Erika Hall

A painting of a chicken on plastic chicken legs

Bok bok

Rod I have so many slides for that in my workshop.

We just keep forgetting things. Jangling keys is real.

Anyone with a pet should be able to recognize that a chatbot doesn't have a mind.

Like, my dog for sure has independent intentionality, thoughts and feelings.

So many feelings.

ENHANCE

Wild. For me it was like a food that had lost its flavor or something. My brain just rejected it. But I could read all the non-fiction.

No one is reading non-fiction is funny to me because one very specific way the pandemic broke my brain was I couldn't read fiction for a couple years.

Then one weekend I picked up a novel and read the whole thing. I think it was Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

Glad to hear that!

Yes, I don't think the Guardian piece touched on that at all, except insofar as everything is a podcast now.

My pandemic lockdown nostalgia is for Quarantine Book Club. Sort of sad that we recorded none of it, but it was the right thing to do. Some experiences should just be experiences without becoming content.

www.quarantinebookclub.com

Publishers are abysmal at marketing. It makes me so angry. Writing a book is the hardest thing. And there are ways to build enthusiasm for books, specific books, as well as buying and reading books as activities — that no one is doing.

It shouldn't fall on authors.

Keep posting about your book!

Another event that is not stupid and evil.

Really clinging to that kākāpō breeding news. Apparently the only thing that’s not stupid and evil happening in the world.

I mean not just because of the cover. I’ve been looking forward to it.

That cover is so gorgeous. I am going to take this offer.

Wow Pittsburgh is wild.

Watching The Knick before The Pitt would make it seem like a more uplifting situation.

dude, yahoo absolutely wrecked that song for me

The Gogol Bordello show tomorrow night is gonna be 🔥.

Which is more perfervid? A painting of a fleur d'uccles chicken and some poppies A painting in the style of joan miró on the theme of a chicken with shapes and an eye

It's like a little sorbet for your brain.

It was a weird time Karen. But I got pretty good at horses.

Which is more complicit? A painting of a chicken shaped like a heart. A painting of a weird yellow chicken on a tree stump. Yes it looks like that in real life.

Time for your one minute of clickens! You deserve a beak.
clickens.chicken.pics

I won a blue ribbon for goat tying at a Baptist summer camp in the Mojave desert.

AI summaries are already changing how people consume news, but AI can’t replace the human work behind journalism.

@werd.io, Sr. Director of Technology at @propublica.org, on why people rely on trusted human relationships to understand context.

Full episode with @rabble.nz, out now.

This is awesome. As an organizer in Chicago, I have met and talked to way too many people who push the lie that pedestrian and bike safety is bad - for business and for residents. We need better media to help push against the lies. And Urban Truth seems like just the thing we need.

Just the tip of the Nuremberg

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Giant stack of pink boxes. Waiting to be picked up.

Here’s a fun story. Erika and I are on our way out to grab lunch when there’s a knock on the door. I go to answer and there's the mailman and he's holding a copy of my book. Which is odd. Why is the mailman holding a copy of my book? He hands it to me. I open it up and it’s signed. "To Jared."

The Pro-Human AI Declaration The Pro-Human AI Declaration

Hey all, sorry to say this, as I think I have well-intentioned friends who signed, but this "declaration" means nothing. Because Steve Bannon signed it, and he wants my family dead. So if you can sign along side him? At best, you got played. He's the "humanity in control". humanstatement.org

10000% increase of this energy immediately

Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery Breeding is getting more competitive, suggesting the population is growing, a new study shows.

This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life