Michael L
@mlevan.bsky.social
Happy 11th birthday to my oldest Submittable submission.
Think I still have a chance getting it published? #writinglife
Think I still have a chance getting it published? #writinglife
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Happy 11th birthday to my oldest Submittable submission.
Think I still have a chance getting it published? #writinglife
Think I still have a chance getting it published? #writinglife
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Death of the Author? had it coming, to be honest, after what happened to all those darlings
September 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Death of the Author? had it coming, to be honest, after what happened to all those darlings
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And thank you to the editors for putting together a fantastic issue. Lucky to be part of it.
July 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
And thank you to the editors for putting together a fantastic issue. Lucky to be part of it.
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They finally made the milk from that hotel
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They finally made the milk from that hotel
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They could, you know, just stop feeding the AI hype machine that results in overgeneralization of the capacities of the technology.
Or they could listen to damn near everyone who warned them that this was going to be a problem.
Or they could listen to damn near everyone who warned them that this was going to be a problem.
ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death – and OpenAI doesn’t know how to stop it
ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death
www.independent.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
They could, you know, just stop feeding the AI hype machine that results in overgeneralization of the capacities of the technology.
Or they could listen to damn near everyone who warned them that this was going to be a problem.
Or they could listen to damn near everyone who warned them that this was going to be a problem.
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Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
July 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
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From the 1968 book “The Runaway Robot” which I’ve been reading with Orin.
July 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
From the 1968 book “The Runaway Robot” which I’ve been reading with Orin.
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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”
By Ruben Bolling
Genius. Click in.
By Ruben Bolling
Genius. Click in.
June 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”
By Ruben Bolling
Genius. Click in.
By Ruben Bolling
Genius. Click in.
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for the New York Times, I wrote about AI invading the creative writing classroom (including students using ChatGPT for memoir assignments) and all the reasons we need to value the acts of writing and thinking on their own terms
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
Opinion | Sorry, Sam Altman, A.I. Is Not Good at Real Writing (Gift Article)
When we let computers write our stories, we lose something essential.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
for the New York Times, I wrote about AI invading the creative writing classroom (including students using ChatGPT for memoir assignments) and all the reasons we need to value the acts of writing and thinking on their own terms
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
Thank you to the amazing editors @cherrytreelit.bsky.social for including my nonfiction in the newest issue and the fantastic Zoom launch reading they organized. Truly wonderful people to work with. Send your work to them during the next submissions window. And read the issue! It’s great.
March 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Thank you to the amazing editors @cherrytreelit.bsky.social for including my nonfiction in the newest issue and the fantastic Zoom launch reading they organized. Truly wonderful people to work with. Send your work to them during the next submissions window. And read the issue! It’s great.
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Our current moment sucks, to be sure. But one way I find some comfort (strange as it may be) is in coming to understand the structures, actors, and ideas which put us here. If I can name it, if I know where it came from (everything has a history), then it's concrete, nameable, and thus overcome-able
February 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Our current moment sucks, to be sure. But one way I find some comfort (strange as it may be) is in coming to understand the structures, actors, and ideas which put us here. If I can name it, if I know where it came from (everything has a history), then it's concrete, nameable, and thus overcome-able
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I think I've found a way to articulate what bothers me about the trajectory of the modern tech industry (and to some extent... society).
We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it.
This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.
We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it.
This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.
February 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I think I've found a way to articulate what bothers me about the trajectory of the modern tech industry (and to some extent... society).
We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it.
This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.
We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it.
This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
January 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
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incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
January 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
I was going to ask where my medal was for going to the Y for a workout before 10 am, but a bunch of guys walked past me to play basketball, and I got such a contact high. They’re already winning 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I was going to ask where my medal was for going to the Y for a workout before 10 am, but a bunch of guys walked past me to play basketball, and I got such a contact high. They’re already winning 2025.
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Yn a certayne poetique sense the moon ys yn fact a drone piloted by the universe
December 18, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Yn a certayne poetique sense the moon ys yn fact a drone piloted by the universe
Went to check my fantasy football roster ahead of tonight’s game and realized as a #Browns fan (1) I wouldn’t willingly have any Pittsburgh players and (2) I wouldn’t willingly have any Browns ones either. Sigh. #clevelanderlife #cleveland #factoryofsadness
November 21, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Went to check my fantasy football roster ahead of tonight’s game and realized as a #Browns fan (1) I wouldn’t willingly have any Pittsburgh players and (2) I wouldn’t willingly have any Browns ones either. Sigh. #clevelanderlife #cleveland #factoryofsadness
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I wonder what a society that encouraged us to be our best selves would look like, especially if best wasn't defined by productivity or wealth.
November 19, 2024 at 2:52 PM
I wonder what a society that encouraged us to be our best selves would look like, especially if best wasn't defined by productivity or wealth.
Thanks to the editors for their care in putting this fantastic issue together. Honored to be part of it. Congrats, fellow contributors!
Our November issue is LIVE! Check it out here (and see our website's new look): pitheadchapel.com/volume-12-is...
November 5, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Thanks to the editors for their care in putting this fantastic issue together. Honored to be part of it. Congrats, fellow contributors!