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Soul Stripping Against AI, again.

“AI wins not when it becomes more human, but when humans become more like AI: disengaged and devoid of original thought.”

This hit me like a ton of corporeal, not copied, not stolen bricks.

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Gray, black, and white tabby cat with stripes curls in a beige cat bed on a bed with a blue blanket. Cat has an open green eye and is next to her lambchop cat toy.

E celebrates international cat day

BEAUTY AND TRUTH Hey, I wanna tell all you poets, all you people strong enough to be poets. Cause first if you be a poet you gotta sign, a, a permission to be impoverished for the rest of your life. But there are two people, one was named Keats, the other was named Du Bois, they said there are only two things a poet has to worry about, Truth and Beauty. So that no matter what anybody says about you, or what kinda suffering you have to go through to write it, if you believe in it, and you can uphold truth, in a society full of lies, if you can uphold beauty in a society based on ugliness, if you can do that then you’re strong enough to be a poet. Does this sound like poet chauvinism? It might be. So, I want you to remember that. No matter what list they put you on and say you’re a bad person. No matter they won’t give you no money and try to starve your words out of you, cause they’ll try to do that. But remember that, you’ve got two things, Truth and Beauty.

Amiri Baraka

Democracy | ‘Whiteness’ Is an Ancient Con. We Can Defeat It. We don’t need “a coalition of humanity that agrees all the time, but one united to save democracy,” Donna Ladd writes.

DEMOCRACY: “We need to become a powerful majority to turn back bigotry & inhumanity amid this fierce urgency of now—not as a coalition of humanity that agrees all the time, but one united to save democracy & to finally realize the dream of so many who gave their lives to save us,” Donna Ladd writes.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

one of the hardest things for me has been coming up with honest yet not terrifying answers when my kids ask if everything is going to be alright

Alan interviewed me about the writing (10%) and metal (90%) just for fun. Remember fun? @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social

I have once again missed X-ray’s short story submission window. But you should send them something!

Have we tried giving billionaires more tax cuts? I think if they had more money, they would then rule us more benevolently.

Big thanks to the Mississippi Arts Commission and the NEA.

I cannot emphasize enough how much I love this book so far. @cbwell.bsky.social is a writer you should be following closely.

some books you should grab on #IndieBookstoreDay! (that's today!) 🧵

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YouTube video by Dark Tendencies Pere Ubu - The Hearpen Singles 1995 | Full | New Wave - Experimental - Art Rock

it’s a PERE UBU day.

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Congrats, Corey!

Miss Texas Considers Talking About Her Tooth - SmokeLong Quarterly My sister, who became Miss El Paso and then Miss Texas, is on stage about to answer the What would you do to change the world question to become Miss America. She looks close to God under those hot la...

Absolutely thrilled to have a story published with Smokelong Quarterly! Thank you so much to all of the editors!

You can read or listen to it here: https://www.smokelong.com/stories/miss-texas-considers-talking-about-her-tooth/

poster for The Strand bookstore event: featuring the cover of the novel LUMINOUS; text reads: Launching the New Book by Silvia Park with Hannah Tinti (includes photos of Silvia and Hannah); date of event: April 4th (tonight!) at 7pm

New York, friends! Something fun, artistic, & renewing to the soul happening in your town tonight!

@silviapark.bsky.social ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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AFTER PASSAIC - Farewell Transmission By Bud Smith Last night I broke a rib kicking a balloon. I went flying like Home Alone, Marv and Harry, landed on my side and damn it hurt. Sometime around sunset the following day I was at Miriam’s 8...

Here’s a new short story called “After Passaic” @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social
farewelltransmission.net/2025/04/afte...

Stanchion Magazine Issue 18 | Stanchion This is a pre-order for Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine. Expected to be published and shipped directly to you in April 2025.The issue will be approximately 90 elegantly uncoated pages full of short sto...

Completely knocked out that one of my longer short stories, "All the Small Things," will be included in Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine (@stanchion.bsky.social) next month. They're taking discounted pre-orders if you're so inclined: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Yes! Congrats!

Really proud to have been making Stanchion Magazine for 5 years now. Also really proud of Issue 18 feat. writing & visual art by 25 contributors from around the world. Please consider pre-ordering a copy today. You'll have it in hand in late April. 🖤🤍
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He’s so close to getting it

YouTube video by Matthew Wesley Smith - Topic Blue Star

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Some MWS music:
“Blue Star”
Available in the gettin’ places.

Just a huge fucking slut for public goods and services

We would love to read your work. Please submit for our Summer Issue using the link below. While you're at it, please consider becoming a sustaining member of our little community. Membership includes voting rights and a complimentary year-end print edition of the journal.
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Extended Interview: Mark Graham on Internet Archive’s Work Preserving the Web as Gov’t Sites Go Dark Extended interview with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. He is also part of the End of Term Archive for federal websites.

Extended Interview: Mark Graham on Internet Archive's Work Preserving the Web as Gov't Sites Go Dark

Screenshot of the top of the Mississippi Free Press blue sky profile showing 60,000 followers and photos of the MFP’s very inclusive team.

🚨 60,000 followers of @mississippifreepress.org as of today! This is a LOT for local media in US. Thank you, ow @bsky.app folk for being so good to us here!

Consumers are being sold an illusion of ownership. "Buy" a digital movie, an e-book, or a game today? Tomorrow, it could vanish. 🕳️

Senator @wyden.senate.gov is calling on the FTC to crack down on this digital "bait-and-switch." ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/28/w...

What's at stake? 🧵

Honored to have a story in this upcoming Hitchcock anthology, edited by Maxim Jakubowski. What an incredible TOC. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797579...