Literary criticism has not fared well in the economy of clicks and amid the rise of AI. Lydia Kiesling explains how the book review became book list slop.
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Literary criticism has not fared well in the economy of clicks and amid the rise of AI. Lydia Kiesling explains how the book review became book list slop.
A picture of “cursed wojak”—a human head that is cast entirely in shadow, with hollow black eye sockets.
When Amy Goodman has to move on from last night’s election results and read the rest of the headlines
With Zohran’s victory, I shall begin my slow return to social media …. it is time 🪽🌝🪐💫
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The meme from Euphoria where a character says “Wait, is this fucking play about us?”
Me watching the Slanted! Enchanted! footage in the PAVEMENTS movie
Really enjoyed Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by @amandahess.bsky.social.
The final chapter was like a mini-millennial-mom version of Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger.
Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
Portland: Rupert Kinnard will be at @floatingworld.bsky.social tomorrow (Saturday) 5-7!
We're lucky to have a alt-comics legend in town. I wrote about why I think his new book is important here: www.portlandmercury.com/Comics/2025/...
An inside look at the Catch-22 the federal attorneys and immigration agencies are working to deport people legally seeking asylum in the U.S.
Essentially, requiring people to show up to court, dropping the court case and then having immigration officers grab that person for deportation.
Kinnard's new book from @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social is the first available since a hard-to-find 1992 book. I hope it can introduce more people to his work and legacy as a Black, queer comics artist. Please order a copy and/or ask your local public library or academic library to order one too!
A lot going on today, as there is everyday, but also I wrote about Portland comics artist Rupert Kinnard's new book! He'll be at @floatingworld.bsky.social this Saturday.
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give me a sec... i just learned "Utahn" is a word www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/u...
I found this whole interview very edifying after seeing MOUNTAINHEAD (2025) !
Isn’t David Lynch saying (if he said it at all) that AI is bad? We all have sharp knives, but we use them to chop vegetables and not murder people.
horrified and saddened by murder of Jonathan Joss 💔
Loved every line of this great, bittersweet recollection about making an independent magazine when the economics of media—and really, the very concept of “media”—was upended
NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals.
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
A text message from someone else. It reads: “This concesh line is bananas. Almost entirely one type of dude.”
PAVEMENTS (2025) premiere in Portland tonight
A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the year is over.
'How come I can't breathe?: Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company's turbines-enough to power 280,000 homes- run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations. A An aerial view of the xAI, data center. | Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for SELC By ARIEL WITTENBERG 05 /06/2025 10:32 AM EDT
States chase OpenAl's $100 billion AI American Dream Local and state officials are vying nost , parts of a massive artificial inteligence project called Stargate, backed by OpenAI, even as some communities turn against data center development. Today at 8:05 a.m. EDT 10 min
Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones
Everyone went bananas for CONCLAVE (2024) when HBO’s THE YOUNG POPE (dir. Sorrentino) was right there. With a new American pope I can be silent no longer. Please watch this zany tour de force!!
Fiona Apple says fetch the bolt cutters and let pretrial detainees go home. youtu.be/ki1nvcNbYH8?...
Just finished ch. 35 in Careless People (the Facebook tell-all) detailing how the company basically handed the 2016 election to Trump. Sick stuff! Can’t imagine what awaits in the final quarter of the book.
"Aaron Ortega Gonzalez is a Mexican citizen and a PhD student at Oregon State, where he’s been researching the impact of wildfires on ranchlands. Ortega Gonzalez has reportedly been given no reason why the federal government ended his visa."
Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Read Mahmoud Khalil's words at the end of today's hearing:
