anna claire weber
@annaclaireweber.bsky.social
She/her. Marketing & communications at Words Without Borders. Formerly events director at White Whale Bookstore in Pittsburgh. Writes occasionally (not enough!). Yells about books (often!). Frit Flagey over Barrière.
Hi Pittsburgh
Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse.
Do not let Waymo into your city.
Do not let Waymo into your city.
December 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hi Pittsburgh
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“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said
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Bc I didn’t thread this correctly the last time, let’s try again: Three Palestinian films are on the Academy Awards short list for best international feature. Here’s the run down on each one:
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Bc I didn’t thread this correctly the last time, let’s try again: Three Palestinian films are on the Academy Awards short list for best international feature. Here’s the run down on each one:
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20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
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This is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill. Today she claimed, "For far too long, children have been sexually exploited under the malicious falsehood of so-called gender-affirming care."
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
House passes bill to criminalize transition care for minors
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related medical care
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill. Today she claimed, "For far too long, children have been sexually exploited under the malicious falsehood of so-called gender-affirming care."
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@carlazanoni.bsky.social: “Are we consigning ourselves to adopting the playbook written by companies optimizing for advertising revenue and user addiction?”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/shor...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/shor...
December 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
@carlazanoni.bsky.social: “Are we consigning ourselves to adopting the playbook written by companies optimizing for advertising revenue and user addiction?”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/shor...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/shor...
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How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’
How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’
These Chrome extensions see everything — and take everything. It may already be too late.
www.forbes.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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GenAI truly is the asbestos poisoning our collectively shared resources and infrastructure.
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
GenAI truly is the asbestos poisoning our collectively shared resources and infrastructure.
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This article is a disaster and the headline is misleading. Yes, AI should be used to solve our most pressing problems and to handle massive computational analysis. But the problem is not a shortage of ideas. LLMs don’t generate “new” ideas, they parse what has come before.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This article is a disaster and the headline is misleading. Yes, AI should be used to solve our most pressing problems and to handle massive computational analysis. But the problem is not a shortage of ideas. LLMs don’t generate “new” ideas, they parse what has come before.
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The state of Israel endangers Jewish people worldwide.
Call me crazy but maybe if a military and government spend two years nonstop killing children and screaming "this is for all Jews, all Jews support this" at the top of their lungs, people might believe them and do awful things to Jews as a result, and that's yet another reason why genocide is bad
December 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The state of Israel endangers Jewish people worldwide.
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Cannot really begin to describe how fucking heartbreaking it is. A mass shooting in my old home.
I know the world sees Australia as a gun control best-case but that was a long time ago and the gun lobby has been winning its fight against those laws
australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
I know the world sees Australia as a gun control best-case but that was a long time ago and the gun lobby has been winning its fight against those laws
australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge
There are now more than 4m guns in the community – almost double the number recorded in the years after the Port Arthur massacre that prompted a national crackdown
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Cannot really begin to describe how fucking heartbreaking it is. A mass shooting in my old home.
I know the world sees Australia as a gun control best-case but that was a long time ago and the gun lobby has been winning its fight against those laws
australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
I know the world sees Australia as a gun control best-case but that was a long time ago and the gun lobby has been winning its fight against those laws
australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
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RJL's episode about the Japanese Cell Phone Novel is now available on your podcast app of choice!
The history of serialized publishing
The rise of Japanese cell phone culture.
Early 00s internet culture, esp on-line message boards
And Train Man "by" Hitori Nakano and trans Bonnie Elliott
The history of serialized publishing
The rise of Japanese cell phone culture.
Early 00s internet culture, esp on-line message boards
And Train Man "by" Hitori Nakano and trans Bonnie Elliott
Episode 47—The Japanese Cell Phone Novel - Read Japanese Literature
In this episode, we take a look at the Japanese cell phone novel and the classic story of Train Man. We’re going to start today by explaining the Japanese cell phone novel, including some relevant ba…
https://readjapaneseliterature.com/Podcast/Episode+47—The+Japanese+Cell+Phone+Novel
December 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
RJL's episode about the Japanese Cell Phone Novel is now available on your podcast app of choice!
The history of serialized publishing
The rise of Japanese cell phone culture.
Early 00s internet culture, esp on-line message boards
And Train Man "by" Hitori Nakano and trans Bonnie Elliott
The history of serialized publishing
The rise of Japanese cell phone culture.
Early 00s internet culture, esp on-line message boards
And Train Man "by" Hitori Nakano and trans Bonnie Elliott
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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Appreciate @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in a Zoom just now uplifting the fact that ICE watch comes from cop watch, which comes from the Black Panthers. The cops are not allies when it comes to resisting ICE. They may sometimes enforce the law in a way that thwarts ICE, but they are NOT on our side.
December 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Appreciate @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in a Zoom just now uplifting the fact that ICE watch comes from cop watch, which comes from the Black Panthers. The cops are not allies when it comes to resisting ICE. They may sometimes enforce the law in a way that thwarts ICE, but they are NOT on our side.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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This quote is rich and verbatim confirms that Iger and Disney literally don’t see artists as creatives or creators.
December 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This quote is rich and verbatim confirms that Iger and Disney literally don’t see artists as creatives or creators.
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Just in case it's not painfully clear how broken books are! No art criticism left, all author-centered coverage = no actual sales. Imagine how big of a bath they're taking on this stupid, crashed title.
American Canto sold 1165 physical copies in its first week, per bookscan.
December 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just in case it's not painfully clear how broken books are! No art criticism left, all author-centered coverage = no actual sales. Imagine how big of a bath they're taking on this stupid, crashed title.
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Very cool feature on food sovereignty and tribal communities taking control of meat processing; Offrange is a really fantastic publication with really unique food and agriculture coverage and I cannot recommend them highly enough!
Sovereignty Matters: Native Americans Build Their Own Meat Processing Facilities - Offrange
During the pandemic’s supply chain disruptions, at least 18 tribes in the U.S. opted to vertically integrate. Several years later, they are thriving.
ambrook.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Very cool feature on food sovereignty and tribal communities taking control of meat processing; Offrange is a really fantastic publication with really unique food and agriculture coverage and I cannot recommend them highly enough!
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So many of the things these LLMs are used for are already done better by pre-existing digital tool. Why do so many people insist on using shitty expensive omni tools, when they could just use the specialized tools meant for that job.
December 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
So many of the things these LLMs are used for are already done better by pre-existing digital tool. Why do so many people insist on using shitty expensive omni tools, when they could just use the specialized tools meant for that job.
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stuff like this is a huge part of AI frustration for me. what was wrong with Google maps? is having a computer say "turn left at the big tree" so valuable that you'd rather kill the planet to ask ChatGPT instead of following the little arrow on your phone? we already have tools to do these things!
So now humans are getting lost/trapped and other humans have to send out search parties to find them because AI doesn't have the capacity to account for sudden trail closures
For me personally? That sums up exactly how unreliable AI is
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
For me personally? That sums up exactly how unreliable AI is
futurism.com/ai-chatbots-...
AI Chatbots Are Putting Clueless Hikers in Danger, Search and Rescue Groups Warn
Hikers are ending up in need of rescue because they're following the questionable recommendations of an AI chatbot.
futurism.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
stuff like this is a huge part of AI frustration for me. what was wrong with Google maps? is having a computer say "turn left at the big tree" so valuable that you'd rather kill the planet to ask ChatGPT instead of following the little arrow on your phone? we already have tools to do these things!
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Fascism Wrapped just dropped in NYC — and more cities are coming soon. Don’t use Spotify until they stop running recruitment ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Fascism Wrapped just dropped in NYC — and more cities are coming soon. Don’t use Spotify until they stop running recruitment ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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i am sad my fellowship years are ending but happy that means a new CNF writer here in this cold place. know a nonfiction writer who has at least one book and likes snow? hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
Careers
The Visiting Writer Chair will consult closely with, and work under the direction of, the Director and Assistant Director of Creative Writing on Edelstein-Keller annual programming. The programming is facilitated by staff support and agreed upon by the Creative Writing Program faculty.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
i am sad my fellowship years are ending but happy that means a new CNF writer here in this cold place. know a nonfiction writer who has at least one book and likes snow? hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...