Kate Feld
@katefeld.bsky.social
Poet and essayist. Journalism lecturer at the University of Salford. Vermonter in Manchester, UK. Debut chapbook DEERYARD out with Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers. katefeld.com
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NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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I dont understand how people defend this.
eliko thalia@museinrevolt.bsky.social · 3w agojust learned this today
On CNN's Amanpour Astra answered the question that’s on lots of people’s minds this week: How should we understand all of the Silicon Valley executives and engineers warning that AI might destroy humanity? Her advice: watch what they do more than what they say. @astra.bsky.social
Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on September 7th. Featuring new work from @elfodongo.bsky.social @pcevans.bsky.social @eleanorhooker.bsky.social @jonathangibbs.bsky.social @katefeld.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @bentufnell.bsky.social & more thelonelycrowd.org/online-shop-...
The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd
Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...
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Titanic Completes Mostly Successful Maiden Voyage
Dr. SkySkull@drskyskull.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing
My friend @namimun.bsky.social on her struggle to get her ovarian cancer diagnosis from her American healthcare providers, who too often ignored her symptoms, as she did the same: www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
The Warnings I Almost Didn’t Heed
For a lifetime, I dismissed my body’s complaints. Then came ovarian cancer.
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Such a good @anildash.com clip here w/ @anamariecox.bsky.social talking about how Substack's problem isn't just nazis - it is being *trapped* alongside nazis in their closed ecosystem Watch the whole thing, it's so good youtu.be/IWdST5J2_p0
Anil Dash: Get Off Substack Before Someone Buys You | Past Due Podcast
YouTube video by Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle
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Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week. And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY. You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.
I'll be hosting Natalie's event in Manchester with @mcrlitfest.bsky.social, very much looking forward to it
Natalie Haynes@nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 6mo agoCome see me live! Standing up for the Golden Fleece and Medea! We'll be celebrating the paperback launch of No Friend to This House in June, so at these gigs you can get yourself a lovely paperback copy (I'll sign it too). 🔗 nataliehaynes.com/tour/
@manilazic.bsky.social wrote this 3 years ago about influencers taking over the critic space, and the same thing has happened with interviews www.theguardian.com/film/2023/au...
Who needs film critics when studios can be sure influencers will praise their films?
A shift from knowledgable writers to those simply in search of free tickets devalues cinema – and audience experience
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Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt’s so frustrating. A lot of celebrity “interviews” are just influencers desperate to “hang out” with famous people they idolize. They rarely even ask questions, to say nothing of questions pertinent to anyone but themselves or stans. It’s a real loss for culture.
@kellylink.bsky.social could you point me at books for my soon to be 18-yr-old daughter (her current obsession: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet; her perennial fave: Cynthia Voigt's A Solitary Blue). She loves good writing and is partial to a graphic novel too. I need some inspiration!
Here's a conversation with a listener in Scotland about why so many of us feel ashamed of our financial lives in todays economy. It is a reaction to recent class episodes from @vermontpublic.org, and I ask dumb questions for the sake of all people like me. www.rumblestripvermont.com/episodes/a-s...
A springtime show about the economy that partly explains why we feel ashamed — Rumble Strip
This is a conversation with a money manager in Scotland who has given a great deal of thought to why many of us feel confused and ashamed about our financial lives.
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What I love about the NYT is that to them, everything is possible. Maybe AI is alive. Maybe Republicans aren't racist. Maybe the new war in the middle east is good actually. Maybe a FEMA agent teleported (magically OR WITH SCIENCE, haters) to a waffle house. We don't know! Facts aren't real things!
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN@jmberger.com · 6mo agoFolks, I give you the New York Times
What a legend. Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile www.newyorker.com/culture/post...
Remembering Calvin Tomkins, a Master of the Profile
For nearly seventy years, he captured the lives of modern artists for The New Yorker.
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This is horrifying. As someone who lives in Greater Manchester, I'd love to know what school this was?
Rob Davies@byrobdavies.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
One of the many ways in which AI, no matter how “good,” will always fall short of humans at being human. From Another Way Of Telling, by John Berger & Jean Mohr, 1982
‘We live in this paradox, and it has a deep contradiction. You’re creating big cities, creating great images for the young Arab people, creating an environment that they’d love to live in – but you don’t want to give them freedom.’ – #AhmedMansoor #UAE
The whole "it's here, accept it, it's already in your life, you can't stop it, it's happening & actually you being unable to remove it (bc we designed it like that) is proof you want ir" techbro chat is pure & utter rape script. Nothing but.
Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸@jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.
in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you
Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com · 8mo agoIn the video of Trump talking to the US men's hockey team, when he says "I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that" as a joke about how annoying it is to have women around, the most painful part for me, are all the hockey players laughing. Actually laughing.
Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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This is how enjambment can work in a poem. Bridge 77 on the Macclesfield Canal allows a horse to cross the canal without having to untie it from the canal boat.
my proportions Virginia Woolf, Diary, last entry for 1930
Friends! Welcome our December guest editor - MATTHEW KINLIN!!! @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Matt’s theme for the month will be/// __My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico Sendyourmagicxx burninghousepress.com/2025/12/01/d...
DECEMBER 2025 Guest Editor Is MATTHEW KINLIN!!! Theme: My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico
Burning House Press are excited to welcome Matthew Kinlin as the fifth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Matt will take over editorship of Burning House Pr…
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
David Hulloween 胡大衛@hushuo.bsky.social · 10mo agoI finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...