Welp, that was fast! Thanks @juliaangwin.com + legal team for rapid response to its unethical, non-consensual grab of Pro IDs and Expertise ⚖️ #GrammarlyCrashOut
11.03.2026 21:09
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Welp, that was fast! Thanks @juliaangwin.com + legal team for rapid response to its unethical, non-consensual grab of Pro IDs and Expertise ⚖️ #GrammarlyCrashOut
Hmmm. You’re an Associate Professor of Global Affairs at @notredame.bsky.social and you’re attempting to use an anecdote (respect to your Mom) to Dunk on a woman Prof who is expert in a field in which you have Zero expertise…beyond your Mom’s example? Anecdotes do not = Data. Just take the L, dude 🙄
Thank you @gabbygiffords.bsky.social for standing with us in this fight. You are an example of what it means to live with courage in the darkest of days.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory-level sweatshops of the 21st Century — only the Cruel, Greedy company Owners are 23yo college drop-out Incels living in a 3M house in #SanFrancisco, Wheee!
Grim. Bleak. Unconscionable: these #AI Cos are Exploiting desperate, unemployed Pros to *train* the DeathMachines….that are accelerating mass unemployment across multiple sectors! 😵💫
Related to the #Grammarly crash out, see this: apple.news/AzBBoD8baQLG...
I can confirm firsthand that Rev. Bryant has been highly Sus for a very long time. 😬
Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."
Nekima on the Target boycott.
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*Accurate thumbnail bio—accompanied by a Wildly inaccurate photo, even tho my headshots dating to the 2010s are easily found across the Internet. OTOH, a Cynical thought, during this bleak era of Corp racism driven by 47: Maybe I’d have better luck landing a well-paying FT role if I CosPlay as a WW🤦🏽♀️
Yup. Worse: Even as they scrape our original words, works, etc., without our prior consent to “train” their Soulless LLMs, they are themselves so bereft of Humanities intelligence, cultural competence EQ, etc., that their ‘bots responses are deeply DUMB! This is how ChatGPT depicts me: 😬
Thank you for your activism. After I read Casey Newton’s detailed walk-through of #Grammerly’s terrible “review” tool the other day, I thought to conduct a scan bc I’m sure I’m in there too BUT I haven’t gotten to it yet. It’s all so Demoralizing + Infuriating, as Mo Ryan pointed out. 🫠
In the grand Effed Up scheme of the #AI proliferation that’s being forced on us lately, this is a proverbial “small victory.” Still, I’ll take it! Thanks for sharing this update.
cc: @moryan.bsky.social
Email screenshot: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces. The feature will be deactivated starting March 12, 2026. We're sorry, and we appreciate you holding us to a higher standard."
Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,
Thank you for reaching out.
After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky
In happier news, this cheers me up: meet Allen Michaan, owner/operator of the spectacular, century old #GrandLake movie palace in OaklandCA. He is a Civic HERO dedicated to preserving this architectural gem, and maintaining a nourishing cultural gathering place👏🏾🎞️🎥 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
Historian here it does hurt to see how ignorant the tech bros and the current regime are when it comes to the humanities or even their own field! Kudos to @historians.org for standing up for History education, essential for an informed citizenry in a virtuous republic.
A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files.
The best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as trump and Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein Files as required by law.
Right?! Perversely, last year I got a payment as part of that Class Action suit against FB/Meta for stealing user data to train its stupid AI: grand total in my pocket? $77. 🙄 Still awaiting outcome of the #OpenAI and #Anthropic lawsuits re copyright theft. My book publishers signed on. 🤷🏽♀️
Last (for now!) Along w the terrible impacts on writers and other creatives that AI is creating, there’s also horrible socioecon outcomes escalating by the minute: see #SF + the greater Bay Area, where residents WHO ACTUALLY POWER CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE can’t afford to live thanks to Rich Techies😡
PS: CoPilot (MSFT/OpenAI), Grammarly, Gemini (Google/Alphabet) and dozens more are a Scourge on humanity and it infuriates me how many Electeds have signed off on these jerks releasing Extractive products in the public marketplace w/ ZERO independent study on negative impacts! It is Outrageous 😡
Thanks @moryan.bsky.social for articulating this forcefully. I hit a wall a few months ago when a friend sent me a screencap of a prompt he used in ChatGPT: “Who is Amy L. Alexander?” Similar to you, I’ve been in mass media for a long time, yet the ‘bot returned a short bio—w/ a pic of a blonde WW🤦🏽♀️
Be sure to read this in full: the kicker is cathartic! 💥💥💥https://www.moryan.com/an-open-letter-to-grammarly-and-other-plagiarists-thieves-and-slop-merchants/
“‘Move fast and break things’ now extends to the reputations and identities of respected professionals and creative people. And you have the nerve to presume we should all put up with every outrage, with every act of destruction, with every theft. I don’t. I won’t.” @moryan.bsky.social has HAD IT👇🏾
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T’yeah. Textbook example of complicit, cowardly Flunkies laundering #CYA messaging via the press.
Edit: White people with guns stormed the Michigan State Capitol
We’ve seen this before. Flashback to May 2020, as the CVD19 pandemic swept across the U.S. www.statnews.com/2020/05/17/t...
Flashback to summer of 2020 as COVID-19 escalated nationwide, claiming thousands of U.S. residents and we learned that Obama’s MedSci team had given 45’s teams in 2017 a comprehensive public health mitigation plan in case of viral transmission threat…which 45’s team ignored. 🤦🏽♀️
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are they really going to call it that
