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"Like many in my generation, I'd long ago ditched the pursuit of happiness in favor of the pursuit of survival, and it was not a choice." --Sarah Kendzior via

Yes, of course there’s an unauthorized Turkish remake of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

"The Old Masters

About suffering, they knew no more or less
than we do, being

housed in luminescence;
a local cumulus

of   feverfew and jade
reduced to void, the tower overthrown,

the bells upturned.
I see one now, impoverished

and old before his time, a lesser man’s
subordinate, or master to a trade

he never asked for.
Burdened by the weight

of  office, or the whim of  some mad king,
he stands alone, above the dark lagoon,

and watches, while the city fades from quartz
to plum, from plum

to cochineal, a restless drift
through subtleties and shades

he cannot
capture, though he magnifies the whole

and loves it all the more, for being
useless, fleeting, governed by no rule,

a headlong and unmasterable now
that slips away, one pier light at a time."

--John Burnside

"This unholy alliance between government and corporations points to what ABI is on the verge of becoming: a social credit system created by Big Tech (Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft etc.) and sinister tech (Palantir, Clearview AI etc.), fed with our data, and used by the government to carry out its far right agenda."