Not Enough Search Volume is here! Felt like launching my blog the day before #BlackFriday with a philosophical post about Black Friday. I had a lot of fun researching ancient Greek Cynicism and historical consumerism, and even talking a little about how I felt working on holidays.

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

“Close reading is not magic. Its power lies in argument: always vulnerable, nothing simpler and yet nothing harder. And to clarify my stakes: the way that close reading is powerful is that it lays claim to power.” #EduSky This is SO DANG GOOD!

It's taken longer than I anticipated, but I'm launching my blog/newsletter, Not Enough Search Volume — next week! It's where I write about the past, present, and (potential) future intersections of technology and humanity. To connect the dots where traditional and independent media fail to do.

Now that's what I call a headline!

*sighs* Alright, anyone know of good resources for a Linux newbie? Also, what's the cremation equivalent of "rolling over in one's grave"? Whatever that is, my dad is doing it right now.

Beautiful watercolor brain paintings each one of a kind, at the Art of Neuroscience area at #sfn #sfn25

Sooooo... anyone remember the 19-hour AOL outage of 1996?

Every damn company seems to be okay with going to hell in a handbasket.

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer it when my toys are possessed by an actual demon

"There is something thrilling about teaching a class and knowing that someone in that room might one day know more about the subject than you do. That possibility, that passing of understanding from one mind to another, is the essence of teaching."

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

But it will still tell you to kill yourself...

"And this, among other reasons, is why I am against the word “grief,” which in contemporary culture seems to indicate a process that has an end point." And for those of us who have experienced it, its many masks and costumes, we know it does not end.

Alert: I have incoming wedding photos 😍

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 12: However good your work is, there will be people who hate it. This is an inescapable part of having readers. Live with it. Accept it. And know that for every person who doesn’t like your work, there may be another whose life has been changed by something you wrote.

If you're an educator in search of an antidote to AI hype and technosolutionism writ large, may I suggest @civicsoftech.bsky.social? Here's more about our community and our work. 🧵 #EduSky

Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions. bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...

Why is there a late 70s era computer at the WW2 museum lol

A dark, frightening and visceral read that treats the body as a haunted house that the protagonist can't leave. If you're looking for some truly unsettling horror, I highly recommend The Graceview Patient by @caitlinstarling.com!

"OpenAI said it was studying the details of the case and continuing to work with mental health professionals to strengthen protections in its chatbot." If those "protections" are other than an immediate reply with a suicide hotline number, to talk to an actual human, they won't be good enough.

I'm proud to be included alongside so many great contributors to this much-needed book. Mine is a short essay on what ordinary people and activists can do to resist AI and big tech. I hope you'll check it out.

libraries are closer to what the early internet was all about than what it is today. unsurprising, given the web's academic origins. they are data centers built for and around people instead of severs. a physical network offering so much more than books.

PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Guillermo del Toro did Mary Shelley proud and set the bar increadibly high for anyone who attempts a Frankenstein adaptation in the future.

*insert Fallout meme*

Taught my class of zoomers how to download and copy files to a thumb drive today. Most of them had never used one before.

Newly unsealed documents show that JPMorgan alerted federal regulators to potentially suspicious transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and top Wall Street figures. [These documents were unsealed because @nytimes.com and @wsj.com fought together in court.] 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

Finally, the last thing I want to share is my #HorrorFacts article talking about my earliest Halloween memory as well as explaining why I think the All Hallows Eve practice of trick-or-treating helps children develop important skills. horrorfacts.com/the-importan...

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI. With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech. My latest:

We're rapidly approaching the 9th circle of hell.

Luna, though it worked well under the right conditions, never gained signifigant traction because of its closed ecosystem. By the time Amazon let you link your Luna account to your Ubisoft account, GeForce Now supported 10x the amount of games. Seems like it didn't understand its actual competition.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that. Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too. clarkesworldmagazine.com

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

"Barrios, alarmed, asked if Alpha was providing different food instead. No, the 9-year-old answered. She told her mom that staff at the school said she didn’t earn her snacks and wouldn’t get them until she met her learning metrics." This is child abuse. Full stop.

Prompting AI to create things for you does not make you an artist. At best, it makes you an art director... but it takes away opportunities from actual artists. "But not everyone can pay artists!" Well, they should; AI doesn't fix the root of that problem. It exacerbates the problem: capitalism.

Did THE thing 🖤

Fun Fact: Al Capone ran a soup kitchen during the Great Depression; a rich mobster had more humanity in him than Trump.

Less than 2 weeks until publication. I’m still busy as hell working in concert with my community to respond to a federal invasion and regular attacks on our neighbors and their defenders. Any help getting the word out about this book, which I believe can help us all right now, is deeply appreciated.

The cover for my next novel, DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP, lives! Book due out on 6/30/26. people.com/paul-trembla...

I'm just a simple country doctor, but maybe it was a bad idea to outsource so much of higher ed's infrastructure to private companies' proprietary technologies with single points of failure.

On October 22, audiences in 45 cities will come together for Education & Democracy Night. This is a one-night nationwide event featuring screenings of The Last Class and discussions about the vital connection between education and democracy. Learn more below.

Who's solving the Louvre robery? Right answers only.