and that's just ... true.

Daniel Hahn: "what AI can do is not yet a threat to human translators and human readers of sophisticated, textured human writing. The threat is what some people think it can do." observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

There's a piece of graffiti I see sometimes from the train. "BLACK ODEN PIZZA," it says. I try to imagine the circumstances. There are other words around it, but that's all I can ever make out.

Resistance to ICE raid at Camarillo farm.

Joanna's recent piece on the short story form @literaryhub.bsky.social is great! And you can read her gorgeous short stories, which we published in 2015, here: www.nyrb.com/products/ver...

Just circling back to this, o muse

なにこのそびえ立ち方。遠くの霞から姿を現す悪魔城に似すぎる tech-dracula skyline on a poor air quality day in Sendagaya

"Into the cold of aeons from a dark / Dynastic gown." Mervyn Peake, 1939

On the trail: of words, of where they lead us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXtX...

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Trying my hand at 'line and wash'. This one came out all right. (Reference pic was a still from Naked Lunch.)

'cat' once again tops my year-end list

An older family member walked in and said this: "Tomorrow is Christmas. And it's--Theatre to the Uglies." What does it mean? Who knows! Season's greetings!

I feel like Black Friday has become too commercialized

Susan Howe, "The Disappearance Approach"

a bsky list of university presses and indie publishers that you can add to your feeds if you like: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv

Just told someone I wanted to "sit down, relax, maybe watch an email"

going through some recent photos... this was somewhere in Hachiōji...

FAQ? Or ... hear me out ... YAS (yoku aru shitsumon)

sunset over a bicycle parking lot

"not because I could have been a wax archangel"