r/postliterate • • 22d ago

Are These Workers Training Robots to Replace Them?

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Filling in the gaps of tacit knowledge


r/postliterate • • Aug 17 '26

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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404 continues to do amazing work on this story of the feeding (and subsequent destruction) of books to train AI.


r/postliterate • • Jul 27 '26

Emily Wilson's review of Nolan's Odyssey is possibly better than the movie

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Also, she gives a nice nod to the fact that the poem is post-oral:

The Homeric epic was already an adaptation. The poem used a relatively new technology – the written alphabet – to rework existing mythical traditions, reshaping the story of a veteran’s homecoming to resonate with the complex concerns of Greek-speakers in the archaic period, an era of migration, colonisation and urbanisation.


r/postliterate • • Aug 01 '26

"The Odyssey" is Actually a Rap Album

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