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Quotation of the day from Chip Caray discussing the last couple days here in St. Louis:

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. . . it’s felt like breathing through a wet washcloth.

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Finished reading: Metamorphoses by Ovid 📚.

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I just finished Stephanie McCarter’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses after it was highly recommended to me by a friend and I am buzzing over it.

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McCarter’s interview about her translation in The Brooklyn Rail is also epic.

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I use iambic pentameter not only because it is the best vehicle for epic poetry in English but also (if I’m being honest) because no other woman had translated the poem into metrical English verse. I wanted to prove, mainly to myself, that it was possible to write a poetic translation, an accurate translation, and a feminist...

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Pacing the Frontier, signed by employees of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and other labs.

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To realize AI’s potential, industry, government, and society at large may need the option to buy time to address emerging risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight.

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Foothills of the singularity. 💬

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Getting rid of teachers because we all have chatbots is like getting rid of doctors because we all have the plague.

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Cory’s latest is very good on good and bad uses of LLMs, and why discernment is key to using them well.

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💬 In Something Close to Music, some of John Ashbery’s music playlists are listed. So much of it is John Cage, of course, whom Ashbery thought deeply about and wrote adjacent to. Crediting him to O’Hara for bringing him out of a block and giving him a new way of seeing. He saw Cage as a kind of kindred spirit, someone who understood music the way Ashbery felt he understood poetry.

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Ashbery worked on John Cage multimedia piece “Lecture on the Weather,” check it out → here\n& listen to the full piece here on soundcloud.

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Quote:

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The man who answered said: “You may think I’m not serious, but I am; if you’re...

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🌬️ In honor of his 99th, here is a John Ashbery marathon from me.

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Below is a favorite poem of mine, titled, “From Estuaries, from Casinos” that leaves me so tearful, especially:

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I wish I could tell the next thing. But in dreams I can’t, / so will let this thing stand in for it, this me / I have become, this loving you either way.

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The full poem can be found here but a note that on the bottom of the page you can listen to the reading!

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⭐️ New Blog Post Up!

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#Getting Down Into the Thing: On John Ashbery

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Read the full thing → Here

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So much of poetry, to me, is understanding that in the future, one person will stand somewhere you are not and read what you wrote without you beside them to explain, argue, or clarify on your behalf. All they have are the words. Someone you will never meet, who is taking time out of their life to read your words. And the page is a distance you cannot cross yourself; you can only send something across it and trust it to arrive. Like this quote gets at, why load that crossing with harsh judgement and more...

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TechCrunch reporting about the grid:

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The largest electrical grid in the U.S. has struggled to cope with an onslaught of data centers. Now, after an auction to add more generating capacity fell short, the grid’s operator, PJM Interconnection, has said it will cut off data centers and other large users during power shortages.

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Totally reasonable. In fact, the new OpenAI data center in Georgia announced last week has this partially baked in, saying they will “proactively reduce its power consumption before residential customers are impacted during periods of high demand”.

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Nice Guys Never Are

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Why the word you’re afraid of being called and the word you actually want mean opposite things\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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The FUBU Face

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Why seeing what women actually say to each other didn’t make dating more honest—it made it impossible\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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🔗 | Contagious Cancer Found in North American Catfish — Javier Carbajal at Wired

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An international team of researchers has identified a transmissible melanoma in the brown catfish (Ameiurus nebulosus)—the first documented case in fish and also the first recorded in a freshwater ecosystem.

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This seems… uh… bad.

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The Protected Species

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They call it a “protected class.” Critics have started calling it something else: a “protected species.” That jab isn’t a joke—it’s the whole argument.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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The Empathy Loyalty Test

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The Economist thinks the right hates a feeling. What it actually hates is a shibboleth.\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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Dave Winer blogging about a new WordPress → RSS.chat integration from Matthias Pfefferle:

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Matthias didn’t need to tell us about what he did until it was done. That my friends is how the web works, that’s what I’ve been trying to show you, and now it has been shown. In a way the clock has gone back to the world before Twitter when events like this happened pretty routinely.

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The easiest way to tell if a platform is open or not: do you need to ask permission to integrate with it? Open: RSS, IndieWeb, Bluesky, Mastodon, talqix.cloud. Closed: Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube.

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Claude chats exposed in Google searches – another endorsement of Apple’s privacy approach — 9to5Mac

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This is not at all what users would expect when they share a conversation, since Anthropic implicitly assures users that nobody can see the chat without knowing the URL.

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WTF, Anthropic! Does this problem affect chat with a private link (instead of a public one)?

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Matt Press in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

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If anyone in this business ever asks you to dress up as a giant pierogi and participate in a race at a major league ballpark, by God you do it.

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A very entertaining account of what it’s like to don the pierogi costume at PNC Park.

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Seth Godin on the impact of AI on human expression:\n

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When new creation technologies arrive, they make the best a little worse and the bad a lot better.

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The Terrarium

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Why New York is the only American city where the most regressive men and the most liberated women share the same six feet of sidewalk\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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We used to be able to buy things in this country

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Many decades ago, humans developed a process by which they could go into a store, pick an item off the shelf, and pay for it at the checkout counter. A few years ago, we lost it. Now you ring a buzzer, wait for an overworked employee to unlock an item that costs $5.99, and navigate the emotional complications of feeling like both a suspected criminal and an entitled ass.

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Usually, i would try to come up with a kitschy comeback to the quoted passage. On this one, I got nothing. Because this is real.

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Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

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Me pinchan y no sangro

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If the clankers have you down, I recommend: read your favorites, write like that, discover new favorites, write and edit like that, rinse and repeat. It would seem, at this moment, only a human can produce liveliness by chaining words into language and narrative.

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Writing is how I build. That’s why I write.

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—The Motivation

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This book picks up where the previous one ended, with an informant murdered and a detective abducted. Another good read in the series. — Revenge on the Norfolk Broads (Detective Geldard Mysteries Book 5) by Heather Peck. 📚

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As Geldard races to find [his colleague] Sarah before the killer finishes what he started, he’s forced to confront the unthinkable: someone on his own team knows exactly who’s taken Sarah. And they’re making sure the killer stays one step ahead.

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A kiwi detective story I enjoyed. It include very contemporary themes about climate change and flood risk, along with corruption and illegal drugs. Flood Zone by Brett Austin . 📚

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I took a break from this book to read others, then when I came back to it I realised it didn't grip me and I just didn't care what happened or who did it. Abandoned — Framed For Murder (Detective Inspector Amber Kash Mysteries Book 1) by T.L. Haseeb. 📚

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Headline: ‘Appears to Blast Trump on Epstein Files’

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We Shall Not Be Overcome - Catholic Husband

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Femme Formidable Sunny Ray, the Hors-Flesh, and the Body That Won’t Stay Still

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🔗 Diversion - Futility Closet

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🔗 Is the Market Overvalued? Four Perspectives – Asymco

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🔗 Scripting News: How I see the network evolving

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I really appreciated this thoughtful piece by Benjamin Cremer on grief, lament, and empire:

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From the NYT editorial board:

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The best policy going forward would be a strengthening of the controls. Regulators should avoid approving any H200 requests unless they become confident that H200 would not strengthen China’s A.I. capabilities. The Trump administration should maintain the ban on Blackwell sales and should extend it to the next generation of chips, known as Rubin.

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They could have just fired the designerly-AF glasses. They always have them. I had them when I was designerly as well.

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Cracker Barrel Chief Executive Who Oversaw Logo Change Steps Down: Julie Masino faced backlash online when the company tried to shed its old-timey image. David Deno, a former chief of Bloomin’ Brands, will take over.\nwww.nytimes.com/2026/07/2…

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Thrilled PSA posted more about the fellowship I was part of, such a genuine group of poets that have filled my summer with amazing theory, books, laughs, insider-information, feedback, hangs, beer and so on.

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Scott posted a text excerpt to which I replied in part:

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💬 John Ashbery’s 99th birthday is tomorrow!

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