This week, you may have heard about fabricated, AI-generated quotes appearing in a book covering AI's reality-skewing effects. I talked to the author, and what came out is, I think, a fascinating look at how people justify their own continued of these imperfect tools arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

you apply for a green card when you are *settled* here because it's a timeconsuming process that moves you towards citizenship. This is more white supremacy from the Stephen Miller administration.

Guzman Y Gomez leaving the US is 🤌 fuck those brownface asswipes

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oh fuck me, Daily Herald was already messy

this was a really fascinating read. tbh the biggest thing that stuck out to me is how much of a circlejerk 'AI' is - only people good at the coding are represented in this world, and the engineers are the ones sinking their money back into it

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With FIYAH going on indefinite hiatus it's really fucking important we support the mags publishing POC. If you have the means, support the things you love or they will disappear. Everyone's probs sick as fuck of hearing it but a magazine for Black voices stopped publishing today, it isn't abstract.

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This hurts to see. FIYAH is absolutely amazing and I have so much respect for the life changing work they do.

How did I miss Oliver Sacks getting exposed as a partial fabulist?? A while ago I was thinking back to my teenaged reading of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, and I thought, hang on, now that I know a little more about the brain, that book seems suspicious. I even googled “Oliver Sacks fraud”

Great thread on the politics of portraiture (lots of details I didn’t know about!) but I’m also looking at the NYT headline with the Haus of Holbein song stuck in my head

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

DisruptJ20 defendants from 2017 and anyone impacted by the 2017 Muslim ban have a strong case. And US citizens detained by ICE. And....

Mrs. Davis is a perfect watch for the LLM slop era and it is *very* annoying that I can't say why without massively spoilering

“Here, the irresponsibility of the judges meant that, rather than seeing the AI for what it was, the nonsense writing was seen as ingenuity..., Incoherence that would disqualify a European writer is reframed as authenticity when it is attached to the right cultural geography.”

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oh man if we cracked open the door on how many people spend all day using AWS adjacent stuff without knowing it.... we'd be in a dark place. lolol so many of these tech companies just wove themselves into the fabric of how everything works and it's really really hard to rip them out!

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broke: shrimps is bugs bespoke: bees is shrimps

in all honesty I don't think you can be properly anti-LLM when you have this little of a clue how it works

NEW "We even have to include a tabletop exercise of me getting arrested" — Maryland's elections administrator Election directors across the US are preparing for everything from ICE showing up at polling locations to officials being arrested during November's midterms www.wired.com/story/electi...

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

Tbh I've been using Google *Maps* as my main search for several years now 😬

"A German court in December 1926 awarded...the military leader of the Kapp putsch, back payment of his pension to cover the period when he was a rebel against the government and also the five years that he was a fugitive from justice." - William Shirer. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. p. 109

From my own personal experience, for anyone doing AI- assisted work on race, slavery, colonialism, resistance, and violence... DON'T. I tried running some writing through AI, and it would strip out language about race and violence. "Ask" it why, and it will gaslight you.

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new: last week, the cook county board signed off on sheriff tom dart's request to nearly double the size of his flock license plate reader network. it came despite revelations the agency worked with the controversial company for years without an agreement and as other cities are ditching the tech.

I...cannot help but wonder how much of this comes from my anecdotal observations of nonfiction book publishing culture: - informational-type books are heavily skewed towards cis white men - there isn't a fact-checking process

Why can we never have fun food discourse? Why aren't we talking about the fact that Ciabatta is younger than Beyonce?

why is jelly covered in chocolate so GOATed

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I love bikes and I hate cars. Cars are extremely dangerous to our society. But this shit is why I cannot accept or advocate for traffic cams. The surveillance state is not your friend. If we can pass laws to put speed governors on e-bikes we can just do the same for cars.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

the taco bell chihuahua said live mas not “live mass surveillance”

Blue whale skeleton assembly at the Hatfield Marine Science Center

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oh god no

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

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Why read past headlines: Mainstream media is taking Kennedy at his word that he's trying to "help" people. But I dig into why that cannot be. Because if he wanted to help people, he would listen to actual experts on the issue of mental health. www.salon.com/2026/05/18/t...

We have to separate work from the author: books go in the paper bin and author in the organic waste bin.

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if you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it. “Godot!” I screamed into the void, again.

He's right there with Joanne in that there is no longer any ethical way to read his work.

I used to mix meringue by hand before I caved and bought a mixer and it’s made me *very* good at judging meringue.

We have allowed social media to basically wipe out whatever traces of the Enlightenment remained & we are heading back to personalist authoritarianism & mysticism faster than anyone seems prepared to acknowledge. It's really fucking bad.