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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Cover of Disabling Intelligences, a dark pink book with orange vines.

Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Honestly if you want at least some insight as to why "classics of literature" are constructed as they are, it's worth knowing the market imperatives of the time. American science fiction and fantasy started in magazines and drugstore racks; short stories and 40K novels were how people go paid...

time
as it is
as it ever was
song begets word
prosy poesy poetry
rhythm rhyme
the only constant
every variable
time

Aerial view of a blue pittie with a white chest and a red collar sprawled across a lap with a mug of coffee sitting on the floor beneath him

Sleepless night on the recliner with this guy

Ah I remember back in the good old days when there was a Black woman serving as CEO of Xerox, which my father assured me meant sexism and racism were over & so no one’s complaints except white men’s should ever again be taken seriously. He didn’t say that last part out loud, but I heard it.

Not to be *that* obnoxious academic, but the term "moron" was invented by eugenicists to classify high-functioning "feebleminded" people, and most often targeted at women who were sexually promiscuous.

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

Yep, and one more thing: we were the last generation who didn't get the Internet until we were adults.

Some elder Millennials didn't have online access until after 18, but the vast, VAST majority of Xers did not.

I was 19 by the time I got an email address and a Geocities account.

That matters.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

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Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

What it means to have a principle that you won’t compromise. What it means to do it scared, because you won’t rest.

I don’t think people understand being ready to die as part of resistance.

Is it the skill of speaking a second language or the survival of a privileged class that they wanted for us all along?

Would like to mention the very same people who told us white suburban kids to learn Spanish bc being bilingual would be a leg up in the job market of our adulthood are the ones who are so upset about Bad Bunny (at a time when habla-ing espanol really can get you a job), so just let that marinate.

I definitely think we are in a brand new end stage era of publishing when the trendy thing is “garlic-scented book brought to you by a major mayonnaise company.”

They can never take the lessons that Mr. Brunson’s homophone/homonym quizzes taught me.

Small black placard against a gray wall with the words “Suite shop Located by Front desk,” with “suite” spelled S-U-I-T-E and the words “located” and “front” unnecessarily capitalized like it’s the 19th century or some ish.

Gonna be seeing more slop like this IRL, and, yes, I will lament the death of the editorial process every single effin’ time. (Need a sad nerd emoji.)

Black women

Only daughters

Oldest daughters

Remember that you’re only one person. You can’t do it all. You’re not failing because you didn’t get it all done. Survival is not the bar. Living is.

Love y’all.

Tell me: is your hate
really for me and mine,
them and theirs,
or is it your own self
Loathing twisted up
turned around
hardened,
just one more
high-velocity
projectile
another sort of
vomit
smearing the mirror
obscuring who you are
from your own awareness

I think about this a lot.

Not my brain reading this and immediately thinking on the second line, “should this say *interpret* things literally?”

Me: i’m Autistic

Them: Oh you take things literally

Me: No that’s kleptomania

Remember kiddos we have enough resources Its not overpopulation Calm down with the eco fascist rhetoric It’s colonization rampant militarism and billionaires hoarding wealth etc that’s the problem

I'm writing a piece gathering reactions from military veterans about Hegseth's address to the assembled flag officers of America. If you're up for it, ping me.

A book about how to hang spoons on your face

Literary writing: This might be the one thing you could do better than anyone else in the world!

Dyslexic me was scrolling through the replies to this on fb (which are mostly arguing why it does) while wondering when people are going to realize this falls under ableism.