“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy

this makes me so happy!

This brought a smile to my face this morning

And the collapse of ACA insurance markets will mean fewer people with insurance, which will mean reduced revenues for hospitals and private practices, which will mean a reduction in services available for people with insurance, as well as a whole other economic recession.

People of BlueSky! Let's get to know each other better! What is your all-time favorite TV show?

“No more political staffers at Teen Vogue” This is really awful especially given how kick ass the political coverage at Teen Vogue has been in recent years.

Just went to my dentist, and they've installed tv screens in the ceilings showing photos of seascapes, puppies, and round babies. A++ no notes.

Before we at @contingent-mag.bsky.social do our Face/Off project in the new year, we want to try a few with editors as participants so we can get the wrinkles smoothed out. Any contingent non-historian who studies women’s friendship (19th c US good but not required) want to try w/me? (it’s paid!)

I thought it might be helpful to know which publications the AI articles I list are from, so spent part of the weekend adding that info. A slew of new links to the bibliography too: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Chilren are not commodities to which adults are entitled. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...

I love this photo a lot, just for the sheer joy it expresses.

Agreed. People who are hungry should get to eat - and that should not be conditional.

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city. So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

And Charles is still giving hm a place to stay and an income. Boohoo.

Happy Halloween, from one of my best costumes of all time (picture not from this year)

I just got a text "from" James Carville. I could not have typed STOP with more vehemence if I'd tried. What a shame I only have those four letters with which to share my wholesale "absolutely not."

From the AP: places to donate to help recovery in Jamaica apnews.com/article/hurr...

If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters. gofund.me/09619a41e

There's so much being researched and published about GenAI that I update the 'Against Generative AI' resource list almost every day. Check it out catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

“Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social always.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

A friend helps run a large food bank serving our state. Asked her how things look. For every 1 meal provided by a food bank, SNAP provides 9. They’re looking at a tenfold increase in need within days. There hasn’t been a threat of mass hunger in America like this in living memory. Help if you can 🍽️

super neat!

Look, champagne is, in my experience, delicious. But if you're a billionaire trying to launder your reputation to appear like someone who's 'one of the people,' perhaps champagne is not the first thing that should come to mind as a treat. A little more Mrs Astor than, say, me.

I just tried chat GPT out on transcribing a 1644 manuscript I was squinting to read. It's extremely convincing and absolutely wrong: gets the first line about a river right, then makes up a very plausible 17thc spiel about rivers, with period spelling and all, but NOT AT ALL what happens next.

New paintings in my Breathe series, including a few works on paper, will be available 11/1. Early access for my email list starts 10/30, & the sign up for that is on my website. Tisha Mark ©2025, So Gentle Is Your Way No. 2501, oil on Arches oil paper, 6"x4" tishamark.com/breathe #art #painting

I would 100% pay $2.50 extra on every online purchase to opt out of subsequent emails from every company imaginable asking me "what did you think?"

Earlier this month I offered a webinar for @onehe.bsky.social about ethics and generative AI. There's now a recording! onehe.org/resources/ex...

Give to your local pantry, join a mutual aid society, AND put relentless pressure on your Congressperson and Senators to reverse these damages changes to federal funding.

If you or someone you know is affected by the government shutdown and needs assistance with getting food, medicine or other essentials, here's a resource. Just put in your zip code and you will get a list of nearby food pantries and orgs that can help. Please share widely! 🥰 findhelp.org

Gonna keep posting this link until the government opens up. If you don’t need to get food from a food bank, please consider donating food to a food bank. We gotta help each other if we are gonna survive. Please share this. foodfinder.us

Recurring donations are excellent, however small, because it's money the pantry can count on.

So they don't want to avert climate change because it's making them money. Mfers.

Please give to your local food pantry, which is about to be flooded with need. Local folks, you can donate to FISH here: fishofgalesburg.org

So they don't want to avert climate change because it's making them money. Mfers.

This is such important information. Thank you, @nimishabarton.bsky.social for this!

"To live through this moment is to feel that some essential component of our shared humanity is being slowly leached out of the world."

We all know that the UK could have a well-funded university system without heaping debt on the heads of students, if politicians wanted it to. That's the only thing to say, really. Every dysfunction is a choice. A choice made by politicians, not by lecturers or students.

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Don't leave FSA funds on the table at the end of the year. LOTS of places like homeless shelters etc... would love donations of FSA eligible items. For the past 2 years, I've used left over funds to shop here: fsastore.com - then donate the items.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.

This is such important information. Thank you, @nimishabarton.bsky.social for this!

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

If you didn't already know @karencosta.bsky.social's incredible new book was coming out in January - now you do! I cannot wait for this book. It's going to be a game changer for so many educators and students. www.amazon.com/Educators-Gu...

I just attended a Pedagogy of Kindness workshop with the fabulous Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social , and I'm really looking forward to reading her new book! www.oupress.com/978080619385...

This is it! This is the thing!

"Some carnage." What the hell are we doing that people casually use this kind of language to describe their business models?