The poet is just the person who wanders around their house, muttering odd combinations of words to themselves.

The Prologue, a short story by Glen Bullock: commonmeasure.substack.com/p/the-prologue…

Ironic ad placement.

Love hearing my guitar teacher refer to a group of people as “the New York composer nerds.”

Born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the galaxy. Born just on time to explore the internet.

Many lessons are expensive lessons

"People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole."

The problem isn't that LLM writing uses em dashes (em dashes are awesome) but that it uses them where commas would do. Moreover, the sentences are confusing to read and edit, because LLMs format text output around the em dash: they create syntax that requires the em dash.

Four poems

When things are feeling really bad I watch this video. I believe it is the most important video on the internet.

US auto loan debt is $1.6T, roughly the size of Turkey or Indonesia's economies, two of the world's top 20 economies.

Diverse things can be named through the anaphora — it opens up space for parataxis. In the best case, it unites disparate things, encompassing them in the repeated phrase. In the worst case, in becomes a "junk drawer" poem.