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Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It’s been such an honor to work on this story for the past 5 months. A young Norwegian, Steffen, was trying to cross Canada on foot and with sled dogs. His dogs survived; tragically, he did not. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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How Steffen Skjottelvik's Journey Across Canada Came to a Tragic End

For three years and 750 miles, Steffen Skjottelvik lived a life of adventure. Until the adventure took his life.

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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Hell Is Other People locusmag.com/feature...

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

All righty -- this year's writerly resolution is live, should you care to read it. The tl;dr is it's actually quite an optimistic read, so hopefully it'll give you some juice to kick open the new year and put words to stories that need to be told.

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Writer Resolution 2026: Wield The Weapon That Is You

It’s never precisely easy to be a writer — professional or otherwise. I mean, it’s easy in the sense of, hey, anybody can open a word processor and start (fiercely or methodically…

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lauraven @lauraven.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Her work is always lovely, and this piece is deeply compassionate too.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 26/02/2025

Interesting piece on the aesthetic and theoretical links between AI "art" and the far right. "[The right] want to assert, simultaneously, that unambiguous laws govern all aspects of being, while acting as though ‘truth’ is whatever they want or need it to be at any given moment."

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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

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Isonomist @isonomist.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The Expanse & Universal Human Rights, LIVE panel tonight 7pm CDT. Join us for free on Zoom: illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/83334668665 with Fred Johnson, Clarissa Mao, Erich (ok, Chad Coleman, Nadine Nicole & Jacob Mundell), VFX supe Bob Munroe, NASA's Krys Blackwood & more, modded by Dr Scott Jordan

Poster for Illinois State University's free Reggie Con live Zoom panel, Universal Human Rights Month Expanse episode, Dec 2 2024 at 7pm CDT (0100 UTC), with Nadine Nicole, Jacob Mundell, Chad Coleman and Robert Munroe, moderated by Dr Scott Jordan

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