Karawynn ‘🚫🧊’ Long
@karawynn.bsky.social
Award-winning author, proofreader, reader of SFF. Queer autistic disabled progressive anticapitalist with a growing veg garden and a talking dog. Also: 🐘 https://wandering.shop/@karawynn & 📰 https://ninelives.karawynnlong.com
For writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why
This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.
Taylor Farms Posted Its Own Recall. It Went to 27 States, Not 5 — and the List Includes Bags Sold in Grocery Stores.
Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA's recalls page, which means the only
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We CAN STOP this. That’s why talking about the CLARITY Act is so important. Spread the word.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 3w agoTrump's corruption is about to be supercharged. Unless we stop it. The CLARITY Act is moving, and it's time to sound the alarm before it's too late.
MailerLite @mailerlite.bsky.social hiding a 20% annual fee increase and new service limitations … behind an email touting a bunch of AI “features” that I actively Do Not Want: 😒
Jesus, Ezra. That isn't what happened at all. Rufo did not "try to figure out if" it's true." He gleefully amplified the lie, then offered a bounty to anyone who could retroactively "prove" it. It spurred death threats. Thousands will soon be deported because of it. Many of them will die.
(It took about two more years for Ezra Klein to *fully* squander the respect he’d built up with me over a couple of decades previous. Sometime last winter he became persona non grata.)
Karawynn ‘🚫🧊’ Long@karawynn.bsky.social · 3y agoYeah, I respect Ezra very much but I think he missed the call on this dude. Veganism, sure. Bestiality and "effective altruism", not so much.
I'm reading all 2026 #Hugo short story nominees! In 10 VISIONS OF THE FUTURE; OR SELF-CARE FOR THE END OF DAYS by @samtasticbooks.com a woman sees post-apocalyptic alternative futures and their effects upon her and her partner. Read it at www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-v... #BookSky
10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days - Uncanny Magazine
1. There is a future in which a hellgate opens off the coast of California. It happens at midnight on the first day of the new year, which is sooner than anyone expected. The waters rise and we are fo...
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Napoleon Bonaparte made his servants break in his shoes before he wore them. His entire wardrobe was two different outfits repeated. When he arrived at St Helena he had a meltdown about the house smelling like paint. His stare was so unnerving other heads of state believed it was magical.
Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 11mo agoTrump: "There are no autistic people over seventy." Me: "The first Nero Wolfe novel came out in 1934."
10 detained by NYPD and 4 detained by MTA following an early-morning disruption demo. Longtime peace activist John Mark explains why they’re protesting today as he’s carried out by NYPD:
talking to my neighbors and she was like "it's a pretty shitty time to be an american but it's a fuckin' GREAT time to be a new yorker" and that about covers the past several months
Some important risk information for anyone with a dog or cat. And some extra hope, if you already have a pet with a neurological condition like epilepsy.
The Missing Facts About My Dog’s Epilepsy
Flea meds can cause seizures. Diet can resolve them. Why is this not common knowledge?
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The best moments of the last year have been when people have said to me, ‘I saw when you got arrested, and that’s the day I signed up to go court watching.’ I hope people will keep signing up and showing up. (4/5)
Some important risk information for anyone with a dog or cat. And some extra hope, if you already have a pet with a neurological condition like epilepsy.
The Missing Facts About My Dog’s Epilepsy
Flea meds can cause seizures. Diet can resolve them. Why is this not common knowledge?
ninelives.karawynnlong.com
shit like this is why i have a wired subscription again in the 2020s for the first time since the 1990s.
@lizbauch.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
I have seen this cat here in Portland and he's a chill sweetie. CVS should be proud to have their own bodega cat!! Maybe tell corporate how you feel! www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
A Portland cat chose a CVS as his retirement home, and the customers are rallying to keep him there
A pharmacy patron has launched a formal complaint against a Sellwood pet.
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I have an idea: what if we visited websites again??? hear me out: websites published by humans who are professionally trained to gather accurate information I KNOW IT’S CRAZY BUT IT MIGHT JUST WORK
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3mo agoGoogle is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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this Elon Musk plot to steal your 401(k) money is really going underdiscussed
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 3mo agoAs @bentarnoff.com and I have been saying, he is also making use of the quasi-coercive qualities of the index fund for SpaceX shares. Once he is fast-tracked into NASDAQ 100... "It will be impossible not to own them."
The Chief Justice and his wife took 20 million dollars from firms with cases in front of the court. A level of corruption no one expected from the nation's highest court
The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I'm Filing for His Disbarment Today.
And you can too.
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This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.
The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 3mo agoAcross all Utah public schools, every district copy of each banned book must be destroyed, according to state law.
I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo agoThe child’s mom, a university professor, “suspects her daughter was flagged by the teacher’s AI detection tools because she used terms such as ‘the titular character.’”
Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations
Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 3mo agoA Constellation of Chronic Medical Conditions Commonly Seen in Autistic & ADHD Adults
Have you been asked by a medical provider recently for consent to have an "AI" scribe record your visit? Us, too. And we have **thoughts** buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Why you should refuse to let your doctor record you
By: Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney At a recent appointment, Emily’s physical therapist (who knows some about her research) said, “Before we get started,...
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