"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

Nothing but respect for MY president, wishing a happy Presidents’ Day to all 🇺🇸

Hey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

“.. People take part in a rally on the day of a general strike to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement officers on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com

Going to throw a few more out here to add to Twin Cities Bookstores: Black Garnet is a newer bookstore in St Paul that specializes in BIPOC literature and has done a lot already to build a community space and there's also Louise Erdrich's Birchbark Books in Minneapolis

I hope people support birchbark books in the twin cities which is run by Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich. birchbarkbooks.com

Today is the liminal day, the one between Bowie's birth day and death day. Behave accordingly.

Not sure what to read this year? Maybe consider the 313 books we’re most looking forward to in 2026.

Michelle Huneven is a wonderful novelist. I think she's also maybe a little bit underrated. It's potentially awkward to have a conversation with someone about that but I think we had a great one, about long careers and publishing's vagaries, for @bombmag.bsky.social: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

adulthood is “getting” Professor Bhaer, Victor Laszlo, and Mr. Darcy—but importantly NOT Cecil Vyse 😇

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?

two eggnogs in and raving about the Marxist merits of Trading Places to my bemused family, merry christmas to one and all from the hometown sectional!

Really loved learning more about @equatormag.bsky.social ! You should subscribe to this rad new rag!!

I came up with dozens of categories to organize my thoughts on my year in theater: defector.com/the-best-and...

Wonderful new piece up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on Jane Austen at 250, spirited writing, fun facts, notes on an exhibition, something for ardent fans and casual readers of the novelist alike lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ... --by @sinsleyh.bsky.social

“Was I a DEI hire?” It’s a question that WIRED senior writer Jason Parham sometimes asks. In an industry perpetually on the verge of extinction, Parham jokes that the only reason he’s survived so long is because he’s Black. www.wired.com/story/dei-di...

Round out your end-of-the-year book recommendations with 43 new books our staff loved in 2025.

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social remembers Tom Stoppard.

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social tells Hollywood what it should do with a live-action Eloise.

Happy #ElectionDay, New York!⁠ ⁠ Polls are open statewide from 6am-9pm. Remember, if you are in line to vote when the polls close, stay in line! ⁠ ⁠ If you notice any issues at the polls, get in touch with the Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.

Here is the list of all the “good bars” in NYC that will be showing @hellgatenyc.com’s general election livestream. Have another one? Let us/me know.

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Smiley Southern boo was just made fire warden at his office, i.e., I am shacking up with Kenneth the page

Aww man, this week is really coming for the heroes! Thinking about the Black Messiah today.

A lovely surprise to see this list go live today: lithub.com/58-books-you... It's a good list, y'all. Complex and weird and fun and human.

Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 💃

blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle... One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution

The Haters won. But the Table of Success is forever. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com

Assata Shakur, of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at the age of 78 in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984.

One Battle After Another has definitely got some things going for it (it's wildly entertaining and the performances are top-notch). But it also makes clear why Anderson rarely centers Black women in his films. The white male characters portrayed by DiCaprio and Penn are more prominent, realized...

attn: Black feminist critics; sorry to be ~that bish~ but I desperately need your takes on the new PTA 😂

waxed on (and off) for @literaryhub.bsky.social about our current tv obsession with dead/dying media 👀

I know correlation isn’t causation, and I know numbers this small are anecdotes not data, but Redford, like Lynch, certainly does provide evidence towards the notion that trying to do good in your life might be related to continuing to get hotter right up until the day you pass from this earth

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In honor of the season, @britt-kathryn.bsky.social ranks some beloved (and not so beloved) books from her high school English syllabus.

if I had my cultural drothers/were a magician with (very) limited powers, R.E.M. would be reuniting for a one-night retrospective at the Kings Theatre THIS afternoon, and there would be a new Tessa Hadley novel in my mailbox

For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about America’s favorite bipartisan pastime: starving people at home and abroad. As officials confirm what we already know, that there is a famine in Gaza, I hope we can all remember that none of this is unavoidable. It is a choice.

This week, the Lit Hub Podcast features @britt-kathryn.bsky.social, @drewsof.bsky.social, Fiction/Non/Fiction, and a phone call from @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social!

PSA/private select: it is currently possible to stream all of MTV's Unplugged on a certain corporate service that starts with a P.

time the revelator, spite the motivator 😈

Maybe someday we’ll get The Devil Wears Prada 2: Back in the Habit. Until then, @britt-kathryn.bsky.social shares some rejected ideas for a much-anticipated sequel.

today I chose silly

Just called my reps - Goldman, Gillbrand & Schumer - to tell them their silence about the murder-by-starvation of children and civilians in Gaza shocks the conscience and they must immediately call for the end of US aid to Israel until Israel institutes a ceasefire and allows aid/food to enter Gaza.

I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social explores the difficulties in saving the historical homes of Black authors (and highlights some well-preserved ones you should visit).