Conveniently it’s also a week after the conference
06.03.2026 02:23
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Conveniently it’s also a week after the conference
Come to my offsite reading in Georgia
In Athens, GA. (Not in Baltimore)
I’m part of a large professional listserv where different people keep replying UNSUBSCRIBE or SIGN OFF or UNENROLL. The total effect of it is weirdly beautiful—operatic.
If you consider yourself preeminent in your field of the humanities or sciences, know that there’s an undiscovered patent clerk somewhere doing the realer shit.
One of the protector figures in my life is this guy Mac who hired me at a liquor store in my 20s and still keeps up.
The 🔥 this time
To be clear, not my own. From the public archives.
Lots of show posters
Enjoyed a lovely day with my wife, celebrating her birthday. I’m grateful to be in the world with her. ⚡️🌀🌎
Brenda Iijima and Saretta Morgan reading in Athens, Georgia this Thursday. Excited for it.
www.thegeorgiareview.com/event/readin...
“I start with something that bugs me, some philosophical problem, and then I look for a way to explore it.” —Percival Everett
With increased U.S. sanctions and tariffs against Cuba, it’s a good time to listen again to Blowback’s Season 2 podcast on the Cuban Revolution and the perpetual U.S. effort to manage Cuban sovereignty.
Link in the comments.
With Senator Thune refusing to allow a separate DHS funding vote, there’s another chance today to contact your senators and insist that they hold their positions on defunding ICE.
Easy calls, straightforward script.
5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
The Internet Archive headquarters: a large white neoclassical building with columns, stands on a street corner in San Francisco.
The internet's memory isn’t a cloud—it’s heat, power, and hard drives 🔥💾
Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚
➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
If you wanted a reason to shut down your neighborhood’s Capital One Café …
open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
The phone lines of both my Senators were busy, which is good reason to keep calling.
5calls.org has a helpful app for various topics and scripts.
5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
"The desperation is making space for something else to emerge."—Dobby Gibson
lithub.com/letter-from-...
The difference between the 1000 mg Vitamin C supplement and the 500 mg Vitamin C supplement is the recommended dose of 4 rather than 2 capsules. So yeah, they’re just fucking with us.
“One of the most curious aspects of Smillie’s photographic survey of the Smithsonian is that it encompasses what would normally be the almost invisible accoutrements of museological storage and display: showcases, racks, shelves, chests with parts pulled out and piled up before paper backdrops[.]”
Was recently reminded of Thomas William Smillie’s work at the Smithsonian in the early 1900s, especially as profiled by The Public Domain Review.
publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...
Kim Stanley Robinson novel where everyone at Davos is held hostage by activists.
House flippers on my street, but they forgot to replace the Dale Jr. decal mailbox.
3 of my poems, in the best of company, from issue 7 of mercury firs. www.mercuryfirs.org/issue-7
