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Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
The Reality of AI Animal Content – Sedgwick County Zoo
If you spend any time on social media, you’ve probably seen them – bears bouncing on trampolines, apes caught on doorbell cameras, or “rescued” wild animals acting in ways that seem too good to be…
scz.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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i keep bitching about this but i ran a version of this on Friday without being patronizing or sounding like a boomer but now the NYT version is the one that keeps getting shared
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
i keep bitching about this but i ran a version of this on Friday without being patronizing or sounding like a boomer but now the NYT version is the one that keeps getting shared
Is this a joke
Like I get not taking leaves off the actual plant, but the floor??
Like I get not taking leaves off the actual plant, but the floor??
October 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Is this a joke
Like I get not taking leaves off the actual plant, but the floor??
Like I get not taking leaves off the actual plant, but the floor??
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the wuthering heights takes are going to kill me
September 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
the wuthering heights takes are going to kill me
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Great week for people who are like once I saw a black person, therefore it’s time for martial law
August 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Great week for people who are like once I saw a black person, therefore it’s time for martial law
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Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
July 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
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If you're still publishing on Substack, these are your colleagues. Substack is not some open public square where you tolerate sharing space with a range of people. They are a publisher—and the very "discoverability" features you praise for bringing in new readers are putting your work beside this.
I’ve tolerated the Substack app because writers I value publish there, & its daily notifications for people I don’t follow are tedious but ignorable. Today it pushed me straight hate speech. I hope settings>notifications>preferences>marketing>”suggested content” is the way to turn this off but oy
July 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If you're still publishing on Substack, these are your colleagues. Substack is not some open public square where you tolerate sharing space with a range of people. They are a publisher—and the very "discoverability" features you praise for bringing in new readers are putting your work beside this.
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Honestly I think this was the quote that sent me over the top. This is bootstrap/ The Secret theology repackaged to blame kids when AI school fails them. So gross.
July 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Honestly I think this was the quote that sent me over the top. This is bootstrap/ The Secret theology repackaged to blame kids when AI school fails them. So gross.
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A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book
July 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book
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I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣
Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
July 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣
Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
that once belonged to whomst
A whip wielded by Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" that once belonged to Princess Diana has sold at auction for $525,000.
Indiana Jones whip snaps up $525,000 at auction after 'Citizen Kane' sled goes for $14.75 million
A whip wielded by Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” that once belonged to Princess Diana has sold at auction for $525,000.
bit.ly
July 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
that once belonged to whomst
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"messages that librarians should be enthusiastic + optimistic about technological changes... frequently described as inevitable, often imply or outright assert that those who question or resist certain tech developments are simply overwhelmed by irrational fear + anxiety that they need to overcome."
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer
"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
July 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"messages that librarians should be enthusiastic + optimistic about technological changes... frequently described as inevitable, often imply or outright assert that those who question or resist certain tech developments are simply overwhelmed by irrational fear + anxiety that they need to overcome."
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When I see people complain about male loneliness, it is so painfully OBVIOUS to me that most of these lonely men are men who feel entitled to a woman who does that labor for them, who acts as their agent enmeshing them into community through unpaid pro-social labor on their behalf.
July 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
When I see people complain about male loneliness, it is so painfully OBVIOUS to me that most of these lonely men are men who feel entitled to a woman who does that labor for them, who acts as their agent enmeshing them into community through unpaid pro-social labor on their behalf.
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Okay their dad just took them to the playground so HERE WE GO
(thread)
(thread)
I have a banger thread on informal feminized labor and "male loneliness epidemic discourse" cooked up in my head, but I can't get my kids to leave me along long enough for me to write it
July 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Okay their dad just took them to the playground so HERE WE GO
(thread)
(thread)
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There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.
July 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.
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AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.*
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
July 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.*
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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honestly mostly what these fox graphics that clearly take completely for granted that the good things will be understood by the audience to be bad make me feel is that the gulf between me and the people who watch this is fundamentally insurmountable
July 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
honestly mostly what these fox graphics that clearly take completely for granted that the good things will be understood by the audience to be bad make me feel is that the gulf between me and the people who watch this is fundamentally insurmountable
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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
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In her dissent from today's decision—Mahmoud v. Taylor—Justice Sotomayor says that the court's holding "threatens the very essence of public education," and that its "reverberations" will be felt "for generations." This is a very heartfelt and mournful dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
In her dissent from today's decision—Mahmoud v. Taylor—Justice Sotomayor says that the court's holding "threatens the very essence of public education," and that its "reverberations" will be felt "for generations." This is a very heartfelt and mournful dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥
June 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥
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I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
June 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
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Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.
June 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.