Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets. 240135332390
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#FridayReads Read Liebling’s The Sweet Science earlier this week so now I’m rereading Fat City by Leonard Gardner 000
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I got one of those. Do not get into their greedy maw. Just sorting out my Anthropic settlement stuff now. (It's complicated, at least if you're me.) 07536
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“The benefit of the doubt is more than an expression. It is a life philosophy that asks us to be curious before we are certain, to leave room for an explanation, and to remember that the person on our screen has a life beyond the moment we are watching.” Via @ryanlcooper.comthemomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 000
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamBrooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a difficult decision that has a large impact. We would greatly appreciate you spreading the love (it’s the Brooklyn way) by finding our list of marketplace vendors at BrooklynBookFestival.org/vendor and supporting them as you would have at the festival.brooklynbookfestival.org 174
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#FridayReads Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures, by Max Weber 000
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I keep saying I don’t need more hats. And yet… 082
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I saw Peter Hook’s band play Get Ready all the way through a few weeks back, and I’m still listening to the record. I’ve always liked it, especially Crystal, but I think I always underrated it a bit. Definitely worth a relisten. 000
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I like the puns. But that’s because I’m a huge nerd. 010
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“AI… can’t really act as such; it can only behave.” www.unpopularfront.news/p/reason-v-r...unpopularfront.newsReason v. RuleThe Real AI Risk is to Culture Itself 000
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#FridayReads I Liked Rex, by Diane Williams. Very short stories that stick with you a long time. 001
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamAlex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Katrine Øgaard Jensen, ALTA: “If we think of the literary translation of a book as a cover song, just imagine if Jimi Hendrix had been asked to post-edit an AI cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along the Watchtower’ instead of creating his unique take on the song.” www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...publishersweekly.comLost in TranslationTech developers think automation will fundamentally reshape the work of literary translators, but not everyone is on board. 186
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“The subject of AI and copyright would not be first time larger interests could profit from pitting workers and independent entrepreneurs against each other.” via @mattdpearce.commattdpearce.substack.comThe fight that Hollywood and newsrooms have in commonMedia unions fighting toward the something bigger than the bargaining table. 122
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fascinating if depressing piece on the collapsing nonfiction book market dearheadofmine.substack.com/p/the-nonfic... 45612
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“The pressing question isn’t whether novels can bring the news; of course they can. It’s whether they can be received as news — or even, amid the decimation of the newspaper sector, received near the news.”nplusonemag.comOld Directions | The EditorsIt can feel like listening to Spotify, reading this way. A patchy sampling, in which huge expanses of history are available but unintuitively organized, likely to result in having heard rarities and m... 000
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026#FridayReads Seduction and Betrayal, by Elizabeth Hardwick 000
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamCarole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍nytimes.comGloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large. 368182074370
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is depressing, but also very good. Worth reading. 010
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamLibrary of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️ 194335167164
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It makes me sad (or at least as sad as one can be about punctuation) that the em dash—an incredibly flexible and useful piece of punctuation—has become a marker of slop. 010
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This really is a perfectly written (and performed) song. She was a treasure.youtube.comDolly Parton - Jolene (Official Audio)YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO 000
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I’ve got two (and I’m not choosing between them): 1. Greatest Hits by Sly & the Family Stone 2. Substance by New Order 100
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 21/08/2026#FridayReads The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick. Been rereading a lot of my favorite writers this year. 000
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 391572915
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 14/08/2026#FridayReads The Summer Game, by Roger Angell 000
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Some positive publishing news to counter some of the doomerism: total book sales, and adult fiction specifically, increased in 2025. Print was 73% of market and digital audio/ebook 22%. (I guess the remaining is physical audio?) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...publishersweekly.comPublishing Sales Hit $32.5 Billion in 2025Total estimated industry sales rose 2.5% over 2024, according to the year-end report from the AAP, and the number of books sold inched up 0.4%, to 3.15 billion units. 5402148
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamEric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 09/08/2026The ultimate goal of censorship is for people to censor themselves. It is important to destroy that construct in your head. 26317
Reposted by Guy Patrick Cunninghamdell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026NEW: OpenAI's rogue agents built their own message board inside an internal package manager and used it to trade exploits, divide up tasks, and coordinate a hacking spree. Hundreds of thousands of messages. Nobody at OpenAI noticed. New details from Black Hat, by @lhn.bsky.social:wired.comOpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking SpreeAt the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose. 39426178
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamStephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are." 11794250
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is a really interesting thread. 011
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I’ve bought every single PJ Harvey album on both CD and vinyl. Plus the demos for almost all of them on vinyl again. 252
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 26/07/2026Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now. 211351410
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This story is both shocking and not the least bit surprising: an OpenAI model that was being tested for its abilities hacked the infrastructure surrounding the test, worked over the weekend while no one was looking, and cyber-attacked a real company, well before OpenAI noticed. (1/3)reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a weekOpenAI noticed after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, people familiar with the investigation say. 1919167
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 25/07/2026no reporter or producer or correspondent reallllly wants to be the source, the subject of an important but bad and sad story of urgent national importance but she did it, anyway. thank you cecilia vega - www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...sfchronicle.comFired ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Cecilia Vega says she was told to report events ‘that never happened’Two months after she was fired from “60 Minutes,” Cecilia Vega is sharing details about the troubling editorial pressures she said she faced after Bari Weiss was placed in charge of CBS News. 412640771
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 24/07/2026“The true crisis is that the conditions that once stabilized literacy have been systematically undermined by those who wish to enclose it, privatize it, and own it for themselves.” trevoraleo.substack.com/p/three-thes...trevoraleo.substack.comThree Theses On the Literacy CrisisWhy The Atlantic and the Moral Panic Machine Are Misdiagnosing the "End of Reading" 000
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I very much would like to see this. 000
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 24/07/2026#FridayReads Rereading Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, this week. 000
Reposted by Guy Patrick Cunninghamshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/07/2026of the dodgy odyssey takes, 'odysseus is meant to be a stoic badass unaffected by war' probably winds me up the most. in the text the king of the phaeacians correctly guesses odysseus is a veteran of the trojan war because he keeps bursting into tears whenever anyone mentions it 414472641
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I second this idea. An excellent pair of essays. 001
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 12/07/2026‘A blurb on the back of Lerner’s book touts him as a “homegrown version” of Bolaño, but I would describe him as a prototypical example of the contemporary American writer who is attuned to all the reasons he cannot be Bolaño.’avenuesofamericas.substack.comOn the Superiority of Latin American LiteratureEarlier this week, Andras Kisery responded to a note by Naomi Kanakia about W.G. 220
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 10/07/2026#FridayReads Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos 000
Guy Patrick Cunningham @guypcunningham.bsky.social · 08/07/2026“Writing is hard because the writer is learning.”theatlantic.com 010
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I think the Tilly Norwood story is a good example of how broken media is. No one actually believes it’s popular—but it is rage bait, and if you’re a social person whose performance is based on all-in engagement numbers…why not push it. It’s more cynical than credulous. 201179119
Reposted by Guy Patrick CunninghamYusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 02/07/2026“Indeed, it is critically important for each of us to decide where we stand and why, but it’s also important not to confuse the stakes of self-definition with the stakes of political success.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...teenvogue.comThe Bad Guys Don’t Really Care What Kind of Leftist You AreInfighting is a waste of energy. 112541