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

@aselrod.bsky.social This reminded me of the Reconstruction Papers.

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 5d ago

I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

A thought provoking morning read:

The Infinitely Prolonged@wowbaggert.bsky.social · 5d ago

thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-americ...

Listening to Ex tenebris ad lucem : Venetian Music of Penitence from a Time of Plague as background soundtrack for @bluejo.eurosky.social ‘s Everybody’s Perfect

Go see Hadestown if you haven’t.

ATTN @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social

For The Win@forthewin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Argentina's Leandro Paredes had hand around Spain player's throat in post-World Cup final scuffle bit.ly/4fdbZHy 📸 JUAN MABROMATA, AFP via Getty Images

Others more knowledgeable than I are saying the WC Final was a very well played match. Unpopular take: yesterday’s bronze final was vastly more entertaining.

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

watching "food allergies used to be real, they aren't anymore" videos on TikTok.... A food purveyor (e.g. restaurant) deliberately poisoning someone who has declared an allergy or celiac disease to that purveyor ought to be a criminal offense, like, everywhere

Gone with the Wind, a Spike Lee joint

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 4w ago

Guillermo del Toro’s Toy Story

The fireworks set list is one surprise after another. Oh to have been a fly on the wall at that first rehearsal.

@catworkers.bsky.social I notice many posts from Aubuchon Hardware locations. Is there something in the corporate procedure manual that requires an FQM (Feline Quality Manager) at every location?

Fundamentally, the story here is that humans are wired for hierarchy - status competition is an instinct we have. But we can and should mock and despise the people who cannot or will not rise above that instinct, the same as we would an adult who refused to ever be potty-trained.

@revlucymeg.bsky.social Any suggestions for sources of discount furniture in the Ithaca area?

I did not expect an A-Team reference from the world cup play by play announcer.

Does anyone else think the Uruguayan national anthem sounds like something from a Rossini opera?

Amazing line. Thanks for sharing.

I think the DNC has come to believe that outside of blue states, actually advocating for pluralism or a sense of mutual responsibility is a non-starter. Thus you are left to argue about who’s more authentic and in touch with “ordinary” people.

Andrew Otis Weiss@thatweissguy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There are more AOCs and Mamdanis out there, but they get clotheslined st the first hurdle while Fettermans, Sinemas, and Platners lay claim to the spaces they should’ve been occupying.

Been looking at DC monuments and thinking about how societies choose their built civic hagiography.

It's been said a billion times already, and it still can't be said enough: I don't see how US democracy survives if blatant, intentional lying remains cost-free

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

RNC Chair Joe Gruters: "Tala-freako is a creep. He's a vegan. He thinks God is nonbinary. He wants to mutilate children."

Akkadian idiom (in Old Babylonian legal tablets): 𒅖𒌅 𒁉𒂊 𒀀𒁲 𒆬𒄀 ištu pê adi ḫurāṣim ‘from chaff to gold’, i.e. everything būšûša u warkassa ša Ḫunnubtum mala ibaššû ištu pê adi ḫurāṣim ša Lamassīma Ḫunnubtum, her property and estate, all that there is from chaff to gold, is Lamassi’s [her daughter]

I am adding books to my TBR list much faster than I can read them and it is all of your (people on Bluesky) fault.

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

If you’re into books, may I suggest Bookhive, a Good Reads-like reading tracker that is easy to use, open source, runs on AT Proto and is developed by very nice people? I’ve been enjoying using it. bookhive.buzz

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I have bought so so so many books on the basis of Bluesky.

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

alexis nedd@alexisthenedd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

where is the oral history of tom holland umbrella? there was a whole live studio audience who experienced this in real time. find the backup dancers. who tailored his lil corset? someone arranged the song rights. someone mopped up the splash pad. does rihanna even know?

I had never thought of it that way, and now realize that something like this may explain my lack of enthusiasm for realistic novels.

Mid Fimbulwinter@curgoth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Conversely, I realised that I only really enjoy books that have something for me to try to "solve" - grokking the setting, parsing the novel language, working out the magic system, whodunnit, etc. Genres that don't have that drive me up the wall.

As long as higher ed practitioners follow evidence/logic where it leads, probe the contexts & structures of things, foster critical & independent thought, & insist on facts, it will be anathema to totalitarians of all kinds. They want propaganda centers, not institutions of actual learning. 3/

Putting College Back Together - a reflection on @kylesaunders.bsky.social thoughts on higher ed bifurcation: blog.jasongreen.net/2026/04/putt...

Putting College Back Together Again

Today I stumbled across a thought-provoking post from Kyle Saunders of Colorado State University. In it he proposes that changes in the job market, driven in part but not completely by AI, are crea…

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Based on my limited experience with LLMs it would probably end up a flavorless imitation of the real thing.

Teddy Focaccia@kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The other day I mis-typed it as “ChaatGPT” which made me think of a LLM that generates delicious Indian food.

A thoughtful examination of the presuppositions that form the foundation of the immigration system we have now, and the one to which we ought to aspire.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 4mo ago

"The only immigration controls should be conducted based on a due process adjudication of threat—violent felonies, and active terrorism designations, as well as facilitating a speedy, humane registration process for civic integration." www.liberalcurrents.com/reopen-the-g...