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Margaret Ray @mbrrray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Who out here can point me to someone (who knows what they’re talking about) writing critically about this latest wave of AI-doomsday-warnings coming from inside the house? Is it still reasonable to interpret this as a kind of marketing propaganda or is that putting our head in the sand?

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I will say some of the push for AI in writing is how a lot of non-AI writers think the point of writing is to get published and no, the point of writing is to remove the weird little thing from your body and teach it tricks

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 01/08/2026

I said this a while ago but a lot of LLM use by people feels like watching people unwittingly acquire drug addictions

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

swear to god i'm this close to assigning every AI rube a punk

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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’m hosting this book launch for Brett’s debut with @jacklegpress.bsky.social one week from today. Join me, Simone, Anthony, @dorseycraft.bsky.social, @aniking.bsky.social, nat, & Natalie for the fun! RSVP ⬇️

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 28/05/2026

Being a 100% organic writer in the AI era is to want everyone to understand that if there’s something about my writing that’s boring or bad or cliche it’s actually because there’s something deeply inadequate about me as a person.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

whale IS important

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

let's crowdfund a purchase of the campus so we can restart Hampshire College on an employee-owned cooperative basis who's with me? www.wamc.org/news/2026-04...

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Amid closure plans, Hampshire College to sell campus property

Hampshire College leadership says the private school will need to sell off parts of its 800-acre campus to meet debt demands.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

this week's post is about how AI doesn't even do the things people pretend it does margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/ai-doesnt-...

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm a busy person with an aversion to admin work. it's so easy for me to default to just staying with the same email service I've been using. but they are trying so hard to push me into doing the FUCKING WORK to leave.

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Margaret Ray @mbrrray.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Love a chorus of humiliating boos for these AI-hype assholes

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“How will you live now?” — Bhanu Kapil . . . This poem appeared in The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers by Bhanu Kapil, published by Kelsey Street Press, 2001. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Word and frankly they don’t need us for that. Their actual workplace will beat them into submission without my help.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I knew when Trump was re-elected that corporate accountability would be out the window, but it still appalls me.

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Margaret Ray @mbrrray.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Reposting for the evening/afternoon crowd. Anyone got one?

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Margaret Ray @mbrrray.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A good multi-panel cartoon would also fit the bill!

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Margaret Ray @mbrrray.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Im looking for a good flyer/printable graphic (made without using AI) for a student audience that visually catalogs many of the reasons to not use AI (for anything, including “research” and companionship) Does anyone out here have such a thing they would share? #ai #aiteaching #luddite #antiai

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl

These are results for crumbl
Search instead for crumble
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Crumbl Cookies
Crumbl offers 6 classic cookies plus 4 new rotating flavors weekly. Fresh-baked cookies for delivery, pickup, or carryout. Dirty sodas at select locations.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/04/2026

LLMs are based on pattern matching. It's complex, but at its heart it scans a vast database of text and uses probability calculations to return a result that resembles what an answer looks like. Sometimes it's correct but it's always a question of probability, not intelligence. You can't fix that.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I threw the book at him and slammed the door on my way out. In a poem I can leave when I should have.

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Devrim Yavuz @devrimyavuz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This is why I increasingly feel that there should be non AI designated courses by colleges that students have to take to fulfill their degree requirements the same way they have to take writing or math

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...

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Refusal to Review

I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel …

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/04/2026

‘Throughout the past two and a half years, Gaza has not only been a demolition zone but a construction site, reshaped according to Israel’s blueprint.’ Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line

Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I had the experience of being cited in a publication, and the paper credited to me was a hallucination. I told the author, they blamed their co-author and then ghosted me, and no response at all from the journal. Some people don't care as long as they get published...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/04/2026

It’s a great time to be a white guy who has no morals or idea what he’s doing but really needs billions of dollars for the vital programming of the Center For Shortening Your Lifespan

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Margaret Ray’s “Stunt Double” stages the self as both performer and witness, absorbing impact, heartbreak, and repetition in a life with no stand-in. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

remember when they insisted that kids' capabilities would be harmed if everybody wore masks, and handwrung about "learning loss" and forced them back to school, but we just let COVID rip to permanently damage their cognitive capabilities, and then unleashed AI/LLMs in schools to finish the job?

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

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Brett Hanley @brettghanley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Surreal and incredible to see my debut book for sale wherever books are sold online: Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon (if you must). I Was Your Bird is my eco-feminist, post-confessional, queer baby. rb.gy/zjgne4

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Genevieve DeGuzman @gendeguzman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"Stunt Double" by @mbrrray.bsky.social When it’s time to tap in and get my heart broken so my heart can remain intact, I remember why I’m here. I think of how I look so exactly like me, how I’m the only one for the job 😵❤️ theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

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Visit the post for more.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

soon many future lawyers won't be even able to identify a viable case, if no one stops them using "AI" in law schools and letting them get away with it. you don't know what you don't know until you read and write with no shortcut.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Hiiiii, feel free to keep deaf people out of this! So sick of the condescension disguised as faux concern about how disabled people "need" AI. We don't. Autocaptions are almost always very bad, and then people like you use their existence to justify taking away actual accommodations that work.

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