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Big Boi, an absolute unit-class orange cat, presses his ear to the wall, as if eavesdropping on a conversation on the other side. Domestic surveillance acticity not unlike that which preoccupies the narrative of the aforementioned film.
The over to "Black Sabbath – Live At Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ, USA August 5, 1975 Broadcast Kingbiscuit Flower Hour" where Ozzy is throwing double peace signs and showing his belly between a fringe-y Western jacket and red pants
GRANTA For more than ten years Granta has published the winners of the Commonwealth Prize on our website. Granta editors have no control over the selection of the Commonwealth Prize stories, and nor are they involved in choosing the jury. This year, there has been speculation that Jamir Nazir's winning story, 'The Serpent in the Grove', may have been at least partially Al-generated. We showed Claude.ai the story and asked whether it was Al-generated. The response was long, concluding that it was 'almost certainly not produced unaided by a human'. It ended, however, on a cautious note: 'The strongest evidence against pure Al authorship is the small number of passages that don't fit the pattern - particularly the Zoongie morning-greeting and the agricultural paragraph about the acre. Those passages carry the kind of off-shape specificity that models still struggle to produce unprompted. If the story has a human core, it is concentrated there, and the Al has been used to elaborate around it ...' The intention of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is to find writers from around the Commonwealth and bring them to global attention. It may be that the judges have now awarded a prize to an instance of Al plagiarism - we don't yet know, and perhaps we never will know. There is, however, a certain irony in the fact that beyond human hunches Al itself is the most efficient tool we have for revealing what is Al generated. But the Al-generated critique of these Commonwealth writers - more than one has been accused of basing their story on Al material - may conceivably itself reflect Al bias. Time will tell. The suggestion that writers have submitted material not authentically their own is a charge we take seriously, but until the Commonwealth Foundation comes to a definite conclusion, we will keep these stories on our website. Sigrid Rausing Publisher of Granta 12 Addison Avenue, Holland Park, London W11 4QR Tel + 44 (0)20 76051360 / Fax +44 (0)02 7605 1361 www.granta.com
Glenn Danzig, a short but large-chested white man wearing his own merch—black shirt, naturally—looking weary walking through a parking lot with cat litter and several other plastic shopping bags
Bitchin Bajas performing on a small blue-lit stage, the three players staring meditatively at their respective instruments
Cover art for the linked Slowdive live recording: the five-piece band is standing on a stage lit by blue lights, with psychedelic blue projections behind them. It reads: Slowdive Festival Hall Melbourne, Australia May 3, 2025
Trailer with large CLASSROOM sign behind concrete wall lined with razor wire
a low resolution close-up image of Tony Blair looking ghoulish as usual but with teeth
To do this practice, we have to give up hope. ... I mean that we have to give up this idea in our heads that somehow, if we could only figure it out, there's some way to have this perfect life that is just right for us. Life is the way it is. And only when we begin to give up those maneuvers does life begin to be more satisfactory. When I say give up hope, I don't mean to give up effort. As Zen students we have to work unbelievably hard. But when I say hard, I don't mean straining and effort; it isn't that. What is hard is this choice that we repeatedly have to make… We have to sit with pain and we hate it. I don't like it either. But as we patiently just sit our way through that, something builds within us. Working with a good teacher, seeing what she or he is, we are slowly transformed in this practice. It's not by anything we think, not by something we figure out in our heads. We're transformed by what we do. And what is it that we do? We constantly make that choice. We give up our ego-centered dreams for this reality that we really are. Charlotte Joko Beck Everyday Zen (1989)
a photograph of an advertisement seen over a urinal in a restaurant with a grinning white man in a suit and the language: AllOverMedia Indoor | Gas Pump | Ambient See me. Call me. Now.
screenshot of a post from Con/Jur/d that links to THE MORE YOU DON'T KNOW newsletter, and reads: A spectacular, my kind of Zen, exploration.. The introduction to Timber Rattle alone is worth hiking over the next ridge at night
A house that is way too big, old architecture I don't know how to describe but like maybe five decent normal apartments
Two long Quonset hut style buildings with a smaller one in between: the surrounding lawn is well kempt in the snshinr
A red brick building with a blue awning identifying it as the offices of premier label co inc: make it stick: custom printed labels since 1981. The front window has a stained glass Girl Scouts logo on prominent display
screenshot of the Nothing to Attain Muncie Photo Digest: a brutalist building and graffiti that says CLIT in bubble letters
Photograph of a long-abandoned Rust Belt industrial building of some kind, two stories, broken windows, blue skies and clouds. A white metal door has two layers of graffiti that taken together read: YES I’M IN HERE / NO TRESPASSING / OR ELSE U GO TO GULAG / MY HOUSE / I’LL SHOOT FIRST
The cover of Zenju Earthlyn Manuel's THE SHAMANIC BONES OF ZEN: Rrevealing the ancestral spirit and mystical heart of a sacred tradtion Orange cover with an illustration of an open Black hand on the bottom third, with lighter orange leaves floating up from the palm
A quote from Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" that reads All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change. the text is next to an image of Octavia Butler looking stern in a very cool pair of aviator-style eyeglasses, bad ass earrings and a black turtleneck. she's the best.
screenshot of a Craigslist Indianapolis ad that reads: 3br - 1100ft2 - Temp Housing Offered (Indianapolis) White Male in Indy seeking a Lady in need of housing. Though you would be welcome to work to be able to save up money, that would be optional as I would care for you from a food, housing or other needs aspects within reason. I do have a spare room if you’d prefer it as opposed to sharing mine. Please provide details about yourself, your current situation, pics and why you feel that you would be the “right” Lady for me to assist.
cover of Xenogensis trilogy featuring an illustration of a Black woman in a green dress with a gray Oankali alien standing behind her with a hand on her shoulder, with an illustration of Earth and the moon behind them
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screenshot of text from the aforementioned essay: But the idea that only liberals or leftists care about saving all beings and treating people with loving kindness is incorrect. One example of how this plays out would be the difference in liberals and conservatives views about the military. A leftist tends to think, as I tended to think, that if a person is anti-war he must also be in favor of cutting military budgets and ending things like the testing of advanced weapons. Zero Defex (the band I play bass in) played a lot of anti-nuclear rallies and I used to wear a pin on my shirt that said “Nuclear Freeze.” Therefore, many people think, as I did, that anyone who is in favor of increased military spending and the continued testing of advanced weapons must therefore be pro-war. But this is not necessarily the case. Many conservatives favor military spending and weapons testing because they are anti-war. They believe that having a strong military is the best way to prevent war.
Screenshot of Brad Warner's essay "Transgenderism: A Buddhist Perspective" essay that reads: According to Buddhist philosophy, it is utterly impossible for someone to be born in the wrong body. Therefore, using drugs, hormones, and surgery to try to make the material body compatible with the immaterial mind is a futile endeavor. It cannot possibly work. It cannot lead to happiness. It cannot fix the fundamental problem. At best, such an approach might temporarily relieve some superficial aspects of a person’s suffering, but it cannot hope to get at the real root of the problem. It is more likely to cause more suffering.
screenshot from The #BuddhistCultureWars: BuddhaBros, Alt-Right Dharma, and Snowflake Sanghas by Ann Gleig and Brenna Grace Artinger that reads: The distinctive politicized critiques made against the 2018 SZBA conference were repeated just a month later. In October 2018, the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) temporarily suspended long- term teacher Ed Brown after a student made a complaint about what they felt was a transphobic comment by Brown (Cutts et al. 2018). Across Facebook, outraged Brown supporters rallied against what they claimed was a hysterical “politically correct” overreaction by SFZC. Defenders linked Brown’s “persecution” to attacks on masculinity and the “supreme court hysteria” over Brett Kavanaugh. At the forefront was Warner, who published a video called “Zen Safe Spaces” in which he belittled both racial and transgender inclusivity initiatives in American Zen (2018a). One commentator under the video bemoaned: “That is so sad. What I want by way of a ‘safe space’ is a pace safe FOR Zen and safe FROM noxious post-modern victim politics.” Another concluded: “Maybe it’s time to tell the snowflakes to suck it up or go elsewhere.” https://www.academia.edu/49154652/The_BuddhistCultureWars_BuddhaBros_Alt_Right_Dharma_and_Snowflake_Sanghas
Two cats relaxing on a couch, one stretched wide across the frame, the difference between his head versus rear end not immediately apoarent
screesnhot of a post from "Headquarters News" on bluesky that reads: Tucker Carlson: I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We’re implicated in this. I misled people.
screenshot of the Inter-Dimensional Music FM mix cloud profile showing the most recent chart positions: 29th metal, 29th drone, and 33rd world hooray!
Ronald Gladden from the TV show Jury Duty looking confused by all of the batshit things that he's experiencing on the show
the famous "nihilism meme" with the word "Nihilism" over a diptych that features a black and white photo labeled "stereotype" where a person crouches in despair with their head in their hands against a brick wall under the text "nothing in life matters", as contrasted with a second image labeled "reality" that is a colorful illustration of a happy approachable dude in a sweet cap and rad shades giving a thumbs up with the text "nothing in life matters!"
out of focus video of a mac book laptop with a malfunctioning Touch Bar strobing flashes of light in a dark room
cool and sad and troubled sometimes evil mage Raistlin Majere in a dark cloak with spooky eyes and long white hair holding a bad ass mage stick under scary clouds hugging the babe cleric Crysania Tarinius who has long dark hair and a breezy white dress and has fallen tragically in love with him: it is the cover of the Dragonlance novel THE TIME OF THE TWINS
screenshot of a post from Erik Davis' Burning Shore newsletter commenting on the Zen Essences I-III Void Contemplation Tactics newsletter that reads: This is an extraordinary account of contemporary Zen without the "stink of Zen." Unless that stink is from the piles of dishes left in the sink.
long exposure image of two lights on the horizon of Far West Texas' high desert grasslands with text that reads: Inter-Dimensional Music Heavy Mellow, Kosmische Slop, and Void Contemplation Tactics lurk | share | subscribe cosmicchambo.substack.com
screenshot from https://mattnida.com/archive/ of text that reads: ID Music: Heavenly Zen Sickness Supersessions Zen teaching, when stripped of the essential confounding poetry that gives its ephemeral simplicity momentum over the course of a lifetime, begins and ends with the proposition that it is better to not be a shit head than to be a shit head. The only place to be or not to be anything is the present moment. How many moments can we refrain from shit-headedness, even as unwholesome action continues to fill worlds upon worlds, and swallow up all things upon all things? Essential words and sounds from my favourite media art project of the moment.
screenshot of text from the conclusion of David Graeber's DEBT that reads: In this book I have largely avoided making concrete proposals, but let me end with one. It seems to me that we are long overdue for some kind of Biblical-style Jubilee: one that would affect both international debt and consumer debt. It would be salutary not j ust because it would relieve so much genuine human suffering, but also because it would be our way of reminding ourselves that money is not ineffable, that paying one's debts is not the essence of morality, that all these things are human arrangements and that if democracy is to mean anything, it is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.
Cross country skiers projected on a wall with a white car stretching up to meet them
Two cats sleeping on a yoga blanket on a couch with Olympic skiing on in the background
A room at night: plants, soft warm light, cheapo DJ controller and janky laptop balanced on very old couch cushions, plus round patterned carpet
Photo of a package of Good Wipes-brand Rosewater-scented flushable plant-based wipes with a blue arrow drawing the viewer's attention to the phrase "deliciously soothing wipes"
Jackson leads demonstrators in prayer across the street from the White House in January 1985. The group were demanding jobs not bombs, freedom for South Africa and justice for all, on the eve of Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive
Sloppily altered image from the New Yorker's story about AI with text that reads "What is LAMENT CONFIGURATION? The scientists researching it aren't sure either. Experiments conducted with the Hell Priest are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood." The original New Yorker image includes a glowing box that looks a lot like the puzzle boxes from the Hellraiser universe.
An orange and white cat watching skiing
Two cats who are brothers and love each other sleeping with their bodies entwined on a chair.
Two cats who are brothers and who love one another sitting back to back on a window sill
A photograph of a nice room with plants and records and a DJ Setup but no friends are visible.
screenshot of an IG comment from thou_band that was made on a photo of me and my wife kissing at a Thou show in Louisville
A young Catherine O'Hara playing Sigmund Freuds wife in SCTV s1e1
Image of Catherine O'Hara's title card from SCTV s1e1
A blown up screenshot of the blue sky heart/like symbol with the number four next to it, indicating that four (4) accounts liked my post, which for me, is "doin numbers"
Screenshot of post that reads: A tale of three apps. Identical post sent at the same time: Twitter: 136,000 likes, 20,000 shares Threads: 46,000 likes, 4,000 ahares Bluesky: 149 likes, 45 shares To be clear, I have 60k followers on Twitter, 15k on Bluesky, but only 7k on Threads. I love Bluesky, but this isn't sustainable.
The cover of Astra Taylor's book THE AGE OF INSECURITY, subtitled "Coming together as things fall apart." The image is of a large downard pointing arrow in white, with black accents, on a red background.
Image of page 127 of Astra Taylor's THE AGE OF INSECURITY. The selected text reads: The postmaterialist challenge to established notions of patriotism and nationalism, family life, and social hierarchy had unsettled as many as it had inspired, and this unease only increased as the economy contracted. More traditionally minded people, overwhelmingly white and older, clung to survival values in the face of disorienting social change and diminishing opportunities. Political conservatives, backed by big business interests, capitalized on their anxieties. They fuelled resentment by railing against racial, religious, and sexual minorities-all while implementing policies that made ordinary people's lives even more miserable and tough. In this way, the social movements of the sixties-emboldened Black and brown people, uppity feminists, unashamed queer people, entitled students, and know-it-all professors-became the scapegoats for the new-found insecurity of the white working class, obscuring the true culprits: an increasingly cutthroat capitalist regime and the rise of corporate globalization.
An image from the Kwan Um School of Zen labeled "first inka." It's a washed out vintage photograph of six people in Kwan Um robes standing in the grass in front of a small pagoda (?). My teacher Linc is in the front row, on the far left side.
the famous image of Kirk Van Houten's extremely divorced race car bad flex
The cover of Caitlin Starling's novel THE LUMINOUS DEAD. The image is an illustration of a glowing EV suit glove clawing its way up a cliffside, rendered in dark turquoise colors. "The cave will swallow them whole" is the tagline.