Maya Bornstein
@borns.bsky.social
Doctoral studies. Documentary poetics. Dice.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Jinx
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Jinx
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There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”
July 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”
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My dad used to quote this one a lot. He might still do, but he definitely used to.
My favorite E.B White quote was his response to join an arts council under Eisenhower:
"I must decline, for secret reasons."
"No" is a complete sentence but sometimes you want a little filigree on it, you know?
My favorite E.B White quote was his response to join an arts council under Eisenhower:
"I must decline, for secret reasons."
"No" is a complete sentence but sometimes you want a little filigree on it, you know?
Remembering E. B. White on his birthday 🎂
Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web & The Elements of Style are all very well, but his greatest accomplishment is this caption for Carl Rose's New Yorker cartoon, from 1928
The best New Yorker cartoon of them all?
Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web & The Elements of Style are all very well, but his greatest accomplishment is this caption for Carl Rose's New Yorker cartoon, from 1928
The best New Yorker cartoon of them all?
July 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My dad used to quote this one a lot. He might still do, but he definitely used to.
My favorite E.B White quote was his response to join an arts council under Eisenhower:
"I must decline, for secret reasons."
"No" is a complete sentence but sometimes you want a little filigree on it, you know?
My favorite E.B White quote was his response to join an arts council under Eisenhower:
"I must decline, for secret reasons."
"No" is a complete sentence but sometimes you want a little filigree on it, you know?
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I've created a new AI assistant called Bartleby that politely refuses to do any task you ask it to do.
April 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I've created a new AI assistant called Bartleby that politely refuses to do any task you ask it to do.
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I am sincere when I say when lockdown happened and everyone decided to Go Onto Computer the majority of people didn’t have internet brainworm antibodies and now they’re the greatest marks known to man
that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic
July 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I am sincere when I say when lockdown happened and everyone decided to Go Onto Computer the majority of people didn’t have internet brainworm antibodies and now they’re the greatest marks known to man
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i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything
June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything
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you know you don’t have to call HR 1 the “big beautiful bill” right? you know that by doing so you’re carrying water for fascists, right, even though you’re trying to be ironic or w/e you’re doing the fascists a real solid? Just checking.
July 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
you know you don’t have to call HR 1 the “big beautiful bill” right? you know that by doing so you’re carrying water for fascists, right, even though you’re trying to be ironic or w/e you’re doing the fascists a real solid? Just checking.
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yeah this one is very bad rn. it's not funny or cute or "wow, these guys are wild" that there's a concentration camp in Florida. it's a horror. It's "the concentration camp at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport," but all major news outlets are going with "Alligator Alcatraz" in quotes.
One of the most frustrating things about this era, they will mock the dumb administration talking points all day but they will not fail to report on them and use the language the administration prefers. It's happening again with the concentration camp in Florida. They refuse to not use the name.
July 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
yeah this one is very bad rn. it's not funny or cute or "wow, these guys are wild" that there's a concentration camp in Florida. it's a horror. It's "the concentration camp at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport," but all major news outlets are going with "Alligator Alcatraz" in quotes.
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Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.
June 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.
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An excellent video about eugenics, disability justice and masking
May 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
An excellent video about eugenics, disability justice and masking
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RIP Joshua Clover. From "Roadrunner," which is a marvelous book
April 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
RIP Joshua Clover. From "Roadrunner," which is a marvelous book
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Oooof, what a loss - how many people are equally concerned with, and adept at, both praxis and poetry? who can write books about both Jonathan Richman and the political economy of riots?
April 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Oooof, what a loss - how many people are equally concerned with, and adept at, both praxis and poetry? who can write books about both Jonathan Richman and the political economy of riots?
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We will never know what would have happened if all arrests and deportations under the Nazis had gotten this kind of response.
We do know what happened when they didn't.
We do know what happened when they didn't.
March 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
We will never know what would have happened if all arrests and deportations under the Nazis had gotten this kind of response.
We do know what happened when they didn't.
We do know what happened when they didn't.
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My union @swcolumbia.bsky.social has created a resource to support international students who are experiencing increasingly higher risk of immigration enforcement. We have done this on our own time while the University has remained silent and complicit.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Info for international student workers
What is this document? This is a living document maintained by SWC’s International Students Working Group and Cops Off Campus Working Group. We will keep adding to it as the situation develops and as...
docs.google.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My union @swcolumbia.bsky.social has created a resource to support international students who are experiencing increasingly higher risk of immigration enforcement. We have done this on our own time while the University has remained silent and complicit.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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In case you live in a red state and feel like your voice doesn't matter--it does. Keep the pressure on.
House Republicans are starting to feel the pressure and are getting worried about the executive orders.... MUAHAHA YES.
KEEP IT GOING.
newrepublic.com/post/191815/...
KEEP IT GOING.
newrepublic.com/post/191815/...
Republican Congressman Slams Trump’s “Out of Control” Executive Orders
Representative Troy Balderson, who has benefited from a Trump endorsement, is now speaking up.
newrepublic.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In case you live in a red state and feel like your voice doesn't matter--it does. Keep the pressure on.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again
Public Libraries are inherently antifacist and supporting them is the most punk thing you can do 🤘🖤
Public Libraries are inherently antifacist and supporting them is the most punk thing you can do 🤘🖤
When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
January 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again
Public Libraries are inherently antifacist and supporting them is the most punk thing you can do 🤘🖤
Public Libraries are inherently antifacist and supporting them is the most punk thing you can do 🤘🖤
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Hear me out —
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
Musk staff have access to student aid data now.
February 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Hear me out —
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
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This is a great reminder from day one of how they work; three or four times a day, every day, they will do something and then insist they didn’t do it and force everyone to burn out arguing that it is what it is.
The sole purpose is to exhaust you and it will absolutely work if you let it.
The sole purpose is to exhaust you and it will absolutely work if you let it.
you don't need a phd in right wing extremism to recognize a nazi salute. what the fuck are we doing here.
January 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is a great reminder from day one of how they work; three or four times a day, every day, they will do something and then insist they didn’t do it and force everyone to burn out arguing that it is what it is.
The sole purpose is to exhaust you and it will absolutely work if you let it.
The sole purpose is to exhaust you and it will absolutely work if you let it.
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Today is an effort at shock and awe.
It is a directed, organzied, and planned effort to demoralize, confuse, and overwhelm.
Getting through today is important in part because things will be clearer and action points better defined with time.
It is a directed, organzied, and planned effort to demoralize, confuse, and overwhelm.
Getting through today is important in part because things will be clearer and action points better defined with time.
January 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Today is an effort at shock and awe.
It is a directed, organzied, and planned effort to demoralize, confuse, and overwhelm.
Getting through today is important in part because things will be clearer and action points better defined with time.
It is a directed, organzied, and planned effort to demoralize, confuse, and overwhelm.
Getting through today is important in part because things will be clearer and action points better defined with time.
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NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER + YOU HAVE A MATCH
Alma Aguilar is set on breaking her family’s curse of bad luck. But meeting the half-sister she never knew and reuniting their late father’s band for one last show forces her to confront buried secrets and redefine her future. #BluePit #Q #YA
Alma Aguilar is set on breaking her family’s curse of bad luck. But meeting the half-sister she never knew and reuniting their late father’s band for one last show forces her to confront buried secrets and redefine her future. #BluePit #Q #YA
January 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The people who were able to buy real estate back when it was affordable can shut the fuck up for the rest of forever.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The people who were able to buy real estate back when it was affordable can shut the fuck up for the rest of forever.
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Just in time for the AI policies to go into my syllabi - I've cleared my brain of all of its frustrations regarding generative AI.
I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.
I think the stakes are that high.
I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.
I think the stakes are that high.
The ethical case for resisting AI
I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…
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January 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Just in time for the AI policies to go into my syllabi - I've cleared my brain of all of its frustrations regarding generative AI.
I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.
I think the stakes are that high.
I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.
I think the stakes are that high.
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Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
December 10, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
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I am once again thinking about this Nick Cave quote: "I'm forever near a stereo saying 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
I am once again thinking about this Nick Cave quote: "I'm forever near a stereo saying 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"