I 2nd this!"The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling—an escalator toward a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs....A.I. is accelerating the decline of writing, ushering us further into...'postliterate age.'” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. (Gift Article)

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

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That a sibling is "gift", your child "needs a friend", and one has to "try again to have a girl/boy" (to have both sexes), you're "selfish" if you don't have another child, all = #pronatalist myth and messaging! Truths: 1/2 www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

A Sibling Is Not Always a ‘Gift’

The term assumes that adding a child to a family is for the best. But that’s not the case for everyone.

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Excellent piece. My book #TheBabyMatrix is all about #pronatalism 's history, and its continued negative social, cultural, political and economic impacts. amzn.to/3TDFOZo countercurrents.org/2026/08/are-...

Are people really having fewer kids than they want? | Countercurrents

Declining birth rates have sparked fears of a fertility “crisis” and population “collapse.” The fears are based on misinformation, but nonetheless generate reactionary pronatalist policies aimed at…

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Share this article! It discusses "two of the world’s most eminent economists separately published articles on the benefits of population decline, debunking many contrary claims." Need more of this out there. overpopulation-project.com/two-prominen... #overpopulation

Two prominent economists talk up population decline - The Overpopulation Project

Two of the world's most eminent economists have written articles on the benefits of population decline that debunk contrary claims

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Important new book out today addressing the "need to curb the destructive behavior of corps", and..."gives advocates a powerful tool for holding companies accountable & protecting our social and environmental well-being." Avail thru Princeton U Press and amazon! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Reining in the Bulls

A comprehensive guide to planning and running effective corporate campaigns to pressure companies to do the right thing

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A reading list to look for "for common themes, patterns and novel questions about data politics. The goal isn’t to find answers to a huge political challenge but to ask better questions about our political obligations." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

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Today is #InternationalChildfreeDay! For a short time in the 70s it was called Non-Parents Day by the Nat'l Organization for Non-Parents (NON). In 2013, I brought it back as Int'l Childfree Day, ran for 10 years, including awarding Childfree Person & Group from around the world each year... 1/2

"It's been four years since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision opened the door to state abortion bans. A new study finds those bans are hurting women who aren't seeking abortions at all." #reprorights www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

How state abortion bans are affecting doctors and how they practice

It's been four years since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision opened the door to state abortion bans. Now, a new study finds those bans are hurting women who aren't seeking abortions at all. Researche...

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Today is #EarthOvershootDay. It marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. Sadly it moves up every year. One important solution=working toward a sustainable #population. overshoot.footprintnetwork.org

Earth Overshoot Day home - #MoveTheDate

Overshoot occurs when humanity's demand on nature exceeds Earth's biocapacity. In 2025, Earth Overshoot Day falls on July 24th.

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Check out Feedspot's 15 Best #Childfree Blogs to Follow in 2026! (My site is on the list : ) ) bloggers.feedspot.com/childfree_bl...

This has to be stopped. act.biologicaldiversity.org/TytOWBZe8UiE...

Say No to Data Centers on Public Land

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved the construction of a data center on 88.5 acres of desert habitat in southern Nevada, marking the first data center allowed on public land. Tell the BLM...

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+fun facts: Born in 1870, she was 51 when she enrolled at Berkeley, which was very unusual for a woman to do then. Over her botany career, she would end up collecting over 145,000 plant specimens. She is also one of the many explorers of the natural world who never had children! #ASpecialSisterhood

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Ynés Enriquetta Julietta Mexía (1870 –1938) was a Mexican-American botanist. Later in life, she enrolled at the University California Berkeley where she went on her first botanical expedition. #womeinSTEM

This has been the case since the 80s when my friends who became parents left SF. Instead of lamenting this, we need to move away from an economy that relies on more human cogs in the machine to keep growing at all costs. And WSJ: childless does not mean #childfree! www.wsj.com/us-news/citi...

America’s Big Cities Are Rapidly Losing Kids

The number of children is falling across the U.S., but the drop is especially pronounced in major metros. “It’s not the vibe it was 10 years ago.”

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Also: Smart from the start, by 7 yrs old, she was skilled at 7 languages. At 23, she brilliantly translated a book by a known Catholic monk, word spread, and she was invited to be part of scholarly societies of the time. Soon she became known as the most educated woman in Italy. #ASpecialSisterhood

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elena Cornaro Piscopia (d. #OTD 1684) was the first woman to receive an academic PhD--a doctorate in #Philosophy, U. of Padua (Italy) on 25 June 1678. She originally applied for a doctorate in Theology. Church authorities refused as women were not permitted to teach or preach #theology. #HigherEd

FromFB: BOOM! There you go! Now make them pay for every drop of water at consumer rates, and prove they are sustainable and won't use every drop available... then we can talk. 😼

She is part of a #ASpecialSisterhood of fascinating women from history who never had children. Here are 100 more! amzn.to/4yEBjOe

A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children

A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children [Carroll, Laura, Tonyeva, Nataliia] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never Had Children

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Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Amelia Earhart was born #OTD in 1897. 🛩️ 1929: Co-founded The Ninety-Nines & was its first president 🛩️ 1932: First woman/second person to fly solo/nonstop across the Atlantic 🛩️ 1935: First person to fly solo from Hawaii to California 🛩️ 1937: Disappeared somewhere over the Pacific #Aviation #AvGeek

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jm@jeaneri.bsky.social · 2w ago

just a reminder ladies and gents

Check it out ~ FeedSpot lists lauracarroll.com as one of the 15 Best #Childfree Blogs to Follow in 2026 : )https://bloggers.feedspot.com/childfree_blogs/

👏👏For the work of @earthjustice.org! earthjustice.org/press/2026/l...

Lawsuit Seeks to Protect America’s Wildlife From Trump Administration

Rulemaking claims habitat destruction does not “harm” endangered species

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In my interviews with #childfree men, they also have said they decided not to have kids as a result of watching the struggles their own fathers had to provide for the family and raise children. They did not want to experience this in their adult lives. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Ian doesn't want children. He's part of a growing trend among men

About 15 per cent of Australian men say they don't want children, an increase from 11 per cent in 2005. Ian says his own childhood played a large part in his decision.

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"When you ask people about their life’s meaning and purpose, parents say that their lives have more meaning than those of nonparents.” This may be the thinking of parents, but we all, whether parents or not... 1/3 www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness

Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.

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This next phase of AI 'training' may have "fully discharged their financial obligation to their creators” but authors have never consented to having their copyrighted material be used in this way. As an author, still feels like theft to me.

404 Media@404media.co · 2w ago

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Steph 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ | Editor 🦦✍️@ottersediting.com · 2w ago

As an editor, I value human creativity above all else. Human creativity means that YOU wrote it with your own ideas, experiences, and voice that make you who you are. It means I do not edit stories generated by AI. Human creativity > genAI ALWAYS! ottersediting.com

ICE shared Medicaid data, which it wasn't even supposed to have in the first place, with Palantir. Anyone else worried about this? Here's what you should know about Palantir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88

The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?

The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.

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Love this! Great link about her: www.embe.org/2022/08/21/1... "Amanda was also 2nd woman inducted into the Sout Dakota Sports Hall of Fame in 1982. Additionally, she has a children’s book written about her titled, Umpire in a Skirt. Amanda never had a husband or kids." #ASpecialSisterhood

100-Year Sunday Story: Amanda Clement - EmBe

Beginning Years: Amanda Clement was born in 1888 in Hudson, South Dakota. Amanda was familiar with strong women her entire life. Her dad died when she was seven, so Amanda watched as her mother steppe...

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Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Amanda Clement was the first woman paid to umpire a ️#baseball game (1904). She umpired for 6 years/~50 games each summer, traveling across the upper Midwest & earning $15-$25 per game--enough to put herself through college. She died #OTD in 1971 at age 83. #SportsHistory I ❤️ ⚾

Every State should be doing this. We know he's going to interfere in the election because he knows if we win, it's the end of his regime.

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From how I read this, the first #childfree joke gets straight at how she hates kids. Of all the reasons people don't want children, this is certainly not the most common, and one that's perceived more negatively than others. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/s...

The Only Thing Riskier Than Telling an Abortion Joke (Gift Article)

For the comedian Alison Leiby, talking about her choice to be child-free is more polarizing to audiences than anything else.

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"From 'Do no harm' to 'OK, go ahead and harm.' How the Trump administration rejected a 50-year-old tenet of the Endangered Species Act and stripped it of the ability to protect habitat." ~The Revelator therevelator.org/harm-endange...

Harm: How Redefining One Word Strips the Endangered Species Act’s Ability to Protect Vital Habitat • The Revelator

Most species on the brink of extinction are on the Endangered Species list because there is almost no place left for them to live.

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The organization, A Better Exit, is working to broaden CA's End of Life Option Act to include progressive, incurable diseases currently not covered under the law. It is looking for personal stories of end-of-life suffering due to limitations in the law: mailchi.mp/42500dd70644... abetterexit.org

A Better Exit

Learn about end of life choices and medical aid in dying at A Better Exit. Stay updated with legislative news on end of life options.

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