A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃
@agpasquella.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Most recent book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. As co-editor: DEVOURING TOMORROW
once again noting that as a Californian living in Montreal I was buying zero wine from California even when it was available, have you heard of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy? yeah they make good wine, I buy theirs
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 2d agoWithout American wine on Canadian shelves, Canadians are also missing out on tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue they would obtain from selling our wine.
AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.
To be Young, Black and Gifted yall… Shout out to the students at North Carolina A&T University. They were stripped of their polling station on campus so they all marched together the nearest one to vote early. They are the future that gives me hope. 👏🏾🤩✨🇺🇸
North Carolina A&T students march back to campus tonight after voting on the first day of early voting in North Carolina. The Guilford County Elections Board removed their campus early voting poll...
North Carolina A&T students march back to campus tonight after voting on the first day of early voting in North Carolina. The Guilford County Elections Board removed their campus early voting polling ...
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But I'm a Cheerleader for Tax Purposes
Morgan L. Ventura (they/she)@morganvl.bsky.social · 56m agoDracula: Dead and Loving It for Tax Purposes
lol this is like asking if i'd give up bedbugs to shut down rats. YES I WOULD LIKE TO GET RID OF ALL THE PESTILENCE THANK YOU
HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2h agoI expend a lot of energy these days trying to turn AI off! I would be very happy if it went away. www.techspot.com/news/114234-...
“CoreWeave is absolutely the canary in the coal mine. This is going to be a turning point in the pricing and availability and structure of credit that's supporting the AI boom.” www.reuters.com/legal/transa...
CoreWeave bond rout tests market's math on AI buildout
A sharp decline in CoreWeave's bonds this week is emerging as a test of investors' willingness to keep financing the massive buildout of AI infrastructure, as rising borrowing costs and scrutiny of d...
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ZITRON on $CRWV, in March of last year: “.. a business that’s precarious at best, and, in my most uncharitable opinion, utterly rancid.” @edzitron.com www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompe...
The Midterms are coming! American friends, please Zacharia ALL the fascists!
FancyNance(Formerly Nance on X)@fancynance.bsky.social · 6h ago
how long can a car company stay afloat by simply announcing made up products that dont exist, have no real world applications and will never make it to market? buddy, we’re going to find out
The correlation is that just like with mass deportation, militarized police & scores of other Trump era horrors, it was made easier because Trump was able to deploy tools of fascism that the previous administration continued to build when they should have been dismantling.
CNN legal analyst: Biden-era inquiry into Omar hurts her case against Trump
CNN anchor Jake Tapper questioned whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) should have come forward about any potential issues with her immigration status during the Biden administration rather than face …
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Pleasebury Doughboy ✨@plsburydoughboy.bsky.social · 2d agoI know a lot of people won't want to hear this but Ilhan Omar withholding support for Biden and Kamala has a clear correlation to her potential deportation
In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org
The January 6 Memory Project
A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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A passage from my new novel THE COMEDIAN'S BOOK OF THE DEAD where Death (my protagonist) wrestles an angel. @bookhugpress.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social
Saw this going around and didn't have time to watch it until this morning If I hadn't canceled my NYT subscription ages ago, I'd do it now. Jacob clearly states that the Times uses language which softens the harm the Trump admin does, and their response is "Language isn't as important as knowledge"
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · yesterday🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.
Goddamn: "We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We have seen for the last five decades, since the late 1970s, corporate special interests, billionaire mega donors buying politicians, and then those politicians in both political parties...
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY
Presidents Park opened in Virginia in 2004, but went under only a few years later in 2010. The 20-foot tall busts of US presidents that were the park's main attraction were moved to a rural field, where they were left to decay. More at www.abandonedamerica.us/the-presiden...
This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!
This may be the favourite slide I have designed for our first year core module this year.
I promised my wife I'd stop buying so many books...so don't tell her, okay? Better yet: come take them off my hands at @canconsffh.bsky.social this weekend! Come to the book launch (see below) or find them at the @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social table! On to Ottawa!
Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦@ourmankoto.bsky.social · 4d agoMy Can*Con schedule for this weekend. Come get Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 4 before its on sale ANYWHERE!!! cc: @canconsffh.bsky.social
I’ll be at the launch too. Come say hi!
Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦@ourmankoto.bsky.social · 12h agoI promised my wife I'd stop buying so many books...so don't tell her, okay? Better yet: come take them off my hands at @canconsffh.bsky.social this weekend! Come to the book launch (see below) or find them at the @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social table! On to Ottawa!
The Ai balloon continues to deflate What’s half a trillion here or there?
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday“.. investors who attended Anthropic's investor day on Wednesday in San Francisco discussed a valuation of around $1.5 trillion, three of the people said, a significant step down from the roughly $2 trillion valuation that investors had previously expected ..” www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Feels really great to see people waking up to the calamity that is CoreWeave, even if it is far too late to stop it from hurting the average investor conned into buying it
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2y agoNewsletter: We need to talk about CoreWeave, the first big IPO of the generative AI bubble, with a speculated $35bn valuation, burdened by ruinous debt, impossible-to-meet capacity obligations, and a data center partner that's never built any AI compute. www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompetency/
Insiders are cashing out, leaving retail investors holding the bag
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24h ago“.. As the company’s shares have fallen more than 60% from that high-water mark, the trio have cashed out billions, including $2.4 billion this year alone.” @bloomberg.com $CRWV www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Got a scam email: "Dear Mark ... My name is Victoria Wenzel and I am an Editor at Pegasus Books. I recently came across your work ... I am always interested in discovering distinctive authors and compelling works that may be a strong fit for our publishing program ..." #scams #scam #fraud #writing
How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware
One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...
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My book is a bestseller and it looks like a large rectangular piece of candy. I think you would enjoy owning one
