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"Common Crawl has opened a back door for AI companies to train their models with paywalled articles from major news websites. And the foundation appears to be lying to publishers about this..." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"Common Crawl has opened a back door for AI companies to train their models with paywalled articles from major news websites. And the foundation appears to be lying to publishers about this..." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.
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This review of Stephen Pinker’s new book is delicious: wapo.st/46TNpWq
Review | To Steven Pinker, human knowledge is just a game
In ‘When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...,’ the best-selling cognitive scientist writes about an interesting subject but gets sidetracked by hobbyhorses
wapo.st
October 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This review of Stephen Pinker’s new book is delicious: wapo.st/46TNpWq
OMFG
for my fellow #severance heads, just saw this on tumblr
the back of britt lower’s acceptance speech 😭😭 god i love her #emmys
the back of britt lower’s acceptance speech 😭😭 god i love her #emmys
September 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
OMFG
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Lawsuit claims AI service Otter secretly records private chats, from @npr.org
www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g...
www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g...
Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations
The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.
www.npr.org
August 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Lawsuit claims AI service Otter secretly records private chats, from @npr.org
www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g...
www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g...
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I had a great conversation with @ninametz.bsky.social of the Chicago Tribune about my novel The Payback and why there should be more television where regular people band together to fight systems much bigger than themselves.
Column: Where are the shows about regular people fighting back?
A heist to erase student loan debt is at the center of the novel “The Payback.” Why isn’t Hollywood making similar stories?
www.chicagotribune.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I had a great conversation with @ninametz.bsky.social of the Chicago Tribune about my novel The Payback and why there should be more television where regular people band together to fight systems much bigger than themselves.
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I would pay a boatload of money for someone to teach my corgi Clyde or Claudia’s corgi Gracie to do this. But I think only Gracie would be adventurous enough to take to it
ht: @amazlngnature.bsky.social
ht: @amazlngnature.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I would pay a boatload of money for someone to teach my corgi Clyde or Claudia’s corgi Gracie to do this. But I think only Gracie would be adventurous enough to take to it
ht: @amazlngnature.bsky.social
ht: @amazlngnature.bsky.social
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Wish that you spent your Friday doing something besides checking if TikTok was banned or not?
Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.
Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.
🎉 150,000+ USERS!! 🎉
Huge thanks to everyone who's supported us as we build this unbannable TikTok!
There's still so much more we want to build— your support makes it possible.
You all are the best 🥰
Join: skylight.social
Follow Skylight Squad:
@reedharmeyer.bsky.social
@buildwithtori.com
Huge thanks to everyone who's supported us as we build this unbannable TikTok!
There's still so much more we want to build— your support makes it possible.
You all are the best 🥰
Join: skylight.social
Follow Skylight Squad:
@reedharmeyer.bsky.social
@buildwithtori.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Wish that you spent your Friday doing something besides checking if TikTok was banned or not?
Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.
Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.
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Hey #corgicrew bluesky has a photo sharing app it can connect to your bluesky app. The photos will appear on both
March 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Hey #corgicrew bluesky has a photo sharing app it can connect to your bluesky app. The photos will appear on both
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#CorgiCrew let's help Gwendolyn find a safe home to recover in and find her very own humans!
SVPP seeks help for Gwendolyn, a young Tricolor Corgi needing hip surgery after a dog attack. We need a long-term foster or foster-to-adopt family. Are you the Corgi-loving home she needs? Contact andreal@svpetproject.org to help give her a second chance.
March 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
#CorgiCrew let's help Gwendolyn find a safe home to recover in and find her very own humans!
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I'll take this as a cautiously optimistic sign. Baltimore is one of the nation's most underrated cities with so much potential it's actually frustrating. This place has historical bones and assets to die for.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/baltimore/ba...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/baltimore/ba...
Baltimore gained population for the first time in a decade, new data shows
Baltimore City gained population for the first time since 2014, census data released Thursday shows.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'll take this as a cautiously optimistic sign. Baltimore is one of the nation's most underrated cities with so much potential it's actually frustrating. This place has historical bones and assets to die for.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/baltimore/ba...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/baltimore/ba...
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#CorgiCrew help Honey find her very own human to rule over!!
Honey 🐕
Adult female Cardigan Welsh Corgi mix
Adoptable from Footbridge Foundation (San Antonio, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/honey-75093191/tx/san-antonio/footbridge-foundation-tx2326/
Adult female Cardigan Welsh Corgi mix
Adoptable from Footbridge Foundation (San Antonio, TX)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/honey-75093191/tx/san-antonio/footbridge-foundation-tx2326/
February 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#CorgiCrew help Honey find her very own human to rule over!!
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i’m taking on a new personal project this month. i’ve just collected a large collection of 35mm film negatives of black american life in the 1970s and 1980s and am going to begin digitizing them into an archive of their own.
i’ll write about my progress here.
i’ll write about my progress here.
February 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
i’m taking on a new personal project this month. i’ve just collected a large collection of 35mm film negatives of black american life in the 1970s and 1980s and am going to begin digitizing them into an archive of their own.
i’ll write about my progress here.
i’ll write about my progress here.
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The Betye Saar exhibit chronicles her career — and how Chicago changed the trajectory of her art.
Betye Saar Exhibit Chronicles Her Career — And How Chicago Changed Trajectory Of Her Art
A 1974 visit to the Field Museum inspired the L.A. costume designer to delve into Pan-African arts. Some of her never-before-seen work is now on display at Hyde Park’s Neubauer Collegium.
buff.ly
February 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Betye Saar exhibit chronicles her career — and how Chicago changed the trajectory of her art.
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In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025? They showed up. That political chaos she wrote about in “Parable of the Sower”? Currently trending.
What We Can Learn From Octavia Butler in Times of Chaos
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025?
amsterdamnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025? They showed up. That political chaos she wrote about in “Parable of the Sower”? Currently trending.