Daniel J. Cecil

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

YouTube video by Flightless Records King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Rattlesnake (Official Video)

The only music for writing:

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The University of Iowa presents Homecoming, a reading, 90 years of writing at Iowa. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Harding, Alexander Chee, Sarah Minor, Lauren Haldeman, Rodney Dailey II. Friday March 6, 7-10PM, Checkerspot Brewing, 1421 Ridgely St. AWP 2026 Baltimore Maryland

The Beautiful Room Is Emptier Now,a tribute to Edmund White. Alysia Abbott, Brian Alessandro, Alexander Chee, Alden Jones, Rakesh Satyal. Associated Writing Programs Conference Saturday March 7, 3:20-4:35pm, room 301, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center.

If you’re at AWP2026, I am reading tonight at this Iowa Writers’ Workshop event with Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Harding, Sarah Minor, Lauren Haldeman and Rodney Dailey II. Tomorrow I’ll be honoring Edmund White alongside @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social, Alysia Abbott, Brian Alessandro and Alden Jones.

Is Instagram threads one of the circles of hell Dante was talking about? What a seer!

CNN Could Be Next Up for a Right-Wing Reboot Thanks to the Ellisons With Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN could be the next media property slated for a right-wing turn.

"'If Bari is going to be running CNN, expect people to leave.'

This is further proof that there is seemingly no amount of money or power that can force any journalist not married to her to like or respect Weiss, a tool in every sense of the word ..."

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Say no to surveillance society.

Nice pull and an important reminder that, no, things haven't always been like this.

AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM | Reading List The U.S. and Israel continued their deadly imperial spiral this last weekend with a joint operation in Iran that resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties and the assassination of Iran's supreme lea...

We must stand against U.S. imperialism.

For a deeper analysis of imperialism, war, extractivism, and a left internationalism that could organize against these forces, consider the titles on this list.

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Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about.

Their stories should be known:

Yeah I won’t be using Canvas anymore.

Frustrated? Intro to communism reading list with pdfs, online text, and audio books for each

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Ossicle Daniel J. Cecil THE WALL IS splattered with a thought or two at a bar the size of a living room. To the left of the liquor is a mural lavishly depicting a crowd of yuppies swirling around open bott…

Well, well, well. I’ve got a new piece up on effy literary, a lit mag I found on @chillsubs.bsky.social. They’re doing awesome stuff, including publishing this odd non-fiction number about AI, listening and sight, and fungus that takes over the brain. Enjoy: effyliterary.art/2026/02/13/o...

Ossicle Daniel J. Cecil THE WALL IS splattered with a thought or two at a bar the size of a living room. To the left of the liquor is a mural lavishly depicting a crowd of yuppies swirling around open bott…

Well, well, well. I’ve got a new piece up on effy literary, a lit mag I found on @chillsubs.bsky.social. They’re doing awesome stuff, including publishing this odd non-fiction number about AI, listening and sight, and fungus that takes over the brain. Enjoy: effyliterary.art/2026/02/13/o...

The level of embarrassment felt after putting research for a demented story about addiction into a group chat (instead of texting yourself)? Let me tell you: mortification-level.

Man, Owning Mahoney is a masterclass of utilizing trope and genre to encourage great performances. Scaffolding for diverse effects. Not perfect, but that’s a plus.

Hiring - en mask!
@theonion.com

The combination of the image and headline

Here is a new poem. Already revised, alas. But for what it’s worth: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Many thanks to Jeff Shotts and Kevin Young.

No better feeling than being back in the classroom with an engaged group of students.

Live forever by refusing to die. Become a writer

Nice acceptance today. Hope to share a link soon.

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protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed.

disgusting.

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder SCHUMER MUST GO!

I love it when @majorityreport.bsky.social gets fired up. With Chuck Schumer out there enabling funding for paratroopers in the streets, it's not hard to be mad.

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Protect Our Communities from Federal Overreach Send a message to your mayor and urge them to issue an executive order that defends your city’s values, safeguards constitutional rights, and keeps families safe.

The folks at @majorityreport.bsky.social shared this link that drafts an email (that you can edit) to send to elected officials in your area.

Worth checking it out, and it's super easy. Takes less than 2 minutes of your time and could have a massive impact 🖖🏽

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Gourmet Magazine Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

I’m remembering how once, at a residency, a writer I was talking to claimed that REAL writers don’t teach, and now I’m arguing with them about it in my head.

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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A photo of the book cover of Techno Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Yaroufakis

Currently reading Techno Feudalism by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social and really enjoying the structure: a beginner’s guide to capitalism in the front, a deep dive into everything wrong with today’s finance driven economy (led by tech industry bullying) at the back. Accessible, but full of insight.