Monthly Archives: October 2024

in my neighborhood pt. 77

Posted on October 11, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: A study of newer, bigger versions of three major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots shows that they are more inclined to generate wrong answers than to admit ignorance when compared with previous models. The study also found that … Continue reading →

exterminator of reason

Posted on October 10, 2024 by istsfor manity

thee eggman of root vegetables . . . . . . he believes in novelettes, not himself / he / thee feta trickster / now a forager of mirrors / unseen in the annals of modern beet milkers / … Continue reading →

a warmer world

Posted on October 9, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: In a way, Milton is exactly the type of storm that scientists have been warning could happen; Michael Wehner, a climate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California, called it shocking but not surprising. “One of … Continue reading →

in psychedelic ardor

Posted on October 8, 2024 by istsfor manity

counterculture mudgards jonesy spins an intermediate dub in the mixmind-bending parasites gyrate in psychedelic ardorthe postmistress breaks into the varsity ragall those sprawled out in mouth-breathing stuporeulogize the pogo in a sundae of sundaysit’s 1965 all over againbut with a … Continue reading →

by the ball

Posted on October 7, 2024 by istsfor manity

Shadow Is A Ruin (redux) “Dig, Digby, dig!” Digby stomps on his shadow in the schoolyard. He tries to blot it out because it won’t stop following him. Digby believes the shadow rains down the indignities he suffers, although he … Continue reading →

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its usual nihilism

Posted on October 6, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Time moves on with its usual nihilism, mows us all down, jaw-droppingly insensate to our preference for living. Guns us down. In another split second millennia will pass and the beings on earth have … Continue reading →

the syringe hamper

Posted on October 5, 2024 by istsfor manity

red is our color she respects the tracksuit since julyshe yodels kindness+irritation at once we’re two awesome marxist archerscommies at the bullseye dialectics i am the third from the ringmaster in the photoshe’s center-right by the red gunner red is … Continue reading →

big castrate roller

Posted on October 4, 2024 by istsfor manity

withdrawal at creation haggle haired+heinous in hennaproclaims the belligerent of bemoan he shackles the liminal stallon the prowl for a crochet gewgaw and a quavering bardoon an anvil toe charterheaded for the underworld he’s a mangle hack for tag and … Continue reading →

pepper puff signyfing

Posted on October 3, 2024 by istsfor manity

ideal and spleen a beloved cleansera spud comes late iconic fingermarks on linoleumworship stumbling cataclysm cob mink’s boohoos testedideal and spleen in reverse bidet surfers on the stormriding trample clamp trolleys tubular and decidedly gnarlypanorama jumpers in clay jeer the … Continue reading →

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wisps of blue

Posted on October 2, 2024 by istsfor manity

Glossolalia : Echolalia (redux) Wrack & wreck & rookThat emprise begets another & againWe are out of time, this world not keenOn us but wishing to push us backBack to glossolalia—an echolaliaPangloss-ian & Martin-esque—The sound of a mouthful of wasps … Continue reading →