Samantha Wood

Arts, writing | Exploded View artist | MFA Poetry UMassAmherst | Grants Developer in Higher Ed | farmer | former ME newspapers

[Samantha Wood @cornerrobot]

Important reporting.

[The Shoestring @the_shoestring]

"There is mounting evidence that Lorna McMurrey’s death could be part of a systemic problem with working conditions for many in the cannabis industry."

Here's our feature by @dustyc123 on working in the weed industry co-published with @thenation.

https://t.co/xvhGQMjDZ1

[Samantha Wood @cornerrobot]

@NPRinskeep @scottdetrow @NPR I am partial to the use of pigeons.

[Samantha Wood @cornerrobot]

Holy shit, this story.

[charley burlock @Charley_Burlock]

“Grief is built into the infrastructure of our lives," @Charley_Burlock writes. "We may cross it every day, but we never get over it" https://t.co/QX89GJ30F1
280 characters are nowhere near enough to thank everyone I need to. In the meantime, thanks to @TheAtlantic for the trust

[Samantha Wood @cornerrobot]

I am glad to see this piece.

[Kerri Arsenault @KerriArsenault]

.@Sarah_Smarsh on undervalued lives, for the @nytimes xoxox https://t.co/LSCuU0is4V

[Samantha Wood @cornerrobot]

even if more people take in art than make it. I don't imagine a perfect future where life is boiled down to doing nothing because a machine has learned to do it for me. The pleasures these tools are giving people are in new ways to play & make, not bc they replace anything. 2/2

[Samantha Wood @cornerrobot]

Thank you to @EthanZ and @prospect_uk for this thoughtful piece on AI and art.
The notion that AI could somehow replace art is baffling to me, because the human experience of art is at least as much in the making as in the taking, 1/2
https://t.co/fgH5jc0xHA

[Samantha Wood @cornerrobot]

@blackgirlinmain Yes. I'm 53. Went through a time of inactivity and lost fitness, flexibility. Thought it was permanent. Took up very gentle training. Started farming & for fun did a triathlon, which I never thought I'd do. Serious quality of life improvement. Flexibility & gentle movement.

[Andrew Varnon @SachemHead]

“A Final Brooklyn,” by Brion DuLac. https://t.co/12nzz7Xk1J

[The Associated Press @AP]

The trial of two brothers charged in the car-bomb assassination of a Maltese journalist who investigated corruption in the tiny island nation began Friday, nearly five years after the slaying that sent shockwaves across Europe. https://t.co/qhbeDDwSuB

[Margery Jennings 🇺🇦 @margeryj]

@cornerrobot just don’t.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

Anna Politkovskaya was murdered 16 years ago today. From her book "A Small Corner of Hell":

[GaslitNation @gaslitnation]

This week we interview author/lawyer @DavidPepper. Pepper has witnessed Ohio devolve into an electoral autocracy—a trend across the US. He explains how we got here and what can still be done about it, and offers reasons and strategies to fight like hell: https://t.co/UUxTr3c3mF

[Writers for Democratic Action @WritersforDA]

Shoutout to Room Project in Detroit, to Kiley Reid, Rochelle Marrett, & @racheldewoskin for the #BookTheVote reading in celebration of #NationalVoterRegistrationDay!
#VoteReady @NatlVoterRegDay

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

If your cycling infrastructure isn’t good enough for them, it isn’t good enough.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Protests are sweeping Iran & women are burning their hijabs after the death last week of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by the “morality police”. Human rights groups say at least 8 have been killed. Last night, I planned to ask President Raisi about all this and much more. 1/7

[Ryan O. Ferguson @ryanoferguson]

Spotted on 95S: some Orange Line cars headed to a farm upstate (a scrapyard in Middleborough to get torn apart)

[Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital]

Happy birthday to electronic music pioneer @LaurieSpiegel. Here she is in 1977 performing “Improvisation on a ‘Concerto Generator,’” which she described as "one of the earliest examples of purely digital realtime audio synthesis.”

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

On this day in 2011, Occupy Wall Street began in New York City's Zuccotti Park. The movement shaped over a decade of dramatic protests and radical politics. https://t.co/Uj3p6sKPG5

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
https://t.co/pTwpTnU2p2

[Writers for Democratic Action @WritersforDA]

📢We're excited to announce our new #BookTheVote partner: @MilwaukeePubLib!

Check out their National Voter Registration Day Mini Carnival, where @jackilyden will be representing WDA at Central Library. Come celebrate democracy, and bring friends and family!