I find the title of Khan’s book—Brave New Words—disturbing, too cute

www.gatesnotes.com/brave-new-wo...

(nor, maybe, and it’s hard to believe this is on the table, entirely banished from a republic)

no need to apologize

"poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator" is a pretty fair condensation of my grad seminar on form this semester

but also who are these even for?

hideous, actually

it’s…ugly

good luck, poets

it’s a culture war

book x of the republic book club while we’re at it

defy our robot overlords, read a poem

😱

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” T Stoppard- R and G are Dead, also beautiful.

true? unsure

sorry, i meant to say that it’s my personal favorite