I wrote an essay for BuzzFeed about how black trauma has gone from unseen to everywhere on the internet, and how the toll for white American enlightenment has become black mental health.
sorry for being thirsty on the feed for work, but thirsty I am after a life-upgrading offer was rescinded shortly after accepting, nine+ months into a job search (slay)
NEW STORY:
In AZ, a cancer patient was told to treat his symptoms with an energy drink.
A MS inmate broke his arm and later needed to have it amputated.
In LA, an inmate nearly lost his leg.
I wrote about healthcare in the prison system for Gambit.
https://t.co/76g3bnwQXE
This man, whom I used to greatly admire as a computer science student, is...a sociopath.
Society keeps propping up sociopaths and it has endangered the world. Ayn Rand has WAY too many disciples.
Socrates in 460 BC: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Marcus Aurelius in 150 CE: “You have power over your mind—not outside events.”
Augustine of Hippo in 400 CE: “Do not go outside; return into yourself. In the inward man dwells the truth.”
Marc Andreessen in 2026:
@pagan_hoetry North American Lake Monsters - Nathan Ballingrud
Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu
Boys, Beast, & Men - Sam J Miller
Crooks - Lou Berney (technically called a novel but reads like interconnected short stories)
“Who was paying her to protest?”
Is a question only asked by someone who can’t imagine doing anything out of moral conviction, rather than money & power.
@dfossier Hate to give you the engagement you want but I hope you find god and he removes that hate from your heart. This post is borderline sociopathic. No thinking feeling person would say this in the wake of someone’s death. Get offline and find your humanity.
Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
Supporters of AI art don't understand that the *least* important thing about art is the final product.
What gives art meaning and beauty is the process. Pouring your heart into it. Spending months perfecting it. Learning from your mistakes.
There is no art without the process.