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April 23, 2014
There’ll be no escape from the FBI’s new facial recognition...
There’ll be no escape from the FBI’s new facial recognition system
BY Daniel Cooper @danielwcooper April 15th 2014, at 7:26:00 am ET
If you thought that the NSA wanted too much personal information, just wait a few months. The EFF is reporting that the FBI’s new facial recognition database, containing data for almost a third of the US population, will be ready to launch this summer. Codenamed NGI, the system combines the bureau’s 100 million-strong fingerprint database with palm prints, iris...
J.A. Konrath: Letter from a Literary Agent
Maybe publishers will start treating authors fairly, and become more open to negotiation with agents. And then Satan and I will go ice-skating in hell.
April 22, 2014
No birth or death, no end to birth or death
“What comprises me was not created and cannot be destroyed. You were there when the sun caught on fire, there when the first explosion brought the universe into being.
Everything is our mother. Everything is our father, our brother, our sister, our friend, our child. Every person, every animal, every mountain, every cloud, every star. Everything, whether sentient or insentient, is what we have been and what we will be.”
April 21, 2014
the-full-grohac:
nevver:
Time is a Flat Circus
Quotes from...
Quotes from True Detective on Family Circus are surprisingly good.
Do you think it's possible for an artist create touching, meaningful art if they lived a life without tragedy? While I haven't had an ideal life, I'm still the product of a privileged, middle-class, suburban life that's never been exposed to the horrors of
Absolutely. I wish I had the mental wherewithal right now to do a web search for the essay Joyce Carol Oates wrote on this very subject several years ago (Ithink it ran inThe New York Times Magazine,but I could be mistaken), where she took on the whole “suffering artist” topic as an extension of an American/Puritan ethic.
Look, everything I say about writing is my opinion, and only that. I am an authority on my own work, barely, that’s all. But I firmly, absolutely believe that good writing ri...
Do you think it's possible for an artist create touching, meaningful art if they lived a life without tragedy? While I haven't had an ideal life, I'm still the product of a privileged, middle-class, suburban life that's never been exposed to the horrors of
Absolutely. I wish I had the mental wherewithal right now to do a web search for the essay Joyce Carol Oates wrote on this very subject several years ago (Ithink it ran inThe New York Times Magazine,but I could be mistaken), where she took on the whole “suffering artist” topic as an extension of an American/Puritan ethic.
Look, everything I say about writing is my opinion, and only that. I am an authority on my own work, barely, that’s all. But I firmly, absolutely believe that good writing ri...
Do you think it's possible for an artist create touching, meaningful art if they lived a life without tragedy? While I haven't had an ideal life, I'm still the product of a privileged, middle-class, suburban life that's never been exposed to the horrors of
Absolutely. I wish I had the mental wherewithal right now to do a web search for the essay Joyce Carol Oates wrote on this very subject several years ago (Ithink it ran inThe New York Times Magazine,but I could be mistaken), where she took on the whole “suffering artist” topic as an extension of an American/Puritan ethic.
Look, everything I say about writing is my opinion, and only that. I am an authority on my own work, barely, that’s all. But I firmly, absolutely believe that good writing ri...
Do you think it's possible for an artist create touching, meaningful art if they lived a life without tragedy? While I haven't had an ideal life, I'm still the product of a privileged, middle-class, suburban life that's never been exposed to the horrors of
Absolutely. I wish I had the mental wherewithal right now to do a web search for the essay Joyce Carol Oates wrote on this very subject several years ago (Ithink it ran inThe New York Times Magazine,but I could be mistaken), where she took on the whole “suffering artist” topic as an extension of an American/Puritan ethic.
Look, everything I say about writing is my opinion, and only that. I am an authority on my own work, barely, that’s all. But I firmly, absolutely believe that good writing ri...
Do you think it's possible for an artist create touching, meaningful art if they lived a life without tragedy? While I haven't had an ideal life, I'm still the product of a privileged, middle-class, suburban life that's never been exposed to the horrors of
Absolutely. I wish I had the mental wherewithal right now to do a web search for the essay Joyce Carol Oates wrote on this very subject several years ago (Ithink it ran inThe New York Times Magazine,but I could be mistaken), where she took on the whole “suffering artist” topic as an extension of an American/Puritan ethic.
Look, everything I say about writing is my opinion, and only that. I am an authority on my own work, barely, that’s all. But I firmly, absolutely believe that good writing ri...
Do you think it's possible for an artist create touching, meaningful art if they lived a life without tragedy? While I haven't had an ideal life, I'm still the product of a privileged, middle-class, suburban life that's never been exposed to the horrors of
Absolutely. I wish I had the mental wherewithal right now to do a web search for the essay Joyce Carol Oates wrote on this very subject several years ago (Ithink it ran inThe New York Times Magazine,but I could be mistaken), where she took on the whole “suffering artist” topic as an extension of an American/Puritan ethic.
Look, everything I say about writing is my opinion, and only that. I am an authority on my own work, barely, that’s all. But I firmly, absolutely believe that good writing ri...
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