Human creativity, lo-tech innovation. No AI. Puppet-free. Reinventing the short story. Creators of print zeens. King Wenclas and Kathleen Marie Crane editors.
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Be sure to read our "fictional" take on Michigan politics!
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If only someone had foreseen that putting all our economic futures in the hands of an industry beset with thieves, grifters, con artists and robot-fetishising sociopaths might have a significant risk of going seriously wrong...
“a bursting AI bubble would be a much bigger shock to the economy than the bursting IT bubble at the end of the 1990s that brought us to the edge of a liquidity trap. Yet the Fed has much less room to cut rates now than it did then: the current Fed funds rate is only 4 percent. So if huge AI spending is a bubble, and that bubble bursts, I can’t see how the U.S. can avoid plunging into a liquidity trap — a situation in which the Fed simply lacks the tools to get us out of a slump. If this should happen, the economy is likely to remain depressed for years.”
-@paulkrugman
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The most critical U.S. midterm election ever, for the future & survival of this nation (with the exception of during the Civil War), and our established literary critics are MIA. Missing In Action.
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Elon Musk is a classic Don Quixote type. He's read so many fantastic novels, esp sci-fi, he takes them for reality. Believes all the Asimov plotlines, himself at the center of the stories. Amusing until it becomes dangerous.
Here's my take on the guy.
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Our writers and critics are sleeping.
Or hiding.
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Selling Alaska to Russia. Isn’t that enough treason, folks?
The Russia smell of this Alaska fossil fuel deal was so bad that even former Exxon people bailed from the company. The smell of Russia permeates the corrupt Trump administration. ft.com/content/e9cfbfbb-e65a…
Has everybody read, and thought about, the background of Ohio candidate Amy Acton? Moving twelve times as a child? Living in a tent???
Yet this is how thousands, maybe millions, of people live in this ultra-wealthy country where all $$ goes to the top.
Wake up. Change needed.
A great photo really to illustrate the idea of the NYC literati as "the ultra-elite, VIP world of wealthy horse girls..." (Or, France circa 1789.)
Had a blast at @TheFP’s Independent Creator Summit! Such a pleasure meeting so many talented creators and independent thinkers ❤️
AN EXCERPT, from Part Two of the short story "Midterm Madness." Coming soon.
Literature as news. Going beyond what any other writer is doing.
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The Russians certainly have kompromat on Trump. But more generally Trump is a central node in an international network of kleptocrats and oligarchs helping each other make $$ and tear down democratic institutions that constrain them, mob bosses integrated into governments
Elon Musk is a classic Don Quixote type. He's read so many fantastic novels, esp sci-fi, he takes them for reality. Believes all the Asimov plotlines, himself at the center of the stories. Amusing until it becomes dangerous.
Here's my take on the guy.
newpoplit.com/portfolio/the-…
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Says it all about today's psychotic tech industry.
“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕
Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters
(From the Guardian)
With Michigan's Haley Stevens trending, here's a look at her fictional counterpart, in the very-political story, "Midterm Madness."
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Barack Obama as president was an estsblishment centrist who checked all the boxes. But at least by all accounts he's a decent human being. He didn't spend his eight years robbing this country blind. Has class & manners. Didn't wreck the White House. Not an embarrassment to USA.
This post was shadow-banned for some reason-- 11 views in 15 hours-- but I love the analogy: "the ultra-elite, VIP world of wealthy horse girls..."
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Republicans let an unelected South African ketamine junkie fire 270K American workers, steal our data, starve the world's poorest children, shut down investigations into his companies, and set himself up with billions in government contracts.
And DOGE cost more than it saved.
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The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped.
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