It’s okay for hard things to be hard. On the subject of AI and writing, I like the way George Saunders puts it:

I still think about this book. It is important for me to tweet that I still think about this book.

I would say this is unsustainable, but at this point many people I know have sustained it almost for their whole (wildly productive) careers. Is this success? I can't guess, but I probably don't have the constitution. I don't know how they keep going, but I am glad they do.

It's tough to explain the mental and physical drain and anxiety that comes from spending your *entire career* believing that it will soon come to an end, only to go on to work another day. "Maybe tomorrow?" That's how most newspaper reporters feel most of the time.

Love this interview with Tina Brown from @LuluGNavarro:

Once in a while I think about trains.

It’s incumbent upon anyone who has ever been ostracized, anyone who believes in human dignity, to protect trans people and prevent the extremists in our country from traveling any further down this dark path. If you’ve read history you know where it leads. We cannot allow it.

What could possibly go wrong?

Nothing feels more like summer to me than an excellent Buffalo News intern-written story on the Allentown Art Festival. Just a classic, Buffalo circa 2005 feeling that I absolutely love.

WACS and @AtlasAlden working together on tonight’s award show and livestream. Tune in here: https://t.co/djmHLBv3cv

Buffalo is the only city in the world where you can stand in one spot and hear five mediocre Tom Petty cover bands playing simultaneously.

I am also here.

I endorse this fictional project.

A scene from Angels in America in which Donald Trump's mentor Roy Cohn (Al Pacino) reflects, among other things, on the artistic merits of "Cats." Cohn rubbed off on Trump in a lot of obvious and terrifying ways, but not in terms of taste.

Amazon customer service writing checks I can't cash.

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in

I need to know more about the history of the Eckahrdt family. This Eckhardt dude comes out of retirement after 20 YEARS, decides to build a massive department store with no succession plan. Eight months later, he and his wife die and the store is sold.

I also think a lot of what is Wrong With America (TM) is that city business districts no longer hire high-wire performers to celebrate the vitality of certain merchants associations, as happened in Broadway-Fillmore in 1940. We need to bring this back.

Doing some research on Eckhardt's department store at Broadway and Fillmore and discovering that they had a lot of "wonder sales." I think a lot of what is Wrong With America (TM) is that stores don't hold wonder sales anymore. Let's bring them back.

Just entered my Buffalo News long distance code for a call I made from my school phone, so that's how my day is going.