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Trump orders all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology President Donald Trump says he's ordering all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safe...

This is because the Pentagon and Trump don’t like Anthropic’s language preventing their tech from being used to surveil Americans or for autonomous weapons. Which means the Pentagon wants to use their tech to surveil Americans and build autonomous weapons apnews.com/article/anth...

Mikko Harvey: “Analysis” A poem by Mikko Harvey:

I love this poem by Mikko Harvey in @yalereview.bsky.social so much that I copied it by hand into my notebook.

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“No Future” Lexicon: Nothingness - Public Books Beyond the existential and metaphysical anxiety it provokes, nothingness also constitutes an ontological opening: it compels societies to produce symbolic and cultural responses to ward off the fear…

“Nothingness fractures our relationship to time, exposing its constructed, fragile, and contingent nature.”

New at PB: Virginie Tournay on “nothingness,” part of our No Future Lexicon.

I was going to guess Grace Potter, but then the pronoun threw me off. Are you going to reveal later in the thread who the band is?

This is a really useful addition to the LARB discourse.

The Second-Term Aesthetic | Dushko Petrovich Córdova So, in the cramped airplane’s limited sightlines, I looked for clues about whether these were just regular Midwestern dads, like me, flying for work, or whether they were regular Midwestern dads, flyi...

Take the rest of the morning and read this wonderful, wandering essay on the aesthetics of Trump’s second administration by @dushkopetrovich.bsky.social in the latest @nplusonemag.com. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...

Queen

What an incredible review of what sounds like a stunningly bleak novel. I'm going to miss 4 Columns. Sukhdev Sandhu on Birgitta Trotzig’s *Queen*.
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Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73 Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie S...

When in an interview long ago I mentioned Michael as a polestar, an inspiration for me, he called me out of the blue (I still have his message saved) & for hours shared stories, wisdom & advice with me. May your memory be a blessing Michael Silverblatt. It already is www.latimes.com/california/s...

Publishing job:

We are looking for an acquisitions coordinator at @oupress.bsky.social to support our acquisitions editors and authors!

It's a good entry point for a career in book publishing.

The position is on-site in Norman.

Questions? andrewb@ou.edu

Apply here:
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Just in time for Bandcamp Friday!

Very excited for this!

The Publishers Marketplace announcement of my book, which reads “Rahawa Haile's IN OPEN COUNTRY, a personal and political hybrid memoir of the author's transformative Appalachian Trail thru-hike, exploring the history of freedom of movement in the United States, and reckoning with America's foundational myth of conquered wilderness, the violence of national borders, and the legacy of diasporic placelessness, moving to Bryn Clark at Little, Brown, at auction, by Julia Kardon at HG Literary (NA).”

Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

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Just did something I should have done a LONG time ago--joined @literaryhub.bsky.social. Take those Amazon dollars and spend them at indie books stores and the places that still support literature, culture, and real thinking. lithub.com

I am trying to build this with The Rumpus! I hope we can fill some of this gaping void in criticism as we relaunch.

If you are a person who cares about books, you’re different from Jeff Bezos. Now would be a good day to stop shopping from Amazon, permanently.

Never too early for dad jokes!

A photo of a hand with ideas for a book scrawled sloppily across

Book notes taken while driving

David Naimon x Milkweed? This is the best literary news I’ve seen since forever.

Damn, Jon—congrats!

Awesome, thanks!

Ah, thank you! Clicking over to your website and checking out your DM essays now!

My sense though is that the Dark Mountain crowd *hasn't* gone this route (I should be better read in that mag than I am).

Yep. I've pretty much kept myself to his books, but then a year or two back went over to his substack on the advice of some writer friends, and it was pretty horrific. Sound like the new book is a pretty full embrace of ecofascism.

I think of it as the concrete/local/particular as a retreat/turn away from the world vs the local as a turn toward it. The first is a path toward nihilism, the second, toward solidarity.

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency

This was a weird, extraordinary read. I like books that teach you how to read them.