Jarod K. Anderson

@SolarStarMan Love it!

Y’all, got a tattoo! The idea that inspired this, was an excerpt from 2 poems by @JarodAnderson, “Death also blooms”, and “Your skull is a garden where fact flowers into meaning”.

@2degreesofalie @pattonoswalt Jon Voight, the young person's Taylor Swift.

@pattonoswalt Young people love Jon Voight… said nobody.

Go get ‘em, slugger!

@unejulez @CryptoNature Sincerely glad you're enjoying them.

@TSougstad People loving each other versus people loving a thing designed to evoke an affection response is a fraught comparison. I have no problem with an AI companion being available. I have a problem with that product competing for money/rights when it doesn't have actual human needs.

I feel like we're still developing the language to discuss this threat. We understand that lead paint is physically damaging. AI is psychically/culturally damaging in a way we are still working to articulate. Art shapes the human narrative and our narrative shapes our identity.

We need to understand this and make AI a serious liability for any company that tries to use it in order to avoid paying actual artists/creators. We need to tell them it isn't going to be worth it because we don't want the final product.

@Tinker_Radish Right. By definition, AI can only pretend to do it. That distinction doesn't matter to corporations who are solely focused on increasing profit, but it should absolutely matter to those of us they expect to buy their products.

@JarodAnderson Your books of poetry have meant so much to me for the past couple of years, and I'm so glad to hear you also take this stance against AI. I want art to be what we do to connect as humans, to acknowledge pieces of our own observations about the world. AI cannot do that.

@TSougstad I don't see that as possible or even remotely likely. AI isn't alive. Machines are, literally, not people. Programs designed to reap/imitate other people's work and then exploit it to make corporations money are not in any sense comparable to a marginalized group of human beings.

Central Ohio folks, there are signed copies at Griffeys' Book Emporium in Delaware, OH and Readers' Garden Book Store in Granville, OH.

@pinescorch Thank you. Sincerely appreciate your support.

guys please read these books, they mean everything to me and might do to you too.

@JustinLaloGibbs I'm sincerely glad. Many thanks.

@JarodAnderson Really love these

@skullisland1919 @CryptoNature Thank you!

@JarodAnderson @CryptoNature These are marvelous.

@JustinLaloGibbs Yup. That should do it. I can't wait to shed my empathy and become like an isolated dragon guarding my pile of gold.

@JarodAnderson If it helps I just remembered I only have your first poetry collection and I need to go order the other two. Surely that will get you up to one didactic ghost.

This poem appears in my third poetry collection, Leaf Litter (available Dec 6 2023). CryptoNaturalist.com/books

It doesn’t sell tickets. It doesn’t build ego. It doesn’t heat the blood with national pride. All it does is keep a child with pink shoes alive long enough to eat breakfast. All it does is stop one wide-eyed toddler from trying to wake his mother’s corpse. (3/3)

Hateful compromise. Sniveling empathy. Robbing our feeling of righteousness. A gray drizzle on the blaze of holy indignation. (2/3)