Today I received my first ever metaphorical green envelope. Does that make me a real writer? 🥹

"Assume everyone I interact with online is struggling with their mental health" has only become a more important guiding principle in the past couple years

Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.

I think it shocks some of my students but I emphasize that having a job outside journalism is fine and common. I also toss in practical industry talk that’s not strictly in the curriculum. On Monday we discussed contracts: “for-hire,” indemnity, kill fees, scope of work. Freelancers need to know!

almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.

If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.

If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic That third thing is unsustainable long-term

This is what I have to say about making a living as a writer shanders-red-eye.beehiiv.com/p/i-don-t-th...

My hottest take is that food made within a family is an expression of love. It comes from a desire to sustain and comfort people we cherish. So inviting assholes to the meal defeats the purpose.

Yes, and also recognize that with creative fields, survivorship bias is real: You hear about full-time creatives with envious career arcs precisely because they've survived in the field where others (for whatever reason and independent of quality of work) have not. This is an important fact.

I know writers are tired of ppl selling them services (me too) and I know many are relying on AI for visuals (😬), but… Since there’s nothing I love more than designing pitch decks, I’m wondering if there’s a market for that at all these days 🤔 Would you hire me/someone for that kind of thing?

I’ve never met a recruiter who didn’t waste my time 🙃

It’s rich people The problem is rich people

The Tech Bros bought Trump, now he will enforce their will. Kleptocracy

Yesterday, an Executive Order designed to prevent states from regulating AI within their own borders was leaked. If signed, this Executive Order would establish an AI litigation “task force” at the Justice Department to threaten, harass, & sue states that pass any bill deemed “unlawful.”

NEW from @votersoftomorrow.org: “Either through complicity or incompetence, Chuck Schumer once again proved he cannot provide the type of leadership that young Americans demand. It is clear he must step down as caucus leader.”

Y'know, it makes perfect sense that Guillermo del Toro and James Cameron were roommates who introduced each other to Patlabor and Battle Angel Alita.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Amaia tenía 41 años. Mai, 39. Yo tenía 40 cuando me diagnosticaron cáncer. El cáncer es una enfermedad multifactorial, y aquí abro el melón: las condiciones laborales como ilustrador/dibujante, enferman y matan. La precariedad, las noches sin dormir, los maratones en la silla, el estrés: matan.

Hormonal contraceptives are in no way perfect, but I have a serious issue with people demonizing the pill lately as if most of the advances and opportunities we have as women nowadays aren’t because of it. It feels like the “trad wives” who use their freedom to pan feminism 🙄

I thought I already didn’t expect a thing from anyone, and yet, people have only managed to disappoint me further this year 🫠

Trump canceled: "a grant to Emory University and Georgia State University, where researchers had developed three potential drugs that showed promise against many RNA-based viruses, including coronaviruses, Ebola, avian influenza and measles.." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

My unsolicited hot take is that I don’t think it’s coincidental that there’s a lot of discourse about BC being “poison” at the same time that they’re trying to make us have more babies…

i don't want an echo chamber i just don't want you specifically in any chamber i inhabit

The irony is that institutionalizing people with disabilities is often more expensive than giving them the tools to live independently. Tangentially related, the more I think about it, the more I’m convinced we need universal basic income.

Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Juliette Binoche, Riz Ahmed and Guillermo del Toro Among Additional Names to Sign Open Letter Condemning Industry Silence Over Gaza variety.com/2025/film/gl...

titanic but the fuck truck is a cybertruck

My only complaint about TLOU is that we really didn’t need characters talking to each other about Pedro being hot 🤷🏻‍♀️ We have eyes 🤣

“The aim of art, on the contrary, is not to legislate or reign supreme, but rather to understand first of all. Sometimes it does reign supreme, as a result of understanding. But no work of genius has ever been based on hatred and contempt.” — Albert Camus, Create Dangerously.

Soy una persona con ganas de hacer demasiadas cosas atrapada en el cuerpo de una persona que siempre está cansada 🫠

Cost of the four jets? Just over $60 million a pop, roughly the same as the entire annual budget for the National Endowment for the Arts.

I feel like capitalism being the driving force for the development of AI is like trying to grow a fruit tree from poisoned soil.

So many of the people behind the AI push fundamentally misunderstand what art is and are hostile toward actual artists. Some are in the thrall of a techno-cult that preaches the singularity is coming, and those who helped it will be preserved in perpetuity while non-believers are punished. Really.

This, of course, has the added perk of keeping most women “in line” with very clear gendered expectations 🫠

#ScriptSky #FilmSky

With the current state of the US, going there is becoming unthinkable for the foreseeable future… and in addition to all the other horrible implications, this breaks my heart for personal reasons. I’ve been wondering and would love to hear from everyone: Are virtual rooms completely extinct now?

End-to-end encryption is secure because it protects the contents of your communications in transit between the endpoints. If you make one of those endpoints an editor at The Atlantic, no amount of encryption is going to save you from your own stupidity.

This is the act an authoritarian regime, not one interested in the rule of law.

maybe there should be a doctor that people can go to when they have too much money to prevent the decay of their soul.

They called them ‘detention centers’ in Nazi Germany too — right before the mass graves. Genocide doesn’t start with gas chambers. It starts with dehumanization, cages, and cowards ‘just following orders.’ Welcome to phase two, America. You might be next.

Most of the money Harvard gets from the federal government is for research grants—cancer studies, pandemic modeling, defense, etc. Maybe the better question is why the federal government thinks it can tell Harvard who they can or cannot hire, or what they can or cannot teach?

Note that Elon Musk agreed with Dorsey's comment, as I'm sure many other tech bros also do. Why are they suddenly saying this after profiting for so long from those very laws? Because IP is now a hinderance to stealing everything they need to build their AI systems. 8/ mashable.com/article/jack...

Funny how the writers, artists and others protesting about the theft of their works are suddenly gatekeepers b/c we don't want our creations to be used without permission or payment. Suddenly we're gatekeepers and all IP law should be trashed. 7/

Meta is trying to argue that any one book only makes of an almost negligible part of the training of their AI. But human society and laws has long since decided that theft isn't mitigated by stealing so much that any individual item you stole is worth very little compared to the whole. 2/

Meta trained the company's AI on tens of millions of pirated novels and books, including my own stories. Their defense: the books are individually "worthless." 1/ www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...