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December 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Ruby has helped me build a business and life beyond what I could have ever wished for.

It’s a wonderful programming language, but more importantly it brings together an amazing community. ❤️ #ruby25
November 2, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Writing poetry, reading poetry: these are ethical activities when all is said and done, concerned with our mode of being. And as long as we are being beings the only being we impoverish by not writing poetry is our own
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January 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
At the peak of its popularity
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According to a 2018 study by the National Endowment for the Arts, the percentage of poetry readers (ages 18-24) had doubled since 2012. Among adults, poetry reading increased by 76%.
January 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
And when context becomes the new content,

CONTEXT COLLAPSE cannot be far behind.
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January 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Each community could have its own journal
And each journal its own community, An unintended consequence was that
It became easier for communities
To atomize into the same windowless
Monads that have come to characterize
American society in toto.
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January 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The exception's name is Rupi Kaur, who-along with a maybe two or three other Instapoets is one of the few people on the planet who are actually able to make a living exclusively from writing poetry-if you can call it that.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
But a basic law of economics
That makes poetry seem irrelevant
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"A piece of paper has a definite economic value,” he says, quoting Roof publisher James Sherry. "If you print a poem on it, this value is lost."
January 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
And if this sounds
Alarmist, consider that it hasn't
Even begun to take into account
Publishing degree zero: the Internet:
A.k.a. networked digital media.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Combined with contemporaneous Statistics which show that submitters to
Print magazines reliably outnumber Their subscribers by a factor of ten
It becomes impossible not to conclude,
As he does, that many more people write
Poetry than read it.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Compared to film, painting, sculpture, and music, literary genres in general require minimal capital outlay, and lyric, in particular, being brief, is far less time- and labor-intensive than the drama, short story, or novel.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Craig Dworkin estimates
That by the first decade of the twenty-first
Century, over one thousand book-length
Collections of "serious" poetry
Were being cranked out in the US per Annum.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Which has the lowest barrier to entry Of any art form in any medium,
Is, for this reason, particularly Vulnerable to sharp fluctuations
In supply. Making a back-of-the-napkin
Calculation
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January 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Exit: the well-wrought urn. Enter: AI.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Surrenders at last to the visual

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January 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
[T]he curator is interested not in what... texts "say" but rather in what words occur in these texts and what words do not. (Emphasis added.)
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January 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In a closed text, the writer
Retains "directive" "authority" over The "passive" reader, while in an open text
The absence of control mechanisms Like narrative, syntax, and formatting,
Makes the reader an active participant
In constructing the meaning of the text,
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January 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Merger of poetry and poetics,
A friendly takeover ostensibly Undertaken in the name of a certain Oft-neglected external stakeholder Some in the movement liked to call the reader.
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🎨Pierre-Auguste Renoir
January 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
To stimulate recursive discourses Someone at the Stanford Literary Lab ought to crunch the numbers to see whether- and, if so, by what factor-the poems that take poetry-implicitly or explicitly as their subject matter have increased over the last hundred years. include
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January 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
To turn William Carlos Williams' quip on its head: all countercommunicative texts communicate the same thing of no importance, viz., communication is dead.
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January 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM