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Joseph Cornell is rad dude

I was driving a school bus one time and this otherwise very annoying 9 year old boy was reading a Garfield book right behind me quietly. At one point he chuckled to himself and said “Garfield does it again.”

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

Every #bluesky timeline needs this! ❤️

“The secret best thing about mamas is that they’re temporary.” Wow, this story is good. Darkly funny and exquisitely written. I loved every word @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social!

Whoa, just got a huge acceptance... from myself :) Because there is no acceptance like self-acceptance, my friends.

only if the essays were too... cheesy😌

hair looks great bud!

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A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.

"This is an important event: the first time AI-induced psychosis has affected a well-respected and high achieving individual.”

love this. a capsule life. the 'purity' of dirt, water, a dying flame

I'm Pretty Sure I Would Remember That by Chris Scott If your brother really broke his arm. If your brother broke his arm falling from the ash tree in our backyard, the one along the fence. If your brother broke his arm falling from the tree because he’d…

today's Chris Scott short really found a way to crawl inside me and not get out

"If your brother really broke his arm. If your brother broke his arm falling from the ash tree in our backyard, the one along the fence. If your brother broke his arm..."

https://www.havehashad.com/ivovi

I saw Flavor Flav in the mirror

I once overheard a guy who thought that looking at a photo of the sun would hurt his eyes.

Gonna give a 25 hour speech about not doing my job then sell a memoir about it

hell yea. I'M PRETTY SURE I WOULD REMEMBER THAT is fire btw

i love when this happens

when we invite writers to revise and resub we mean it😙

Went to read up about Elizabeth Gilbert but accidentally typed Elizabeth Girlbert so now I’m just laughing and enjoying life instead

On writing in a new language 🗣️ Plus a recap of our June, a whole bunch of shoutouts, and more!

It's OKD newsletter day! Our July issue features reflections and advice from @norami.bsky.social on writing in a new language, plus our usual roundup of shoutouts and our June recap.

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As social media manager, by rule, I equally love promoting our contributors and staff and forgetting that I’m also a person who fits that category apart from being The Voice of OKD. So here’s something I did!

Really liked those orcas popping up at the end. Totally works re iterations and the feeling of abundance and joy (..and is that a Nam Le nod in the title.. 👀)

ORCAS, or LIFE & ART & MAGIC & BEAUTY by Aaron Burch My buddy Pilot comes to visit. Says it’ll do him good to get out of town for a couple days—new scenery, change of pace, leave the normal life problems and complications and stresses behind. But also w...

excited to have a story by Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social !!

this one is about friendship, stories, pizza, tiki bars, & magic. make sure to read ‘Orcas’ today !

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Our associate fiction editor at @okaydonkey.bsky.social !

Divine Creatures and Monsters Alike by M.M. Kaufman It was a strange time for us all.  My mother, always a confident woman, acted odd her whole pregnancy. Was nervous from noon to night. My father, a nonstop talker, was silent. And I had what t…

"There are trees all over the world. Gravity too. Wherever my body goes, there my thoughts go as well, even if there is still an ocean between them."

"Divine Creatures and Monsters Alike" by @mmkaufman.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

"Brogan prayed his sister wouldn’t take on his father’s moral and spiritual weakness, his step-mother’s willfulness, prayed she would someday find a man like Leonard, who would cure her of the modern world’s stupidity and cruelty." @jeffchon.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

See? Editors and writers are friends.. not weirdly Freudian adversaries

Gallery by Jane O’Sullivan Loie Hollowell, Two centimetres dilated, 2023 I’m telling Ben about the heist I read about, how she distracted the security guard while he went upstairs and plucked a painting off the gallery wall.…

"'I don't know how to do this,' I tell Ben, our son in my arms. A weight now. A squalling leviathan and he knows. He knows I'm failing him and it breaks me into a million tiny pieces."

"Gallery" by @sightlined.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

Brett crushed this revision process. Curiosity patience craft and instincts. And it shows.

Bunch of hamheaded losers lol