Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop

My rapture hot take is we’d never know bc no one’s ascending. I left church a looong time ago, but Jesus was pretty clear about life being a group project. We’re all interconnected. I don’t think He’s assigning anyone “VIPs” when we still have so many people starving and hurt on this earth. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Should read. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.

I had a dream last night that a bunch of megacorp skyscraper buildings grew legs and stomped around the world’s major cities, crushing smaller buildings and homes and people, and if that’s not an apt metaphor for how corporate interests are destroying the world, I don’t know what is.

ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌 This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite! The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi

what I say whenever there are worries

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Today, I’m thinking about every person who has ever said (rudely), “an English major? What are you going to do with THAT?” I, along with other humanities folks, clocked the danger of this administration 10 yrs ago. Meanwhile, look how many STEM bros have sold their souls to fascism.

The assertion of technology “rights” and the systematic removal of human rights are part of the same fascist project.

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change.

I try to be rly visible & vocal when it comes to masking and it wrecks me every time I get responses from ppl who are thankful bc they feel so isolated and alone bc otherwise caring folks won’t do the bare minimum & wear a mask—reposted this old, but relevant read. Plz read & consider masking again.

New blog post is up! It's next up in my multi-part series critical of GenAI evangelism and an expansion of a presentation I've given for colleagues at my (GenAI-obssessed) institution this year. In short, I want people to understand this tech and its risks so they stop thinking it's magic.

I’ll also add that anything marketed to you and free to use/freely given usually means that you (and your data) are the product being sold. This is true in the micro (individuals) and the macro (organizations).

This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved

AI this, LLM that, I'm amped for the counterculture to ignite against this banal mediocrity. Gimme handmade zines, let's write poems on the back of receipts, a watercolor using found pigments, book clubs on subway cars; let the revolution be not just analog but antiquated, baby. Bring back quills!

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Republicans literally doing everything they can to create the conditions of the super scary world they talk about endlessly on social media and Fox

Basic needs should not be left to charity.

My cynical take is tech companies know they’re in the wrong. They also know that by fast-tracking GenAI and putting it in everything as quickly as possible, they can make a case that they are “too big to fail.” If they can’t avoid legal consequences, then next they will cry for a financial bail out.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

Come back later. She’s busy watching her shows (Meerkat Manor)

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

It’s so frustrating. It has seeped into everything. Filters and tags don’t work. The AI slop isn’t just awful, though I can’t stress enough it is that. Depending on the subject matter (I work in mental health), images are often offensive, biased, or stigmatizing.

This is delightful. And also, I suspect the animal kingdom is up to something because I was rudely awoken at 6am this morning by SQUIRREL FIGHT CLUB on my roof.

I started a blog series called The Dark Side of GenAI, centered around issues with widespread adoption of GenAI tech and educating about what these tools can/can't do. If that sounds like your cup of tea, check it out: www.sadaniel.com/blog No paywall (rage sustains me). New posts weekly(ish)!

A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.

Bless this lady who says “I like pissing off the managers.” Fuck yeah ma’am.

That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

I know this lil moth is an invasive species, but he is also very cute and fuzzy!

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words. If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

I worked in a pharmacy back in the day, and you would not believe how many people asked for refills of their O-meh-pra-zol-ee 🤌 on a daily basis and I had to keep a straight face 😂

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:

I wrote about how Geoff Lewis, one of OpenAI’s long running investors, has sparked concern among peers who believe he may be facing a public mental health episode brought on by ChatGPT. futurism.com/openai-inves...

How it feels to pull a rotisserie chicken out of the fridge when the cats are around

now that i think of it, with claude, grok and chatgpt, they basically stopped making them woman-coded like siri as soon as they wanted them to act like topic based authorities

Good news: every clumsy embarrassing fumble forward counts towards writing

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n

You know how every now and then you can get a jalapeño that’s really hot? Guess I hit the spicy lottery when I went grocery shopping because this homemade dal has me fighting for my life

I will never forget the family 4th bbq when an uncle filled a garbage bag with gasoline and lit it on fire. Creativity is admirable, but not when fire is involved