kurt
poetry, publishing, and miscellany. editorial director of The Headlight Review.
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- Reposted by kurtSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. The European Novel of Female Adultery Enlightenment Forms and Frictions Jonathan Swift & Alexander Pope Revolts and Rebellions Deliberative Democracy in Early American Literature
- Reposted by kurtThe last lines of this wreck me in the best of ways. From Kim Addonizio's book, Tell Me: bit.ly/tellmeBK #poetry #books #writing
- Chris Ware: A book is a perfect metaphor for a human being. It's got a front and a back, it's got a spine, and it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. news.artnet.com/art-world/a-...
- bespoke: cinema is games
- got trapped in an email like cycle just sending likes and hearts and fireworks back and for twenty-five minutes hundreds of clicks before we both came to our senses
- Reposted by kurtI hope people support birchbark books in the twin cities which is run by Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich. birchbarkbooks.com
- Reposted by kurtCóry Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
- AI generated bullshit is never funny, even if it's dunking on the president for the millionth time
- stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness
- fitting that i arrive at this website after typing 'bs' into my navbar
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- Reposted by kurtWe should be ashamed and embarrassed to be a society in which people will willingingly, actively, point a loaded gun in the face of a fellow citizen. A free society should be one where government employees don't put a gun to your face when you're exercising a core tenet of said society: free speech
- Reposted by kurtMartin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
- Reposted by kurtLoooooooooooooooong Book #NewberryLibrary (Vault Case MS minus VM 1619 M98) #shelfie
- it is possible, necessary even, to teach people about things without advocating for those things
- Shocking not to see much commentary here about the great loss of Bela Tarr. A truly iconic filmmakers. Indelible images, masterful scenes, crushing reality. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu_p...
- Reposted by kurtThe wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
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- Reposted by kurthow can we exist in a world ran by people who don’t think this shit is a problem
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- Reposted by kurtI’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
- condemning my kid in a book length indictment of my parenting: i. am. SO. brave.
- Welcome to the pissed-off parent pushback: After years of therapists and others encouraging adult children to cut ties with families they deem harmful or “toxic,” estranged parents are speaking out on.wsj.com/4s49U52
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- is this essay a B or a post-AI B
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- Reposted by kurtThere isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
- Reposted by kurt“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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- How many Japanese ska musicians can YOU fit into a hotel room? youtu.be/DPOeGWl6x4E?...
- Yeats for dummies
- Max Sessner, trans. Francesca Bell
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- Reposted by kurtYou know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
- Reposted by kurtone of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
- A Dream About Being by David Wojciechowski
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- Crash into me, babe And I come into you
- Top five movie genres are: Same day over and over again What if a guy failed, hard Hate each other but crazy in love Bonding over dying in war Heist
- Crossroads by April Bernard. A lovely dream.
- In my thrift store copy of Ashbery's April Galleons
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- it is so helpful to remember that so many people posting aren't old enough to drink
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- Third time's a charm
- take what good news you can get
- New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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- Post a pic from your camera roll that no one has seen but you
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- gotta see stop eating fistfuls of chocolate chips
- people who share writing projects in PDF what are you doing??
- Jewels are my business madam
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- can you die from too much tajin?
- victory is mine
- Reposted by kurt(Showing you some annoying shit that sucks ass) and would you believe a computer made this all by itself?
- Reposted by kurtRobin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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- happy to report that after forty some years i have successfully spelled "guaranteed" on the first try
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- excellent book!
- adding stuff to the end of my giant music playlist: I will love to check this out in three years
- Reposted by kurtEvery person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs
- gonna start responding to posts like a student in a discussion forum great job, i really like how you said the president looks like a moldy potato totally agree!
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- Reposted by kurtEvery time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
- Tom Clancy's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (with Jeff Rovin)
- just an experiment to see the general reaction www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B-I...
