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Saturday, May 23, 2026

Olga Tokarczuk uses AI to drive over the bones of her own novels

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  I have run into a persistant, and probably PR driven meme on social media that being against AI is "being against "art'...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Spending my life reading

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  1. At some point between my 11th and 13th years on this planet, a global equator of sorts was passed: globally, the population that was li...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

UGLY STORIES

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  “A party of us were together one day – we’d been drinking, it’s true – and suddenly some one made the suggestion that each one of us, wi...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

The "I am" and the 'Happen to be" - a cultural semantics

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  Culture shows its hand molecular bits and bytes, the way the Id shows itself in dreams, a self-directed movie starring IT itself. Look f...
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Monday, May 11, 2026

A Modest Proposal: Let AI replace CEOs!

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  The Dumb New Yorker post - Will AI Replace College or some dumbfuck thing, I'm refusing to check - is another in the media corps cult ...
Friday, May 08, 2026

A translation of Pierre Herbart's story Miraflores

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  “Herbart has made his life into a blank sheet, but it has taken everything he had. He will die seated in front of his blank sheet.” Indeed...
Wednesday, May 06, 2026

The door of the past

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  In an essay on Henry James’s autobiographies, Richard Poirier claimed that the first volume – A small boy and others – which is ostensibly...