“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
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Stop by tomorrow to celebrate public libraries with us: app.smore.com/n/1mxna
People's Library & Art Celebration
People's Library & Art Celebration
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TOMORROW, 6/13, 3pm! NYC-area friends and followers: Please come to a reading of selections from Diane Di Prima’s “Revolutionary Letters”—kicksss revolutionary beat poetry, read by some of today’s most excellent working poets. Part of the People’s Library Art & Propaganda Fair, 11am-5pm
Cis allies especially, I encourage you to actually read my latest, this Humanifesto on trans rights … Share it with the people you’re in networks and community with who maybe need to wake up still … whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/transgende...
Transgender for Everybody
A Humanifesto
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Wondering why Thiel is heading to Argentina? Milei: "First, a commitment to keep AI unregulated so that it is free to be developed without the deadly hand of premature and poorly understood regulation." The race to oblivion just found a new gear. www.ft.com/content/f930...
Javier Milei: Argentina invites AI to free itself
As we enter a new era of technology, AI must be permitted to develop without premature regulation
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If Big Brother doesn’t like your science topic you won’t be funded and if Big Brother doesn’t like your results you will be defunded. A recipe for backwardness that seems to be designed by people who want America to humiliate itself and collapse. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo agoSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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If I have to repost this piece a dozen times to get people to subscribe to Scratch, I will. We are an entirely reader-supported, worker-owned co-op that is aggressively anti-AI, not on Substack, and whose focus is publishing/media. We’re betting everything on our ethics & our work. talkscratch.com
Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis week on Scratch, we have an essay by @maggiemertens.bsky.social about how her itch for a dumbphone is largely burnout from the need to constantly self-promote one's writing or risk professional oblivion.
the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again
If a member of your family were accused of lying, hustling and robbing people in your community, would you: A. Acknowledge that your loved one has a problem, or B. Defend your family member and pretend everyone else is lying
The First Crackhead President
American media is not equipped to cover a lying, thieving commander-in-chief.
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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...
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...
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THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5mo agoGreetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
Hey! The stupidest, most malevolent people ever to be in charge of the U.S. are creating geopolitical havoc right now and killing people all over the place Stop pretending that this is anything else, or that there is an equivalent "other side," there is not, this is a world-historical calamity
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
I hope he’s winging his way to join Shelly Duvall (and, of course, Ruth Gordon) in the great hereafter.
Josh Slater-Williams@jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 6mo agoRIP Bud Cort variety.com/2026/film/ne...
“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
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People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)
If you know anyone who still supports this one or doesn't think it's that bad in MN, please send them this. People need to know.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7mo agoMinnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
Today’s “MLK to Renee” rally/march across the Brooklyn Bridge was spirited and mighty in spite of frigid temps. Great speakers included Kirstin John Foy, Jumaane Williams, leaders of the nurses’ union, Carlene Pinto, and more. From MN to NYC, ICE out now! m.youtube.com/shorts/xEKbF...
Peaceful MLK Day demonstration on Brooklyn Bridge includes outcry over ICE
YouTube video by CBS New York
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Irwin Kroot@ikroot.bsky.social · 7mo ago"MLK to Renee -Justice Now" rally and march across the Brooklyn Bridge to 26 Federal Plaza.
This pal of Bari Weiss posted made-up ChatGPT baloney and attributed it to Francis Bacon, under his own byline!!! A wildly irresponsible person www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie
Or that they haven’t already started to pollute Google searches. And if publishers win their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, verifying facts and quotes will get a lot harder.
thenation.com
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 7mo agoI knew Tyler Cowen was a total fraud when he opposed congestion pricing in NYC. an economist opposing congestion pricing is like a biologist refusing to believe in evolution. direct proof of being an ideological hack and all-around moron
Rally tomorrow 9am in Foley Square, with march to WTC, where Noem is holding a press conference.
