Mark Simpson-Vos

Tired: Real Madrid 3-0 Man City
Wired: Bodø 3-0 Sporting CP

Shoutout to the wonderful and brilliant @carolinavonkampen.com for attending all these AI sessions and reporting back to us.

Her thread on this AI in developmental editing talk is fascinating and disturbing.

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Protections for Haitian Immigrants

Evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs—sometimes called Black ...

Hiya! Do you know Sakina Hughes’s book on Black and Indigenous circus performers?

Let’s hear it for the Champions League’s star of the North! 2-0 Bodø!

Yes I am watching and cheering for Bodø/Glimt- because they play great football, yes, but also because their splendid hometown is one of my favorite places in all of Europe.

1-0 Bodø!

Please read this thread. We mustn’t look away from the cruelty and hypocrisy of this regime, as tempting as it may be to grow numb from its abuses.

Nursing Clio The Personal is Historical

Bluesky keeps flagging today's @nursingclio.bsky.social post as too spicy. So please don't go to Nursing Clio's home page to see the spicy post about Heated Rivalry. (The picture is, in fact, not that spicy.)
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Episode 187: Who Built American Barbecue? with Adrian Miller Podcast Episode · Reckoning with Jason Herbert · March 11 · 1h 18m

Barbecue might be the most American food there is.

So why don’t more people know the story of the Black pitmasters who helped build it?

I talked with @soulfoodscholar.bsky.social abt the real history of American barbecue on our latest episode.

Give it a listen

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Same

You know, AI no longer makes errors like those distortions to the right of the shoes.

Spurs are so going down.

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.

Love to see the role of religion in the war get this level of attention. Still understudied I’d say.

Congratulations to historian Richard Carwardine on winning the 2026 Lincoln Prize for his book *Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union.* 🗃️ www.gilderlehrman.org/about/press-...

As we have long suspected, the NYT is committed to not understanding anything about writing’s critical connection to human agency.

Or perhaps should I say, “Commitments were made to misunderstand the point of cognition and communication (leaving hundreds dead)”

My bad 😭

This post was like reading a William Carlos Williams poem. It deserves a literary prize.

He just saw the gas prices.

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, but gas prices are His way of teaching Americans that wars cost them, too.

Think of all the art that is “clunky” by this definition. My god.

Ugh. Why must this franchise be terrible?

Calling this line from McCarthy a "clunky" "mistake" based on "aversion to punctuation" ayfk, did an AI write this (probably)

I took the NYT AI quiz thingy and picked all the human writers. Which is not a surprise because four of the five books I had read and most I love, and Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” is one of my all time favorite poems and I have fought people over how great Blood Meridian is.

Suck it Claude.

Is Trump a senator now?

Airport Libraries Take Off | American Libraries Magazine Airport libraries, where travelers can pick up books before they board their flights. are becoming regular fixtures in US airports.

Airport Libraries Take Off:
In these spaces, travelers pick up books before they board

#booksky #libraries #outreach #books #travel #GoodIdea 📚 #Airport

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️

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This is what ecocide looks like.