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Pitchaya Sudbanthad

@pitchaya.bsky.social
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Author of the novel BANGKOK WAKES TO RAIN, selected as a best book of the year by the NYT, WaPo, and Kirkus. psudbanthad.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5h
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remembering how the street turned into a small stream as water rose from the drainage pipes up to my knees in less than twenty minutes. Never underestimate how fast water can go.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Currently...
On a flooded Bangkok street, water splashes from a motorcycle carrying a small family.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 21/09/2026
The Authors Guild is grateful the Court has unsealed some of the most important filings in our case against OpenAI and Microsoft. (1/7)
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Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work
(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their p...
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Speaking to assembled dignitaries at the UN on Tuesday, outgoing UN chief António Guterres railed against big oil for treating “the atmosphere as an open sewer” and warned again of the catastrophic effects of the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Of course they all fucking knew! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules…ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.” —Umberto Eco, On Ugliness
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In New York, as air pollution fell, the toddlers' cognitive processing improved, the study found. In London, ULEZ coincided with improved lung health in children. When elected representatives take action to clean up air, our children benefit from better health: share.google/rnnWnmxNOzWF...
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Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds
Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Getting answers from a bot can create “the illusion of learning” for students who reach for A.I. “at the first hint of struggle,” the M.I.T. committee wrote in its August report."
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An M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind.
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Getting answers from a bot can create “the illusion of learning” for students who reach for A.I. “at the first hint of struggle,” the M.I.T. committee wrote in its August report."
nytimes.com
An M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind.
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...
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Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News
Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP Annie Dillard, one of the great, if not the greatest, non-fiction stylists of our time www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"In short, we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species."
theguardian.com
The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-. Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On this anniversary, here's my TMN piece from a while back on living across from the WTC, before and after.
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Pieces of the World - The Morning News
For people who lived near the World Trade Center, 9/11 can still be traced to debris that lingers around the neighborhood. A map of what the tourists don’t see.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Black square (“and so on to infinity…” inscribed in Latin around its edges) representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, as pictured by the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd, who himself passed into infinity #onthisday in 1637. publicdomainreview.org/essay/b... #OTD
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NGC 1566 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2o2hBzW
NASA / ESA / CSA / Judy Schmidt

The latest view of another dusty spiral galaxy from JWST's MIRI. Took a bit of doing this time because the pipeline images available from the archive had a lot of alignment issues. I had to manually mosaic this. Luckily it wasn't too difficult, or at least my human brain handled it fine. Not sure what is so confounding to a computer brain.

Red (screen layer mode): MIRI F2100W 
Orange: MIRI F1130W
Cyan: MIRI F770W

Extra overall brightness in grayscale: MIRI F1000W

North is 1.5° counter-clockwise from up.
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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
God, flipping through a short "new available titles" antiquarian bookseller's catalogue makes me want to live in a time more like that. I don't want every book at my fingertips, I want to discover them one by one based on the arcane postal ministrations of someone who may not be totally trustworthy.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die.
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Finally, a widespread push in Bangkok against these colonial outposts of massive pollution and energy waste for an unethical, unsustainable technology with little benefit to local communities.
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Thailand Puts 49 Data Centers on Hold Over Resource Strain
Thailand’s embrace of data centers hit a speed bump after the government suspended construction of 49 server farms as public concerns about the power-hungry facilities’ impact on communities intensify...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders.
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Notably missing from all of these bunkered visions is any plan to actually address the drivers of our most urgent collective crises; if anything, there seems to be a determination to accelerate calamity on every front."
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Rerun or sequel? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism
How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Questionnaire” by the late poet, farmer, and environmental activist Wendell Berry
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons.
2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.
3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.
4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.
5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"For instance, a country's GDP rises when a forest is felled and when an oil spill is cleaned up. It rises with financial speculation. But it does not rise when a parent cares for a child or a child for an elderly parent, when the forest is left standing..."
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Countries Need to Look Beyond GDP
Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Nicola Sturgeon argue that wellbeing, not GPD, should be the focus of economic policy.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nepal is seeking $5 billion in aid from the UN’s climate-disaster recovery fund after devastating floods. The fund, established in 2023, has received $820 million in pledges but faces a significant financing gap because wealthy nations, including the US, haven't been willing to contribute.
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Nepal Puts Cost of Disaster at $5 Billion, Blaming Climate Change (Gift Article)
The country is seeking urgent help from a special U.N. climate fund, but the program lacks money because the United States and others have been reluctant to contribute.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I hope it’s clear to everyone who cares about the survival of our democracy that we need massive turnout and landslide margins to counteract the lies and cries of fraud that are coming after the midterm vote.
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"US corporate profits have hit a record high while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows, fuelling discontent among many Americans and a growing political backlash...Employees’ share from wages and benefits fell to 60 per cent, the lowest level since the 1950s..."
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US corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wilt
Pre-tax earnings hit highest share of national income since aftermath of second world war
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
An early hint of what some pathetic people's cosplaying of intelligence and creativity enables the computing capacity for—the underlying motivation behind the provision of meaningless on-screen spectacles and mediocre imitations of art.
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Russia Now Using Fully AI-Controlled Drones to Kill Ukrainian Civilians, Powered by Nvidia Chips
Ukrainian military commanders say fully autonomous Russian drones, piloted by an experimental AI system, are targeting civilians.
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Uzumaki!
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After seeing the horrors in Nepal and with likely effects from a Super El Niño, I'm thinking about the Pacific Northwest.
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Rapid melt continues on North Cascades glaciers
Researchers say the trend of rapid glacier melt in the Cascades is continuing
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nepal uses so little resources compared to countries where they're burning fossil fuels to power an unethical tech that lets truly pathetic people cosplay having intelligence and creativity, all while paving way for ubiquitous surveillance, automated war, and informational and security chaos.
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How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood
Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Rivers flow backwards And my tears are dry Swans hate the water And eagles can't fly But I'm alright now Now that I'm over you And the sky is green And the grass is blue And I don't love you -Dolly Parton 1946-2026 She was sheer genius. #everynightapoem www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFH-...
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Dolly Parton - The Grass Is Blue - The Grass Is Blue
YouTube video by Music
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
no one put the lie to the myth of the nightmare genius artist quite like dolly parton
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Only a matter of time before a major city is obliterated And that will just be the start www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hawk fire: 90,000 told to evacuate as wildfire approaches Reno, Nevada
The fire has burned around 10,500 acres and is completely uncontained, officials say.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A drawing of my tabby cat, Otter, done in rough digital pencil lines over flat areas of gray and cream with white highlights and details in blunt lines. He is sitting in profile to the left with his head turned to look directly at the viewer with his normal cryptic expression. Chunky orange lettering surrounding him above and below reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
There is no such thing as an AI "creator". Just sloppers.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Examination of government records by @nytimes.com found that all over the country the Bureau of Land Management, the agency in charge of protecting wild horses, is quietly selling thousands of horses. Wild horse advocates suspect the horses were shipped to slaughter www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thai cat treatises — called “Tamra Maew” — pair illustrations of auspicious felines with poetic notes: one has “eyes like dewdrops on a lotus,” another’s are “lit like fireflies, applied liquid gold”. Pages of a fine 19th-century example here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t…
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Look at a forest. Does it grow infinitely? No. It reaches a mature, climax state—biodiverse, resilient, storing massive energy. It doesn't "crash" because it stopped growing; it thrives because it reached equilibrium. Economies need to mimic ecosystems, not cancer cells. 🌲🔄 #Biomimicry #Regenerative
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Moby Dick by artist Gerard DuBois
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The USAID thing will eventually be talked about like a genocide
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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Fourth Lead Author Meeting of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities ended last Friday, 7 August. More than 100 scientists from 56 countries met in Bhopal, India to prepare the final draft. Look out for the report in March 2027. bit.ly/CitiesLm4
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