Wild to me that the takeaway to learning that people don’t want to buy AI-generated art would be to hide it until people give up on caring about it. Like, ma’am, I will die on this hill. I only want to read books written by people. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Can’t stop talking about this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece about the ways the tech industry has tricked us all into trading connection for convenience and how to break free of it. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

i hope i live to see the day that journalism is more widely understood by its funders as a public service / utility rather than as a vanity project or potential revenue generator

I started writing about "GEO" - the AI equivalent of SEO - and accidentally went on a rant that I've been storing up for my entire 15-year career in journalism substack.com/home/post/p-...

it's funny how often the new york times' "first entries in a live blog covering a breaking news event" are so vague as to be actively harmful. it happens almost every day. maybe don't run a live blog if you aren't willing to describe things anyone can see with their own eyes

Mass transit, pedestrian focused communities, and bicycles...

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing." Happy New Year. From The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. #poem #booksky #writing

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

OpenAI is furious that DeepSeek might have stolen all of the data OpenAI stole from all of us www.404media.co/openai-furio...