Laura Nagle

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what a shot

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I was reading a story to my niece (age 5—AND A HALF, she would want me to specify), and I stumbled over some words, so “took” came out as “tooked.”

Me: I’m not speaking English very well today, am I?

Her: You are very not.

Smart people have already written about the many problems of generative AI better than I could, but I’ll tell you this about the thing I know: writing is about writing. It’s an action. A verb. It’s what we do. I write, you write, they write. Skip that and you’re not a writer.

When you come across racists complaining about Bad Bunny today, don’t forget to hit them with this: Puerto Rican literature about Puerto Rico written by a boricua. Yo sería borincano aunque naciera en la luna. Thanks and hope you have a great Sunday!

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Ms. Hart has become an A.I. evangelist. Through her author-coaching business, Plot Prose, she’s taught more than 1,600 people how to produce a novel with artificial intelligence, she said. She’s rolling out her proprietary A.I. writing program, which can generate a book based on an outline in less than an hour, and costs between $80 and $250 a month.

Not a surprise even the successful AI novelists are pivoting to selling AI hype to aspiring authors instead.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Today I learned that my ninth grade students know AI queries are worse for the environment than a web search, but they were under the impression they had no other choice, because Google searches have AI summary by default. PSA: You can add “-ai” to eliminate that misleading nonsense and save a tree.

Name plate on a desk reading I WORK HARD SO MY CAT CAN HAVE A BETTER LIFE.

Checked in at the doctor’s office with a receptionist who has this posted at her station. I feel like I’m in good hands here, and I wished her and her cat a nice weekend.

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

We are delighted to team up with the Fine Arts Work Center to offer this (free!) event, "Human Translators in the Age of AI," to be held 3/19 at 6pm ET! Feat. Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Ian Giles, Umair Kazi & Kristen Renee Miller, moderated by Chenxin Jiang. More info here: buff.ly/fVccQNF

FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...

Q: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?*

A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.

We are now taking Fiction submissions for Southword. Just over 3 weeks to get your entry in!Click on the website link to submit your entry. Good luck!
#poetry #southword #fictionwriting

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Seems interesting that even AI companies are admitting reliance on LLMs impairs learning and skills: “We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.” www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

This woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.

A beginner’s guide to reading women in translation | The Aggie Davis, California

Looking to read more international literature written by women? Check out these six great picks in translation, featuring books translated by former ALTA Award Winners Lin King (2025) and Martin Aitken (2022), as well as 2026 ALTA Mentor Deepa Bhasti. At the California Aggie:

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

The face of a tuxedo cat is partially visible as he peeks out from a light blue and grey blanket.

Where’s David?: Definitely Not in a Blanket Fort Edition

Yesterday I read a poem that included the word “pettifogging,” and it was all I could do not to yell, “ALEXIS!! NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR PETTIFOGGING!!!” 💔

I’ve loved so many Catherine O’Hara performances, but I’m especially grateful for Moira Rose, who enhanced my vocabulary and named my cats.

32 people died ***that we know of***

A dilute tortoiseshell cat poses elegantly on a blanket with autumnal leaves on a brown background.

This cat loves camouflage. She has been ignoring the cat couch for weeks while it had various light-colored blankets on it, but I put this one on and she was drawn to it like a magnet.

Loved this, Emily! Congratulations!

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

Publishing for Minnesota Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.

There's a publishing auction for charity running at the end of this week with a BUNCH of wonderful critique, books, art, and bookish items for donations to organizations that help immigrants and low-income communities experiencing the threat of ICE.

#writingcommunity 💙📚 #author #journal

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A judgmental tortoiseshell cat sits on a gray blanket.

Alexis has returned from her shift observing the snowy world through the windows, and she is troubled by the things she’s seen. She thinks it’s time for me to have a chat with all our dog-owning neighbors and clue them in about this awesome new invention called a litter box.

Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

Not everyone is ride or die. Some of y’all are ride or bail money.

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Are you a flash writer? Flash-adjacent? We've started a free community space for All of the Flash Writers. It's run by SmokeLong, but it's for the world of flash. The Village. Follow The Village here @heyflashvillage.bsky.social and use the link pinned to the account to request citizenship.

Read a bunch of really great 100-word stories (www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...) and vote for your faves!