Remember when Tim Walz called Trump weird during the election campaign? What if people started the administration “dramatic” and “hella emotional”? Just a working theory…. (Via Kyla Scanlon’s newsletter)

When we witness endless examples of AI-generated writing tropes each day, what lingers is the unexpected. I think it’s partially why absurd comedy is so popular, think of the new movie Friendship. Is it supremely dumb? Yes. Is it a tragic tale of men’s vulnerability & sense of isolation? Also yes!

The technology of poetry, in contrast, serves as the soul’s confidante. As Han puts it, “we rarely read poems anymore. Unlike popular crime novels, they do not contain a final truth. Poems play with fuzzy edges.… they do not possess pornographic sharpness. They resist the production of meaning.”

I’ve been thinking a lot about “nonsense” and how it may save us. Somehow in the AI age, poetry is starting to feel less frivolous and more like praxis.

Ah yes, the return of warm weather and reminder that I am indeed a mf with low iron