@michaelzapata.bsky.social
Author of the novel THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU. Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago & Northwestern University. Descended from Andean farmers, poets, and union organizers. michaelzapata.com
Every comment is a novel.
The United States supported and funded a genocide against the Palestinian people, so, not for one split-second should any of this be surprising.
Hegseth: "The only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they’re going to live.”
thehill.com/policy/defen...
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 💥
The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
They’re just talking like coked out Nazis in a bunker at this point.
It’s capitalism.
I mean. It’s capitalism.
It always changes, but in this political moment I have been thinking about King Lear.
No overhaul. Any social contract between DHS and the American people has been shredded. It needs to be abolished.
Congratulations! This is so fantastic!
The United States of America has a Rambo's Gun problem.
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AI is trash.
But, sincere question, do they even have a strategy beyond neoliberalism?
If you ever have imposter syndrome, just think of this photo.
It goes without saying but AI tech bros both have no humanity and are quite dumb. Anyway, AI is a sinking ship.
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One of seven Vichy Dems who voted to fund ICE in November. Of course she’s talking about the wrong “vermin.”
Capitalists truly view us and life as nothing more than profit machines. It’s time to shut down AI.
Correct, when you add up what we pay in taxes with what we pay in premiums, deductibles, copays, and treatments denied by insurance, and tarriffs, plus tolls to use public infrastructure, etcetera; other developed countries have more in their pockets than we do at the end of the month..
Brava! This!!!
Sue Open AI to the white meat and then keep going until they're bankrupt.
Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.
One wonderful thing about humans is - regardless of the thieves in power - curiosity and care still marches on.
This is a concentration camp.
Chicago’s Newberry Library has received $4 million from the Mellon Foundation that will help widen access to Indigenous languages, some of which have been on the brink of disappearance.
“We—that is, Americans—live most of the time inside the cocoon of our small daily lives. Except for fire, flood, or outright war, the history-making world hardly ever impinges on most of us. For the most part, it is over there and we are over here.”
New from Vivian Gornick:
What you are told is impossible by both parties is actually very possible.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/n...
AI is a pointless zombie tech.