Zach
@zchmann.bsky.social
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This is how you live a life
February 17, 2026 at 2:32 AM
This is how you live a life
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"I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"
RIP Robert Duvall
RIP Robert Duvall
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"
RIP Robert Duvall
RIP Robert Duvall
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“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”
Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software.
Companies making machine learning and generative software aren’t just metaphorically ripping off books. In at least one case, they’re rather literally shredding millions of physical books to …
buff.ly
February 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM
“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”
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“When one wants to be profoundly oneself, which is the case in a poem, one puts oneself on a plane that is at least partly incommunicable to others.”–Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy, The Art of Poetry No. 69
“There was no mystery: even before I learned to read and write I knew it was in order to write poetry.”
buff.ly
February 11, 2026 at 2:03 PM
“When one wants to be profoundly oneself, which is the case in a poem, one puts oneself on a plane that is at least partly incommunicable to others.”–Yves Bonnefoy
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Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see
February 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see
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“Fear not, till Birnan wood
Do come to Dunsinane,” and now a wood
Comes toward Dunsinane.
Do come to Dunsinane,” and now a wood
Comes toward Dunsinane.
February 9, 2026 at 6:13 AM
“Fear not, till Birnan wood
Do come to Dunsinane,” and now a wood
Comes toward Dunsinane.
Do come to Dunsinane,” and now a wood
Comes toward Dunsinane.
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“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
— Frank O’Hara
— Frank O’Hara
March 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
— Frank O’Hara
— Frank O’Hara