The stigma of using AI for therapy is the new stigma (mid-century coded) of going to human therapy

people ask why we wanted to come back to nyc it‘s tues night after a snowstorm. the pub a block from us is packed: half are waiting for a hillary duff concert at barclays, half are in a book club reading Capitalist Realism it’s that delicious high low baby 👌

Amidst all that is destructive and demoralizing, we're meeting to celebrate civic culture + public knowledge and build solidarities. Open to NYC info workers (librarians, archivists), grad students, artists, designers. Apps are due Wednesday, Jan 7, end-of-day! Confirmed sessions include:...

Will this be the year I finally start a blog Such questions, hopes, hang in the air of Mamdani’s NY

i finally creative-directed a new homepage design (implented w claude code) after many years of personal website dysmorphia it has flying cranes & a little Icelandic turf house & due to whimsy is almost unreadable on mobile. in other words it's perfect. peruuuuse emilysaltz.space

should i skeet more this year: y/n? is a lurker doomed to be a lurker, never a participator?? 💡 2026 resolution to externalize my musings???

always a banger

Wholesome skeet 🚨

I can hardly believe I’m saying this but I have a NEW SHOW on WFMU which is debuting tonight. It’s about, consisting of, and inspired by field recordings. Listen tonight at 8PM! The playlist will be here: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

if anyone in NYC has audio field recording gear that I could borrow (a zoom f3 or hand recorder, lav mics, etc.) Aug 21-30, I would be super super grateful it’s for @saltzshaker.bsky.social’s and my trip to the bog snorkeling competition….!! www.green-events.co.uk/world-bog-sn...

if you use Claude Code and are curious on how to deploy web sites using it, I've published this: disco.cloud/blog/deploy-...

On the air TONIGHT 9-midnight, with a special mix from the excellent DJ @saltzshaker.bsky.social who stops by the studio at 10pm! Listen plzzz wfmu.org/playlists/AN

clowns neutralize jerks by stealing their spotlight.

it finally happened. i switched an em-dash into a semi-colon so my (human!) writing wouldn't look AI-generated

It’s been a month since the making your bed while in the bed video and I’m here to report that THIS REALLY WORKS DON’T LISTEN THE HATERS www.tiktok.com/@cobreezzy/v...

Don’t worry, you can still find out if it’s a David or Boris day at the Russian & Turkish Baths!! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read.

@greg.technology, after not recognizing pictures of Shakira (!) or Beyoncé (!!!!): “But I *would* recognize the top Kardashian. What’s her name. The top dog”

“Slop merchant” implies the existence of:

Joseph Beuys: another unsuspecting bog fan! In Beuys' "Eine Aktion im Moor" or "Bog Action" (1971), he "directly physicalised the rich diversity of the bogscape by enveloping himself in its fabrics." www.sculptureintheparklands.org/peatlands.html

A fine tribute to America’s best radio station. I’m proud to be a @wfmu.bsky.social supporter. There’s literally no one like them. … jacobin.com/2025/04/wfmu...

one of my toxic traits is asking friends for their address to send them little gifts & then thinking about it forever but not actually doing it has anyone overcome this specific brand of pseudo-generosity flakiness?? I feel too old for this??

tired: inviting people to come to montreal wired: registering them to the huge city-wide bike tour June 1st and letting them know they're already registered so it's just easier to come visit and have a grand time with me www.velo.qc.ca/en/event/go-... (anybody else?? they close all the streets!)

If you do not think it is possible to eke out extraordinary wins that change the country and people’s lives, piece by piece against a hostile legal apparatus, over decades and decades, you do not know the legal history of this country.

THE ABSOLUTE DREAMIEST RESOURCE

New research confirms that monkeys, due to a vocal membrane humans lack, are capable of "ultra-yodels" with leaps up to 5 octaves. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

surprisingly one of my visual poems was used to train metas AI (without my consent of course). i hope it fucks it up a little bit: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... here you can have a look yourself, if your work is included: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Tired: garage sale Wired: serving your friends mulled wine and letting them bid on all of your household items. You will not regret it!! Also you should dress up as a moose! Bye (@saltzshaker.bsky.social co-organized)

Wish this was alarmist but 💡

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here, have some fish from 2002

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

Oh... www.axios.com/2025/01/13/w...

panic! at the low-stakes social interaction

Not only this, but the plights of unhoused people in the LA fires have gone virtually ignored, despite the fact that the city has one of the country's largest homeless populations. I wrote about this for @motherjones.com yesterday: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For folks impacted by the tragedy of the LA fires: Mutual Aid LA Network has a big spreadsheet of resources, including shelter, distro, free items, and animal boarding. UMAW is here for our friends and comrades in LA ❤️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!) Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled... As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

Being sentient is so weird. You run an electrical charge through some meat and suddenly anxiety exists.

Not the point but big fan of the Meatles 🥩 (cue AI mashup of Beatles and livestock sounds)

Dog sitting, standing, laying down (~2022) ⧇ Unknown Creator ⧈ https://www.are.na/block/26775408 ⧆ https://tinyurl.com/3k5dc92y ⧆ https://tinyurl.com/56a29waa

I am Bob's model of Alice's model of Bob's model of Bob

This morning I did some (sonic) winter birding in MN's 200 mile Sax-Zim Bog, on @wfmu.bsky.social, filling in for the lovely folk show, Everybody's Songs. 2hr set featuring: Gray Owl & Chickadee chirps, Québécoise folk, Thai mouth organs, "Zithertronics," and more 🌱 www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

How I wish every TV/device had a local "sky view" that you could use like an in-flight map to ambiently space out to satellite weather patterns like this or is this what the weather channel does? do I need to get into the weather channel??

Left is me and @greg.technology

Quaking bog dance! These bogs are the original waterbeds, forming when wetland plants grow laterally to close off a lake or pond. While it’s fun to bounce, I have seen people and animals break through the thin surface mat. One must respect the bog gods. Do you have a quaking bog story?

That time we sonified sourdough starter

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How I missed these gems from Shannon Mattern in my long X-ile!

In the wake of X-odus, we're returning to "Protocols Not Platforms" by @mmasnick.bsky.social This influential piece from 2019, part of the inspiration for Bluesky, proposes a fundamental power shift in social media: moving to new, open infrastructure like the protocols powering email and websites