Veronica Schanoes
@schanoes.bsky.social
Scholar, writer, single mother.
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At the heart of a class-action lawsuit from authors alleging that ChatGPT was illegally trained on their works, OpenAI’s decision to delete the datasets could end up being a deciding factor that gives the authors the win.
OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets
OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.
arstechnica.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
At the heart of a class-action lawsuit from authors alleging that ChatGPT was illegally trained on their works, OpenAI’s decision to delete the datasets could end up being a deciding factor that gives the authors the win.
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"Imagine if we had collectively decided to build wind turbines and flood gates instead of data centers. Imagine that we could." ❤️🔥😱
External to what?
Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
December 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Imagine if we had collectively decided to build wind turbines and flood gates instead of data centers. Imagine that we could." ❤️🔥😱
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During the 2022-23 school year, @penamerica.bsky.social documented 3,362 book banning incidents involving 1,557 books.
NY is not immune to these attacks, which is why we're calling on Gov. Hochul to sign the Freedom To Read Act ASAP. Join our read-in next week to support censorship-free education:
NY is not immune to these attacks, which is why we're calling on Gov. Hochul to sign the Freedom To Read Act ASAP. Join our read-in next week to support censorship-free education:
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
During the 2022-23 school year, @penamerica.bsky.social documented 3,362 book banning incidents involving 1,557 books.
NY is not immune to these attacks, which is why we're calling on Gov. Hochul to sign the Freedom To Read Act ASAP. Join our read-in next week to support censorship-free education:
NY is not immune to these attacks, which is why we're calling on Gov. Hochul to sign the Freedom To Read Act ASAP. Join our read-in next week to support censorship-free education:
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
I don't think we can ignore the fact that Indiana GOP lawmakers spent months insisting they weren't going to do this and relented less than 24 hours after one of them publicly revealed she was threatened with a pipe bomb.
Indiana Republicans have unveiled their proposal to re-gerrymander the congressional map & expand their current 7-2 majority to 9-0.
The Dem-held 1st would flip to Trump+12 & the 7th to Trump+19. All 7 GOP seats would be at least Trump+18.
Interactive map:
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...
The Dem-held 1st would flip to Trump+12 & the 7th to Trump+19. All 7 GOP seats would be at least Trump+18.
Interactive map:
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
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Why can't the right win without gerrymandering?
Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them?
Why can't the right mind their own business?
Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?
Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them?
Why can't the right mind their own business?
Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Why can't the right win without gerrymandering?
Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them?
Why can't the right mind their own business?
Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?
Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them?
Why can't the right mind their own business?
Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?
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A helpful dragon to remind you that the Call for Papers and Sessions for the inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantasy's Present Pasts (23rd-25th June 2026 in Glasgow), closes on Friday 12th December.
More details here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20....
More details here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20....
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A helpful dragon to remind you that the Call for Papers and Sessions for the inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantasy's Present Pasts (23rd-25th June 2026 in Glasgow), closes on Friday 12th December.
More details here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20....
More details here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20....
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If I were a student at OU who wasn't vice signaling and fascist clout baiting, I'd be fucking livid at this shit, but the media-outrage-griftosphere pipelinea don't exist for that.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If I were a student at OU who wasn't vice signaling and fascist clout baiting, I'd be fucking livid at this shit, but the media-outrage-griftosphere pipelinea don't exist for that.
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sabrina carpenter responding to the white house using one of her songs for an anti-immigrant video
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
sabrina carpenter responding to the white house using one of her songs for an anti-immigrant video
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Franklin the Turtle is braver than Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj
Official Trump social media accounts have been using The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Franklin the Turtle is braver than Taylor Swift
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Pleased to tell you that this month @pseudopod.org is celebrating my anthology 120 Murders and to start has produced @paultremblay.bsky.social's story "Do It" for audio! Check it out in the skeet below, then check out the book!
ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...
ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Pleased to tell you that this month @pseudopod.org is celebrating my anthology 120 Murders and to start has produced @paultremblay.bsky.social's story "Do It" for audio! Check it out in the skeet below, then check out the book!
ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...
ruadanbooks.com/product/120-...
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Remember when Rolling Stone didn’t put Prince on the list of best guitarists of all time
And he responded with one of the most iconic guitar solos of all time?
Idk why i am thinking of that idk idk idk
And he responded with one of the most iconic guitar solos of all time?
Idk why i am thinking of that idk idk idk
Rolling Stone didn't put Sinners on its top 20 list of films for this year and I'm appalled.
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Remember when Rolling Stone didn’t put Prince on the list of best guitarists of all time
And he responded with one of the most iconic guitar solos of all time?
Idk why i am thinking of that idk idk idk
And he responded with one of the most iconic guitar solos of all time?
Idk why i am thinking of that idk idk idk
I’m sitting on the subway and there’s an ad for some genetic engineering company with the slogan “have your best baby,” and you know what? FUCK YOU. Every baby is the best baby, you hear me? EVERY BABY.
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I’m sitting on the subway and there’s an ad for some genetic engineering company with the slogan “have your best baby,” and you know what? FUCK YOU. Every baby is the best baby, you hear me? EVERY BABY.
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They trussed him up
like Hannibal Lecter and had the Mayor on a perp walk like they did something. 🤨That guy at the fast food place contributed more to the case
like Hannibal Lecter and had the Mayor on a perp walk like they did something. 🤨That guy at the fast food place contributed more to the case
They didn’t read Luigi Mangione his Miranda rights? And searched his bag without a warrant???
globalnews.ca/news/1155242...
globalnews.ca/news/1155242...
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek to ban evidence from trial in CEO killing - National | Globalnews.ca
Among the evidence lawyers want to prevent from being presented to jurors are a 9 mm handgun and a handwritten notebook.
globalnews.ca
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
They trussed him up
like Hannibal Lecter and had the Mayor on a perp walk like they did something. 🤨That guy at the fast food place contributed more to the case
like Hannibal Lecter and had the Mayor on a perp walk like they did something. 🤨That guy at the fast food place contributed more to the case
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I think about this from time to time…
It is genuinely impossible for us to imagine what a world where nearly *half of us* don’t make it to 16 years old! and the general comfort/expectation level all societies had about it! but yet: was the basic experience of almost everyone from our great-grandparents backwards…forever! everywhere!
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I think about this from time to time…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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This piece hit hard for me, as it tracks with why my daughter stopped playing soccer at recess. The boys wouldn't let the girls play with them--only against them and with fewer players. But when girls scored anyway, some boys would cheat and play to hurt the girls, to the point where it wasn't fun.
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This piece hit hard for me, as it tracks with why my daughter stopped playing soccer at recess. The boys wouldn't let the girls play with them--only against them and with fewer players. But when girls scored anyway, some boys would cheat and play to hurt the girls, to the point where it wasn't fun.
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This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination
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Hey if you want some Chanuka gifts/cards that support Palestinians, have I got an online shop for you www.etsy.com/shop/GiftsOf...
www.etsy.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hey if you want some Chanuka gifts/cards that support Palestinians, have I got an online shop for you www.etsy.com/shop/GiftsOf...
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West Elm calling this “Deli Favorites” and not “Ashkenazi Food” is ending me
Deli Favorites Stoneware Dinnerware Collection
KEY DETAILS
6.5
www.westelm.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
West Elm calling this “Deli Favorites” and not “Ashkenazi Food” is ending me
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It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job