@hannahtindle
This assumes writers published by the Manhattan media machine in the 90s were actually "the best," and not members of a few well-connected cliques.
Yes, things change, and writers today WILL need to stand out, in new ways. That's the challenge.
@clairlemon
It's simply bad policy to accuse someone of something without evidence. Already too much of that going on.
And sorry, having very long nails-- a style in some circles in America-- is not evidence of steroids.
Or: you're reaching.
@DavidSacks
"Neutrality" for Ukraine as far as Putin was concerned meant absorption back into the Russian empire. This is the theme of his major speeches. You're living proof that a person can know a lot about technology, but not much else.
@MailOnline
Maybe it's time to stop the passive-aggressive messages and return to being blunt! (When I started in the workworld, my bosses were very blunt. Like: "If you don't get your ass moving faster, you're fired!")
Seemed to work.🙂
Anyone who has read Victor Hugo's great, great novel, Notre-Dame de Paris (aka Hunchback of Notre Dame) with its descriptions of how such buildings ARE literature & contain so much history has to be heartbroken at what's happening this moment.
#fire
@Biorealism
@clairlemon
We don't know about Flo Jo. But using her sad, premature death to wildly speculate about a current runner-- trashing her rep with no evidence-- is a bridge too far for me, and apparently for most people.
@tsarnick
No, she's wrong. Brains will atrophy, creativity will become stunted. Artists need to be challenged. The greatest artists-- Beethoven, Dostoevsky, Van Gogh-- were the most challenged.
It'd be like having a robot do your exercise for you.
Just thinking: antisemitism, like racism, is ridiculous esp in USA. Jewish people have been essential contributors to American culture, to everything we all take for granted. From a huge role in pop (and classical) music, to the very creation of Hollywood. To a host of writers.
@oldbooksguy
Some of these make sense-- 8, 9, 10-- but the Medici Effect only works in the real world, person to person: Lost Generation, the Beats, San Fran music scene circa 1967, etc. We've had 25 years of the Internet and the cultural effect has been blah.
@martyrmade
@baltic_dan
You've swallowed Russian propaganda whole. Suggestion: read a few books by Russians about what Russia today (led by ex-Communist KGB guy Putin) is actually like. Including this one by Peter Pomerantsev.
@clairlemon
The word you use here is "assumption." Not a good idea for any journalist, esp one with a large following, to accuse someone of something based on an assumption. Just saying. Just admit you goofed and move on.
@Perpetualmaniac
Sounds like you've swallowed the hype hook, line, and sinker, to borrow a phrase. Looks to me like a pyramid scheme bubble which they'll never be able to monetize-- but the big guys will cash in ahead of time, much like Musk is doing re EVs.
@AnnieLowrey
Sorry, right now people are VERY motivated by economic issues. A stock market bubble of five tech companies does not mean we're in a great economy. Not at all.
@DndInk89114
@MapXilla
@DeanSpencerArt
What's going to happen is all arts markets-- illustrations, music, books-- will be flooded with AI-generated garbage. By the law of supply & demand, the value of art and artists in this society will collapse.
The only persons who benefit are the billionaires behind this madness.
@BDSixsmith
The young guy has a bright future ahead of him.
What gets me is how so many people treat the working class as something that can be toyed with, "for their own good." Yeah let's completely transform your world-- it's good for you!
(Or, the kid won the debate.)
@alessabocchi
Problem then might be that 18 year-olds today are treated like babies, and not fully autonomous adults. Or treat themselves that way. (I stopped listening to my parents when I was 16 and working 30+ hours a week.)
@TulsiGabbard
You should also reflect on Putin's OWN WORDS that there is no such entity as Ukraine and it's part of Russia.
Seriously, how do you negotiate THAT?
@clairlemon
The "greatest hustle" is when outfits like Vox Media, funded by big-time venture capitalists and by media conglomerates ($200 million from NBCUniversal) run sites which posture as leftist, anti-capitalist and anti-hierarchical. I'll take DIY instead.
@mattyglesias
@clairlemon
But the point is, we DON'T KNOW. Get the evidence. It says right in that piece, "Guilt by association."(!) That's exactly the kind of thing defenders of liberalism, of rights, of innocent until proven guilty, etc., should be guarding against. Fighting against, frankly.
@JuliaDavisNews
The question Russian talking heads never ask themselves but should: after treating Ukraine brutally with this illegal war, why would Ukrainians EVER want anything to do with Russia? They don't, as neither do Russia's neighbors.
@FastCompany
@Adobe
Question: WHO is paying Fast Company to put out this AI propaganda, and how much? Fast Company staffers, editors, writers: aren't you concerned that many of your jobs will be cut??
#TeamHuman
#StoptheBots
@Factsination_
This shouldn't be hard. He's the leader of a country being attacked on three sides by one of the strongest military machines on the planet, yet he's rallied his people to fight, and so far, they're holding off that ruthless machine, which had promised victory in days.
@WallStreetSilv
The guy is a glorified con artist and has always been a con artist. He makes up nonsense mumbo jumbo and the elite bureaucrat suckers fall for it. Schwab has no power to do anything. All he cares about is getting the rubes into the circus tent. It's about the money, the grift.
We'll stand behind any work from any writer or poet we've published, come Hell or high water. The way I figure it, we must've liked something in the work to start with. We've said it before-- excellence is our only criterion.
@NewAtlantisSun
@R_Greenhorn
Just as the alert mind can sense the difference between music on vinyl or cd (Neil Young wrote an essay about it), so also with filmed reality versus CGI. The chariot race in the 1959 Ben-Hur will never be topped, because the actors drove the chariots for real.
#justsaying
With Pat Benatar trending, a reminder she did a very good cover version of the Kate Bush classic Wuthering Heights, with excellent electric guitar in it. (Little-known fact: Pat Benatar was trained as an opera singer.)
@elonmusk
@ICRicardoLara
Has someone been triggered by the big stock price drop?🤔 (Is there anyone at Tesla who can take Elon's phone away from him? Pissing off regulators & politicians isn't exactly good PR.)
Speaking of Canada & Canadians, Laura Kerr is at the forefront of new digital art, creating amazing works-- like this one. (Laura has two more static pieces in Literary Fan.)
Why should YOU the writer care if your book has been pirated by Library Genesis or other and fed (as is likely) to ChatGPT or other chatbot?
If a fake writer prompts a situation similar to your book's, the result could be a knockoff version of your novel.
In spare minutes have been reading a biography of Nikola Tesla. Interesting that his insights weren't the result of logical deduction but came to him in a flash of visualization. Very much like an artist.
@CMccafe
I'd bet most establishment publications catering to a literary crowd aren't far off this. Literature-with-a-capital-L will soon appeal to as narrow a crowd as classical music.
Those who find a way to radically overturn this will own the future of the art.
Am I surprised that rich people cheat to get their kids into elite schools like Harvard and Yale? Not really. Always knew there had to be a reason for widespread mediocrity among the official intelligentsia.
@mindset_x
@drewharwell
We're swiftly moving into a full-scale totalitarian world-- with 98% of the happy-to-be-controlled population following blindly along. (Self-driving cars coming soon.)
@ELuttwak
Poker was always the American game, in analogy and fact. A large amount of betting, boldness and bluff.
(As you know, several U.S. Presidents have been excellent poker players, including Eisenhower and even Nixon.)
The far right are their own worst enemy, as they portray themselves as ignorant yahoos. Like it or not (contra right or left), USA is ethnically and culturally a melting pot. Every ethnicity has contributed to American culture: a three-dimensional multi-faceted jewel.
@JesseHa83720945
@clairlemon
@rcbregman
It was America's "Arsenal of Democracy" (centered in Detroit) which won that war-- gigantic factories like Ford's Willow Run plant which cranked out thousands of planes, tanks, ships & trucks which swamped the Axis. FDR took handcuffs off the companies and they produced. Fact.
@UMich
Why ruin the upper peninsula-- the "forests, lakes, rivers"-- when there's vacant land and ready infrastructure in Detroit? Plus better access to transportation. Makes zero sense.
THINK of it: You're a struggling writer. You've spent years working on your craft, you've got it down-- you finish your great
#novel
and post it for sale at Amazon. At last!
Then some joker with a chatbot comes along and puts his book up in ten minutes.😡
I may have to continue writing that novella "Poetry Cops" after all, as they're out in force, going after a poet whose work represents "apolitical humanism" (gasp!). Unbelievable. They can't see how shitty blackballing other writers is. Or don't care.
#newtotalitarians
@ZaneGTCooper
Conversations with AI devices should never be used in classrooms. Will only confuse students regarding history & reality. Given the amount of conspiracy theories out there, one can say there's already too much confusion.
Henry Ford was a historical person. Not an AI simulation.
@richimedhurst
You should ask yourself why, in those 30 years, Russia-- specifically Putin-- has been unable to get along w its neighbors. Even conservative countries like Poland, who begged for NATO. Because they knew Putin wanted to restore the Russian empire? (And yesterday he said it.)
@teachrobotslove
I've started over several times-- including last time I left Philly, suddenly, w a duffel bag with my belongings, on a Greyhound. Have worked scores of jobs & three different "careers." It's a.) increased my experience base-- crucial for a writer b.) increased my resiliency.
@DougKyed
New England fans are completely spoiled. Brady's been ridiculously underpaid for most of his career. Deserves a large raise, from whomever.
I hope TB comes to Detroit!
IF the only books you read or music you listen to or movies you watch were created in the last fifteen years, you're trapped in an artistic box and don't know it. One can't create the future without knowing the past.
A LOT of people are traveling this weekend to see relatives for
#Christmas
. Earlier this year we published a short story with just such a topic:
"Homecoming" by Michael Howard.
Top-level
#fiction
. Read it.
@pbprot
You've obv never worked the line at a truck plant. Or even an understaffed McD's. Decisions, schmisions, any desk job is cake work in comparison.
(Most demanding position in any org IMO: first line supervision. Get it from all sides: bosses, employees, customers, clients.)
@wef
This is pure madness-- like being in a sensory deprivation tank. Disconnected from the actual world. Count me among those who don't want it. Let the techno-geeks keep their toys among themselves.
#analogrevolt