4 Those of you who had e-mail messages to me bounce today, please resend them—I’m using a workaround through Gmail while Verizon, my ISP, lumbers towards the problem (which seems to be with their suddenly hypersensitive spam filters; two hours of my life I’ll never get back).
We shouldn’t fool ourselves into mistaking the world as we experience it for the world as it really is.
The two are related, but the relationship is complicated, and it’s real work to figure it out.
@Popehat We're never going to change their hearts and minds if we treat this kind of conduct as a bad thing.
Oscar Hokeah's blog post: Debut Novel: CALLING FOR A BLANKET DANCE https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/21549394-debut-novel-calling-for-a-blanket-dance via @goodreads
“the…novelist, who seeks to confer or receive amusement from his labours, may, without presumption, apply to prose fiction a licence, or rather a rule, from the adoption of which so many exquisite combinations of human feeling have resulted in the highest specimens of poetry.”
Jeff Bezos being lionized by rote, thoughtless coverage for going to space privately, decades after we did it first collectively, speaks of the ethos of an age: we've come to venerate what we do alone and sneer at what we do together.
Let's reverse that.
https://the.ink/p/what-we-do-alone-and-what-we-do-together
kijjohnson
Not yet, I haven’t written, but I will–
steelbrassnwood
The last thing I sent you was on Friday morning, about the Chernobyl photos. Hope you had a good weekend aside from the email problems.
steelbrassnwood
I don’t read it so much anymore, but this was quite the hit on Slashdot Monday.
admin
To say that the supervisor I spoke to Sunday night was obtuse would be to give him far too much credit. The Slashdot piece was interesting—as of the wee hours of Thursday morning, Gmail still bounces off the Verizon servers.