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Robinson is so great. Not quite forgotten, but not often remembered as well as he should be.

And so to bed.

The posters saying "wait till you hear how many books the librarians shred" are being disingenuous. The destruction of books is not by itself what's causing outrage. It's in combination with many other factors, chief among them AI companies' history of unethical and even blatantly illegal actions.

The trailer actually made me put aside my bias against biopics for a moment, so this is good news.

Ladies and gentlemen, we now conclude this discourse. Don't forget to tip your servers.

A lot of people truly seem to think that we are all running for office and that all of our moral, social and political decisions and discernment needs to be focused-tested through the pragmatic arithmetic of an electoral campaign. My friends, we aren't and they don't.

"Well I thought it was funny."—me at the end of every day on bluesky

It means I was right, in the late 90s, to insist to my coworkers that we go there instead of Applebee’s.

reading your posts

“The AI companies are pleading for *others* to make *them* act responsibly. And here we have a pressing example of how they’re acting irresponsibly in the meantime…That’s a human problem, a corporate accountability problem, a government problem, and a regulatory problem — that’s not a tech problem.”

I'll never forget, hanging out with Dorianne at a post-reception reading, her complaining about some stiff and staid academic colleagues, which she finally summed up by saying, "I mean, don't these people ever *fuck*?"

The Mascara Hall of Fame.

Time to watch the Nicholas Brothers defying gravity in "Stormy Weather" again? Oh, I think so. I like to repost this ever now and then because it's... well, you'll see. Cab Calloway cues them in, and then... magic happens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBb9...

11:11, make a wish (you know which one).

My favourite Jack Delano photo In the waiting room of the Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 1943

It’s not a slogan. It’s a cause. Abolishing slavery was a cause, and everything that’s written below about prison abolition was written about abolition of slavery. It’s good to have causes, if they are just.

I haven’t played a video game since 1994 and even I think they’re art.

*standing up on the plane* okay i'm gonna read "america" by allen ginsberg. don't worry i'm not gonna do the n word part. okay. america i've given you all and now i'm nothing. america two dollars and twentyseven cents january 17, 1956. i can't stand my own mind. america when will we end the hu

“…nerd.”