Liana Krissoff

publishing people know the singular high of "the books are in the warehouse."

Also, if you’re heading back toward the East Side, heed Mr Matthie’s advice and use the left lane through the Liberty Tunnel, despite what your phone tells you to do.

H Matthie Repairs, on W Liberty, is an old-school repair shop packed nearly floor to ceiling with sewing machines and detailed explanatory signage. Call ahead (you might get what is known as a “busy signal”), don’t park in front of the auto shop, and bring $35 cash for a deposit.

The feature, which launched in August, claims to help you “sharpen your message through the lens of industry-relevant perspectives.” When users select the “expert review” button in the Grammarly sidebar, it analyzes their writing and surfaces AI-generated suggestions “inspired by” related experts. Those “industry-relevant perspectives” include the likes of Stephen King, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Carl Sagan, among many others. The Verge found numerous other tech journalists named in the feature, as well, including former Verge editors Casey Newton and Joanna Stern, former Verge writer Monica Chin, Wired’s Lauren Goode, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Jason Schreier, the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany, PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon, Gizmodo’s Raymond Wong, Digital Foundry founder Richard Leadbetter, Tom’s Guide editor-in-chief Mark Spoonauer, former Rock Paper Shotgun editor-in-chief Katharine Castle, and former IGN news director Kat Bailey. The descriptions for some experts contain inaccuracies, such as outdated job titles, which could have been accurately updated had Superhuman asked those people for permission to reference their work.

The endpoint of journalism is that an AI startup turns you into a fake "editor" without telling you and against your will www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Pittsburgh’s Bhutanese community in the misinformation age A community that crossed oceans to find safety and opportunity and navigated language and culture challenges now combats currents of misinformation. Here are the real stories of refugees who have made Allegheny County home.

“They don't see the years of sacrifice.” Tek Rimal says growing rumors in the age of misinformation have added to the challenges Pittsburgh’s Bhutanese community faces after finding refuge in the region. buff.ly/pGGDXkM

OpenAI diagram about its educational research workflow.

Here is how OpenAI is reimagining educational research. It's basically GPT accesses all student records and "over-time signals" for constant tracking. It's total student surveillance for its model improvement.

I really love America sometimes.

This was a delightful scro//. "Lousy smarch weather" is a classic in my house but I also love "is it about my cube?" "We'll live like kings! Damn hell ass kings!"

“I won’t be needing *this* anymore!”

It’s well known that no one writes dialogue like Richard Price, but this, from Lazarus Man, should be in a museum:

“Bloody nose.”

“Yeah, I can see that. It looks broke too. You should get that administered to.”

They've created a tech environment that's just so hostile to elders, y'all..

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

Doctorow—who once, pre-AI, publicly thanked me for my copyedit of his book—is at least consistent in his techno-libertarian defense of Open at all costs.

I have never done an email interview or anything of the sort without signing off, “Feel free to edit at will!”

Those sidebars in your textbook that are so tedious to write that you got AI to do it and now you save 15–30 minutes of work per sidebar? Mayyyybe the world doesn’t need the sidebars.

Even the internet's favorite dog account calls out Ring video cameras what they are: Mass surveillance.

As soon as you hear that distinctive “whoosh” warning sound, get out of the way.

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:

-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

i need an emotional support perogi

Paperback book, with a gorgeous cover illustration (by Trevor Barnes) of a somewhat menacing water bird defending her egg in a treetop nest.

In addition to being smart and affecting, this is excellent heron content. Highly recommend Commodore Rookery, a chapbook by Christy Lee Barnes published by @finishinglinepress.bsky.social.

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Secret Lives of Church Ladies being pulled from a bookstore shelf.

Secret Lives of Church Ladies face out in a bookstore display.

One week, two Charlestons (SC and WV), two indie bookstores, and lots of ongoing support—almost six years after the pub date—for the big success story from the little university press.

I’m so sorry (and angry). What a loss.

I'm still processing the news. I loved this gig so much. Getting to shout about great books by especially newer authors has been one of the most uncomplicated sources of joy in my life, and I'm gonna be sad about this for a long time.

man's always hated books and the people who love them tbh

As an individual, it’s pretty easy not to use Amazon dot com, Alexa, or Prime.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end TPS for Haiti, making clear that TPS holders cannot be deported or denied work authorization while the case moves forward. AILA celebrates this win & will carefully follow further developments on Haitian TPS.

Yesterday I made a coffee & brushed my hair & sat down for a zoom meeting, only to find that the meeting was entirely an AI hallucination. Gemini saw an email thread about possible meeting times, picked a random date and time, & popped it on my calendar. DAMMIT GOOGLE I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS NONSENSE

Looking at continuing-ed course listings. “People who took this also took . . . Beginner Pickleball.” 😭

There’s a lot of evil in the world right now, including this specific variety: the “best bookstores in X city” blog post that includes Amazon affiliate links . . . to books.