I wrote about how I discovered that a new site for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig's long-running Tumblr project-turned-book, was a bootleg made by a marketing agency. They published the complete book verbatim, then added AI-generated art and new AI words, entirely without permission.

Happy St. Patrick’s day!! 🍀🍀🍀

Love when the doctor tells me, a woman who lives at the top of a hill in a hilly city and doesn't have a car, to "keep walking but avoid hills."

I signed up with a site that connects experts with journalists looking for sources in case there was therapy stuff I could speak to. I get multiple daily digests and all it's shown me is how so much depressingly inane shit gets published.

Accidentally deleted most of my unread emails. Scanned the trash to save some pretty important ones. Otherwise, I think this was a gift from my dumb thumbs.

I wish I could ban the term "hive mind" from the group chats.

Feeling that post-election-depression. California always feels close and yet so so far from being that progressive hellscape the Republicans rage about.

I love this show so much. Here's one of my favorite episodes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTuf...

Oh, you can't write a 5-page book report without AI? I fucking wrote 5-page book reports without having read the goddamn book. Get your finger out of your ass.

Sadly, it must be done

Then she rubbed it into her hands, arms, legs and face like it was lotion.

My value of not food shaming and letting people listen to their bodies is really challenged by my toddler trying to only eat ketchup for breakfast.

"Chevron, McDonald’s, dialysis giant DaVita and one of the state’s largest oil drillers, California Resources Corp., are funding one of the largest pro-Becerra groups, with each of them contributing $500,000. Meta and AirBnB chipped in about $1 million each..."

Lots of "can a billionaire ever be trusted?" convos in the group chats and I'm one of the loudest "I really fucking doubt it!" voices. I'm still voting for Steyer. This from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was the final bit I needed. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-case-for...

Brave. I'm inspired and will commit now to also not perform at the Freedom 250 Concert.

My Zoom lighting is never better than near the window on a gloomy day.

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As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

As a result, we can access our written past only by paying for ChatGPT's mangled misunderstanding of it. But we can't see the original writing on the Internet Archive, a free online library without ads or algorithmic feeds. Do we really want to starve a library to feed billionaires? (3/3)

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

Partner of years and father to my child just asked for my phone number. Maybe he's into me!

I don't need to read the article to know it's "Temporary Secretary" from McCartney II (1980) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkq1...

still true

Wheels on the Bus but it's Speed

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

I took this picture last night at a gathering in someone's home and I think this is my next ongoing art project - exploring the home as gathering space and all that entails. I felt moved looking at what this overflow of shoes in the entryway represented. Excited to have a jumping off point.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Very excited to share that my work and new PBS series LIFE UNEARTHED is featured on the latest episode of @ologies.bsky.social with @alieward.bsky.social ! 🧪🦠 #scicomm

Why is fuchsia so hard to spell? Why doesn't spell check understand all the ways people can spell words like fuchsia wrong and actually suggest it as an option?

Saturday we built a cardboard planetarium for Earth Day at Yerba Buena Gardens. We projected my animations accompanied by 2 tracks from Marsification exploring our intricate connection to this planet. Kids and adults crowded in. Super hard work, very satisfying experience. #earthday

Saturday we built a cardboard planetarium for Earth Day at Yerba Buena Gardens. We projected my animations accompanied by 2 tracks from Marsification exploring our intricate connection to this planet. Kids and adults crowded in. Super hard work, very satisfying experience. #earthday

No publication gives me more hope that we (people!) can make the world better and fairer and kinder than Hamilton's newsletter.

one of my most popular designs

Hot take: No Kings is good and if you have the time and capacity, you should go to a protest on Saturday.

You either have this sort of political juice or you don't. Cannot be taught.

I keep wanting to declare something as my "breaking point" but seems pretty hard to know until afterwards.

San Francisco! Help me get the word out to your friends/coworkers. I am hosting a screening of my PBS nature series LIFE UNEARTHED the day before it premieres. Tardigrades and bison and fireflies on the big screen! March 31 at 7pm. Get free tickets here: tickets.arielwaldman.com/events/order...

Chaplains aren't on The Pitt. We are present in traumas, codes, for dying patients. We work with patients and families ane as liaisons between ED staff and family. We provide support to staff dealing with: PTSD, trauma, and moral injury. You see why we aren't on the show. 💀

Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.

Once we get more members of the Polite War Party than the Rude War Party, things will REALLY start looking up!

🗃️Time and time again, I wish people would understand that dignifying someone with "great-man" historical status, no matter how noble their public cause, does an enormous disservice to all the actual people that mobilize to take on these enormous battles.🧵/

oof this is beautiful

it would feel so good to say this. i wish i was the person who said this

Ear doctor: Don’t use Q-Tips Me already imagining putting a screw driver I found in the driveway in my ear when I get home: I womt

i once watched, from just a few feet away, Steve-O break a light bulb and swallow the glass and he's still smarter than Rogan which is really just saying a lot

Yep, exhausting. I have to talk about in therapy on the regular.

Good morning! Yes, this is he

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