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There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2h

I remember being a little salty before I had read Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI that he had invited the Anthropic guy to be there. It made me nervous he had gotten snowed and would pull his punches. It feels so good to learn that actually Anthropic was livid and almost pulled out of the event

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Larisa @thelolrus.bsky.social · 3h

I will say, I’m getting a little tired of the supposedly pro-trans talking point that “who even cares what trans kids are doing? Regular people don’t care about this.” Sure, it’s not most cis people’s #1 issue, but… I care? I care that kids aren’t restricted from what their peers can do.

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Trans people and their right to life are not a political distraction. Period. Here’s a booklist of comics by trans creators/featuring trans and GNC characters and stories. Please support trans comic creators (and all trans ppl), now more than ever!! bookshop.org/lists/trans-...

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Trans & GNC Comics

A booklist of graphic novels with stories focusing on trans issues, featuring trans protagonists, and/or made by trans/gender-nonconforming creators.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 4h

This is amazing satire at a time when satire is becoming nearly impossible.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 5h

As always, when a devastating new report about book bans in America is published, I challenge you to think less about the most banned author — Stephen King is fine — and more about the banned authors who are trying to scrabble together a living from their art. pen.org/report/book-...

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A Spotlight on School Book Bans

Nearly 12,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20h

THIS IS SO GOOD

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Erin Okuno @thiserin.bsky.social · 13h

"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 7h

Shortlist discussion time! @chloroformtea.bsky.social returns for the 2026 Le Guin Prize list: 9 of the most interesting speculative fiction books from last year. Lots of opinions, comparisons, and thoughts on what constitutes "Le Guin-y-ness". Listen before the winner is announced Oct. 21!

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A Meal of Thorns 60- 2026 UKLG List with Roseanna Pendlebury

Only in its 5th year of operation, the Le Guin Fiction prize has already become something of a critical darling, with very interesting shortlists and winners that rarely overlap with other genre aw…

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 6h

There’s a documentary on Peacock called “Kill. Bury. Print.” about a very small family-run newspaper in Oklahoma that started investigating corruption in local law enforcement and eventually got local officials on tape musing about killing them. It’s very sobering. Worth a watch.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

a play in four acts

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Tired Art Goblin @spaceturtleart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also of interest, the fanart I did for Swordheart after it first came out, because the swords ARE kinda like pokeballs...

A digital drawing in the style of an old school Pokemon Screenshot. Halla is standing off to the left holding a large sword. Sarkis, surrounded by blue light, stands in the center.
Top text: SARKIS, Immortal Swordsman
Bottom text: HALLA chooses SARKIS! Go, SARKIS!

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Tired Art Goblin @spaceturtleart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The characters in #Daggerbound are so delightful, I was compelled to do some fanart. Dog Violet & Greathoof. #fanart @tkingfisher.com

a badger-like creature in tattered robes leads an enormous brown and black draft horse on a rope

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

"The U.S. prison population is declining at an accelerating rate, and prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, according to new research from University at Albany professor Shawn Bushway." "the decline is driven mainly by generational change."

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New research shows steep and continuing decline in prison population in the US

The U.S. prison population is declining at an accelerating rate, and prison admission rates are predicted to fall an additional 50% within the next two decades, according to new research from Universi...

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 21h

Texas also banned my book Occulted, which is how finding a hidden library full of banned books is what helped my friend Amy Rose escape a UFO death cult. Books save lives. They save countries. They save the world. #BannedBooksWeek

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Occulted

"Insightful and riveting." -- KIRKUS "A tense, thrilling account of escaping a cult." -- FOREWORD "This inspiring tale of bravery and rebellion is just what readers need right now." -- SCHOOL LIBRARY ...

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Larisa @thelolrus.bsky.social · 23h

How many plants can I move before it’s time to make dinner? Time to find out.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So grateful to @jcollins.bsky.social for this interview. It was an especially raw conversation, coming just a day after I learned that Maurice had died. "They are working and working and working some more, and it still isn't enough... There are so many languishing in a manufactured invisibility."

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‘There is No Place for Us’ tests America's promise that hard work brings security

The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their ...

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)

He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One major reason that Microsoft was using a definition of intelligence borrowed from white supremacist Linda Gottfredson a couple of years back in their AI documentation is that scientific racists are pretty much the only ones out there pretending that intelligence is well defined and understood

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026

Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Unsung Women Behind America’s Most Celebrated Civil Rights Protest The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Book Review: ‘How Bright the Path Grows,’ by Marcia Chatelain (Gift Article)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

whoever my photographer is, he sometimes liked to get a little artsy, as in this photo.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a real and important dividing line between people who want to write, and people who want to be A Writer. AI is a gift from heaven for the latter, letting them skip the part where they have to think thoughts and write sentences and go (they hope) directly to the book tour.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

100% this. And the hypothetical is still nowhere near reality: regulated ethical AI with no environmental footprint is not imminent. To say the least.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On a personal note, it was a delight to be interviewed by Becca Rothfeld, whose nonfiction I love, including her piece on Rachel Cusk recently. She is one of the many, many sharp, analytical writers who in their substance and style are their own intrinsic argument against generative AI.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots!

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/10/2026

This is a purposeful conflation, imo, done as marketing & to ride the pop culture idea of AI. In doing so they've basically wrecked the public conception of AI so completely Trump just had to sign an order saying NO NOW IT HAS A DIFFERENT NAME and pre-existing AI research is left in the wreckage

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i'm actually in awe of how tone-deaf and ineffectual this campaign is lol. it manages to be offensive to hockey romance fans, RPF fans *and* RPF haters, and women sports fans in general.

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The NHL’s ‘Hot for Hockey’ Campaign Misses What Women Fans Have Been Asking For All Along

Hockey romance fans deserve better than wink-wink audiobooks and zero accountability.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just checked and these are all true

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Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil'—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility." - @lilymasonphd.bsky.social

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

people have been relitigating Promising Young Woman in light of the Cornell 7 case, so I wrote about it and two other projects that explore the ways living in rape culture means enduring the reality of stochastic sexual terrorism. cateyoung.beehiiv.com/p/the-cornel...

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Women Understand That Rape Culture Is Sexual Terrorism

Promising Young Woman, I May Destroy You and Sorry, Baby connect sexual assault to an inescapable culture of violence that controls women and keeps them unsafe.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

Furious is over, but I'm not done with it yet. wrote about Nora Washington, the trope of the bitter black woman, and how the show perfectly subverts it. cateyoung.beehiiv.com/p/furious-le...

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Furious Makes Black Women's Bitterness A Badge Of Honor

In Hulu's Furious, the "bitter Black woman" is a sign of virtue rather than shame. Nora Washington isn't likable, but she's devastatingly human.

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