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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 08/10/2026

short upon shorter timescales. we should be enjoying what little time we have, what we love, however we can. but then some small group of assholes who don't enjoy anything have to ruin it for everybody else in their pursuit of.. what? i don't even know. Original Warhols? cool, hug em in hell I guess

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 08/10/2026

as the minutes tick closer to 2 weeks since i got The Call, i'm thinking about how astronomers already have this perspective of.. we know we're cosmic dust, our carbon thanks to stars that came and went loooooong ago. and then you lose someone on Earth and it makes me want to scream

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Make Money - Do Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To me, this sums up why having researchers with a range of backgrounds and life experiences is so critical to scientific innovation. We all experience different chaos and develop unique abilities to solve our way out of it. Science is poorer when it does not draw from many different lives.

Sometimes inspiration came from unexpected places. Hamilton would often bring her daughter, Lauren, to the lab with her on nights and weekends. Lauren, then four years old, liked to play astronaut in the team’s simulators, and one day, pressing buttons at random, she caused a spectacular software crash. Hamilton investigated and found that Lauren had confused the program by keying in a pre-launch sequence, called P01, “in the middle of the mission,” she says.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 08/10/2026

kind of resenting my return to academic shitposting when i'm still counting small increments of time since losing my Dad. two weeks today. it feels like this sharp dividing line, one of what i guess are many before/after moments in one's life.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 07/10/2026

it’s gotta be near peak corporatization of academia when administrators’ own performance evaluation metrics include the rate of faculty compliance with their bullshit busywork policies

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 06/10/2026

I doubt anyone will have an aneurysm over 'spouse person' here like they did on the bad site 😂 i'm just being silly, there is zero to read into my phrasing but brahs gotta be mad, esp at someone with (formerly) pink hair.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 06/10/2026

Happy 18th Anniversary to my bestest life buddy and spouse person, @ronbelmont.bsky.social !! I love you!! 😍 Look at us, all young and still having good knees

A woman and a man are slow dancing at their wedding. The red-haired woman is wearing a white dress and is about six inches shorter than her husband; he is wearing a tuxedo.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 05/10/2026

oh yeah.. or even the librarians/archivists on campus I happen to know! hope my brain returns soon 🤪

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 05/10/2026

as part of my processing (admittedly a little bit keeping myself busy) I’ve tasked myself with digitizing and preserving family photos. Grandma had so many albums, going back to the 1800s.. how do I store these to preserve them? Any recommendations for where to get archival quality albums?

Three very old photo albums are sitting on a couch, two of them opened to pages of photos from the 1930s and 1960s. The main photo subject is a young woman; she is my paternal grandmother.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 04/10/2026

I do! The tones are so beautiful, @ronbelmont.bsky.social got it for me for my birthday a few years ago 😍🥰

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 04/10/2026

I did a neighborhood art show today. Figured my Dad would’ve been irked if I didn’t, but I couldn’t help but recognize that it was his spinning wheel enabling that helped make me the yarn monster I am today. 😇🥲

The front porch of a craftsman style house. Skeins of yarn are hanging from the siding, and hand knit garments are on every flat surface. A man is sitting on a patio chair, working on his laptop.

The other side of the patio, yarn hanging from the siding. A circular rug is on the concrete, and a set of macrame curtains is on the far end of the porch.

A red lace shawl is hanging from gray macrame ropes. Trees and sunlight are visible through the open parts of the lace.

A small memorial sits on a column of a porch. A photo shows a man and a woman and their daughter, in her PhD regalia. The caption reads, “For my Dad, who bought me my first spinning wheel in 2008.” A tea light is lit to the right of the photo.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 28/09/2026

oof. 'wake me up when September ends' hits. sigh. I forgot to include his name- brain has called in sick. James Everett Aarnio, 3/7/1947 - 9/23/2026. Digging through photos-I opened boxes unopened from when she passed in 2015, found my grandma's family homestead in MN! Road trip time..

A photo from the 1980s: a 40-ish man and an elderly couple are standing in front of a white and red Cessna plane. A small boy and girl are standing in front of the man. He is, naturally, wearing aviator sunglasses, and he is my Dad. The elderly couple are his parents, Laila and Elmer, and they are Finnish AF.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 27/09/2026

one more favorite, for good measure.. my alibi for march 22, 1987

A man in a trucker hat bigger than his entire head is standing in front of a red and white Cessna airplane. A seven year old boy in a blue and white t-shirt and jeans is standing a few feet behind him, and a 3 year old girl with a glow worm plush and ridiculously wild curly hair is photobombing in the lower right corner of the photo. Because she went on her first flights with her Dad as pilot, she will go on to never be afraid of flying.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 27/09/2026

He could be profoundly difficult, but I loved him and will miss him terribly. Rest easy, Dad.

A sepia-toned photo from 1960 of a 13-year old boy with an alto saxophone. He's wearing a white, button-down shirt and tie and smiling.

A black and white photo from 1966 of the 5th US Army Band playing in a grassy field. There are about four rows of about five musicians each playing different instruments, and the front row of saxophone players have solid black music stand fronts. The alto saxophone player in the middle of the front row has very shiny hair and he is my Dad.

A polaroid from the 1980s shows a man with a mustache holding a swaddled newborn baby girl. She is very pink and looks like she is already verbally shitposting this world she was born into.

A photo from the early 2000's of a young white woman with red hair holding a black Fender Stratocaster guitar with a clear pick guard. She is looking at the camera skeptically, while her Dad is sitting next to her with an alto saxophone in his hands and smiling at the camera. The mouthpiece is partially blocking his face because he's a pain in the ass in photos.

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We could try communicating to the public what a great value education we provide, how nerds & LGBTQ+ students thrive in our kind campus culture, & that our small faculty bring in ~3x the research funding of WCU. But adding MMA & a Chick-fil-A is another option. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

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How UNC Asheville Plans to Attract More Students After Another Enrollment Drop

UNC Asheville continues to struggle with enrollment challenges, but the chancellor says she has a plan to turn things around.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 25/09/2026

I’m sure e-sports has worked out really well for us, could add that to the list

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Kyle D. Long @blatherscribe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In 1980, age 8, I went to Radio Shack "computer camp" classes. The instructor said computers can't lie. I said yes they can, and made a BASIC program on my TRS-80 that lied. He said that didn't count because I made it lie. I said yes, that's my point. He told me to be quiet. And now, here we are.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026

"We are in a moment where you could plausibly argue that Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Land are the most influential policy intellectuals in the US conversation. Just look at the state of the two of them. This is not a good thing." www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...

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Machine god metaphors eat your brain

There are other ways of thinking about AI

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Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History @smmnh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

450 million years ago the majority of life in the oceans had soft bodies that did not fossilize very well. Their fossilized remains often appear as blurry stains upon a rock, but now and then a specimen is found with a well preserved body part, like this strange marrelomorph.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 22/09/2026

oop. wasn't intentional, we just didn't get forwarded the outage announcement. cool.. i could've brought some kind of fan if i knew :P

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 22/09/2026

It's 74 and raining outside, 72 and 95% humidity in my office. For whatever reason, last week, plant ops decided it was time to turn off the a/c for the season. surfaces in my office feel damp to the touch.. hell is humidity

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 22/09/2026

(we have power, modulo gerrymandering etc she says laughing awkwardly in NC)

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 22/09/2026

"this is the same fight, the same ethos, but it’s about data and intelligence.” you know another way to democratize knowledge? free college for all. well-funded public schools. gatekeepers are elected and we have always had power over that. but don't let me stand in the way of a good grifty slogan

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 22/09/2026

political texts when you're expecting bad news are their own special brand of enraging

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 21/09/2026

i'm very late to this news, but what the actual *fuck,* Allbirds?! to go from a company centered on sustainability to one of the most UNsustainable products? they flipped all their birds at the planet. fucking assholes. when the bubble bursts, they'll have no shoes and no value

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 21/09/2026

it's true, i was not prepared 😂 i'm also extremely nervous because universities tend to be uni-see uni-do about all the worst tech and policies, and i want to know how to opt out of this kind of thing.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy 118th birthday, spacetime. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Hermann Minkowski addressed the 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians #OTD in 1908, offering a radical four-dimensional reformulation of Einstein's theory of special relativity. Here is how he opened his address.

"The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."
- Hermann Minkowski, 1908

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Closing the libraries and museums but at least we can afford to commit war crimes at scale

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 20/09/2026

it interfere it diffract it enable shark attacc

photo of a projected water interference pattern from a ripple pool

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/09/2026

And Now for Something Completely Different: A perspective on AI swarms from someone who actually knows something about collective behavior.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 20/09/2026

ah, inspiring... i know i have some cool weather crop seeds around here somewhere 🧐

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 20/09/2026

(But also like seriously get off the internet and mingle if you’ve forgotten what a human is vs code and inference)

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 20/09/2026

(I’m doing ok, for now. I know grief’s a sneaky bitch so status subject to change.)

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 20/09/2026

and believe themselves singularly genius (and their frothing followers) are just the worst. But! not jumping into The Discourse. my dad’s been in hospice for 2.5 years and it seems like he isn’t much longer for this world. No mental space for shitty people and their bad takes right now.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 20/09/2026

wild seeing people who think they’re brilliant for having blurred lines in their own minds between computer programs and human beings.. new brand of nihilism prob makes it easier to justify awful takes about/behavior toward actual humans. people who are so certain in their own righteousness

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 19/09/2026

I’m so glad we have a 2016 and the screen and software are minimally aggravating.. old ass cars ftw world will have to pry my 2006 Nissan out of my cold dead hands Never will I buy a car with shit like this Also fuck bots for scraping ao3, fuck them to omegaverse hell

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 19/09/2026

Reminds me of the Mass Effect 2 mission where you rescue David Archer 🥺

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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Largest theft of labor in human history.” What a quote.

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 16/09/2026

Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy.

At MIT, Harvard, or any other school, supervising an undergraduate researcher is a lot of work, costs a lot of money, involves a lot of meetings, and the results are not reliably excellent. Asking Claude is easier, faster, and may produce better results. It’s also cheaper, which is no accident: Harvard allows every Harvard student and faculty member to request a Claude token budget of $2,500 per month, even as research funding is continuously threatened and the University lays off staff.

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 17/09/2026

if you're wondering how my grad department did, we were one of the havens for a certain skeptic cosmologist who was running from harassment allegations at other unis. i've been told i can be closed-off; hard to get to know. also been told I'm a good judge of character. I was def right about his ass

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just some Alicia @aliciaaarnio.solar · 17/09/2026

old enough that faculty who creeped me out (looking me up and down in *that* manner) in grad school are now passing away. all I'm feeling is relief for students who are now safer. fuck how academia protects these people. almost 2 decades later, still mad i didn't feel safe to take second semester GR

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