Margaret Ray
@mbrrray.bsky.social
Poet 🥸 Author of: GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND (poems, BOA Editions‘23) & a Poetry Society of America Chapbook: SUPERSTITIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC she/her
https://www.margaretbray.com/
https://bookshop.org/a/92150/9781950774845
https://www.margaretbray.com/
https://bookshop.org/a/92150/9781950774845
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as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed
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My third book, This Elegance, is out from @boa-editions.bsky.social in May 2026.
Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens.
Available to preorder now 🙏🏿
Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens.
Available to preorder now 🙏🏿
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
My third book, This Elegance, is out from @boa-editions.bsky.social in May 2026.
Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens.
Available to preorder now 🙏🏿
Cover design by Sandy Knight with art by Diedrick Brackens.
Available to preorder now 🙏🏿
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November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you’ve been looking for an alternative to Amazon-owned A*dible, we have good news for you: we’re now on @libro.fm!
Join now to satisfy all your audiobook desires while supporting your favourite independent bookshop.
Join now to satisfy all your audiobook desires while supporting your favourite independent bookshop.
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Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...
Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt
Catherine Barnett, Victoria Chang, Meghan O’Rourke, and Carl Phillips remember the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.
yalereview.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...
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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.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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.
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“Baltimore county high schools last year began using a gun detection system using school cameras and AI to detect potential weapons. If it spots something it believes to be suspicious, it sends an alert to the school and law enforcement officials.”
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“Baltimore county high schools last year began using a gun detection system using school cameras and AI to detect potential weapons. If it spots something it believes to be suspicious, it sends an alert to the school and law enforcement officials.”
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ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.
Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.
Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
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you can see why the regime would want to defund public media like Frontline
FRONTLINE | Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus (Part 1) | Season 2023 | Episode 1
Investigating the powerful spyware called Pegasus sold to governments around the world.
www.pbs.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
you can see why the regime would want to defund public media like Frontline
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"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."
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AI was born enshittified.
October 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
AI was born enshittified.
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Once more for the people in the back: GenAI is the weapon of the oppressors. You cannot support a progressive message with GenAI images.
October 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Once more for the people in the back: GenAI is the weapon of the oppressors. You cannot support a progressive message with GenAI images.
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Does an industry that burns cash to boil lakes to erroneously rephrase the Internet deserve a market valuation higher than the GDP of 97% of countries on Earth?
What do we think? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
What do we think? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Do OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar deals mean exuberance has got out of hand?
Some market watchers are concerned by the circular nature of deals with chip makers Nvidia and AMD
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Does an industry that burns cash to boil lakes to erroneously rephrase the Internet deserve a market valuation higher than the GDP of 97% of countries on Earth?
What do we think? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
What do we think? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ireland 🥹💚🤍🧡
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow
Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.
www.rte.ie
October 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Ireland 🥹💚🤍🧡
2 new poems of mine are in in this rad project (here’s one) style.atwhatcost.me#margaret-ray
October 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
2 new poems of mine are in in this rad project (here’s one) style.atwhatcost.me#margaret-ray
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OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades
Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune
Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”
fortune.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
September 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
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Wow! Brilliant for writers!
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Wow! Brilliant for writers!
Come write poems w me in this online workshop w Poetry Society of New York next week? Thurs Oct 2, 7pm www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-virtu...
September 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Come write poems w me in this online workshop w Poetry Society of New York next week? Thurs Oct 2, 7pm www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-virtu...
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in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement
against-a-i.com
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
against-a-i.com
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing
This fall, the new luddites are rising
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement
against-a-i.com
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
against-a-i.com
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
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Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...
The Impact Of AI Tools On The Next Decade Of Education Innovation
Education technology is more of a commitment to shaping a future where every learner has the tools to succeed.
www.forbes.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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"We and our students can choose not to use these technologies. Just like we have banned smoking from public spaces, we could foster that process of banning both by choosing to individually quit smoking and by demanding regulation of the tobacco industry.”
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
zenodo.org
September 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"We and our students can choose not to use these technologies. Just like we have banned smoking from public spaces, we could foster that process of banning both by choosing to individually quit smoking and by demanding regulation of the tobacco industry.”
zenodo.org/records/1706...
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Much like offloading onto LLMs, men are more likely to feel OK offloading generally. Women do not & sadly are used to doing this work. Men are formed by patriarchy to demand, expect, and tolerate this. This is in pure contrast to all the women who contact me to say they will work hard to fight AI.
TBF they need much more help than just not using AI, but indeed they are its most vociferous supporters and for good reason: men under patriarchy are used to outsourcing (especially to women) their cognitive labour
September 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Much like offloading onto LLMs, men are more likely to feel OK offloading generally. Women do not & sadly are used to doing this work. Men are formed by patriarchy to demand, expect, and tolerate this. This is in pure contrast to all the women who contact me to say they will work hard to fight AI.
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More intense future wildfires, fueled by further climate change, could lead to 70,000 deaths from smoke exposure a year, according to a new study.
Wildfire smoke is killing Americans. A new study quantifies how much
More intense future wildfires, fueled by further climate change, could lead to 70,000 deaths from smoke exposure a year, according to a new study.
n.pr
September 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
More intense future wildfires, fueled by further climate change, could lead to 70,000 deaths from smoke exposure a year, according to a new study.