Anyway, our public libraries deserve more support. Let's fight to ensure they receive what they need to pay library workers fairly, to do the necessary capital repairs/upgrades, and to afford lots of books and other resources, and to offer programming. Good night everyone. #NationalLibraryWeek

Being “bad” at art is good, actually! My favorite excerpt from my appearance with @emilymbender.bsky.social on the @404media.co podcast with @samleecole.bsky.social in the episode “The Marketing Tricks of ‘Artificial Intelligence’”.

my day has now improved 10000000% because of this news

of course you CAN use AI to "write" your book but you run the risk of a lethally derisive colson whitehead materializing in your office to call you a hacky motherfreaker www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

More higher ed discourse like this please

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

This is also why it's so gutting when Mamdani doesn't fund libraries. The threats are very real. And as big content pushes us towards a post-ownership world, libraries are going to be even more critical resources.

why does everything happen before my eyebrows are done

one of these is my hometown’s hospital. all of my siblings were born there. my dad works there.

ProPublica journalists are providing some of the best reporting out there right now, and they are currently on strike to make sure that they continue to be the best. Please support them by donating to their strike fund.

WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

support CML United and tell Columbus Metropolitan Library to stop union busting. because there is no library without library workers. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Hey Columbus folks, let's support our library workers. They deserve.

propublica workers are on strike today as they fight for a fair first contract. don't cross the picket line by reading/sharing their stories! solidarity with my fellow newsguild comrades 🖤✊

The news is full of stupidity and evil. The world slides deeper into madness. My friend Sama'a still needs our help to feed her children. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/157569

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

CML is trying to stop workers from forming their union. Tell them to knock it off:

matternews.org/community/wo... we asked management to stay neutral. they refused to do that. sharing misinformation and punishing workers does not demonstrate respect, integrity, or inspiration. it does not create “a thriving community where wisdom prevails.”

Meanwhile the European federation of teachers union is calling yours out. See below a useful book by our union to hold yours to a higher standard. @etui.bsky.social @etuce.bsky.social @aob.nl @ucu.org.uk PDF for whole book here: www.csee-etuce.org/en/item/7245... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

It really cannot be overstated that COVID happened, suddenly a bunch of absentee tech dads were forced to stay home where they saw their kids playing Animal Crossing while talking on Discord, then collectively decided to light a trillion dollars on fire to make Snow Crash IRL.

with 3 points in today's game, Sophie Jaques is our Player of the Game 🤩 Goldeneyes x Canadian Tire

#ReadThemHome 📚🏡💚 Bring them home ❤️‍🩹🏠🤟🏽 Let kids be kids 💛✨

“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.” I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics: defector.com/its-time-to-...

bought a copy of one of my childhood favorites for my nieces, then spent the afternoon reading it an absolute delight to read out loud

NEW: The President once again called to eliminate federal library funding in his federal budget proposal. We have been here before. And when we make our voices heard, we can overcome this again. Tell your Senators to reject the cuts & #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget: ala.org/showup

By all means--continue. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/go-ahead-a...

there’s nothing my dad loves more than reminding me he used to ride a motorcycle in the 80s

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Lazy use of AI by half-ass researchers is putting digital asbestos everywhere, which will be a huge pain in the ass to clean up. Just do your damn job as a scholar or let someone else with more integrity and competence have your position. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

queer community allyship is twinks telling us that the stall in the men’s room is open at the club

The @blockclubchi.bsky.social story is extremely credulous, despite Charles's efforts to clearly describe why this is a bad thing. Some related reporting:

“11 sperm whales huddled together at the surface, strangely still and taking occasional shallow dives. After about an hour, the animals seemed to start thrashing, and a plume of blood reddened the water. The researchers feared trouble, maybe a shark attack. But it was something else.” WHALE DOULAS!

like sure @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social have become known for criticizing LLMs because that's the dominant mode of interaction right now, but literally the first type of AI they disambiguate in their book is "decision making"

this piece articulates some really important insights, but I have issues with the core frame presented in this paragraph

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

It’s a great day to tell your local library worker that you support their right to unionize! @oftunion.bsky.social

Columbus Metropolitan Library workers are proud of their jobs, proud of their co-workers, and proud of their union! They began wearing union pins this week as they continue to organize for their union election later this spring!

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

Dog lmao