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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 49m

5 events this week in the Buffalo literary community including the Barrio Poetry Slam at Shea’s 710 Theatre, & a Book Launch Party & Community Science Fair in celebration of Rachelle Toarmino’s second full-length collection of poems HELL YEAH (Third Man Books).

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Buffalo Area Poetry & Literature Calendar (week of Oct. 6 to Oct. 11) -

Five events this week in the Buffalo literary community, including the Barrio Poetry Slam at Shea’s 710 Theatre, and the Book Launch Party and Community Science Fair in celebration of […]

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 10h

The Richard Condon plot of the novel was significantly reworked by Demme.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 10h

You should to watch the movie at some point. The 1962 original by John Frankenheimer is best . Sinatra and Angela Lansbury were great in it. Never saw the 2004 Jonathan Demme remake with Meryl Streep. Demme reset it from the Cold War/McCarthy era to a sort of a post Gulf War, post 9/11 world...

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking about Walter Benjamin while reading this, but to your final point here: When the boundary between creator and creation dissolves, doesn't that put the the creator at risk for becoming a "brand"? I don't think *contemporary* poets are at great risk for this, but visual artists are.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 1d

Laura Kerr: "A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists and persists. The traditional model of creation → completion has, in many cases, given way to something more fluid, recursive, and continuous."

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/laur...

Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation

A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists ...

periodicityjournal.blogspot.com

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 1d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/laur...

Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation

A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists ...

periodicityjournal.blogspot.com

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for posting. This is a shorter piece than I expected, but spot on in what it describes.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 1d

www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

The CDC says people must consult a health professional before COVID shot

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accepted a controversial recommendation from outside vaccine advisers to tighten guidelines for the COVID vaccine.

www.npr.org

R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 1d

The new guidelines were just published by the CDC today, Jessica. On Friday, I got my COVID and flu shots here at Wegmans in less than 5 minutes. RSV shots are only for seniors over 75 in NYS. So you may have gotten yours just under the wire.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 2d

and as you know, I'm from Buffalo, where football is our civic religion and emotional regulator.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 2d

Or their political party...

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 2d

For heaven's sake, Jessica. I'm probably your dad's age or close to it, but i can't imagine someone saying that to their daughter. Also, Alabama won that game by 16 points. I realize it was it was tied at halftime, so I don't think anyone should tie their identity so closely to their football team.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 4d

www.axios.com/2025/10/02/m...

Media trust hits new low across the political spectrum

Only 28% of Americans say they have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the mass media.

www.axios.com

R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 4d

Journalism as a profession is in crisis, because there no longer is a social contract based on trust between the public and the media.

R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 4d

Public trust in the media in general has hit a new low across the political spectrum, with only 8% of Republicans and 27% of Independents reporting that they placed a"great deal or a fair amount of trust" in the mass media.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 4d

Public trust in the media in general has hit a new low across the political spectrum, with only 8% of Republicans and 27% of Independents reporting that they placed a"great deal or a fair amount of trust" in the mass media.

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 5d

The Buffalo News moves to six days a week hard-copy publication, Tuesdays to Sundays, starting November 3rd.

Buffalo News announces change in print frequency starting Nov. 3

Starting the week of Nov. 3, The News will produce a printed paper six days a week, from Tuesday through Sunday. We will continue to produce an E-edition seven days a week and post the latest news, sp...

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WIRED @wired.com · 5d

United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages to target people for deportation.

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 6d

These days we have to be prepared for anything. The limits of our incredulity are being tested. So sure, maybe ICE Agents will interrupt Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show and drag away and arrest half the participants. That seems entirely aligned with the Zeitgeist.

Trump Advisor Says ICE Agents Will Be at Super Bowl for Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show: ‘It’s So Shameful They Picked Someone Who Seems to Hate America’

Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski warns that ICE agents will be at the Super Bowl, where Bad Bunny is set as Halftime Show performer.

variety.com

R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 6d

Is that a trait you developed while living here in Buffalo? 😂

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 6d

A notebook dump on the decade of poems collected in Robert Creeley's LOVE. Plus heroes, the hero, Wallace Stevens, and the dialectical urges of the cento.

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/9/...

Bob Creeley's LOVE. — alina Ştefănescu

The first week they wrote a letter. He wrote it. She thought about it. Peace was in the house like a broken staircase. — Robert Creeley, “The Interview” What is the point. That is what must be...

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 7d

"Thiel is easily the most well-known Girardian on the planet. He does not, however, speak for the vast majority of mimetic theorists—particularly the European contingent. Certainly, none of the Girardians I spoke with seemed remotely interested in constructing katechons."

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 7d

"One critic even speculated that Thiel saw Facebook as 'a mechanism for the containment and channeling of mimetic violence.' "

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 7d

For anyone here who may have attended Rene Girard's lectures on Mimetic Theory at the University at Buffalo in the late 1970's or read his book Violence and the Sacred, this piece should be of great interest to you.

WIRED @wired.com · 8d

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Carl Schmitt, the German legal theorist tapped by the Nazi's to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship.

Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire
ever since.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 8d

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Carl Schmitt, the German legal theorist tapped by the Nazi's to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship.

Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire
ever since.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 7d

AI data centers are sending power bills soaring throughout America. Bloomberg analyzed consumption rates across the US and found that wholesale electricity rates had risen as much as 267%over the past five years in areas adjacent to AI data centers.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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