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Cate Fricke

@crfricke.bsky.social

Writer and book publicist newly planted in Fayetteville, AR. Your friend who won't shut up about Nordic countries. Folklore, folk songs, fairy tales, polar exploration, snark. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig. Links and other nonsense at www.catefricke.com

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Cate Fricke@crfricke.bsky.social · 13h ago

"As [AI] becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create and everyone’s reason to care."

Matthew J Kuiper@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 21h ago

Many of us have been saying… Refusing to write with/by AI is absolutely a necessary “act of resistance against an ever-dumber world” (not to mention against the tech companies and powers that want to make us pliable, unthinking slaves)

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 4w ago

If ICE can kill anyone it wants with impunity, then none of us have any meaningful rights. It’s that simple.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

mothra stewart@gorl.gay · 3mo ago

my friend said “you can’t keep adopting strange little routines just because a crow reacts positively to them” which honestly feels narrow minded

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Moths are excellent pets as they ask for nothing and all you have to do to acquire lots of them is open a window and switch on seven lamps and put a classic early Leonard Cohen LP on at a pleasant volume.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“In August, ICE guards found 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge hanging in a shower stall at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pa. Although investigators ruled Ge’s death a suicide, the autopsy report stated that he was found with his hands and feet tied behind his back.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“The five deaths of Asian nationals in ICE custody in 2025 are not just isolated tragedies. They reveal a system that has expanded faster than oversight can follow.” www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...