Dr Sweet Machine

Denise Levertov

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

That’s me!

you can listen to portishead's dummy any time you want

Sharing in honor of today. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poem #ColumbusDay #poets #poetry

"Whereas the AI users got answers wrong or gave up entirely when the AI assistance was withdrawn, the group without AI stuck with the task and were more successful at the end."

Of course this is how Anne Carson accepts the Nobel prize.

Oh hell yes

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

I'VE SAID IT BEFORE, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN [PUTS ON SHADES, HOISTS ROCKET LAUNCHER, AIMS FOR THE SKY]: I'M GOING TO KILL THE SUN.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Social sucks now. What if we just stopped? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive”

Donald Hall, born on this day in 1928

Oh my god he admit it www.msn.com/en-us/techno...

AI apologists to actual disciplinary experts & experienced teachers

New work in a cool new journal: forget.cool/issue-1/issu...

So excited to be part of the inaugural issue! I have two poems in it: one about Planet Earth, and one about horror movies. Happy reading!

This

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI https://theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being-a-person-sees-huge-potential-in-1850488022/

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

LOADING... Please stand by while we finish obsessing over Issue 1. Forget Cool launches September 1. Just TWO WEEKS to go.

I recently watched Iron Man (2008) for the first time in over a decade, and it's a real lightbulb moment to realize that every executive, business bro and tech guy currently obsessed with using ChatGPT or Claude or whatever thinks they're like Tony Stark talking to Jarvis

I find it fascinating that in the 1990s, the US managed to re-create early twentieth-century Vienna café culture only to have it gradually decay over the first quarter of the twenty-first century such that now most coffee shops are closed by six PM.

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

I didn't need to write a dissertation on confessional poetics, Ishmael beat me to it

Hard to be an old book lately, I tell you what. #sonnet

I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you

Hey there! Did you see The Odyssey? Are you haunted by Penelope's veiled and screened existence? If you can't stop thinking about Homer, this might be a good time to reread my Pushcart-winning poem, "Poem in Which I Fail to Teach Homer!" www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2021...

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

My motto for this year

Finally it's my moment to shine

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Lindsey Graham died the way he lived, as a minor distraction from Mitch McConnell

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

Why do I love what fades? Mark Strand

It is truly incredible how some of these male leftists who correctly criticize the police and court system will turn around and say a rape allegation can’t be taken seriously unless it passes through the cops and courts

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol