Andy Miller
@jandrewm.bsky.social
He/Him. Quaker. BSF '21, ANMLY, Hopkins R, SoFloPoJo, Fourth River, Heavy Feather R, Bending Genres, Identity Theory, Ilanot R, Sugar House R, Psaltery & Lyre, Kissing Dynamite, YIV, NDQ, Atlanta R, elsewhere. Poetry reader at West Trade Review.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
Home at last. Breakfast with the kitties, listening to John Zorn's new Nocturnes for the first time.
Today I'll do laundry, a little grading. Read some Goethe, Ngugi, Cathy Park Hong.
Today I'll do laundry, a little grading. Read some Goethe, Ngugi, Cathy Park Hong.
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Home at last. Breakfast with the kitties, listening to John Zorn's new Nocturnes for the first time.
Today I'll do laundry, a little grading. Read some Goethe, Ngugi, Cathy Park Hong.
Today I'll do laundry, a little grading. Read some Goethe, Ngugi, Cathy Park Hong.
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L’etranger : Filmée élégamment en noir et blanc par François Ozon, cette adaptation réussie du roman d’Albert Camus est remarquablement incarnée avec un détachement mystérieux et charismatique par Benjamin Voisin
November 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
L’etranger : Filmée élégamment en noir et blanc par François Ozon, cette adaptation réussie du roman d’Albert Camus est remarquablement incarnée avec un détachement mystérieux et charismatique par Benjamin Voisin
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"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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That's a bit on the nose
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
That's a bit on the nose
Love this! I visit the painting when we are in London.
2/2 William Blake, whose birthday we are celebrating, painted by Thomas Phillips in 1807.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Love this! I visit the painting when we are in London.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Meredith Monk
Sonic Youth/Wolf Eyes/Hair Police
Bob Dylan
The Ex
John Fahey
Meredith Monk
Sonic Youth/Wolf Eyes/Hair Police
Bob Dylan
The Ex
John Fahey
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
- The Dictators
- David Bowie
- Bad Religion
- Cheap Trick
- Fleetwood Mac
- The Dictators
- David Bowie
- Bad Religion
- Cheap Trick
- Fleetwood Mac
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts youve seen
- Metallica
- Tool
- Rammstein
- Bon Jovi
- Radiohead
- Metallica
- Tool
- Rammstein
- Bon Jovi
- Radiohead
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Meredith Monk
Sonic Youth/Wolf Eyes/Hair Police
Bob Dylan
The Ex
John Fahey
Meredith Monk
Sonic Youth/Wolf Eyes/Hair Police
Bob Dylan
The Ex
John Fahey
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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At the audiologist. Ooof! Life is taking a turn.
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
At the audiologist. Ooof! Life is taking a turn.
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I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change.
Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!
www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!
www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
One Poem by Jared Beloff - Terrain.org
New from Jared Beloff: "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," a gorgeous, haunting poem.
www.terrain.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I am so excited to share this poem and join the many many other Icarus poets. Here is my speculative ekphrastic "Flooded Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which imagines Breughel's landscape altered by climate change.
Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!
www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
Thank you @terrainorg.bsky.social!
www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...
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Edith Head and Her Miniature Sewing Machine Collection — Robert Cumming, 1977
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Edith Head and Her Miniature Sewing Machine Collection — Robert Cumming, 1977
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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My kind of holiday carols.
morton feldman's rothko chapel / for frank o'hara, 50th anniversary and first lp reissue
www.strandedrecords.com/collections/...
www.strandedrecords.com/collections/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My kind of holiday carols.
I've only seen three Naruse films so far, but hopefully that will change soon.
www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us
A two-part, thirty-film retrospective opens in New York before traveling to Berkeley, Harvard, Toronto, and Vancouver.
www.criterion.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I've only seen three Naruse films so far, but hopefully that will change soon.
www.criterion.com/current/post...
www.criterion.com/current/post...
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
buff.ly
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Two poems written today.
And we had ramen for lunch. Bought some chapbooks by local poets. Spent a couple of hours at a coffee shop, working on projects.
This morning, one of our cats insisted on head scratches. I said: I see you. I see you.
And we had ramen for lunch. Bought some chapbooks by local poets. Spent a couple of hours at a coffee shop, working on projects.
This morning, one of our cats insisted on head scratches. I said: I see you. I see you.
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Two poems written today.
And we had ramen for lunch. Bought some chapbooks by local poets. Spent a couple of hours at a coffee shop, working on projects.
This morning, one of our cats insisted on head scratches. I said: I see you. I see you.
And we had ramen for lunch. Bought some chapbooks by local poets. Spent a couple of hours at a coffee shop, working on projects.
This morning, one of our cats insisted on head scratches. I said: I see you. I see you.
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never let them convince you that reading is a waste of time or that reading physical books is replaceable. Physical books, zines, etc -- these are spaces where we cannot be monitored, where we can truly be w/our own thoughts for a gd min & make up our own minds. Of course that frightens them
lmao this is the headline of someone who hasn't read a book in years
Oh fuck off
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
never let them convince you that reading is a waste of time or that reading physical books is replaceable. Physical books, zines, etc -- these are spaces where we cannot be monitored, where we can truly be w/our own thoughts for a gd min & make up our own minds. Of course that frightens them
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When did people start sitting in chairs? When did books get covers? Why is everything other people do aimed at me specifically?
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
When did people start sitting in chairs? When did books get covers? Why is everything other people do aimed at me specifically?