Tristan Felix B.

They took a survey after using the AI.

There's a reason I'm writing a paper titled LLMs as Artificial Sophistry

Thank you 🙌🏻

Thank Julia for filing this suit and getting the tool shut down almost immediately 👏🏽👏🏽

If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me

This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology

Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide

For those keeping score at home:

I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week.

To be continued...

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

When I give talks about the exploitation of GLAM by the AI industry I’m always asked “how can we defend ourselves from bots scraping our metadata?” I have no idea. That’s a question for an engineer. What I can and do say is that we shouldn’t be supporting this industry in the first place.

From the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime X account: 米国ホワイトハウスの公式Xアカウントにおいて、 アニメ「遊☆戯☆王」シリーズの映像が、権利者の許諾なく使用されている投稿が確認されました。 本件については、原作およびアニメ関係者は一切関与しておらず、当該知的財産の使用を許諾した事実もございません。 It has come to our attention that a post on the White House’s official X account used footage from the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!. This was made without any authorization from the rights holder. Regarding this matter, no one associated with the manga or anime had any involvement, and no permission was granted for the use of this intellectual property.

Please tell me Grammarly can and will be sued into oblivion for this. It can't be allowed! You should not have to opt out of identity theft! Please T_T

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

Mejiro nestled in pink plum blossoms, wondering when her prince will come.

Mejiro having some quality upside down time at the edge of a pink blossoming branch.

Mejiro on a cascadiing pink branch, turning away, unable to look at your news feed.

Mejiro on pink blossoming branch is very unimpressed with you. Whatever you did you should apologize.

mejiro with plums

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

This, still, constantly.

No matter how persuasively "AI" talks to you, it still gets basic, ordinary, factual tasks wrong, over and over.

This is not intelligence, and it's a very special brand of stupidity to think it is.

Seems relevant - all news organisations, including public broadcasters, don't care what you think about their programs. They only care about your eyeballs. Hatewatching a program is identical to being a fanboi of it. They die when eyeballs stop.

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7/ POLL: A student will pre-record their speech, only to stand up and say "Free Palestine!" and unfurl a flag

NYU then

a) bans pre-recorded speakers from stage

b) bans robes which can hide flags

c) ends graduations altogether

d) dissolves the university (lest anyone ever mention Palestine)

preparing students to engage civilly in the real world.

3/ These schools don’t believe in expressions. They don’t believe in excellence. They don’t believe in speech. They want OBEDIENCE.

The Washington Post is, ofc, saying banning speeches isn’t doing ENOUGH to prepare “students to engage civilly in the real world.”

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

Wishing ALL the women (ALL OF THEM) around the world a happy International Women's Day!

May women's rights continue to make further progress in our societies! 💛

Humans can only survive about 3 days without water.

The tit-for-tat attacks on desalination plants and other water infrastructure in the Middle East are the scariest part of this war.

Ao Omae in English｜Tristan Felix B. Translated by me (Emily Balistrieri) unless otherwise noted: "‪Beam"  ビーム   (Electric Literature) "The Old-Woman Skin"  おばあさんの皮 (Short Shorts x Japan Cultural Expo) "Bath Towel Visua...

Updated with the fact that "Tumbleweed" was included in Best Literary Translations 2025 😁
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People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice (Nomad Edition) “A captivating exploration of gender dynamics, set against a background of the trying and confusing time of adolescence, when identity is in flux and everyt...

My translation of People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice is getting a pocket paperback edition in May. www.harpercollins.com/products/peo...

The cover photo is a tea party with plushies.

Stoked that I managed to find a copy of the Feb. issue of ユリイカ (at this late date) with the Ao Omae feature. He’s celebrating ten years as an author 🥳

EXCUSE ME?!?? THERAPY?!?? The fuck kind of mask off homophobia is THAT for a CCO to say in public?! Jesus.

Again, this motherfucker thinks PROTECTING billionaires and ATTACKING trans ppl is normal.
Fuck him.
Imperative to prove him wrong on this by making sure he doesn’t get the Dem nomination

This might be the part of this whole thing I'm maddest about