K. Winkler

Planning on it.

the hideous rot of life should make him easier to harvest

That Moorcock cover is a dead ringer for @johnchrostek.com's latest novel.

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It's that day again. Try and have a good one. 🦉

Once again:

We could have arranged society in any way we chose and this is what we came up with.

Or more time off.

New Thomas Ha story just dropped.

Around 2009/2010, when I would eat lunch, I would play this movie on my computer from wherever I was in it, then stop when I finished. I've probably seen HOT FUZZ around 30-35 times, total. Maybe more.

I teach bystander intervention for a living and trained nearly 30,000 people this year. This is absolutely a growing phenomenon and there's already some academic, peer reviewed research to back up how widespread incivility has become.

TLDR: People forget they live in a society.

"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common

"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you

You should write weird, human stuff as a fuck-you to AI and the awful world we live in, yes, but also because you will be changed and your life will be changed through allowing yourself to be vulnerable and uncomfortable in your art.

Which is what the promoters of AI had originally touted it for. Impossible scientific breakthroughs, etc. Meanwhile, the best they can do is put teachers, painters, poets, and novelists out of work.

They’re the fucking Doofenschmirtzs of tech.

I’ve decided I’m just going to start shaming ppl in my life who use ChatGPT for anything. Like the way you have to shut down racists or Nazis immediately. Just bang on abt how idiotic they are for using it.

Until AI—not LLMs—starts whipping up cancer cures, it can fuck off.

We do. This was something @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & I discussed at the UIC UF event last week. (Forthcoming pod.)

Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.

When I taught Civics, I used Supreme Court cases to trace our expansion of rights to demonstrate democratic values.

If I were still teaching Civics today, I would need to place the concepts of 'precedent,' 'stare decisis,' and 'rule of law' in the trash bin.

This SCOTUS is corrupt.

Some recent book purchases from @bookshop.org & Loganberry Books in Cleveland. h/t @rpmirabella.bsky.social for some recs.

Be weirder and more unsettling

Any recommendations for other Lolli Edition titles? I loved THE EMPLOYEES.

Exactly.

African Americans didn't give America so much culture for people to say America has no culture.

Ppl don’t act rationally in “real” life. Why the fuck wld they suddenly do it in fiction?

To everyone who reads a horror novel, & in response to weirdness, says: “Why didn’t MAIN CHARACTER just go to the police?”

I respond: Shut the fuck up.

She was trying to say Goebbels and Horst Wessel. She was reading about how the former used the latter as a symbol/martyr for Nazi propaganda.

Wife just asked me if I’ve heard of Gurgles and Horse Vessel.

Feel free to try and translate that.

First pass thru on THE SUBSTITUTE TEACHER finished.

Working on multiple novels at the same time is frying my goddamn brain.

Opinion: Do Not Outsource Library Services - Fullerton Observer Update: The Observer received the letter below from retired Children’s Services Librarian Janine Jacobs after she learned about a proposed presentation  to the Library Board of Trustees from a private...

Here’s my go-to article that provides a good, concise overview of one of the main culprits in the privatization of libraries: Library Systems and Services.

fullertonobserver.com/2022/03/08/d...

I will say over and over again that us library folk need to be louder in our support of the Post Office. Because guess what—if they start thinking of USPS in terms of“making” or “losing” money, libraries won’t be far behind.

My question is: Did I let an opportunity to use our hands for arts and crafts slip away in favor of him doing video games? Or is it better that he's spending time with his best friend/brother?

Is this a non-issue, basically?

My youngest son was trying to make a Boba Fett helmet from a small paper bag. I heard him struggling. But I wanted to let him try to work thru it before stepping in. He came to me to make it, & I said we need a plan, he got frustrated & then his older brother roped him into playing Minecraft...