Pig free bacon #renewablefarming #solarpunk
I like the idea that his poetry uses familiar terms, but you can't become familiar with them--it resists memorization. That's my crude interpretation of Clune's point--the quotidian / surreal.
I came across Ashbery only recently. Not sure how I missed him. I ran across him in Michael Clune's "Writing Against Time"
All this time and I think his dystopic scenario for humanity is still the most likely one.
Aldous Huxley and Brave New World: The Dark Side of Pleasure
"If the current trends continue, humanity may soon be divided into two groups. There will be those who welcome their pleasurable servitude, and those who choose to resist it for the sake of retaining not just their liberty, but their humanity." #writing #postscarcity
https://academyofideas.com/2018/06/aldous-huxley-brave-new-world-dark-side-of-pleasure/
Looks like the link got munged, I think it should be: https://lithub.com/happy-bloomsday-turn-off-your-wifi-and-read-some-joyce/
lithub has great stuff
zero emission farming tractor #renewableenergy #renewablefarming
Wind-to-Hydrogen Production Reaches Deep Water
Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36270884 )
"University of Massachusetts engineering professor William Heronemus foresaw turbines tapping the potent winds blowing offshore and using electrolysis of seawater to store their renewable power as hydrogen fuel." #solarpunk
"Nobody tells people who are beginners — is that all of us who do creative work … we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like there’s a gap, that for the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good, OK? It’s not that great. It’s really not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. But your taste — the thing that got you into the game — your taste is still killer, and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you."
"And the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work — do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week, or every month, you know you’re going to finish one story. Because it’s only by actually going through a volume of work that you are actually going to catch up and close that gap."
#creativity #art #writing
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/29/ira-glass-success-daniel-sax/
Any other bands in this vein y'all like? They're pretty singular / shamanic.
Desert Wells and #Water #Scarcity
Letting the Unknowable Find Its Way in Your #Writing
https://lithub.com/on-melville-mendacity-and-letting-the-unknowable-find-its-way-in-your-writing/
Chinese #Jazz Buck Clayton Shanghai #1930s Paris of the East contact zone #jazzstr
https://blog.iias.asia/pop-pacific/shanghai-1930s-jazz-and-popular-music-paris-east?s=35
?itok=p0Yj2VkM
I haven't read Lem's Solaris in a long time but I watch and rewatch Tarkovsky's film and it (and from what I recall of the book) never fails to invoke the sublime feeling of the unknown.
Boats have GPS that never get knocked out by lightening strikes. This definitely won't come back to bite us. #lighthouses #gps
A simple mechanical system built from aluminum rods uses vibrations to encode information, mimicking #quantumcomputing in a non-quantum system.
I was there 2 weeks ago. The weather was amazing. Though I'm told we got lucky.
#Ruin in #Ireland
Farming and solar power. #renewableenergy #solarpunk
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/04/27/solar-power-farming-a-win-win-win-win/
Fonts and #scifi
https://reaganray.com/2020/05/12/sci-fi-movie-lettering.html
#LLMs are hugely helpful for research and editing. Hopefully this turns into a more centaur approach like in chess.#writing
https://nofilmschool.com/how-sudowrite-story-engine-already-creating-issues-ai-generate-prose
Cargo ship from 1909 making zero-emission deliveries
#solarpunk #shipping #sailcargo #ageofsail