Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Area man doesn't know what the word "political" means

Learned a new word, "fleischgeist," from this essay, and will be using it in future.

I just did this, it took two minutes!

Wild to write an article about grade inflation in higher ed without talking about how a trans grad student recently lost her job after correctly grading a paper as a zero with her professor's sign off. I don't think harassment is the heaviest pressure for grade inflation, but you can't ignore it.

Good for her. I firmly believe kids should be taught the words “West Virginia v. Barnette” before they’re taught the pledge at all. (I mean, I think they shouldn’t be taught the pledge. But they are, so I think they should first learn that they can’t be legally compelled to say it.)

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Sama'a and her children deserve peace and plenty, but Israel's war has taken everything from them. Please give what you can to help. chuffed.org/project/157569

The impairment created by immense wealth seems to be primarily an inability to ascribe theory of mind and autonomous existence to other people.

Hu Yuehua's “Weaving Nature” is a lush garden of indigo and ochre leaves, blooms, and growths stitched together from dyed cotton and linen. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/hu-y...

GOOD. "Felony murder" is horrific.

This is so weird.

Oh my gosh, I’d forgotten this! For some reason(maybe my art classes?) I saw a lot of Canadian animation in my youth.

I have the stomach to say one more thing: as meaningful as what students saw in response to their protests (repression) is what they didn't (US shifting away from support for genocide). describing this as *their* failure as opposed to the supposed adults in the room is a joke and not the funny kind

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I wish I was the sort of book lover who could read and enjoy a book without thoroughly destroying it in the process. All of my most loved books look like they are suffering significant trauma.

I appreciate this c-span user’s description of their clip.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

The weather in Gaza is still harsh, and with Israel's renewed blockades food is scarce and very expensive. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/157569

It's been a month since NYU Langone ended care. Letitia James deadline came and went, NYU still has not restarted care. Mamdani refuses to answer questions from trans journos over the real steps he can take, like directing H+H to absorb patients or enforcing human rights law. Important thread.

If this is you, I want you to know that the amount per work is very likely to be > $3000. Half that if you're splitting with your publisher.

And just to note again, if you're not certain whether your work is included in the settlement, check the database here. If your work is in the database, the settlement payment per work is over $1000. It is WORTH FILLING OUT THE FORM. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

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Not to brag but I’m really close to having enough blood donation points to get the hero for babies bento box set

This is well worth reading, and there's a ton to highlight in it. Here's one phrase that jumped out at me.

A naive thought I've been having recently is "is it possible to file a class action lawsuit against Stephen Miller?" and I am not a lawyer and the only law class I ever took was law history, so I have no idea.

oh my god

This past weekend I was changing the shoelaces on my sneakers because they were moments from breaking and somehow, partway through the task I found my leather paints and ended up painting my shoes copper because they were discolored.

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

This is obviously my bias, but it’s where the fun comes in. I love having to look up a word or a historical reference so much. Something I’ve never heard of is exciting if it’s written in a book I’m enjoying.

I’m half boyfriend on my father’s side

Truly something how Trump will say “I am deploying ICE agents to airports specifically so they can do racism and violence” and then newspapers are like “President Trump said he’s sending ICE agents to help with lines.” It’s not even a charitable paraphrase. It’s just a lie.

it turns out putting the meanest, least curious people in the world in charge of everything was a bad idea

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Many of my friends are pro translators. They have to know so much about cultural contexts that it boggles the mind. They specialise as a result: translating police procedurals is a different skill to natural history is a different skill to literary fiction.

I just think it would be a lot better if all our mental and physical health wasn't under constant assault.

break them

I really, really need academic organizations to think more critically about travel (conferences, talks, and meetings) during the Trump administration. Sadly, most are not.

[banging on a pot] everyone! read! Walter! Benjamin!

Translation is a form of creation. The translator has to make decisions about preserving style over direct content, about cultural equivalence, about how to preserve a sense of pun or sentence structure from one language to the next. People who assume an LLM can do it are not understanding the task.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Went to an event a week early once again.

Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.” #GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱

I still haven’t seen the movie, but when we were dating I got obsessed with my husband’s copy of the soundtrack to Until The End of the World (the Wim Wenders movie). Daniel Lanois’s “Sleeping in the Devil’s Bed” is still a favorite.

Hanley Cardozo claims to be a feminist, but she enjoys reading objectively shitty men like Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. Is it a pivot to the manosphere? (Screenshot because I’m not linking this silly clickbait)

Daisies alert!

reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"

Hey, if youre like me, i know that it's hard to keep track of everything you need to call your reps about right now this isnt exhaustive but here's a script with a check list of issues that demand attention right now. I'll likely be add more later CALL YOUR REPS www.congress.gov/members/find...

Looking forward to a time when we educate people on art enough that "more realistic" stops being seen as the highest plane of visual experience.