Reposted by Liana KrissoffJody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 16/10/2026🧵I have been banging on about this--the need to secure permissions to use somebody else's art--and how AI's LLMs are wholesale theft machines. Let me explain. In my forthcoming book, 'All We Have Is Each Other,' I quote from the books I am writing about ... 131 3
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I needed this small victory today: 962 in MapTap. 020 2
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAndrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Writing tip from Dwight Swain's "Techniques of the Selling Writer" (OU Press, 1973): Make a checklist of your literary weaknesses. When a piece of writing bogs down, turn to the checklist to spot the likely culprit. 061 6
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Agree. Although it could’ve been a lemon drizzle technical. 020 2
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAmanda Godsey @amandagodsey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Why don’t you use AI, Amanda?” Well, I typed “Bill Belichick record Acrisure Stadium Heinz Field” and the first AI answer the browser spit out was 1-0. How is that possible when he won two AFC Championships in the stadium? 191 9
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Another slop-tastic love letter to AI in the NYT this morning. “No technological improvement in the history of the world has ultimately failed to create more jobs than it destroyed.” Fine, okay, but what does that have to do with AI? 030 3
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119116082880 11.6K
Reposted by Liana KrissoffHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.wired.comNapster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone TeachersOnce the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom. 1128061 280
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 401525708 1.5K
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026From the NYT article about OpenAI’s (probably mostly performative) incident disclosures: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...nytimes.comOpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong. 010 1
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Self-talk before the big All-Hands meeting on Zoom: 110 1
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAvery @dyingsignals.love · 15/09/2026The amount of money I saw one department paying for several AI services in a school year could cover the University’s pay one price textbook costs for nearly their entire enrolled student body in said department 012724 127
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Asphalting over these handmade crosswalks, leaving the ghost of a crosswalk clearly visible, is irresponsible and dangerous: Why is the city of Pittsburgh telling drivers this *isn’t* a place for pedestrians to cross? www.pghcitypaper.com/columns/tran...pghcitypaper.comTransit Talk: Lawrenceville’s guerrilla crosswalks are a white-striped call for changeOne set that appeared behind Aldi was mysteriously painted over. 010 1
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just learned that Jordan Tannahill, author of two of the best books I read over the summer, will be at White Whale Books in Pittsburgh on Wednesday! (And yes, I started following him a while back because I read about the medieval monk movie he’s making with Kit Connor lol.) 031 3
Reposted by Liana KrissoffMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I made the decision a while ago not to use AI detectors. 1. They are AIs themselves. Anything you feed into them is “turned over” to the model. 2. They aren’t very accurate. 3. I told my students I wouldn’t use AI in my running of my courses. 4. This alleviates students’ fears about… 214728 147
Reposted by Liana KrissoffBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Therrrre it is. 1132285479 2.3K
Reposted by Liana KrissoffOy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Seeing your own child's joy to know themselves and be accepted for who they are is better than any drug. Parents who refuse to invite themselves to that experience are missing out. And even if you eventually come around, you'll be kicking yourself for losing all that time. 2367 36
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“I only use AI as a tool for brainstorming and organizing my thoughts, not for actual wri—“ No. That *is* writing. You’re employing a service to write for you. 010 1
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Interesting spread from UC Berkeley newspaper about AI use across the university. A lot about the university using AI in official comms and obituaries (!) but as writing teacher, this caught my eye. I worry about this because of course "organizing thoughts" is of course "thinking" /1 3469 46
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAndrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Satchel Paige's great asset was control. One of his barnstorming gags was to set up a 1x2 plank behind home plate and stick four tenpenny nails into it. He'd drive the nails into the board by pitching from the mound. And never take more than 10 pitches." —Bill Veeck, "VEECK—As in Wreck" (1962) 033 3
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The podiums in county commission and city council chambers where people lean into microphones to read from handwritten statements against data centers and surveillance cameras. 010 1
Reposted by Liana Krissoffs. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker. 72191539 2.2K
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Pittsburgh: Two Ross McElwee movies, Sherman’s March (1986) and Remake (2025), are screening at the Harris this month. Worth seeing! 020 2
Reposted by Liana KrissoffThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 01/09/2026I don't believe gen AI will ever be able to create fiction or art of any real merit. It's just using statistics to remix existing shit. But in the unlikely event that ever happened, I still wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Human creativity is joy & fulfillment even on the days when it's hard 1446969 469
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJoel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Lots to appreciate about this, but in particular: respecting the students enough to recognize that reading such a policy might be jarring, particularly when the larger university is encouraging the use of generative AI; and explicitly stating that the teacher is holding himself to the same standard. 141 4
Reposted by Liana KrissoffPittsburgh Post-Gazette @post-gazette.com · 23/08/2026Vaccine enforcement gaps in Pennsylvania charter schools put thousands of children at risk post-gazette.comVaccine enforcement gaps in Pennsylvania charter schools put thousands of children at risk With Pennsylvania steeped in one of the largest measles outbreaks in the country, charter schools across the state are allowing children into classes without... 002 2
Reposted by Liana KrissoffEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This sign is a great example for helping to explain why chatbots present such a potent illusion. A probably not short thread 🧵>> 10461190 461
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Agree with this. Some may hold up the thin, crackly ribbons of a good stracciatella, which melt nicely, as a counterargument, but those aren’t “bits.” 130 3
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A corollary to this point: Students need and deserve real teachers on the other side of their writing practice, true readers who will consider their messy drafts and chaotic ideas with care. I can’t imagine how discouraging it would be to have to write only for an AI tutor or grader. 020 2
Reposted by Liana KrissoffCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026With news that Google is making it more difficult for students to avoid Gemini with “a Gemini tab to transform their class materials into interactive experiences that help them study and learn” and “starter prompts”, I wanted to repost an earlier 🧵 with research on the Googlization of education. 13324 33
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and education". /1 313365 133
Reposted by Liana KrissoffBenjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design. 16828216 828
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 07/08/2026As a professional Word user, how concerned should I be about the possibility that Word as it exists now (even in its degraded state) will go away? Is Microsoft really that dependent on the success of Anthropic and OpenAI? Will Microsoft throttle the features that make AI totally unnecessary for me? 210 2
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAndrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Throwing a few bad book title options in the list, too, to make my preferred option look good. 081 8
Reposted by Liana Krissoffanna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Huge news for me specifically, a massive fan of this train www.axios.com/local/pittsb...axios.comMore daily trains for Pittsburgh ridersA second Pennsylvanian trip aims to improve travel and reliability. 042 4
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 01/08/2026RETVRN but for book cover art. Seen at PulpFest today, a random fantasy paperback from 1969 with the most gorgeously unhinged cover illustration. (Neglected to note the artist’s name.) 031 3
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammet, is so hard-boiled I almost don’t know what’s going on. 120 2
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I’ve lucked out with back-to-back books featuring smart, funny, messy women. Both are talky, tense, and propulsive: New People, by Danzy Senna, and The Listeners, by Jordan Tannahill. 010 1
Reposted by Liana KrissoffAndrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This is so important. The risk is not only what authors do but what publishers do. And the majority are clapping like seals about to get fish with the idea of "optimising & being more efficient" with AI. 0176 17
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 25/07/2026We need a “concepts of print” for high schoolers and college students. open.substack.com/pub/derekkri...open.substack.comFourteen questions about booksEncouraging students, and others, to think about where books come from 021 2
Reposted by Liana KrissoffJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 25/07/2026My favorite indie search engine these days is marginalia-search.com It's really good considering it is just operated by one random guymarginalia-search.comMarginalia SearchMarginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring yo... 2156 15
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026“This scandal has stolen months of capacity, time, labour, money, and attention away from the genuine queer writers that we exist to support.” www.bona-books.com/news/we-boug...bona-books.comHoney, We Bought an AI Story — Bona BooksBona Books share a hard-learned lesson: we accidentally bought AI-generated fiction. This deep dive into our experience with submission fraud covers the "red flags" we missed, the toll it took on our ... 010 1
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Endorse. Just do something about the ghost problem is what I’m saying. 010 1
Liana Krissoff @lianak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Confidential to Kit Connor: When you do Hamlet, pls edit out the ghost. It hasn’t worked in at least a century. 100 1
Reposted by Liana KrissoffCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out. 114137692876 13.8K