Elliot Owen

The Work in Process

Reading, (W)riting, Rhetoric

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump has denied disaster relief funding for North Carolina.

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

The last paragraph is something like a Hippocratic oath for humanities professors

[abby @abby4thepeople]

A judge is heavily fining a law firm that cited cases that were completely made up by AI. He says that he almost used the case law to write his ruling but luckily decided to check the citations.

We are one lazy judge away from having case law that was made up by chatgpt.

[We’re In Hell @WereInHellYT]

The collected art and knowledge that humans have produced throughout the ages is all of our birthright and these tech ghouls will stop at nothing to steal it from us and sell it back as a subscription service

[Massachusetts Review @MassReview]

We learned over the weekend that we were among those whose active NEA awards has been revoked. We spent weeks preparing, writing, and submitting the application, meeting all requirements and deadlines, that was approved and accepted for funding.

[Max Lawton @maxdaniellawton]

Burgeoning authoritarian cancels grant to independent publisher — preorder our book about the legacy of totalitarianism to help make up the 20k shortfall https://t.co/Pl9maQGTtD

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

not to be all “we’re losing the ancient texts” but extracting information from books so that no one else “needs” to read the books is literally how we lost countless ancient texts

[Potentially Trevor Walker @ConditorCancri]

Hunter Thompson, a week after 9/11:

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

every day on twitter now i hear about some shit happening that pkd or borges would've given their left kidneys to be able to use as inspiration for stories

[Lauren Wilford @lauren_wilford]

we’ve invented a robot that tells people why they’re right no matter what they say, furnishes sophisticated arguments for their side, and delivers personalized validation from a seemingly “objective” source. Mythological-level temptation few will recognize for what it is

[Elliot Owen @ElliotOwen16]

@jardiniernormie Smart

[Morow Jävis Kærdenax @IneluctableQuak]

Tape these words by Yoko Tawada on your walls if you write in a language you didn’t grow up with:

“If a writer decides to write in a particular language, they are under no obligation to use that language in the same way that the majority of its speakers use it most of the time.”

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Ask yourself—what’s going to stop the government from deporting you to a prison in El Salvador?

How would you prove it’s an error if you don’t have due process? If it can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

The people get it. Either everyone has due process—or nobody does.

[Charles Kip @RedactedIguana]

I don’t want to be alarmist, but the Trump administration refusing to enforce a 9-0 Supreme Court order against violations of due process is the thing. We keep hearing “fascism won’t announce when it’s happened” but this is it. If this goes through democracy is dead

[Nicolas D Villarreal @NicolasDVillar1]

What did I say

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

We need to bring back public shame for lying.

The court document *explicitly* says he is protected from deportation. He was *not* convicted of being a gang member.

Vance, Trump, Elon and their cronies lie without any shame. It's a sign of deep moral rot.

[「Indigo」⚢ NW: Stardust Memories @FoolPlanet]

“I don’t consume the method, I consume the product” is actually a pitch perfect summation of how consumerism has permanently damaged how people perceive art

[Cayde.wav @caydeplanet]

My bare fucking hands you troglodyte