I’m hosting this book launch for Brett’s debut with @jacklegpress.bsky.social one week from today. Join me, Simone, Anthony, @dorseycraft.bsky.social, @aniking.bsky.social, nat, & Natalie for the fun! RSVP ⬇️

The summer issue is now live: sixthfinch.com Featuring @anandalima.bsky.social @jordanstempleman.bsky.social @kyanderson.bsky.social @mbrrray.bsky.social @marina-kappos.bsky.social @osagewriter.bsky.social @blindfish1.bsky.social and more

Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

Being a 100% organic writer in the AI era is to want everyone to understand that if there’s something about my writing that’s boring or bad or cliche it’s actually because there’s something deeply inadequate about me as a person.

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

whale IS important

let's crowdfund a purchase of the campus so we can restart Hampshire College on an employee-owned cooperative basis who's with me? www.wamc.org/news/2026-04...

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

this week's post is about how AI doesn't even do the things people pretend it does margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/ai-doesnt-...

I'm a busy person with an aversion to admin work. it's so easy for me to default to just staying with the same email service I've been using. but they are trying so hard to push me into doing the FUCKING WORK to leave.

More info: www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

Love a chorus of humiliating boos for these AI-hype assholes

“How will you live now?” — Bhanu Kapil  . . . This poem appeared in The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers by Bhanu Kapil, published by Kelsey Street Press, 2001. Shared here with deep gratitude.

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Word and frankly they don’t need us for that. Their actual workplace will beat them into submission without my help.

I knew when Trump was re-elected that corporate accountability would be out the window, but it still appalls me.

Reposting for the evening/afternoon crowd. Anyone got one?

A good multi-panel cartoon would also fit the bill!

Im looking for a good flyer/printable graphic (made without using AI) for a student audience that visually catalogs many of the reasons to not use AI (for anything, including “research” and companionship) Does anyone out here have such a thing they would share? #ai #aiteaching #luddite #antiai

in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl

LLMs are based on pattern matching. It's complex, but at its heart it scans a vast database of text and uses probability calculations to return a result that resembles what an answer looks like. Sometimes it's correct but it's always a question of probability, not intelligence. You can't fix that.

I threw the book at him and slammed the door on my way out. In a poem I can leave when I should have.

This is why I increasingly feel that there should be non AI designated courses by colleges that students have to take to fulfill their degree requirements the same way they have to take writing or math

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...

‘Throughout​ the past two and a half years, Gaza has not only been a demolition zone but a construction site, reshaped according to Israel’s blueprint.’ Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

I had the experience of being cited in a publication, and the paper credited to me was a hallucination. I told the author, they blamed their co-author and then ghosted me, and no response at all from the journal. Some people don't care as long as they get published...

It’s a great time to be a white guy who has no morals or idea what he’s doing but really needs billions of dollars for the vital programming of the Center For Shortening Your Lifespan

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Margaret Ray’s “Stunt Double” stages the self as both performer and witness, absorbing impact, heartbreak, and repetition in a life with no stand-in. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

remember when they insisted that kids' capabilities would be harmed if everybody wore masks, and handwrung about "learning loss" and forced them back to school, but we just let COVID rip to permanently damage their cognitive capabilities, and then unleashed AI/LLMs in schools to finish the job?

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Surreal and incredible to see my debut book for sale wherever books are sold online: Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon (if you must). I Was Your Bird is my eco-feminist, post-confessional, queer baby. rb.gy/zjgne4

Tonight! Online! Poems!

Come hear Margaret Ray 🤩 read with me this Sunday, 3/22, 4pm PST. www.eventbrite.com/e/online-boo...

"Stunt Double" by @mbrrray.bsky.social When it’s time to tap in and get my heart broken so my heart can remain intact, I remember why I’m here. I think of how I look so exactly like me, how I’m the only one for the job 😵❤️ theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

soon many future lawyers won't be even able to identify a viable case, if no one stops them using "AI" in law schools and letting them get away with it. you don't know what you don't know until you read and write with no shortcut.

Hiiiii, feel free to keep deaf people out of this! So sick of the condescension disguised as faux concern about how disabled people "need" AI. We don't. Autocaptions are almost always very bad, and then people like you use their existence to justify taking away actual accommodations that work.

Leaders around the world appear to be struggling to respond to an American administration that is no longer constrained by pretending to care about human lives, the law, or the cost of its hubris. trib.al/bI8OHbv

Poets and poetry lovers, please save the date for the online book launch of @gendeguzman.bsky.social’s Karaoke at the End of the World — coming soon from @jacklegpress.bsky.social! 🧨❤️

"I've been shopping for ways to get out of here." A great winter poem. From @mbrrray.bsky.social's book Good Grief, The Ground: bit.ly/raygoodgrief #poem #booksky #writing

Them, turning on the hose and spraying Benjamins into the fire: COME ON YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT OR WE'RE GOING TO GO BROKE

that about sums it all up

Looking forward to reading at @northshirebooks.bsky.social in Manchester Vermont on Jan 23rd with poet Molly Johnsen! Come out for poems if you're in and around southern Vermont! www.northshire.com/event/norths...