Toby Kelly
@tobykelly.bsky.social
Anthropologist among the historians. Investigating the investigators
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When we take prisoners from other worlds
we are not cruel. We let their bodies die.
They become words, filtered into air…
—Edwin Morgan, “Twilight of a Tyranny”
a #ScienceFiction #poem – from COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997
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we are not cruel. We let their bodies die.
They become words, filtered into air…
—Edwin Morgan, “Twilight of a Tyranny”
a #ScienceFiction #poem – from COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
January 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
When we take prisoners from other worlds
we are not cruel. We let their bodies die.
They become words, filtered into air…
—Edwin Morgan, “Twilight of a Tyranny”
a #ScienceFiction #poem – from COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
we are not cruel. We let their bodies die.
They become words, filtered into air…
—Edwin Morgan, “Twilight of a Tyranny”
a #ScienceFiction #poem – from COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
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Improv by Sharon Olds
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Improv by Sharon Olds
Improv On the morning of the drive from sea-level to the mountain, I asked if we could stop for melted cheese! at the Mexican place in Tru...
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February 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Improv by Sharon Olds
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with tomorrow’s election in Germany, I’ve been thinking a lot about the transgressive appeal of fascism, not as a coherent ideology, but as a form of gratifying sabotage. Talking to AfD supporters in East Germany, what I came away with weren’t actual grievances but a kind of giddiness
February 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
with tomorrow’s election in Germany, I’ve been thinking a lot about the transgressive appeal of fascism, not as a coherent ideology, but as a form of gratifying sabotage. Talking to AfD supporters in East Germany, what I came away with weren’t actual grievances but a kind of giddiness
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The more devastating option is that they truly may not
Our children will ask their children will ask their children what we did while Israel obliterated Gaza. From generation to generation to generation, l'dor v'dor.
At this point, Israel is bombing what has already been bombed, destroying what has already been destroyed, displacing those who have already been displaced—often multiple times—and killing those who have lost everything and are on the brink of death..
January 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The more devastating option is that they truly may not
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“ In 1968, when Rukeyser wrote her poem, it was possible to think that the world might change if only women told the truth about their lives. But… even as we learn to talk, we find that talk alone won’t stop the world from turning much as it did before.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
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December 29, 2024 at 8:31 PM
“ In 1968, when Rukeyser wrote her poem, it was possible to think that the world might change if only women told the truth about their lives. But… even as we learn to talk, we find that talk alone won’t stop the world from turning much as it did before.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians
December 21, 2024 at 1:36 AM
The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians
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“The center right is teaching its traditional electorate that extremist views are perfectly normal. Instead of fixating on the ‘populist wave,’ we should keep a close eye on conservative elites.” —Jan-Werner Müller on the European far right
‘Destruction Through Inclusion’ | Jan-Werner Müller
Vienna regularly ranks among the world’s most livable cities. A long tradition of municipal government by Social Democrats has made for
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December 21, 2024 at 10:10 AM
“The center right is teaching its traditional electorate that extremist views are perfectly normal. Instead of fixating on the ‘populist wave,’ we should keep a close eye on conservative elites.” —Jan-Werner Müller on the European far right
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Orwell wrote: So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information....
December 21, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Orwell wrote: So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information....
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I'm all for the idea that we should adjust copyright/patent/ownership laws for the sake of the public good. But I'd prefer to start with pharmaceuticals, progressive taxation, and publicly funded research, if that's ok, and let struggling writers earn a few pennies when they can.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
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December 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
I'm all for the idea that we should adjust copyright/patent/ownership laws for the sake of the public good. But I'd prefer to start with pharmaceuticals, progressive taxation, and publicly funded research, if that's ok, and let struggling writers earn a few pennies when they can.
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A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
December 8, 2024 at 2:51 AM
A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
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The Russian Detective is in the Guardian's Best Graphic Novels of 2024 list: "handsome"..."a rollicking historical pastiche [with] mirrored corridors, snarling wolves, snowy streets and duellists in the night framed by slender trees and dark water"... Link here:
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
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The best graphic novels of 2024
Arthurian legend, dark family secrets, monsters, princesses and a Russian detective in this year’s picks
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December 3, 2024 at 2:36 PM
The Russian Detective is in the Guardian's Best Graphic Novels of 2024 list: "handsome"..."a rollicking historical pastiche [with] mirrored corridors, snarling wolves, snowy streets and duellists in the night framed by slender trees and dark water"... Link here:
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...