Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

just popping in to say you should watch Riot Women on Britbox if you haven't already ok bye

"Because AI is garbage. It’s an inherently antihuman technology that is doing active harm to the now hundreds of millions of people who consume it." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

"The only way to change these habits is to repeat the truth again and again: social media is rotting our souls from the inside out." open.substack.com/pub/opensecr...

jfc. www.parents.com/gen-z-parent...

this is the most important thing you'll read all year-> "We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line."

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

I don't know if he still does it, but GRRM writing his books on an Apple IIe word processor makes more and more sense to me every day

How To Be a Writer, #24262111: Open work-in-progress No, not that one Not that one either Nope. Try another one. Yeeeeaaahhhhhhhh - no. Worry vaguely that you might *just* have too many works-in-progress - But wait, what's this great new idea? Tea.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel

if there's one thing my dad's gonna do, it's drive exactly the speed limit in the middle of a five lane highway

one day you're carefree and wild and then suddenly you find yourself scrolling through a podcast called "Boring History for Sleep" but can't choose an episode because they all sound too interesting

The electric bills in Pennsylvania have gone up because the state cut a sweetheart deal with AI data centers. Good times out here.

“Many people think that a wealthy man wants to get married”

“[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” – Judy Blume #booksky

O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

I will voluntarily disconnect from the Internet and all of the benefits it provides to my life before I will use the world burning plagiarism and lying machine intentionally.

"Writing and reading are not effortless. But, without that effort, we will slide deeper and deeper into inchoateness, darkness, violence, diminished freedom for all and a diminished state of human being."

Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Streamers can't play music in the background as they talk, can't play games with licensed soundtracks turned on, can't even show a trailer with the sound on without fear but sure let's let Sam altman take everything for free

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Mantel imagined the politician, writer and best-known journalist of the French Revolution having no doubts about it at all: “I wonder why I ever bothered with sex. There’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.’” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

"Tragically for historians and literary scholars, her poetry does not survive today, except for one striking, thought-provoking line: 'I ask your forgiveness and I am a mountain tiger.' These words inspired L.M. Elliott’s 2015 historical novel, Da Vinci’s Tiger."

the internet drives each person insane a little bit differently. it is beautiful to see

"Should writers and editors be concerned that AI will soon make them unemployable?" "Yes! And, therefore, we should exercise our agency and respond to that concern, individually and collectively." For The Frontlist, I spoke with @vauhinivara.bsky.social about 'Searches,' one of 2025's best books.

Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

"Those plucky venture capitalists need something to invest in, after all, and what better than generative AI? Be glad, fellow tiny economic unit, for a small number of people are getting insanely rich! That’s what being human is all about, right?"

What happened to "free enterprise"?

I'm way behind on this, but BONE VALLEY is one of the best podcasts out there. Starts as a true crime mystery, complete with wild plot twists, becomes a courtroom drama/indictment of the justice system, and transforms into a heartwarming story of redemption. Gilbert King did a beautiful job.

"Après moi, le déluge, motherfuckers"

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

We're evaporating entire lakes to cool server farms - and spew as much carbon as, like, Brazil - to destroy America's world class university system. Because "The Singularity" something something.

I have drunk the milkshakes that were in the yard and which you were probably saving for all the boys

Why are we adopting tech that makes our lives WORSE? Make it make sense.

The ghosts.

"Books and art allow us to be fully realized. Authoritarians want to oppress us. They want us to feel downtrodden. But art gives us hope." @gregzimmerman.bsky.social's interview with @samiraahmed.bsky.social is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/01/r...

BREAKING: We just got wind of Republicans' higher education bill text for reconciliation. We skimmed it. It's the most dangerous Higher-Ed bill in history. It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.

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this is the news cycle i want www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

a little something for the history and literature nerds www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

"today’s internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us… which are hostile to human flourishing. The tech companies’ growth-at-all-costs mentality has scaled their products’ flaws and vulnerabilities…" – @jacobsilverman.com www.ft.com/content/5d06...

how i arrived on bluesky

it's all just too much, which is of course the point

finally, a place to cry

it is a truth universally acknowledged that a girl in possession of a great Jane Austen DVD collection must be in want of attending the theatrical re-release of Pride&Prejudice (2005) for her birthday

Everyone on Bluesky is welcome to join @TWSSFU (SFU's The Writers Studio), as we discuss Reading Like a Writer during the #TWSOchat today at 10:30am (PDT)! #amwriting #writers #writing #writingtips #WritingCommunity

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

DOGE has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. In communities across the US, the cuts threaten student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to popular digital services, such as the ebook app Libby.