Liana Krissoff
@lianak.bsky.social
Thunderstorm, socialism, shade tree enthusiast in Pittsburgh. Also a writer and editor, apparently developing a Unified Theory of “Heartstopper.”
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1/ As everybody is doing Christmas movie lists, I have made it my tradition to watch old, fun, cornball, black and white movies every year. So here are my favorites:
> Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck and the absolutely delightful S.Z. Sakall. In this 1945 gem, ...
> Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck and the absolutely delightful S.Z. Sakall. In this 1945 gem, ...
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
1/ As everybody is doing Christmas movie lists, I have made it my tradition to watch old, fun, cornball, black and white movies every year. So here are my favorites:
> Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck and the absolutely delightful S.Z. Sakall. In this 1945 gem, ...
> Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck and the absolutely delightful S.Z. Sakall. In this 1945 gem, ...
Went to sell some handed-down Ag coins last week, and when we arrived at the dealer’s office (a suite stacked with old numismatics journals in an apartment building in our neighborhood) he was just polishing off a box of Dots.
December 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Went to sell some handed-down Ag coins last week, and when we arrived at the dealer’s office (a suite stacked with old numismatics journals in an apartment building in our neighborhood) he was just polishing off a box of Dots.
If anything, this review is too generous. Key point: “it’s a film that wants the audience to do all of the work.” Nothing in it is earned. www.salon.com/2025/11/30/h...
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If anything, this review is too generous. Key point: “it’s a film that wants the audience to do all of the work.” Nothing in it is earned. www.salon.com/2025/11/30/h...
Rethinking this. (Made it about halfway through Hamnet.)
Grim news for the movies today. I’m vowing to protect my local, walkable independent first-run theater at any cost. Even if the cost is seeing every Holocaust and Judi Dench movie released from now until one of us dies.
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Rethinking this. (Made it about halfway through Hamnet.)
Grim news for the movies today. I’m vowing to protect my local, walkable independent first-run theater at any cost. Even if the cost is seeing every Holocaust and Judi Dench movie released from now until one of us dies.
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Grim news for the movies today. I’m vowing to protect my local, walkable independent first-run theater at any cost. Even if the cost is seeing every Holocaust and Judi Dench movie released from now until one of us dies.
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DOJ: ChatGPT encouraged Pittsburgh man to continue his podcast used to stalk and harass women he met at gyms, because "it was creating ‘haters,’ which meant monetization." Suspect is now facing a multiple-count indictment for violent stalking.
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
DOJ: ChatGPT encouraged Pittsburgh man to continue his podcast used to stalk and harass women he met at gyms, because "it was creating ‘haters,’ which meant monetization." Suspect is now facing a multiple-count indictment for violent stalking.
I’d read about Percival Everett visiting a Pittsburgh-area high school last spring, but didn’t know the event was part of this long-running program. Seems very well designed—and fruitful for both students and authors.
Woodland Hills students meet bestselling authors through growing literary series
One-by-one a group of Woodland Hills juniors filed to the front of the high school library one November day, ready to pepper author Clare Beams with questions...
www.post-gazette.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I’d read about Percival Everett visiting a Pittsburgh-area high school last spring, but didn’t know the event was part of this long-running program. Seems very well designed—and fruitful for both students and authors.
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"The sky was howling with stars."
—Don DeLillo, "Americana"
—Don DeLillo, "Americana"
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"The sky was howling with stars."
—Don DeLillo, "Americana"
—Don DeLillo, "Americana"
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Are infrastructure upgrades in school zones improving safety, or are drivers finding new and exciting ways to put kids' lives in danger? (Both? Both.)
New from me for CBS Pittsburgh (please enjoy hearing me yelp "the school bus ran the stop sign!"):
New from me for CBS Pittsburgh (please enjoy hearing me yelp "the school bus ran the stop sign!"):
Dangerous driving near Pittsburgh-area schools has parents and students worried
For most students, the most dangerous part of their day is going to and from school.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Are infrastructure upgrades in school zones improving safety, or are drivers finding new and exciting ways to put kids' lives in danger? (Both? Both.)
New from me for CBS Pittsburgh (please enjoy hearing me yelp "the school bus ran the stop sign!"):
New from me for CBS Pittsburgh (please enjoy hearing me yelp "the school bus ran the stop sign!"):
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Finally got to the "I want to burn it all down" portion of the gen AI-era semester, where I realize they're all using some sort of LLM to "help" organize their thoughts and it's just spitting out raw sewage onto the screen.
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Finally got to the "I want to burn it all down" portion of the gen AI-era semester, where I realize they're all using some sort of LLM to "help" organize their thoughts and it's just spitting out raw sewage onto the screen.
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I think we just had our 6th or 7th driver of a car vs a pedestrian or bike today. Most of them did not stay on scene.
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I think we just had our 6th or 7th driver of a car vs a pedestrian or bike today. Most of them did not stay on scene.
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Still the best, and only, American city.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
How this major city became one of America’s most affordable for homebuyers
While there are many yardsticks for calculating housing affordability, the western Pennsylvania city stands out as uniquely livable.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Still the best, and only, American city.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Mussel shells at the playground.
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Mussel shells at the playground.
That said, they’re tearing up our street again and like, please stop.
A cool thing about all the street work in Pittsburgh (in addition to not having lead water pipes, ofc) is that we got to see stoneworkers replace the cobblestone and brick. When I realized they were laying the stones vertically—the tall way rather than flat—I gasped. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/n...
In a Skyscraper City, They Fix Cobblestone Streets by Hand
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
That said, they’re tearing up our street again and like, please stop.
A cool thing about all the street work in Pittsburgh (in addition to not having lead water pipes, ofc) is that we got to see stoneworkers replace the cobblestone and brick. When I realized they were laying the stones vertically—the tall way rather than flat—I gasped. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/n...
In a Skyscraper City, They Fix Cobblestone Streets by Hand
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A cool thing about all the street work in Pittsburgh (in addition to not having lead water pipes, ofc) is that we got to see stoneworkers replace the cobblestone and brick. When I realized they were laying the stones vertically—the tall way rather than flat—I gasped. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/n...
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Ron Schatz wrote an excellent piece about the exhibition "Labor and Art," made from art in the collection of dear friends, Joe and Delsa White. In the Bost Building, 623 East 8th Ave., Homestead, PA, until Dec. 23, MWF 10 am - 12 noon and by appointment. Check it out!
lawcha.org/2025/11/04/l...
lawcha.org/2025/11/04/l...
“Labor & Art” in Homestead, Pennsylvania | LAWCHA
I am a historian who studied with David Montgomery at the University of Pittsburgh in the mid-1970s, a tumultuous time in labor and working-class history.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Ron Schatz wrote an excellent piece about the exhibition "Labor and Art," made from art in the collection of dear friends, Joe and Delsa White. In the Bost Building, 623 East 8th Ave., Homestead, PA, until Dec. 23, MWF 10 am - 12 noon and by appointment. Check it out!
lawcha.org/2025/11/04/l...
lawcha.org/2025/11/04/l...
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We have to make it safe for students to try things they aren’t already good at because otherwise AI is a logical choice. They want to learn but there are material consequences of trying something and doing poorly at it.
November 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
We have to make it safe for students to try things they aren’t already good at because otherwise AI is a logical choice. They want to learn but there are material consequences of trying something and doing poorly at it.
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It’s funny to be excited about grammar errors, but that’s where I’m at. AI generated “writing” is usually fairly grammatically sound but empty. Student writing is often rich with ideas but grammatically unstable.
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It’s funny to be excited about grammar errors, but that’s where I’m at. AI generated “writing” is usually fairly grammatically sound but empty. Student writing is often rich with ideas but grammatically unstable.
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
“I watched what I valued in my education slip away. What could have been an insightful and reciprocal conversation turned one-sided and transactional.” Another great AI-refusal piece by a current student. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
A Student’s Right to Refuse Generative AI
Elizabeth Palumbo, Syracuse University Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I’m sitting at a desk in a college classroom in Upstate New York. It’s nearing the end of the fall semester of my seni…
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“I watched what I valued in my education slip away. What could have been an insightful and reciprocal conversation turned one-sided and transactional.” Another great AI-refusal piece by a current student. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
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Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
RIP. I’ve been thinking about The War Game a lot recently (Kathryn Bigelow could never), and I’m pretty much always thinking about Culloden. All-timers.
Well this is massive. One of the very best. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
www.bfi.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
RIP. I’ve been thinking about The War Game a lot recently (Kathryn Bigelow could never), and I’m pretty much always thinking about Culloden. All-timers.
Love to see student journalists writing critically about AI in academia. From Sarah Naccarato in Chatham University’s excellent paper, The Communiqué: chathamcommunique.com/11760/opinio...
OPINION | Using generative AI to write your papers isn’t quirky, it’s harmful - Opinion - Communiqué
Throughout Chatham University’s midterm season, some students have been plummeting into academic overwhelm.
chathamcommunique.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Love to see student journalists writing critically about AI in academia. From Sarah Naccarato in Chatham University’s excellent paper, The Communiqué: chathamcommunique.com/11760/opinio...
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Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982