if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.

Here's a thread of relaxing fun websites to get away from the noise

1. This is sand dot com

Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes
(this is one I did)

thisissand.com

AIPedagogy.org from Harvard's metaLAB was already the best-designed introduction to AI for educators I knew of.

I return to it again and again for creative, critical assignment ideas.

Now it's even more user friendly and offers a space to compare chatbots and change their settings.

Excited to co-organize the #PublicAISummit (Aug 13–14) with the Data Nutrition Project + metaLAB (at) Harvard's AI Pedagogy Project!
🎙️ Keynotes by Kathy Pham, @randomwalker.bsky.social, @annamillsoer.bsky.social, @mahabali.bsky.social
💻 Free + virtual
🌍 For the public
🔗 Register: publicaisummit.org

I’ll be presenting a workshop on critical pedagogies around AI images at this conference too, looking forward to it! ⬇️

Register for a dynamic, free two-day virtual AI Summit August 13-14 for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can leverage these tools in our everyday lives.
publicaisummit.org

In her review of Jordan Magnuson's “Game Poems,” Maria Dikcis explores video games that push back against the norms of mainstream video games by seamlessly blending the playable and the literary.

New at PB: www.publicbooks.org/gaming-the-l...