Aaron Kreuter
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social
Rubble Children: Seven and a Half Short Stories, out now! Lake Burntshore, April 22 2025. Ludic Luddite. #BLM #FreePalestine #LandBack
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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A pretty bleak thing that GenAI is revealing is that a significant percentage of the population seems to have no interest in actually learning or doing anything. They want to ChatGPT their way out of hobbies, art making, everything... www.thecut.com/article/woul...
The People Using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies
Why are so many of us letting AI have all the fun?
www.thecut.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A pretty bleak thing that GenAI is revealing is that a significant percentage of the population seems to have no interest in actually learning or doing anything. They want to ChatGPT their way out of hobbies, art making, everything... www.thecut.com/article/woul...
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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The stories in RUBBLE CHILDREN by Aaron Kreuter explore contemporary Jewish Canadian identity. Now available in audio as well as print and e-editions!
https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto
https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The stories in RUBBLE CHILDREN by Aaron Kreuter explore contemporary Jewish Canadian identity. Now available in audio as well as print and e-editions!
https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto
https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto
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So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
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Toronto friends, join editors Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik, along with contributors Lily Cho, Robert Zacharias, and Sophie Feng, for the launch of SHELTER IN TEXT on Nov 12.
Food! Drinks! Books for purchase!
Centre for Creativity, U of T, 5 - 7 pm ET.
Info: https://bit.ly/48JlXNT
##TorontoLitUp
Food! Drinks! Books for purchase!
Centre for Creativity, U of T, 5 - 7 pm ET.
Info: https://bit.ly/48JlXNT
##TorontoLitUp
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Toronto friends, join editors Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik, along with contributors Lily Cho, Robert Zacharias, and Sophie Feng, for the launch of SHELTER IN TEXT on Nov 12.
Food! Drinks! Books for purchase!
Centre for Creativity, U of T, 5 - 7 pm ET.
Info: https://bit.ly/48JlXNT
##TorontoLitUp
Food! Drinks! Books for purchase!
Centre for Creativity, U of T, 5 - 7 pm ET.
Info: https://bit.ly/48JlXNT
##TorontoLitUp
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RUBBLE CHILDREN stories are emotionally poignant tales of childhood political discovery, teenage sexual awakening, the dissolution of adult romantic relationships, and discussions about Zionism.
Now in audio!
https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #JewishIdentity
Now in audio!
https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #JewishIdentity
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
RUBBLE CHILDREN stories are emotionally poignant tales of childhood political discovery, teenage sexual awakening, the dissolution of adult romantic relationships, and discussions about Zionism.
Now in audio!
https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #JewishIdentity
Now in audio!
https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #JewishIdentity
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1/27... Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Best Canadian Stories 2026 (selected by Zsuzsi Gartner) and Poetry (Mary Dalton), both @biblioasis.bsky.social - and a thread of writing online by some of the folks in these anthologies (although mostly not the pieces in the anthologies). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
1/27... Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Best Canadian Stories 2026 (selected by Zsuzsi Gartner) and Poetry (Mary Dalton), both @biblioasis.bsky.social - and a thread of writing online by some of the folks in these anthologies (although mostly not the pieces in the anthologies). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
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Praying for everyone. What a terrible situation.
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Praying for everyone. What a terrible situation.
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We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social
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What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.
August 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.
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If Gene Roddenberry was still alive and running Star Trek, I guarantee we'd be getting thinly veiled allegories about anti-vaccine bullshit or xenophobia. It would not be subtle. It would hit reasonably hard. People would complain endlessly that Star Trek had gotten too progressive.
August 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
If Gene Roddenberry was still alive and running Star Trek, I guarantee we'd be getting thinly veiled allegories about anti-vaccine bullshit or xenophobia. It would not be subtle. It would hit reasonably hard. People would complain endlessly that Star Trek had gotten too progressive.
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Air Canada strike:
“We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said.
“If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”
“We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said.
“If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”
August 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Air Canada strike:
“We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said.
“If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”
“We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said.
“If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”
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The Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture and the Vancouver Public Library are collaborating to put on this book talk with @aaronkreuter.bsky.social on Sept 13th at the Central Library. shall have to look for a copy before then😁
Aaron Kreuter: Lake Burntshore
“Funny, frank, and sexy, Lake Burntshore is a richly felt examination of the Jewish diaspora.” - Gabe Liedman Set in a Jewish sleepover camp in the summer of 2013, Aaron Kreuter’s new novel, Lake Burn...
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August 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture and the Vancouver Public Library are collaborating to put on this book talk with @aaronkreuter.bsky.social on Sept 13th at the Central Library. shall have to look for a copy before then😁
Upcoming events for Lake Burntshore!
August 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Upcoming events for Lake Burntshore!
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Next week, Sandra Fox will discuss how summer camps met—or failed to meet—the postwar fears and hopes of American Jews, and @aaronkreuter.bsky.social will explore their potential as transformative sites for reckoning with settler colonialism both at home and in Israel/Palestine. Join us! 👇
August 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Next week, Sandra Fox will discuss how summer camps met—or failed to meet—the postwar fears and hopes of American Jews, and @aaronkreuter.bsky.social will explore their potential as transformative sites for reckoning with settler colonialism both at home and in Israel/Palestine. Join us! 👇
August 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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A funny & emotionally resonant coming-of-age novel about one summer of momentous social & political change at a Jewish sleepover camp, 'Lake Burntshore' by @aaronkreuter.bsky.social is our Featured #CanLit in-store! 💕🇨🇦📚
tidewaterbooks.ca 💕🇨🇦📚
#IndieBookstoreCA #ShopSmall @ecwpress.bsky.social
tidewaterbooks.ca 💕🇨🇦📚
#IndieBookstoreCA #ShopSmall @ecwpress.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A funny & emotionally resonant coming-of-age novel about one summer of momentous social & political change at a Jewish sleepover camp, 'Lake Burntshore' by @aaronkreuter.bsky.social is our Featured #CanLit in-store! 💕🇨🇦📚
tidewaterbooks.ca 💕🇨🇦📚
#IndieBookstoreCA #ShopSmall @ecwpress.bsky.social
tidewaterbooks.ca 💕🇨🇦📚
#IndieBookstoreCA #ShopSmall @ecwpress.bsky.social
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The first 11 pages are names of babies who are dead under the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
The first 381 pages are all children.
The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
June 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The first 11 pages are names of babies who are dead under the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
The first 381 pages are all children.
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This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.
June 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.
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I really can't stomach embracing AI whatsoever when it's going to decimate livelihoods and the existence of art itself, sorry.
Article includes a voice actor, predictably.
Article includes a voice actor, predictably.
‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI
From a radio host replaced by avatars to a comic artist whose drawings have been copied by Midjourney, how does it feel to be replaced by a bot?
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I really can't stomach embracing AI whatsoever when it's going to decimate livelihoods and the existence of art itself, sorry.
Article includes a voice actor, predictably.
Article includes a voice actor, predictably.
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but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine
May 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine