Jaswinder Bolina
@jaswinderbolina.bsky.social
Writer | www.jaswinderbolina.com
Books @ Copper Canyon, McSweeney’s, Omnidawn… | Poems @ Poetry, The New Yorker, Narrative… | Essays @ The Washington Post, The Paris Review, Shenandoah…
Posts on writing, civil disobedience, Cubs…
Books @ Copper Canyon, McSweeney’s, Omnidawn… | Poems @ Poetry, The New Yorker, Narrative… | Essays @ The Washington Post, The Paris Review, Shenandoah…
Posts on writing, civil disobedience, Cubs…
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Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate
An observational poet who focuses on imagery from nature, he taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts for more than 20 years.
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
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Anthony Rizzo: “The jersey I’ll be retiring in. Signed by all the patients we’ve visited over the years who are battling cancer.”
September 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Anthony Rizzo: “The jersey I’ll be retiring in. Signed by all the patients we’ve visited over the years who are battling cancer.”
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This is really good.
September 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This is really good.
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I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
Opinion | How I Ran Afoul of the Air Force Academy
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
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chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
From the OpenAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community
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July 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
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Throw open new storytelling doorways and let in some air. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/f...
September 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Throw open new storytelling doorways and let in some air. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/f...
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🚨Job alert 🚨
The University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science (Rosenstiel) and Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) are looking for an omics lab manager 🧬
careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...
The University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science (Rosenstiel) and Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) are looking for an omics lab manager 🧬
careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...
Research Associate II in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Research at University of Miami
Apply for Research Associate II job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Research at University of Miami
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August 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🚨Job alert 🚨
The University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science (Rosenstiel) and Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) are looking for an omics lab manager 🧬
careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...
The University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science (Rosenstiel) and Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) are looking for an omics lab manager 🧬
careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...
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The Edward Gorey House is pleased to announce the theme of this year’s Annual All-Ages Envelope Art Contest: The Evil Garden - edwardgoreyhouse.org/events/envel...
The 2025 Annual All-Ages Envelope Art Contest — The Edward Gorey House
Rejoice: the 2025 All-Ages Envelope Art Contest has been announced. Click the banner to learn more and download your entry form.
edwardgoreyhouse.org
August 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Edward Gorey House is pleased to announce the theme of this year’s Annual All-Ages Envelope Art Contest: The Evil Garden - edwardgoreyhouse.org/events/envel...
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Standard back-to-school update. Everyone be sure to say hello to the campus croc!
August 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Standard back-to-school update. Everyone be sure to say hello to the campus croc!
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Watch this
TEXAS: “History will not remember you kindly! You should all be ashamed!”
Congressional candidate @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social TACKLED to the ground as he extends his comments ripping a redistricting power grab by Republicans at Abbott/Trump’s orders, shamelessly using a tragic flood as cover.
Congressional candidate @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social TACKLED to the ground as he extends his comments ripping a redistricting power grab by Republicans at Abbott/Trump’s orders, shamelessly using a tragic flood as cover.
July 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Watch this
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“what are we doing here, and why are our hearts invisible?” - Anne Carson
July 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
“what are we doing here, and why are our hearts invisible?” - Anne Carson
“He he he he and he and he and and he and he and he and and
as and as he and as he and he.”
— Gertrude Stein, “If I Told Him,
A Completed Portrait of Picasso”
as and as he and as he and he.”
— Gertrude Stein, “If I Told Him,
A Completed Portrait of Picasso”
Marie-Thérèse, Face and Profile, by Pablo Picasso, 1931, 📸 via @pbs.org
July 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
“He he he he and he and he and and he and he and he and and
as and as he and as he and he.”
— Gertrude Stein, “If I Told Him,
A Completed Portrait of Picasso”
as and as he and as he and he.”
— Gertrude Stein, “If I Told Him,
A Completed Portrait of Picasso”
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after 25 years in this work, I’m genuinely amazed that it took everyone this long to finally realize what’s been going on the entire time
July 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
after 25 years in this work, I’m genuinely amazed that it took everyone this long to finally realize what’s been going on the entire time
And I’m still pissed they fired The Ghostbusters
You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
And I’m still pissed they fired The Ghostbusters
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Ex-Cleveland manager Terry Francona to Trump wanting Indians name to return: “[Trump says], ‘Why can’t it be like it used to be?’ And I my retort would be, ‘There’s probably a lot of people in this country who don’t want it like it used to be.’ And if you’re white, (you’re) probably just fine.”
July 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ex-Cleveland manager Terry Francona to Trump wanting Indians name to return: “[Trump says], ‘Why can’t it be like it used to be?’ And I my retort would be, ‘There’s probably a lot of people in this country who don’t want it like it used to be.’ And if you’re white, (you’re) probably just fine.”
Brent Rooker: your favorite baseball player’s favorite baseball grammar police
This is one of the most wonderful exchanges I've ever seen.
July 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Brent Rooker: your favorite baseball player’s favorite baseball grammar police
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Scientists: some of us PLEADED with you two years ago to support colleagues in the humanities who were being attacked by Rufo et al. Many ignored us. NOW that this has all been used as a pretext to attack you too, recognize:
THIS IS A SCIENTIST'S FIGHT TOO
We must resist these narratives. 🧪🔭⚛️
THIS IS A SCIENTIST'S FIGHT TOO
We must resist these narratives. 🧪🔭⚛️
There’s so much to breakdown in this newly dropped manifesto against higher education by Chris Rufo and signed by all the usual suspects affiliated with the Manhattan Institute. It warrants attention since it’s targeted at university grants. manhattan.institute/article/the-...
The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education
America’s colleges and universities have long been the bright lights of our civilization. For nearly four centuries, they have pioneered new fields of knowledge, brought the arts and sciences to new h...
manhattan.institute
July 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Scientists: some of us PLEADED with you two years ago to support colleagues in the humanities who were being attacked by Rufo et al. Many ignored us. NOW that this has all been used as a pretext to attack you too, recognize:
THIS IS A SCIENTIST'S FIGHT TOO
We must resist these narratives. 🧪🔭⚛️
THIS IS A SCIENTIST'S FIGHT TOO
We must resist these narratives. 🧪🔭⚛️
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I'm reading for the Seneca Review tomorrow, Wednesday July 9, alongside a ton of awesome writers! Come join us!
@senecareview.bsky.social
@senecareview.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I'm reading for the Seneca Review tomorrow, Wednesday July 9, alongside a ton of awesome writers! Come join us!
@senecareview.bsky.social
@senecareview.bsky.social
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