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...
Screenshot of email Subject: OPT OUT Do not ever include Auburn Scallon (or any journalist, editor, author, or human of were being real) in your bullshit Superhuman Grammarly program-or any other "Al" tool you come up with. I'm so sick of tech companies stealing from underpaid, overworked experts and not even having the decency to ask for forgiveness OR permission. Fuck everything about this, Auburn Scallon
Same (with a bonus typo as proof of angry humanity 🤷♀️)
Screenshot of Debbie Downer with a caption “That’s AI”
Ryan from The OC going hard on how crypto is a scam is the wildest silver lining in this timeline
Josephine Wong is hilarious, vulnerable, and such a great new voice in travel media.
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Massachusetts folks: call or email your state rep and urge them to vote YES on H.3594. It's passed in the Senate--let's get this done.
"Not bored and unreasonably pleased" is some of my favorite kind of media.
This remains ma favorite distillation of the whole dynamic:
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Whole 🧵 about how discussions of AI in publishing welcome PR and shut down critique. 🫠
Just last week, I dropped out of an otherwise-wonderful volunteer project. First encouraged to share why I was bothered by their AI statement, then told my explanations were "toxic opinions."
bookstores are getting increasingly conservative in their actual book buying numbers, so 1000% preorder that book you're excited about please. Every single copy helps.
Want to giggle and scream at AI chatbots invading every single aspect of life? Read this great parody from @actioncookbook.com!
www.actioncookbook.com/welcome-to-t...
Like it or not, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood has a zero walkability score. Yes, its two districts are individually quite walkable, but you MUST take mass transit to pass through the veil of reality that separates them.
Solid 🧵 on antiheroes and the modern media landscape
Any time there is ballet-related discourse (this time, re: Timothée Chalamet's comments), I want to reshare this piece, which talked to artists fighting to make work conditions better & more equitable: “I think it’s important for [...] audiences to know that dancers are having these conversations.”
The Infectious Disease Control & Prevention page added 12 new items to our timeline. Amid worrying increases in measles, TB, and whooping cough outbreaks, we are seeing further erosion and politicization of public health organizations and networks.
unbreaking.org/issues/infec...
I listened to a Traci Thomas podcast that mentioned KIN today, and now you’re reading it, landing it solidly on my TBR pile!
I've never used grammarly but if you have an account, I'd throw it in the trash and set it on fire because what the actual fuck
I enjoyed half of Vladimir, and then it pissed me off, so it may depend what you want from each.
I’m looking for speakers for a London event on the science of Star Trek. I’d really appreciate suggestions from underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially PoC/global majority.
(10 min, central London, Sept, currently unpaid but I’m trying to fix that)
Feel free to message
That clip of Timothee Chalamet being like “no one watches the opera or ballet” is wild and I am dying over every ballet and opera acct (correctly) being like “we’ve been here for hundreds of years before you and we’ll be here for hundreds of years after you” lmao
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I was even thinking beyond this song to Mama, Billy Flynn, Mr. Cellophane… and then started wondering, dancers = character in show)? Or dancers = dancing lawyers / madams / etc?
I do love to overthink a fun prompt 😅
I’m taking this prompt to shout out a recent podcast episode with @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social
The convo (starting around 27:20) on who different viewers extend sympathy & humor to was sooooo emblematic of broader cultural themes.
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Depending on how you define a decent amount but…
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Sounds spot on in my book.
We need NYC-based authors/writers to use their skills to share the importance of public libraries in the 21st century. If this is you, write things and post them to all of your networks.
Also sign a letter to the City Council: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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Don’t make me tap the sign (yet again)
Anyway, be a wrench. Do every little thing you can to tamper with the plans of fascists. Be a NIMBY bitch about data centers. Stop using ChatGPT. Refuse service to ICE agents.
