So good. youtube.com/shorts/kUDCV...

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

stories like this will mention the AI "doomer narrative" (SkyNet will kill us all, often pushed by industry insiders), but not mention it pre-empts more realistic criticism (Grok's data center in Memphis is aiming its pollution directly at black people) the industry doesn't want to talk about

The movement to stop NYC schools from using AI is growing. Hope members of @uft.org @aft.org to join us, pressure our unions to stand up for kids, jettison their deals with the tech bros. I signed this petition and hope you do too: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

"it's time for ideas, people, and critical thinkers to flourish. That means that, after years of mocking, English majors are finally getting recognized for their usefulness." www.businessinsider.com/ai-job-marke...

We've let the wrong people define masculinity. It’s time we take it back. Real masculinity is doing what's right, and doing it with kindness, empathy and compassion. @principlesfirst.bsky.social

In any other administration, this would be a HUGE story! But in this regime, it gets lost with the daily onslaught of corruption.

First of many. #$FDX

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

The most corrupt president in history:

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

Feels like there should be grounds for a lawsuit? Facebook can't use your copyrighted materials in their own work, and they can't misrepresent your brand

Do I know who Snag is? Nope. Do I know that non-opt out AI shit is happening *to your ads* social platforms? Yes.

here's the real fun thing about all of this- you, who paid for and and made representative ads for your work, will never see what they've done to your work. But your audience WILL. And maybe someone in that audience will be brave enough to reach out to let you in on what tf is going on.

Holy shit

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

Only 4 more days on my very 1st Kickstarter! 3 different special editions ~ all lovely. Silver and gold foil, sprayed edges, unique endpapers, chapter headers and title pages. Each with tons of (human made) art, blinged out even more w/9 stretch goals! 😍 www.kickstarter.com/projects/jca...

Congress: he can’t go to war without us!!! I mean… technically, you’re right. Maybe do something about it other than a strongly worded letter.

I get to work with one of best directors and ensemble cast of my career AND get a Spirit Award?!? Yes, please. 🙏 #TheLongWalk #FrancisLawrence #FilmIndependentSpiritAwards

"The attacks now unfolding across Europe are often described as crude or amateurish, but that framing misunderstands their purpose. These operations are not designed for precision or deniability in the traditional sense, but for volume and persistence, 1/ open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...

Absolutely amazing!

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus … Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

You will probably not be shocked to learn that when Pirro's prosecutors tried to indict the six Dem lawmakers, they were unable to name a single law or statute that had been broken. They couldn't answer: “What is the theory of criminal liability?" www.rawstory.com/trump-prosec...

Whether or not these new tools / enhancements *succeed* at doing what they say they do (from the looks of it, they do not), that they’re being launched with educational surveillance in mind is bad enough and a reminder that AI tools exist to create a permission structure for authoritarianism

Hey so Grammarly is now basically Search Party / Ring cameras for education, enabling large-scale surveillance of both users (students) and educators alike

Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI. That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself. I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student). www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

imagining doing a raid to confiscate Anne Frank's journal and thinking you're anything but evil

This broadcast was censored by Brendan Carr of the now fascist FCC... would be a shame if even more people saw it now. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

This is fantastic, and it's something that we've been saying for years. When companies say that are using "AI for climate change", they are referring to much smaller models used for doing things like climate modeling. Massive generative AI models are NOT USEFUL for mitigating climate change.

Rest in peace Rev. Jackson. You were a breath of fresh air amongst all the haters of the world.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

I should add that my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders was published last year by @apexmag.bsky.social and has received excellent reviews. If the book starts getting review bombed, yeah, it's probably b/c of these scammers and me posting about this in public. 6/ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/we-...

Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders. Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond. Now Herry is threatening me. 1/

Basically, don’t feed anything into AI if you value it.

very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy. better not to use image generators at all.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

this may be the most English man ever to exist.

Okay, what weirdness is this? All of a sudden I'm getting dozens of "failed" orders for ebooks on my website. All tried to pay with paypal, and all look like very American names and addresses... but always with a weird made-up name in the second field of the address.

Congratulations, Rich Ruohonen, on becoming the oldest winter Olympian ever. And thank you for this beautiful and brave statement:

Trump, RFK and the other sycophants are endangering the world. Crimes against humanity. Send them all to The Hague

Same. And all politics aside, what king of person lacks the common human decency to even turn their head to acknowledge the victims of childhood rape? Sickening... #AccountabilityIsComing

The reason she is pitching the slop tool training rather than simply using her foolproof technique to get rich herself, is that none of the slop books she's actually selling makes more than a few pennies. It's a pyramid scheme with extra steps.

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

Perfect example: this lady who is afraid to mention a single one of her pen names, because she needs to trick people into buying her slop. Her *actual* pitch in the article — what she's willing to put her real name on — is "you too can get rich quick selling slop, ask me how."

Some slop machine resellers will market with a knowing wink: of course YOU aren't a slop goblin. You're a discerning, busy, and dare I say handsome individual. But those other people are shoveling slop your way all day long! Why not use our machine to refine that slop into bite-sized slop nuggets?

This is why "try harder to find a use for it!" is such a common refrain. It means "find a market for slop" because the only use for AI is to pass the slop onto someone else. "Surely you know some people who will eat this slop. Go find them; otherwise you'll be eating all this slop yourself."