For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are. I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

The temptation to resign ourselves to resignation is never stronger than at a time of overlapping crises, and the AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Of course one should jump into the novels, but this weird assemblage of excerpts isn’t a horrible way to dip into Krasznahorkai.

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

Old people. Living in big cities. Afraid of the sky. - @bruces.bsky.social

Time to repost a classic. clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

“Instead of being enthralled by its wan superficiality, we would be better off looking beside and beneath it at the extractive project that machine learning serves in its expansion into humanistic research and education”

Fewer Good Men

Warrior Ethos

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

"Rarely does an esolanger discover the most interesting possibili­ties of their language on their own; it is others’ experiments that reveal the nuance and character of a language." (The preface from @dtemkin.bsky.social's excellent new book "Forty-Four Esolangs")

At best, AI is weighted dice…likely to land on expected sides, but not certain to do so.

It’s time to finally tackle it.

The future youtu.be/8WlbQRoz3o4?...

Good morning! I’ve received so much support for my fundraiser already, and I’m so grateful. But unfortunately I can’t stop here if I want to stay. Repost/signal boost is greatly appreciated 🙏

Horrible news about Charlie Kirk. Violence ALWAYS benefits the worst forces in society, regardless of who the victim is. Only more hatred and oppression will grow out of this.

iS tHis a FliPped ClasSROom??

Obama wore a tan suit.

We’re just a few steps away from articles looking like NASCAR cars…plastered with AI company logos in the acknowledgements

SETTLED: A grand jury WILL NOT indict a ham sandwich. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...

Unsafe at Any Prompt

Literally shut OpenAI down right now. Just pull the fucking plug. #AbolishAi

“Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!” thedispatch.com/article/scie...

It took me 0.02 seconds to pre-order this.

It should be called Superficial Intelligence.

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

“I wrote this about two Mexican bandits that I saw on the TV two weeks after I wrote this song” youtu.be/zprRZ2wFQD4

—Carry a notebook everywhere. —Print drafts out and edit by hand. —Read all the books remotely like the one you're trying to write and a bunch that are completely unrelated but which might help with form, tone or style. —Write all the words your damn self.

"Former UT President Jay Hartzell initiated a review of the program in February, warning faculty that Republican legislators were scrutinizing it. Two months later, the program was suddenly dropped, effective immediately." I ran that program for 23 years. It taught students to write.

I’m reluctant to mention… I’m resigned to say… I’m unexcited to announce… I’m ashamed to share….

Finally, robots have achieved "humanity," thriving on each other’s ruin and calling the carnage progress.

while he used candles, i moused computers, i watched tv. during covid, i witnessed my relatives pray for the vaccine already in my body waters away. watching is another kind of pain. that’s why they use it as torture, too. —Thanh Bui, with a riotous new poem for #SummerRiot today! 📺🔥

I’m an immigrant writer who doesn’t have an Atlantic Monthly staff salary or Atlantic Monthly health insurance. I’m about to put my phone away and do several hours of heavy manual labor so I can eat this week. Maybe you wanna subscribe to my Patreon while I’m busy?

Chris Ware postage stamps are coming July 23rd

Trickle down responsibility

It takes a village to raze a village.

May you live in idiotic times.

I’m going to chop up 100 dollars in gold and/or silver to pay for my state car registration.

I wrote about the suppression of labor, the instrumentalizing of revolutionary language for counter revolutionary means, and the art market as class warfare www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...

“Pivot to video” but for human subjectivity.

The future youtu.be/8WlbQRoz3o4?...

MAGA voted for the Book of Revelations, and we’re getting it.

I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

“& Customs” Enforcement can (and will) take on many meanings.