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31 May 2022
Just about 11 years after I started writing it, PLANES is out today!
According to the New York Times it "captures our shared human ache with stunning accuracy." 🫠
nytimes.com/2022/05/31/books…
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Once on Sanibel Island, Florida, I read a short story by Ben Lerner set on Sanibel Island, Florida, and the next day I almost smashed into a guy with my bike on one of the island's famous bike paths and that guy was Ben Lerner.
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You can also work the other end. Like maybe the idea you pitched didn't really work out. But still, at $14/w (my average), if you just file a paragraph or two then you'll still make some prosciutto money.
Mar 17
my one tip for the “how can young writers make more money?” discourse is to note that editors will often pay a bonus if you go long. So like, my Gawker contract was $8/word, but I’d often file 2–3 times as many words as initially agreed upon, and they’d bump me up to $10/word
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if you don't know what 'prosciutto money' is ... I'm sorry, you're already lost.
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Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social retweeted
Mar 17
my one tip for the “how can young writers make more money?” discourse is to note that editors will often pay a bonus if you go long. So like, my Gawker contract was $8/word, but I’d often file 2–3 times as many words as initially agreed upon, and they’d bump me up to $10/word
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Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social retweeted
Mar 14
Best bit: "writing was a gift humanity had made for itself, a way for us to know ourselves and each other across space and time." theguardian.com/education/ng…
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Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social retweeted
Mar 6
"I couldn’t wipe chatbots from their world, any more than I can wipe phones. All I could do was decide how much I would steer students toward them and how much I would nudge them toward other experiences." —Peter C Baker for The Guardian #longreads
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Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social retweeted
Mar 4
夜に英文音読練習スペースやりますので一緒に練習してくださる方募集中🙂
theguardian.com/education/ng…
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Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social retweeted
Smart piece by @apcbapcb on our era of "blank space" conspiracy theories, in which the lack of evidence is the evidence nytimes.com/2026/03/04/magaz…
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Poetically shitty AI-written recap of my piece
The Guardian: Cheating machine or mighty aid? My trainee-teacher nerves crash when AI wanders into class—free chats craft prose, but can they shape thinking or simply caffeinate panic? Europe’s AI rush meets Swedish classrooms: who guides the handwriting… theguardian.com/education/ng…
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Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social retweeted
Mar 3
I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack
>>Guardian long read worth the time
tinyurl.com/2yerhveb
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Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social retweeted
Mar 3
My brother wrote a wonderful piece about AI in the classroom for the Guardian. I encourage you to read it:
theguardian.com/education/ng…
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29 Jul 2025
omg they spelled "COMMUNIST MANIFESTO" wrong on the new Sally Rooney cover
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21 Jul 2025
I am on the brink of opposing the term 'The Epstein Files.' It makes it sound like there's a box somewhere and they're all in it. Or a big filing cabinet. Or thumb drive or whatever. And in some way this is peak aesthetic liberalism. Similar slip to 'the Epstein client list.'
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16 Apr 2025
Can't quite tell if this was written by AI, or by an AI propagandist. Piece is not about "innovation," it's about "fascist spectacles."
chatGPT, please generate an image of Porco Rosso saying "this is one reason I quit* twitter."
*basically quit, lol
16 Apr 2025
AI-crafted animations now shape White House deportation messaging, pushing political storytelling into an unprecedented digital frontier. When policy meets pixels, innovation unfolds. nytimes.com/2025/04/16/magaz… #AIinPolitics
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16 Apr 2025
CAkedaddy THINE Geeghee Prince is reading ... the question is ... why aren't you?
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25 Mar 2025
Joan Didion: "When I realized I had been added to the Secretary of Defense's group chat, I felt that familiar vertiginous unreality that signals an impending migraine. I had to, immediately (and somewhat piteously, I realized) take to my bed."
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Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social retweeted
17 Mar 2025
Chicagoans — it's time for the homecoming event. I'll be at City Lit this Thursday, March 20, for the ol' "in conversation with" ft. @apcbapcb
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Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social retweeted
24 Feb 2025
I'll be "on tour" for SEE FRIENDSHIP in March and April, hitting up San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Providence with the help of @jaycaspiankang, @ruthmadievsky, @apcbapcb, and @alexlaughs. We will also be screening the film SUPERBAD at Nitehawk
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11 Feb 2025
wow 'heavy ham' was changed to 'slabs of ham.'
'Rain fell hard like slabs of ham.'
think I preferred heavy ham tbh.
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Peter C. Baker @apcbapcb.bsky.social retweeted
Still open to theory that 'Dean Kissick' and 'QANon shaman' were the same thing
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