It's easy to see shoddy research as a bad actor problem. But if AI slop like this can make it through editors and peer reviewers, it means there are systemic problems at work. And I'd argue that at least part of the problem is the overwork culture in academia-- pressure to do more while caring less.

we are just over a week out from publication of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action I co-edited with @annaleen.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social which means THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREORDER!

another important story from @mongpalatino.bsky.social at @globalvoices.org

Charlotte didn’t flinch; it rose. Neighbors linked arms, communities defied intimidation, and ICE’s fear machine hit a wall of people power. This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥 www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...

This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.

For anyone who cares, my current favorite whistle to 3d print is: makerworld.com/en/models/11...

The backstory to the Tom Holland lip sync is such a repudiation of slop. So much human effort and skill and *rights clearing* went into creating something so many people love. www.businessinsider.com/tom-holland-...

Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.

I was faculty at The New School for almost 19 years; I worked across several of these departments — many of which are central to the institution’s unique (and truly remarkable) legacy and continued strengths. Such a tragedy.

Since I've just spotted my first Salvation Army bell ringers of the season, this is your annual reminder that The Salvation Army is a homophobic and transphobic organization and that your charity dollars are better spent giving directly to reputable shelters

I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

With the starbucks strike happening we thought it would be helpful to cover what we, as people, can we do to support, striking workers. Sourced from r/union:

Video proof this really happened!

My Antifa book is on the New York Times Bestseller list 8 years after publication. Thank you to everyone who has supported me (and my family) in so many ways (including buying books). #NoPasarán

Are you doing something every day to fight American fascism offline and looking for your people? @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social and I are starting up a new Signal community for trusted lefty organizers, lawyers, writers, teachers/professors, etc. DM your website/Linkedin with a quick pitch!

dynasties are a symptom of democratic failure - maybe high barriers to entry into politics - maybe poor information about all candidates-> name-recognition problem - maybe something else! but definitely not a sign of merit, fairness, or accountability

Booksellers, like librarians, curate cultural wealth. Librarians have so much to do, and so little budget with which to collect, that not all books of cultural importance end up in a library's special collections. That's where we come in. 2/

Let's talk about books and the public trust. 📚🧵 Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping: Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.

Words are only somewhat plug 'n play not all words are compatible with each other, no matter what your fancy enviro-destroying thesaurus thinks

For the midnight crew on this #EdmundFitzgwtald50 anniversary, I have added more markups to the Newsweek article that gave Gordon Lightfoot his template for His "Wreck of" song lyrics.

Giving a bully your lunch money doesn't make them leave you alone. It shows them you're an easy mark and encourages them to demand more. Appeasing fascists doesn't make them less fascist. It shows them you're weak and encourages them to demand more. It's only ONE OF THE MOST REPEATED LESSONS EVER!

There’s an army of underemployed, downwardly mobile under 50s who are smart and motivated to build a new civic infrastructure. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.

bingo

The Handbasket is on beehiv, so a Substack boycott doesn't apply here.

At #Ebooks Direct: the #YoungWizards 9-book box set is on #sale EARLY at its #BlackFriday price. Come grab yourself nine volumes of bestselling wizardry guaranteed free of toxic additives! ☺️ More info here: ebooks.direct/products/you...

I hate this, but it's necessary. I owe $2800 on rent, most of it in late fees. Landlord is difficult to speak with, and I'm not sure he's willing to budge on late fees right now. But I need help. I can't lose this place and wind up in a tent again. Resources are slim. Thanks. spot.fund/qsrm8f8sc

You freaks obviously are not as lettered as our humble soup vendor.

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

This is TONIGHT! There's still time to sign up #BookSky 👇

I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

I remember years ago some rando white woman asked "what can we do?" wrt to racism and I said, "Just do to the racists what y'all been doing to the targets of racism - try to get them fired, throw a fit, harass their manager, deny their claims, etc." They have tools they use all the time!

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

It would be nice if we had media outlets that could place this moment's fascist propaganda in the context of historical fascist propaganda, telling people what it meant then and what it means now. That would be nice.

🚨Azine had to take extra meds since she couldn't get the pollution off her stuff w/o water. She's running out of multiple essential meds, one of which comes with potentially lethal withdrawal. And she could still be kicked out at any moment. PP: [email protected] #HelpSky #MutualAid 1/2

A number of people have told me this piece has been useful for them, maybe it will be for you, too — a simple description of the consensus view on AI amongst actual tech practitioners, presented as a tool for those who need to push back on the distorted narratives that tycoons are feeding media.

“People [in tech jobs] worry that not being seen as uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move…for those who aren't insiders in the tech industry, it's vital that you understand that you've been presented with an extremely distorted view about what tech workers really think about AI”

Reskeeting over a year late in case other people have also not been plugged into the larger polyam environment the last few years

Such a lovely review of More Than Two, Second Edition! Thanks for the thoughtful engagement with our book, Anthony. cc @everickert.bsky.social :) #morethantwobook #morethantwo anthonyrella.com/review-more-...

The thing that I enjoy about “The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti” is where lesbian Sherlock Holmes around Jupiter could be about an insufferable know it all, it’s instead about advice on dating an autistic detective, on learning how to be direct about your feelings and communicate.

Can't work because AWS? It's a good time to read this piece if you haven't! www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

The "linguistic doom loop" of Wikipedia pages machine-translated ineptly into minority languages: www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1... #Wikipedia 🐦🐦

Want some books about censorship? Here are a few that are about censorship and/or anti-literacy laws that include picture books through adult titles. It's not complete and I appreciate recommendations. #booksky app.thestorygraph.com/tags/2f9608d...

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest: