"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

[to the tune of “Hot to Go”] 🎶 Frey sign in the boulevard Put that shit back in your yard 🎵

when I say I’ve been waiting *years* for @anniemcc.bsky.social’s book to come out… 😤💯

if he’s dead he’ll still be dead in the morning get some shut eye silly

Rosa Press has collated a folio of tributes in memory of our friend Joshua Clover. Please read pieces by @lalouverouge.bsky.social @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social @charmainechua.bsky.social Oki Sogumi, Mark Steven, @andrew-brooks.bsky.social + @alorange.bsky.social here: rosapress.net/joshua-clove...

Preorder this book now! Rosa author, Rosa fave, Rosa icon, Madeline. Can't wait to read, hype, cite, and love this book.

The full discussion with @archivesonscreen.org curators @hennefem.bsky.social and Michelle Baroody at the Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara in February is up now on YouTube! youtu.be/gKnaGV0qSww?...

Many people have said to me in recent months that they would buy a "print is a rent strike" t-shirt. Well, now's your chance. I reached out to the preeminent critical theory and literary studies printmaker, @allgrim.bsky.social, & he designed this absolute wonder.

Honored is an understatement. This moment we’re in is a weird (and scary) one, and we’re lucky to have the Matt and everyone he brings on American Vandal as we figure it out.

this nameless phantom feeling

my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera (h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)

New at PB, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social reviews Emma Cline’s “The Guest” (Random House), arguing that the opacity of the central character is a resistance against the “trauma plot” that has come to popularity in contemporary fiction.

My philosophy and experience with students is that they can almost always do incredibly difficult work, but if you ever waste their time with soul-killing meaningless work, you have essentially poisoned the well when it comes to getting them to spend any additional effort on your class.

For context: The coal industry employs about 40,000 people.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like

dance like nobody’s getting the ick

"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read" So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me

This mighty book has arrived and I’m eager for it to be in your hands! It can orient us term by term to past struggles in higher education and the ones ahead. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

"Careless people … smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

OK U WHORES THE TIME IS NOW

This email from All of Mpls is full of defamation & slander. As the son of immigrants & a council member representing a large immigrant community, our community deserves to know whenever ICE is present. This agency separates families & tears communities apart. People need to check their privilege.

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

ACLA May 30, 31, and June 1 -- stream A (10:30-12:15) w/ @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @jasonread.bsky.social and many other people I can't wait to learn from

ok! good effort. we’re gonna aim for posting normaler tomorrow but you guys hit the showers and rest up

i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation

Have to get going and to work, but you can start by joining me as monthly supporter of @prisonjournalism.bsky.social

I played with it for a while in 2024 -- even experimented with writing software that used it.. but then came to the (not terribly surprising) conclusion that, as currently implemented, it's a theft machine. hiddenhat.press/ai-brief-eth... .

"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?" www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it

HUGE NEWS

Put this on a sign and keep tapping it: "Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours."

Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers of all those children.

BREAKING: Rümeysa, our union sister who was snatched by ICE, is free today. We stood up for our union family and demanded justice! When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. #4the1st ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

And by “replace,” of course, I don’t mean AI will do the valuable work these professional classes perform, merely that these are the professional classes authoritarians wish to eliminate. So they are creating the illusion of a substitute, which will actually practice indoctrination & intimidation.

It’s important to state it plainly, regardless of what you think about the long-term utility of LLMs, what they are currently being used to build are primarily for-profit propaganda machines which will be used to replace educators, technocrats, social workers, & journalists.

”You allow readers to discover themselves in your pages, and you connect us with our past and have the power—the superpower—to guide our way toward a hopeful future.”

“Massive #s of students are going to emerge... who are essentially illiterate. Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate + having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” This isn't the only reason AI is bad, but it's why it is bad for students.

Last week, we lost the poet, activist, and scholar Joshua Clover. Those who want to pay homage might donate to their local bail fund.

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

You basically just have to babysit yourself for your entire life

This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur. It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine. www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...

He will be murdering kids with this. He must want kids dead. Absolute horror show

Mood

love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

spring trend predictions: — 5" shorts — camp collars — recession

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.