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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 6h

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Everything Dice @everythingdice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

✨ GIVEAWAY ✨ The Critical Role Fey Realm D20 is available now! Time to celebrate with a giveaway--no fey bargains necessary! Giveaway ends 9/30 at 12pm CT. To Enter: 🧚‍♂️ Follow this account 🍭 Like + Repost this post You can get this D20 NOW from the Critical Role US, UK, EU and AU shops! #dnd #dice

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

President Trump is spending your tax money on a campaign ad promoting President Trump

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At least the acolyte didn’t get a second season bsky.app/profile/wash...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

vandals plot to desecrate all historical landmarks in nations capital

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Allowing the most powerful segment of society to opt out of public services inevitably makes public services worse. This is why the existence of private schools inevitably makes public schools worse. A simple fact that seems hard for many to admit. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...

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Private Schools Are Bad for Society

The starting point for any honest discussion.

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Hourly Videogame Box Art @vgboxart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

CRUIS'N WORLD

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ah hell RIP to Chad Gilbert of NFG www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HRQ...

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YouTube video by New Found Glory - Topic

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

Trump says he's "banning the free press"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Buying a classic Hollywood Studio and threatening to move it out of Hollywood. Unconscionable. Blackmail. Petulant. Shitty. This has to be stopped. deadline.com/2026/09/para...

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Paramount To Leave California Amid Antitrust Battle & Stalled Warner Bros Merger

Leaks out of David Ellison's inner circle said the CEO wold take his Paramount ball & leave California if state AGs didn't back off on their antitrust suit

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

Trump's performance tonight in North Carolina is a disgrace and the crowd isn't into it at all, but you could've said the same thing about innumerable rallies of his in 2024 and then 77 million Americans voted for him anyway. I hope we're smarter now!

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Dems should hire out of work creatives (Hollywood, the game industry, and the media have downsized a lot of them) to put together the mother of all propaganda campaigns about the GOP robbing of the country

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

TFW your entire country's path into the future gets fucking bodied by a 10-year-old named Riley Grunch

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2026

One time, and I promise this is true, Bush gave a flip remark about violence while playing golf and it became a defining moment for his legacy. This president shrugging about a war he started while overseas at a golf tournament that is lining his own pockets won’t be remembered in two weeks.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I write for a living and I do everything I can to avoid using “lay / lie.” It’s just too much pressure.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

TH White on what to do when you're sad

From The Once and Future King, TH White explains that when you are sad you should learn something new

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PROFESSOR STEAK @professorsteak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Of course bribing the populace isn’t the problem for Republicans, it’s that he’d be giving working class folks too much money.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 10/09/2026

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the jduge orders me to take off my anonymous v mask & im wearing the joker makeup underneath it. everyone in the courtroom groans at my shit
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Barry Melrose was a fixture of my sports bro years and was easily one of the coolest mulletheads to ever do TV

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/09/2026

Over the last two years, MLB stars have descended on West Virginia University, where a $5 million investment in baseball has yielded a country-leading biomechanics performance center.

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MLB stars are training with ‘mad scientist’ undergrads in West Virginia

In pursuit of any edge, MLB players are heading to West Virginia University's baseball biomechanics lab. It just happens to be staffed by students.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Coyote vs. Acme (Green, 2026): 🎶It's a sad song It's a sad tale, it's a tragedy It's a sad song But we sing it anyway Cause, here's the thing: To know how it ends And still begin to sing it again As if it might turn out this time I learned that from a friend of mine🎶

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I absolutely hate it when I draw renewed scrutiny

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months.

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

extremely curious about exact the degree to which the president is fully encased in a slop-generated alternate reality

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes—it’s been 12 years (!) and this remains one of the most prescient pieces of media criticism ever written. And everything has only gotten worse. deadspin.com/the-future-o...

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Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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