my hatch chile supplier in NM has started writing their marketing emails with gen-ai and i’m sorry but claude simply does not have the expertise you need to sell this product.

art

good light update

“The punishment for the protesters exceeds the lengthiest prison sentences given out for the attack on the Capitol on January 6. Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, was sentenced to 22 years in prison.”

sometimes an album sits in your collection until it’s the right day for you to hear it kimgordon.bandcamp.com/album/play-me

while i was at grad school in cincinnati an extremely buttoned-up professor who knew my politics ran up to me in the hallway on the day rumsfeld stepped down and whispered “RUMSFELD IS GONE” with the kind of enthusiasm you might see, well, here

this is as good as you think it is

the other day I watched somebody in Davis angrily knock a cone off one of the statues in the square and his buddy was so appalled at his behavior that I thought it might come to fisticuffs

after going on hiatus for a little while, the Boston art book fair just announced that they will start up again. The fair is going to happen the second full weekend in November bostonartbookfair.com

sometimes I order things and then am like “huh why did I want this.” this is not one of those times. brickmag.com

yeah that seems right

RIP Clive Davis. you promised Patti Smith complete artistic control & you honored it. of course it ended up being invoked for something like unshaven armpits because america could not handle it and once again i cannot believe this is part of this particular discusison

twenty is not too old to track a reflection off a watch, but it is too old to actually chase it, we learned today

currently on a different birthday adventure with this now-14-year-old and their twin sibling, who both declared @portersqbooks.bsky.social private bookstore day as their best birthday ever

I cannot explain why it felt safer to photograph this turkey over my shoulder than to stop while looking it in the face

my cat meowing at me: ppp-mf, usually a chill mp. my cat meowing at her water bowl at 4:30am: Mahler 8

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v confident one of you brooklynites has a baritone ukelele

turning off noise cancellation on my headphones so I can smell what’s happening on the stove, like turning down the radio so you can see what’s happening in traffic

currently about 40% through an incredibly boring and necessary task so if you have any questions about, like, nonprofits or soup or weird art now is a spectacular time to ask

I’ll add: my prediction is that this will 1) pour money into eugenicist projects that operate under the guise of 501c3s 2) move a fuckton of capital into nontaxable endowments, of which only 5% will have to be distributed per year (and btw foundation salaries count toward that 5%)

reposting for the midday listeners and correcting my spelling, it’s Gay Guerrilla Day

the models think I’m known for “HR and talent acquisition” which is exactly wrong enough that it should stop you from asking big AI tools HR questions

Happy Juneteenth! This is also your regular reminder to read Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments!

oh hell yeah it’s Gay Guerilla day wildup.bandcamp.com/album/julius...

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“you all won’t have to deal with tornados like we have been” said my Chicago client, two hours ago

your semi-regular reminder that if you follow me for book recommendations on here you should probably also be signed up for Josh’s newsletter

some ✨professional news✨ rachelhands.com/2026/06/18/s...

🦊 Wrote down some rambling thoughts on “AI”: as generational damage, on what repair might look like, and on asking what happens next. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-to...

good morning to whomstever made the bots that keep finding my posts from my last trip to the ICA, I hope you enjoyed your encounter with the joyful-serious cultural criticism of Derrick Adams’s work

quick good light break and then back to being mad at the senate

“nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate” BRO.

in case anyone needs to know this, it is possible in the year 2026 to submit a conference talk with the title “Fine, We’ll Make an AI Policy: A Community-Informed Approach to Making Decisions About AI” and have it be accepted

The transgender individual erased by training data, the Kenyan worker moderating that data for $2 an hour, and the Black neighborhood choking on emissions required to process the data are all linked, writes Amaia Aguilar. They are all victims of old harms delivered through new technologies.

if I’m ever on a zoom with you and it looks like I’m staring up and into space there’s probably something like this happening above my desk

the scooby doo head shake noise I just made

she probably should not be up here but it is cute, so

every time one of these stories makes the round I’m increasingly grateful that my mom just went “ohhhhhhh that’s why” and we moved on with our lives

today was a lot and also these are a lot. differently though.

in addition to all the surveillance reasons this is bad, it’s also silly because this site is invisible until you’ve experienced a certain amount of inexplicable back pain

i’ve said it before but it bears repeating: KATE ZAMBRENO SYMPOSIUM

thinking of this absent friend on what should have been his 51st birthday. grateful for the art and music and too-long emails. rachelhands.com/2026/01/11/1...

One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n

you know you want a @mutualaidmamas.bsky.social button!

“The private operation is backed by the Trump administration, and tuition is roughly $55,000 per year.”

starting now! see you over there?

local pals, if you are heading to Carnaval today come say hi at the MAMAS table! folks will be out the whole time to chat about local mutual aid, there will be a mini free store, it’ll be very fun. I’ll be there from about 4 on somervilleartscouncil.org/events/somer...

I have erred (posted something that will be Discovered by blue wave feeds)