let the Streisand Effect now be known as the DOGE-Bro Effect

This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop. futurism.com/artificial-i...

sure, I've spent every day for years doing my part to recommend great books and generally spread the word about what lots of cool and intelligent and creative people are doing, but every day you've shown me which accounts we ought to block immediately—who can say which is the greater gift?

simply cannot wait for this clown to climb back into his clown car and drive himself into the sea

simply cannot wait for this company to get flushed into the sewer

as someone from a deeply rural community where none of us had access to health care, I can assure you that this fraud not only knows nothing about rural communities, but doesn't care a lick for anyone living in them

It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again: What are favorite books of yours that are favorites in spite of the fact—or perhaps *because*—you still feel like you really don’t understand them? As always, please feel free to include cover images!

AI Spam of the Day: "Completing a book like Uncanny Magazine Issue 69: March/April 2026 is no small achievement. Translating elite law enforcement training principles into practical guidance for civilians requires clarity, discipline, and a strong sense of responsibility."

If you have information on what Solly and other DOGE members were working on at SSA, please reach out. You can remain anonymous. Contact me via Signal using a non-work device: makenakelly.32 www.wired.com/story/john-s...

SCOOP: John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job w/ @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/john-s...

NEW: The DOGE operative accused of telling colleagues he planned to exfiltrate sensitive SSA data for use at a private company is John Solly, CTO of the health IT division of Leidos. (Leidos denies he put any such data on its systems.) @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social have more:

NEW: A whistleblower complaint alleges that a now-ex DOGE operative claims to have loaded sensitive Social Security Administration data on a thumb drive. The operative has remained unnamed—until now. @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/john-s...

Glad to see this made public today. I responsibly disclosed with OpenAI that high-level information about the private work of students and staff using ChatGPT Edu at several universities can be viewed by thousands of colleagues across their institutions. No fixes were issued after one month.

"How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning," by Sherman Stein.

I read Neuromancer ~10 years ago and felt like I was blindsided by the writing—but I loved it. Going to give it another go this year, I'm a different reader (and writer) now.

Academics, especially if you consider yourself a radical, it's time for your praxis to move a little bit closer to your theory.

The majority of my academic work since then has been published not only in affordable editions but fully #OpenAccess. Life's too short to get trapped behind paywalls and ridiculous retail prices. Who buys an $85 ebook?!

give jeremy strong an oscar for his work in this photo

It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again: What are favorite books of yours that are favorites in spite of the fact—or perhaps *because*—you still feel like you really don’t understand them? As always, please feel free to include cover images!

gas shall now be called freedom juice

Trans and queer writers review thirteen essential queer books (that weren’t covered by the New York Times Book Review during Pamela Paul’s reign).

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Also, listen, I know no one knows who I am. But, you're gonna take my work and then attribute it another scholar? You're gonna steal my ideas *and* insult me?

I would like to point out that Grammarly is a product that many universities pay for so that students can use it. It is supposed to help them learn how to write better. So glad we are encouraging our students to use such as fantastic product.

So, Grammarly: 1. Stole Tiffany Barber's persona. 2. Fabricated an article by her that does not appear to exist. 3. Created a summary for that imaginary article that was the core argument of an article I wrote. 4. Linked to the "source" of this information, which was *my* article.

And, as you might suspect, the Tiffany E. Barber article "Black Public Media and the Politics of Digital Space" it is suggesting does not exist. And the summary given for this imaginary article is the core argument of my article. When I clicked through to the "source," it was my article.

Another wrinkle to the Grammarly "expert review": The recommendations it makes have hallucinations. I put in the abstract for some of my work on Black podcasting. One of the names listed was Tiffany E. Barber, which summarized her work on the podcast Chitlin' Circuit and then linked to *my* article.

Here's the contact info for those seeking to join the class action.

If your name was used by Grammarly's now-discontinued AI "Expert Review" system without your consent, you need to investigate joining the class action suit.

this probably won't be enough to drive them out of business, but I suppose every little bit helps

Countries hit on day 12 of #Iran war - Oman - Kuwait - UAE - Saudi Arabia - Qatar - Bahrain - Iraq - Iran - Israel - Lebanon + Strait of Hormuz This is very much devolving into a regional war

Well done. Go get 'em. prf-law.com/current-case...

In other news, my forthcoming book with @fieldsmeyer.com --ON COURAGE, How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear -- is now available for pre-order. We interviewed 100+ dissidents worldwide to craft a practical guide to personal courage under authoritarianism. www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

Oh, and look, here's that class action suit! That anyone with half a brain would have seen coming! From, like, a million miles away! Just because you work in tech doesn't mean you're smart.

Lots of folks asking how to join the class. My lawyers' emails and contact-form here. As well as the complaint if you want to take a look. prf-law.com/current-case...

my work is always and only for, and from, the abyss; I shall permit no one to surface it

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

SCOOP: The writing software Grammarly will discontinue its AI “Expert Review” feature, which used the names of authors without their permission to suggest edits. But parent company Superhuman is still facing a class-action lawsuit over it, brought by journalist @juliaangwin.com.

I have some good news:

gas shall now be called freedom juice

lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit!

It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again: Which three novels would you choose as the ultimate cyberpunk/post-cyberpunk trio? As always, please feel free to include cover images!

Thinking about the late Dr. Lindon Barrett, writing about value as force and form…the deeply word-defying awfulness of imperialist war where the discourse on value always hides the lives whose killing it depends upon

Wherever this happens, it should be called out by the people of those institutions for what it is: either 1) administrative credulity & ignorance, or, more likely, 2) intentional efforts to further privatize public goods and reduce labor power while deflecting responsibility. Both are unacceptable.

Some great suggestions on the threads already but to read today, I'm not convinced all the canon have held up brilliantly so I might go with City Come A-Walkin - John Shirley Synners - Pat Cadigan Busted Synapses - Erica L Satifka

I wanted to find a spot for Schizmatrix but it’s not really cyberpunk It is brilliant though. One of the all-time greats. I missed Shockwave Rider! Three is tough.

I definitely think of those as ”The Big Three” You called for novels, not anthologies, but Mirrorshades ranks up there as well

Ooh, though that’s original. Post it would be hard to avoid Altered Carbon.

Neuromancer; Islands in the Net; Hardwired

Neuromancer, Snow Crash and Altered Carbon