https://buttondown.com/blog/zines
Really enjoyed this piece on zines and their modern-day (online) equivalent--the email newsletter.
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Ko-Fi for Kadambari:
One of the most fascinating history articles I've read:
https://lithub.com/on-the-covert-role-of-knitting-during-the-french-revolution-and-world-war-ii/
Thanks to @jredlund@social.linux.pizza for sharing this wonderful piece!
"The resultant stories and essays are simulacra of thought, generated via pattern recognition learned from millions of human-penned words, rooted in no particular experience by no particular person. "
Found a good sentence to tell others why exactly I don't care for AI-generated writing.
Also:
"Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. An LLM can reproduce the appearance of that activity, but it can’t replace it, because the value lies not only in the object produced but in the transformation that occurs during its making."
Yes!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai
"The problem with Liking is that it’s a critical dead-end, a conversation nonstarter. It’s opinion without evidence—or, really, posture without opinion. For every “+1,” “THIS,” or “<3” we offer next to someone’s fawning tweet, a feeling is expressed without saying much at all."
This is why even writing about the books I've liked has been difficult. I liked it, I think others should read it too. And I keep telling myself that I won't write about the books I didn't like, because mostly I want to point people to books I think more people should read--very rarely do I come across a book that I think people _shouldn't_ read.
But then I also am a reader and not a reviewer so should it be my job to go beyond recommendations?
#reading #books #literature #culture #critcism #X #Twitter #Tumblr #BookReview
I envy people who can articulate what's happening with such painful yet cathartic accuracy:
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-40/the-intellectual-situation/critical-attrition/
#books #reading #reviews #literature
Which of these can you find on the front or back cover of your current read?
Still haven't found a fun video on books like this one:
