A scroll through someone’s chat queries may paint an incredibly intimate, hyper-personalized portrait of them and their world, from their daily activities to their inner life. For OpenAI, that's information they have users' tacit consent to collect, store, and share. futurism.com/artificial-i...

incredible news!! and so needed!!

Sometimes when I bug my kid especially hard about needing to read more, I picture myself as Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2, preparing her child to save the world post-apocalypse

We heard from a reliable source that dads of Brooklyn were passing around our AI literacy reading list at a bar last night. Here it is again, in case you too need something to chat about at your social gatherings 😂 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Agreed!

This is great! Feel free to take the money for libraries out of what the DOE has earmarked for AI…

So proud of our district 15 friends for doing this work! We love yall! 💜 (previous post rewritten for clarity because Bluesky refuses to give us edit buttons…)

This just in — District 15 becomes the SIXTH CEC to pass a resolution calling for a moratorium. And a little birdie tells me more are on the way this month. @mayor.nyc.gov when will you listen to the folks in this city?

Know why using AI for “research” is bad? Because sources (where information comes from) matter. Full stop.

ACLS / MLA / AHA / Authors Guild won the NEH case against the mass termination of grants.

I’m proud of this special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller: Chronic. This special issue of WSQ takes the contemporary phenomenon of long COVID as its point of departure to consider the social, affective, and political consequences of living with chronic illness.

I'm still waiting for my copy but so happy to see our special issue in the hands of its fantastic authors!!!!

Went to used bookstore today. Shelves are looking sparse. Asked the old lady owner if they're closing. They're not closing, she said they just can't keep books in stock because they're flying off the shelves faster than they're coming in.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Ling Ma’s Severance should be adapted into a film—not because the book isn’t brilliant as is but because it feels like it would make such a great film. Why isn’t it? (I guess for one you’d have to rename it.)

THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.

Is it any wonder? I have always been a huge fan of Dolly Parton. We're the same age, same height, share the same values, but she can sing better. And she has more Grammys. I've always wanted to meet her!

I hate that contract negotiations are not going better, but this is where we are. Today my colleagues and I @propublica.org are walking out. We need management to come to the table with more serious contract proposals that address our real concerns about discipline, job protections and fair wages.

Happy to see the "mainstreaming" of a more thoughtful accounting on whether or not certain technologies in the classroom are actually serving pedagogical goals or in fact harming/getting in the way of student learning: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/t...

NBCC member Leigh Haber wrote a profile of Tayari Jones for the Los Angeles Times:

Glad to see @redgoldsparks.bsky.social’s brilliant Gender Queer in this list. As the most banned book in the US for several year’s running, it’s clearly had a profound impact.

When the Chicago Public School System admins tried to ban Persepolis, students fought back. Up on @npr.org is my review of a graphic novel--WAKE NOW IN THE FIRE--a fictionalized version of real life events: www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...

Looking forward to my upcoming book talk with the CUNY Academy next Wednesday, March 4 @ 2pm. Zoom details here and below; ignore the big photo of my face! www.shorturl.at/gFUbd

Thank you to @forward.com for sharing HBI's new exhibition WHO WILL DRAW OUR HISTORY? WOMEN’S GRAPHIC NARRATIVES OF THE HOLOCAUST, 1944-1949, guest curated by historian Rachel Perry. forward.com/yiddish/8055... #yiddish #jewishwomen #jewishhistory #holocaust #jewsky #holocaustsurvivor #brandeis

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

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Join HBI tomorrow, Tuesday, 4 PM EST online for a special panel discussion on Jewish Women's Graphic Novels about the Holocaust with Rachel Perry, Victoria Aarons, @tahneeroksman.bsky.social and @cschallie.bsky.social. bit.ly/JewishWomens...

Fantastic preview of just the START of the year in comics publishing from The Beat's Nancy Powell. So many incredible books coming out.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Next Friday at Bryn Mawr!! I can’t wait!

“Who Will Draw Our History?" brings together over 75 works of early Holocaust memory created by 10 Jewish survivors. Guest curated by Rachel E. Perry with Kniznick Gallery @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social arts coordinator Olivia Baldwin. Open now until April 30. www.brandeis.edu/hbi/artist-p...

FEB 10: Jewish Women's Graphic Novels About the Holocaust, mod. by Rachel Perry w/ Victoria Aarons, @tahneeroksman.bsky.social & @cschallie.bsky.social. A companion to HBI’s exhibit, Who Will Draw Our History? Women’s Graphic Narratives of the Holocaust. 4 PM EST, ONLINE Reg: bit.ly/JewishWomens...

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

For @npr.org I reviewed the graphic novel companion to Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation. Parents and teachers especially: what do you think? www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...

It's happening!! Pub date of Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine is just 2 weeks away. Order now with code NR26 & get 30% off @psupress.bsky.social! #GraphicMedicine www.psupress.org/books/titles...

Looking forward to this upcoming trip to Santiago, Chile, for: Philosophy, Grief and Personal Narrative: An International Conference on Philosophy and Memoir at Campus San Joaquín, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

For @npr’s annual Books We Love list, I chose nine of my favorite comics/graphic novels of the year!! Check out the list! www.npr.org/series/12518...

Happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen! For @npr, I reviewed a fantastic new graphic biography by Kate Evans, Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen: www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

In partnership with the Embassy of Sweden, join us for a special evening that explores Jewish identity, memory, and storytelling across borders—highlighting the vibrant and diverse experiences of Jewish life in Sweden. capitaljewishmuseum.org/events/explo...

I wrote a few words on that AI-companion piece: Maximizing profits by exploiting our deepest vulnerabilities; or, some thoughts on AI so-called "companions" www.tahneeroksman.com/the-future-o...

For @npr.org, I reviewed Jeff Lemire's "sort of memoir," 10,000 INK STAINS: www.npr.org/2025/07/14/n...

It was an absolute delight talking with @tahneeroksman.bsky.social about my book last night! Thanks to everyone who came out. (And if you'd still like to purchase a copy you can use code F24UIP for 30% off when you buy from @illinoispress.bsky.social 😉)

I’ll be talking about my book at NYC's The Coffee House next Wed 7/9 at 6:30 w/ the brilliant @tahneeroksman.bsky.social! Join us for a conversation about all things Elaine May. Plus there will be clips! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1397126485...

Alumna @tahneeroksman.bsky.social, who created an Audible lecture series about memoirs, shares her book picks in time for summer www.gc.cuny.edu/news/these-m...

Just in time for summer: I wrote a listicle of memoirs to read. Some of my all-time favorites! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/these-m...

Fascinating study out about lateral reading practices among students and the dissociation between their knowledge of lateral reading strategies as the best ways of catching misinformation vs. their limited actual engagement with these practices: digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol17/i...

Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

Pre-order alert, cover, and website reveal for our book, THE AI CON! (with @emilymbender.bsky.social) It's out for release on May 13, 2025! thecon.ai