On aging

Aging is a tripling down on our shakiest wagers.

New poems

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Real

Nothing is real is real.

Anything & nothing

Anything is possible, and nothing is likely.

Citation

Citation isn't endorsement.

Knowing

Knowing is as close to reality as we can get.

New poems

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Even more

Submission is even more unethical than domination.

Society

Society is just the infrastructure of culture.

To boldly know

To boldly know what no one has known before.

Those things which are

Those things which are separate long to be joined; those that are joined, to be separated.

New poems

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The only reason (Barney)

The only reason generative AI technologies like ChatGPT have a snowball’s chance of replacing mainstream professional writing is because mainstream professional writing has been devolving toward the vapid, voiceless, informative “style” of algorithmic writing for three decades.

Vicenzo Barney

What starts as

What starts as soil ends as sand.

On consequence

Consequence is intolerable.

On the Republican Party

The Republican Party, in turning on democracy, has ceded the right to continue to exist. Period. You can't be permitted to work within a democracy if you have worked to end that democracy.

Market logic

Market logic is compromised logic.

Our reasons

We have our reasons for obsessing over reason.

Or

Vigor or rigor, rarely both.

Less and more

There is less old and more new every day.