ՄԱՐԻՆԱ—marina

ամոթ չկա | sometimes writing sometimes collaging | na/she | rejected by The New Yorker, Electric Literature, Guernica Magazine & others

[ՄԱՐԻՆԱ—marina @crimeiscommon]

wrote a weird little thing about dying and living

[X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag]

we have a story by Marina Manoukian @crimeiscommon !!

in this story, the narrator’s father digs his grave in the backyard & keeps the open grave there for years. once, the narrator sleepwalked & woke up in the grave…

https://t.co/1kbjUVx0Nw

[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

It is a moral failure of our country that we changed the rules to create a trillionaire while doing nothing about the 771,000 homeless and over 18 million who do not have enough to eat.

[WalkingInAustin🍉🇵🇸 (Mostly Offline) @WalkingInAustin]

This is horrific. Please know the US carceral systems does this ALL THE TIME, intentionally making it difficult for people's families and supporters to reach them.

[N @dearvotion]

Excerpt from Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

my queer (& probably my best) love poem, “i love you to the moon &” is Poem of the Day on @PoetryFound today. happy pride!!

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

URGENT: Germany’s collective punishment of my family continues. They’ve now frozen my pensioner mother’s bank account, claiming I somehow “control” it too. Her savings are inaccessible — yet she has received no official notice from any German authority. No charges no due process

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Please stop. I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

one of my favorite expressions in chinese is 完蛋 (wándàn), which means doomed, to be done for, cooked. and it literally means finished egg, though not a cooked one. a cooked egg is beautiful. a finished egg is disastrous.

[tai 🦦 @itsjusttai_]

A reminder that if you shop on https://t.co/E5E94Nv2ua you can select your favorite indie bookstore and all of the profits of your purchase will go directly to them! They frequently run different sales (including free shipping) with a massive selection of books to choose from !!

[Matthew “Movies” Thomason @ThomasonTown]

FYI, DuckDuckGo not only allows you to totally disable AI summaries but also allows you to filter out AI images.

[Hannah Allam @HannahAllam]

Immigration authorities have detained this U.S. citizen three times now
by @nicoleMfoy

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

“Some men had to have their testicles amputated by doctors after beatings…”

Thread with some of the unspeakably depraved acts of rape and sexual assault by Israelis against Palestinians detailed in this piece:

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers.

NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers.

Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country.

https://t.co/nTGJAMbwAP

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

We've been covering data centers in depth for a while now. Here's one of our most important stories:

https://t.co/0YDYI8kguI

[ՄԱՐԻՆԱ—marina @crimeiscommon]

this sentiment is what inspired me to write this article
https://t.co/p96FHxN8tk

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️ New from @DropSiteNews: Rare Survivors of Pacific Boat Strikes Allege U.S. Forces Kidnapped and Tortured Them

As airstrikes and reports of torture under Ecuador’s U.S.-backed military regime continue to mount, fishermen tell Drop Site News they were blindfolded and held hostage for eight days.

By @sovietwithsazon

https://t.co/iLuXNNrOaT

[BasilianThought @BasilianThought]

UPDATE: The school board is trying to expel the kid who made this video for exposing that his classmates can't read.

You can't make this shit up

[ՄԱՐԻՆԱ—marina @crimeiscommon]

@BrianZisook yeah tolstoy definitely spent his time marketing and promoting🙄