Hazel has her own barn a few yards over, but she loves to hang out in the doorway of *my* barn (the cabin next-door). I spend a lot of time looking at screens all day. Hazel's my antidote. I'm sure you spend a lot of time looking at screens, too... 🧵⬇️

You've been battered into survival mode, a state of constant vigilance, ready at all times to fight or flee from a relentless barrage of disruptive shocks. Welcome to the Disrupticon. ⬇️ #trauma #traumaresponse #techskeptic #cultureindustry rozfoster.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Read Octavia Butler. She’s the real thing. Like, share, read books. 📕 #amreading #octaviabutler #books #read #literary #literarylife #literaryficiton #speculative #scifi

This @WSJ piece by Bojan Pancevski on Putin's pursuit of longevity (shorturl.at/cCcO4) is as scary as it is sad & telling. It inspired this re-post of an ironic AI video I made a year back. Still strikes my dark funny bone. Share if it strikes you! 😈 --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIBL...

Why are men’s suits so plain, and why black? 👔 "Suitable" traces the shift from flamboyant fashion to the understated suit, revealing how style became tied to power, identity, and democracy. We’re excited to share the cover. Take a look: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Mass-produced luxury article. 🤡 Hazel, the culture industry rescue. #thoroughbred #rescue #adorno

🤔I've had something on my mind about the book business. If you’re in the publishing or media industry, or you follow these industries, maybe it’s been on your mind, too. Here's what I’ve been noticing.... www.rozfoster.com/newsletter

My latest essay offers a take on the publishing industry's rapid pivot away from its own unique value in order to mimic the value offered by brain-hijacking and passive content purveyors. There are short-term profits, sure. But where will it take the book business in the long term?

10 Rules for Job Stability in the Age of AI. 🤖 Short cut: Read good books. 📚 😬

The nuclear industry wants you to forget more than 80 years of collective cultural fear.⚛️ Powerful media campaigns are on their way to give nuclear energy new meaning. What story will they tell you to change your mind about atomic power? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhuc...

The DoD's war with @anthropic.com has been sidelined in the news cycle by war with Iran. But with American civil liberties at stake, the face-off is worth a much longer look. 🧵⬇️1/4 rozfoster.substack.com/p/american-d...

The unchecked momentum of tech corporations fused with government surveillance is paving the way for OpenNSAi to find you with 1-Click® ⬇️ rozfoster.substack.com/p/american-d...

Loved this—apart from the dark irony of counsel to go into nuclear ☢️ or cancer treatment 😂😭 and one leader tossing the need for "communications skills" in our AI future. Get a broad education, be adaptable, think critically, creatively and develop human skills & ethics. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

“Washington was more than a Founding Father — he was America’s first fashion icon.” Chloe Chapin @sexandstatus.bsky.social, author of SUITABLE: The Sartorial Revolution & the Fashioning of Modern Men from @oxunipress.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com ⬇️ www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

🎙️ Listen to this and you'll be among the first to see a major shift that’s being introduced to the way Americans think about one of the most important forms of power in the world. Atomic power. ⚛️ rozfoster.substack.com/p/the-coming...

Happy Friday! 😂 #fridaythe13th #lucky13

⚛️Atomic energy is getting a brand overhaul funded by Big Tech in alignment with the US government. It’s good for the economy, they say. It’s good for the creation of new jobs. And it’s carbon free! Yay nuclear? Read about it here ⬇️ rozfoster.substack.com/p/the-coming...

Massive layoffs are the ROI everyone is pretending AI doesn't have. AP reports a litany of layoffs and points to clear signs AI integration is the driver: apnews.com/article/amaz...

The largest grid operator in the US is warning the Mid-Atlantic about strain during the storm. Burdensome data-centers should reduce their draw to accommodate.🤞 Big Tech & Energy have decided the long-term solution to the crisis is going nuclear.☢️ Watch⬇️(5 mins) www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Sv...

The power grid serving mid-Atlantic data centers are at capacity & Big Tech wants more. If they want to avoid a disastrous outage, they're going to have to bring their own power—fast. The 1st in a series on a return to nuclear energy. rozfoster.substack.com/p/the-electr...

Working 9 to 5 with cookies & coffee today! 🎶 I love these cookies!! Such a fun gift from @marthaackmann.bsky.social, author of the riveting biography: AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton! 🙏☕️ 🍪 @stmartinspress.bsky.social

✨Journalist & biographer @marthaackmann.bsky.social dives deep into Parton’s life [telling] the story of a woman whose talent, faith in herself, & humility...helped her...become a cross-generational icon.✨ — @bostonglobe.com @stmartinspress.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/a...

⭐️"A deeply detailed...account of Ms. Parton's life and career..., Ms. Ackmann adds factual heft to Ms. Parton's ... narrative." — @wsj.com on @marthaackmann.bsky.social's AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DOLLY PARTON. ⭐️ @stmartinspress.bsky.social www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Happy Pub-Day @marthaackmann.bsky.social and AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton! 🩷 🎊 @stmartinspress.bsky.social Photo by Kathryn Hough 🙏

3 heavy-hitting American talents, 1 podcast: ✨Claire Potter @tenuredradical.bsky.social✨ interviews ✨Martha Ackmann✨ on her biography of ✨Dolly Parton✨, AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL, out 12/30 from @stmartinspress.bsky.social. Pre-order here ➡️ shorturl.at/hysDX Watch here⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9--H...

Claire Potter @tenuredradical.bsky.social in the @yalereview.bsky.social writing on Susan Brownmiller's radical blockbuster, AGAINST OUR WILL: "The book [was] a larger rebuke of a society that rendered women, and the violence used to keep them in check, invisible.⬇️ yalereview.org/article/clai...

THE NEGOTIATION (2 mins) Death & the Empress negotiate a price. Look at those costumes! 😳 The characters & their drobe were rendered w AI from my own hand-drawn illustrations. I hope this inspires for Halloween. www.youtube.com/shorts/25v_5...

Theo wants to lead a seminar: HOW TO GET BY ON YOUR GOOD LOOKS FOR LIFE. He's not much of a lecturer, tho. It would be more of a silent, learn by example thing. Very pro-luddite. Very anti-AI. Super grassroots.

10 Rules You Need Now for Stability in the Risky Age of AI 1-Know yourself 2-Take care of yourself, then others 3-Live & work w purpose & meaning 4-Think well 5-Communicate well 6-Solve problems 7-Connect w people 8-Adapt & learn 9-Master basic tech 10-Know data/digital literacy

If you have a problem you can't get rid of: 1. Face it. 2. Understand it. 3. Solve it. AI in the arts, humanities, publishing, tv & film is a problem. It's not going away. I'm working on solutions. What are YOU doing? How am I facing AI? Visit me👇 www.youtube.com/@TheSpindleM...

What's with the hard, corporate push to use AI—even when it threatens the need, purpose & meaning of our work? Are we paying too much attention to the excuse of beating China to AI dominance? Or not enough? The answer affects us all. ⬇️ youtu.be/d7Rr4q5PKWs

Preorder AIN’T NOBODY’S FOOL (hardcover or ebook) @bn.com from 9/3 - 9/5 and get 25% off with code PREORDERS25. Note, this discount is available only to B&N members but free memberships are available - learn more @barnesandnoble.com/membership/

I have a new book coming out at the end of the year. AIN’T NOBODY’S FOOL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DOLLY PARTON is a deep dive into an American Original.

Woot! 🙌 Congratulations, @robinmbernstein.bsky.social 🏆

Welcome to the future! 🤖 Datasets from the US🇺🇸 & China🇨🇳 are on track to develop distinctive AI entities reflecting national character. Read my latest to learn what that'll look like. ➡️ rozfoster.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

AI isn’t coming for your job. It’s already taking it. CEOs are telling you how. AI isn’t going away, folks. Here’s what Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins said a few days back & why it should scare you a bit. I’ll say more in the thread below about why it might also inspire you. 🧵

On Cleo Abram's HUGE, Sam Altman describes a "proactive" GPT-5 AI companion. The plan: With access to your private email, calendar, photos, files, mic, camera, AI will make suggestions & take autonomous action. *Think* about this.🤔... 😳 Learn more:➡️ shorturl.at/BdGLZ

Google & OpenAI are trying to persuade you to grant them full access to your private files. Your emails, your photos, your files. They're aggressively targeting young people. If you're a student, parent or teacher & want to know how and why, read this: ➡️ substacktools.com/sharex/v98ZV...

Google & OpenAI are fighting to sell you or your kids on waiving your rights to privacy while damaging your ability to think. DEAL! 😂 Read my latest to learn why aggressive AI marketing is targeting kids & putting all of our minds & data at risk. open.substack.com/pub/rozfoste...

Why is Big Tech racing to lead the market for a universal AI assistant? 🍭Targeting Teens, Google is the closest to being able to ship. Join me as I explain how Google has all the pieces and is selling full data transparency to young generations. Watch now! ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TkE...

Awesome to see @wweek.com, hailing from my old stomping ground of Portland, Oregon, featuring Scott Alexander Howard's literary spec-fic THE OTHER VALLEY amongst its staff's top reads for the month! 🙏 @loanloan.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...

What are your favorite bookshops in upstate New York? I’ll go first! Diamond Hollow in Andes ➡️ diamondhollowbooks.com & The Lost Bookshop in Delhi ➡️ thelostbookshop.com ✨📚✨

The cure for everything is a walk in the woods. 🧵⬇️

Want to know what women want today? They want to be small, hypermasculine weaponized competitors in life and on the market here in late-stage capitalism. 🧵⬇️

Stunning view! 🌞 #horselove #country #officelife #summer #nature #upstateny

“Happy, happy, happy, happy, dead.” ~Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Is Romantasy Ruining Us or Making Cultural History? Dragon smut is dominating sales, but spicy romance novels have been huge bestsellers since the 18th century. In fact, Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas may just be making literary history! ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/rozfoste...

The wise @rainalips.bsky.social on #Mamdani's win: “You don’t get anywhere responding to the racist, fascist, aggression of ppl like Donald Trump w a defensive crouch. You can only win by standing up for yourself, by being brave & uniting w other ppl.” ⬇️ @versobooks.bsky.social

When you see a fascinating, disturbing, illuminating pattern emerge across a large swath of experiences, reading & research & then have to articulate it simply & succinctly in a digestible format that others can grok.