The Chotiner He destroyed his cage Yes YES The Chotiner is out

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I keep coming back to this

evergreen

It is a sobering thought to realize that we're watching the leaders of American universities determine whether critical thinking-- and by extension, the #humanities --are still worthwhile investments.

We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now. "Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.

Been peer-pressuring everyone I know to read SKYDADDY for the last few months and no one has regretted it

Are any of us even able to work today with the Cloudflare outage?

Happy ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME day! Let's stay here forever 💙

Finally started this series today, because obviously I did — very much enjoying and wondering kind of idly (and I suppose rhetorically) why these books aren't in the genre-awards conversation, as they're unequivocally speculative!

Anyway I better not see any of you in the B&N in East Liberty (I won't because I also won't be in there)

It will never not shock me, the number of self-pub writers (many of them white) who seem to believe that they are owed something by bookstores, booksellers, readers, etc. (I want to say worse things, but shall be responsible on main.)

I think this is the best summary of written of it to date.

The real cure to male loneliness is earnestly giving a shit about literally anything other than being a vague centrist troll

In case you needed more reasons not to support The Str*nd (all love to the workers and the union, of course). This is so awful to read.

my husband worked at the Strand for a few years after college and let me tell you, I’m inclined to believe every bad thing I hear about our girl Nancy

Going out of town this week and have apparently decided to only pack very large books (I have THE LACK OF LIGHT by Nino Haratischwili, tr. Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, and JONATHAN STRANGE on the way from the library)

To authors thinking of using AI to translate their books instead of hiring a human translator: I strongly recommend you read this excellent article by @averyudagawa.bsky.social on the #SCBWI blog: scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/09/ai-w... #KidLit #Translation

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This citizen and vet was grabbed by immigration agents--and held for three days He wasn't allowed to contact anyone, not his lawyer, not his family "No one told me what I was there for. I thought I was gonna just disappear and never see my fucking kids again" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Ezra Klein isn’t theorizing Charlie Kirk. He is theorizing politics. And he is saying that Charlie Kirk’s brand of white supremacy was a good way of doing politics. I hope you all recognize now that Ezra is a total fucking ghoul

This was wild to hear in real time

Bright light of my day is that my older sister went to the public hearing about the Coney Island development last night (she is against, ofc) and and her comment slayed

Friends don't let friends purchase an investment property that is riddled with issues! If you or someone you know are considering this pleeeeeeeeeease ask me for details first lol www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

🔴REMINDER: We need you to come to the Jail Oversight Board meeting TODAY at 12 to help stop an attempt to end the commissary support for incarcerated people. County Courthouse 436 Grant Street Floor 4, Gold Room 12pm Message me for more info

Announcing the Center for the Art of Translation's DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Registration open now for our 12-5 pm panels & tickets available for Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura's 6 pm keynote. Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...

These days I basically only freelance in the fall, which means: I'm open for book design projects from now until Dec! I do covers and interior book design and am pretty reasonable price-wise. I think they look nicer than whatever AI can do lol Woefully outdated website here: www.megireid.com.

Who's written 5-10k words on the similarities and differences between the decline of democracy (and the courts) here and the decline of democracy (and the courts) in Poland over the course of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość's reign? Would read

Finally got through to someone in my life who didn’t understand why I’m so distressed by AI making everyone stupider & lazier by saying “if you’re ever charged with a crime, people who have offloaded all their critical thinking to an algorithm that ‘hallucinates’ will be on the jury”

Learning that Sesame Street's urban design was inspired by Jane Jacobs' “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” explain so much about how I see the world.

I hope I'm alive for Sidney Crosby's 87th birthday. I also hope I get invited

The sadness I just felt at hearing a man on the radio say (with delight) how he's been writing songs and poems for his wife using Chat GPT

I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.

Loud, angry, and Indigenous: Heavy metal takes on colonialism and climate change. Indigenous bands have always been part of metal, creating a place for musicians and fans to channel anger and find community. grist.org/arts-culture... #Music #Indigenous #HeavyMetal #Rock #Colonialism #Art

“If you are reading this at a table, with a cup of coffee, know that I am writing from somewhere else. A place where coffee is a luxury and bread is a miracle. I am writing from a city that has lost all its colors, leaving only the gray of hunger and fear.”

You can read Husam Marouf’s writing on @arablit.bsky.social arablit.org/2025/05/30/h...

Editor's note: Husam ends this piece with a request: "Get me out of here." You can contribute to the campaign - www.gofundme.com/f/aider-les-...

"He wants the world to know what happened to him in the Salvadoran prison — daily beatings, humiliation, psychological abuse. 'There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.'" A haunting dispatch from @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/vene...

And on our last night living in the apartment we've lived in for 8 years before moving to our first house, we discovered one of our a/cs is leaking through the exterior brick into our downstairs neighbors' apartment, AND a water main burst on our street so we're out of water

I don't enjoy feeling vindicated for never liking Josh Shapiro, I would have loved to have been proven wrong, but boy am I sick of Josh Shapiro

Time for another legal seminar from your pal Dave, a guy who goes to federal court in cutoff jorts. This time: on Sean Duffy's childlike attempt to kill congestion pricing nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/23/k...

NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.

Action pro-palestinienne sur le Tour de France : «On ne pouvait pas ne pas le tenter» Dans la Drôme, à Dieulefit, des militants ont fait jaillir drapeaux et banderoles à l’approche du peloton.

I stg if I catch you donating to an out of state democrat instead of becoming a sustaining member of your local npr affiliate…

wow it's too bad no one at the ftc ever has done work around algorithmic discrimination in pricing. if only a person (or two??) there had been ready for this future

What does it mean to teach, write, and learn under in a time of extreme censorship? Join us for a JPS webinar on July 22 featuring Lara Deeb, Muhannad Ayyash, Rebecca Karl, and Sherene Seikaly in conversation with Nadim Bawalsa. Register here: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Every state in this country was created through ethnic cleansing. Indigenous people were forced onto reservations. Concentration camps are what made this country. Until people can reckon with that and other atrocities, this empire will continue to fester.

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

America has never been without cruelty, but the fervor with which some people want to increase it instead of going the other way is truly horrifying. I have really had to cling to the people trying to make things better and support them where I can.

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.