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@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-11-21 14:40:06
Content warning: Loss and grief

I keep thinking that I should text a friend of mine, tell him how much I've been writing, tell him I mentioned him in something I wrote. Then I remember he died like 4 years ago.
Edit:
It must have been more like 6 or something now that I'm thinking about it. It was part of the way through the first Trump administration. He would have really appreciated the way Trump is unraveling now. One of the last times we talked he was like... "You know man, You used to play 'Baby, I'm an anarchist' and I'd think... ' don't want to throw a brick through a Starbucks window. I kinda like their coffee sometimes.' But the way things have been going lately, I'm kind of looking around and thinking you might be right. Fuck Starbucks. Where's that brick?"
At least I won the SRV vs the Hendrix version of Voodoo Chile debate. Hendrix is just better.
We used to talk about music, especially punk (and rockabilly, and ska, and 2 tone), and poetry, and beer. He liked hop stupid, but I always thought it didn't have the body to match the hops and I always preferred Racer 5. Of course, this time of year we'd be shifting in to red and stout season, and I'd be excited for Lagunitas Russian Imperial and this year's Bourbon County Stout batch.
He was really big in to Star Wars. He missed all of Andor, which is probably the best thing to have come out since the original 3. But I guess he also missed the new trilogy, so maybe it balances out.
He would have really liked all the good music I've run across in the last few years. He had a music blog for a bit.
Yeah... I don't know why it's hitting me so hard now, other than maybe I never had time to really process it before.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-11-21 15:21:17

a dozen years ago, i wrote liner notes for a reissue of callender's 1972 album, "the way," nixed by a former label owner just before it went into (re)production.
social.lol/@thetonearm/1155879

The Tonearm (@thetonearm@social.lol)
"When you hear it, you realize, 'This doesn't sound like anything else, even from that era.' It's totally in a sphere by itself." Robert Callender's 'Rainbow' merged jazz, poetry, and Indian classical music in 1968, then largely disappeared. Archivist Chaim O'Brien-Blumenthal explains how a 2023 concert recording became the start of the artist's rediscovery. Robert Callender Reimagines His 1968 Psychedelic Landmark for Modern Ears: https://www.thetonearm.com/robert-callender-reimagines-his-1…

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-22 01:24:45

the president of columbia is currently giving relationship advice on x dot com

Gustavo Petro, translated from Spanish: There are two things I've learned in life: not to go to bed with a woman from whom nothing is born in my heart, and not to buy sex when I'm still capable of seduction and poetry. You always have to combine sexuality with culture; that's what's called eroticism. I advise you of that. Now, if you manage to make your energy and that of the universe flow through every cell of your partner, you achieve, I believe, the maximum vital possibility of the human be…
@tschundler@leds.social
2025-11-22 18:48:15

I've been away from Python for a bit, and project setup seems to have advanced a lot from one obviously correct way to do things. Where there was setuptools pip pip-tools venv, there is now `uv`, `pixi`, `poetry`, `pdm`, more?
Maybe because it's not obvious because I'm not dutch?
Any suggestion for a project that includes a little cython that is slowly being replaced with some maturin/pyo3 parts?

@jake4480@c.im
2025-12-20 01:56:41

We did a zine! @… had this awesome idea and pulled a bunch of us together. We present to you Swampgas #1 for winter 2025 - just in time for the solstice. It's got metal, fantasy, art, photography, poetry, stories, plus music reviews and previews.
Free at itch:

Swampgas zine cover - logo and dark graphic
Swampgas zine interior - sea and credits
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-05 06:45:54

Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content (Robert Hart/The Verge)
theverge.com/report/838167/ai-

AI chatbots can be wooed into crimes with poetry
New research suggests riddle-like poems are remarkably effective at circumventing AI safety features. 

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-12-18 21:48:22

60 years ago tonight, the big beat acid test, on the grateful dead’s home turf in palo alto, at a soon-to-open go-go club on the outskirts of town. full chaos, with the dead & prankster band playing at the same time. local historian @… on the big beat:

poster for Acid Tests with note about Big Beat in bottom corner
the Big Beat building in later years
newspaper ad advertising the Big Beat, with teens dancing
sn SEE Big Beat Sets A Fast Pace For Palo Alto Crowds Glamorous proprietor Yvonne Modica, long assaciated with Peninsula bistros, presides over the Big Beat, the “in” spet of the go-go set. Dancing nightly featuring the exciting Tombstones, who are recording their original song “Tell It To a Tombstone" (with beatnik poetry lyrics), and gor- geous Go-Go-gal Linda Kordes, who leoks like a doll from Play- boy Magazine. Youngsters 18 to 21 do the wa- tusi in the Disco Pop Room. After-hours bre…
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-10 10:55:09

METRICALARGS: A Taxonomy for Studying Metrical Poetry with LLMs
Chalamalasetti Kranti, Sowmya Vajjala
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08188 arxiv.org/pd…

METRICALARGS: A Taxonomy for Studying Metrical Poetry with LLMs
Prior NLP work studying poetry has focused primarily on automatic poem generation and summarization. Many languages have well-studied traditions of poetic meter which enforce constraints on a poem in terms of syllable and phoneme patterns. Such advanced literary forms offer opportunities for probing deeper reasoning and language understanding in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their ability to follow strict pre-requisites and rules. In this paper, we introduce MetricalARGS, the first taxonomy …

@salrandolph@zirk.us
2025-11-29 16:53:47

I’ve fallen in love with the Japanese literary form, zuihitsu.
Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor. From the contemporary point of view zuihitsu refuse categorization, vibrating in the live space between prose and poetry.
#poetry

Ways of Seeing: Following the Brush - Zuihitsu as Attention
Zuihitsu, a Japanese literary genre between prose and poetry, is a unique form of attention. Sei Shonagōn and Kimiko Hahn inspire exercises in looking.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-11-09 01:58:19

the new creepy world of (probably) AI-abetted allen ginsberg/bruce conner forgeries. #poetry

Newly Discovered Ginsberg Poem… Or Another Beat Fake?
A recent video claims to present a lost Allen Ginsberg poem.