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Dear media, please stop saying AI is “training” on copyrighted works. AI is “stealing” copyrighted works. It is “plagiarizing” copyrighted works. It is “breaking multiple laws.”

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for the Monday crowd: my first book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work, is now up on the Columbia UP site, with a gorgeous cover and gorgeous (and too-generous) blurbs. Out this August and pre-orderable from May! @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Happy publication day to this beauty! Congratulations, @franciscondine.bsky.social! 🩷📕🩷

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honestly wild to me that, at this late date, any ostensibly informed person would insist that we could ignore trump’s words as just bluster

submitted 6 days ago • 198 comments

Americans (myself included) tend to laugh off the Trump noises about annexing Canada as obvious nonsense, but the rest of the world is taking the threat seriously. Our media should reflect that reality and hold him accountable for the serious damage he’s causing.

submitted 6 days ago • 458 comments

Montreal friends!! Two weeks from today, March 20th, I’ll be in concert with the great poet Liz Howard & the wonderful scholar Carmen Faye Mathes about my new book, Here Is a Figure! This will be at the Rocket Science Room, 5-7 pm—hope to see you there!!

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Republicans in Congress are reportedly asking Musk’s permission to hold votes

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TODAY! This year’s Out of the Archive lecture, "Repeat what we don't understand: in the Barbara Johnson papers," will be given by Heather Love Thurs., 3/6, at 4:00 p.m. in Pembroke Hall 305. More: buff.ly/3EfRucS

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Did you publish a book of criticism in 2024? We’re awarding a prize to the best book on the contemporary arts—broadly conceived, and from anywhere in the world!

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ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 11 days ago • 222 comments

OMFG

submitted 10 days ago • 75 comments

Stepping into Austin Butler's blue suede shoes

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Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.

submitted 12 days ago • 726 comments

Isabelle Huppert’s message: while you’re alive, be alive, act alive, don’t prematurely imitate death: seize your own animation: mobilize your nerves and your memories: pay strict attention to the pulse of the present moment: never fake it

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One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

submitted 14 days ago • 177 comments

RFK really missed the simplest lesson of LBJ’s career, try not to get any kids killed if your name rhymes with “how many kids did you kill today”

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

Paul Celan, Breathturn; tr. Pierre Joris

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Rip Pierre Joris. Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.

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I’m back baby, thanks again to @stuwatson.bsky.social & @kqandrews.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/cult...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Show me two people with an insane beef:

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

A thing of beauty for February 25, 2025: "Vorhor, the Green Wave" (1896-7), egg tempera on canvas by Georges Lacombe.

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A thing of beauty for February 23, 2025: "Peinture, 130 x 102 cm, 27 août 1986" (1986), oil on canvas, by Pierre Soulages.

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POV: You're 16, believe being in advanced placement math class means you're a once in a generation genius, and have just discovered Reddit.

submitted 18 days ago • 327 comments

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

submitted 19 days ago • 94 comments

The NYT, once again, provides free PR for this administration by reprinting their racist/fascist talking points -- rather than engaging in real journalism. This is why we must defend #FreedomtoLearn in K-12 so young people can read critically, spot the propaganda, & seek out independent media.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

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“put it on his fucking gravestone”

submitted 22 days ago • 114 comments

O Brasil é uma inspiração

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Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 23 days ago • 59 comments

Reminder: we already paid for this. This is our tax $$ he’s trashing.

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

Thanks to The Academy of American Poets for featuring this interview with me about my new book, Out of the Blank, in their enjambments series! Sample poems in author link. poets.org/text/enjambm...

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An hourly reminder that DOGE is not about Elon Musk cutting government money waste, it is about wasting more government money on Elon Musk. Here is Elon cutting NASA, a government agency that his private company competes with for federal funding. They aren't even bothering to hide the corruption.

submitted 25 days ago • 211 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 25 days ago • 273 comments

🤔

submitted 25 days ago • 935 comments

Everything old is new again!

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

submitted 29 days ago • 127 comments

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

submitted 29 days ago • 246 comments

There have been some truly awful and egregious headlines on Gaza in the New York Times over the past 16 months but we may have a winner, folks. ‘Gaza Development Plan’

submitted 31 days ago • 347 comments