Stephanie
@litmaven.bsky.social
I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.
www.economist.com/united-state... '“It is cobbled-together nonsense and it should die a swift death in court,” says Justin Randolph, an immigration lawyer in Chicago.'
The Trump administration’s big move to limit legal immigration
A new policy restricting green-card applications could wreak havoc
economist.com
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment The global economy must be radically transformed to stop it rewarding pollution and waste, UN secretary general António Guterres has warned. Speaking to the Guardian after the UN hosted a meeting of leading global economists, Guterres said humanity’s future required the urgent overhaul of the world’s “existing accounting systems” he said were driving the planet to the brink of disaster. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
just popping in to say you should watch Riot Women on Britbox if you haven't already ok bye
"Because AI is garbage. It’s an inherently antihuman technology that is doing active harm to the now hundreds of millions of people who consume it." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
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"The only way to change these habits is to repeat the truth again and again: social media is rotting our souls from the inside out." open.substack.com/pub/opensecr...
Truth Hurts: Scrolling at Night Is Cooking My Brain
In this, his first column, John DeVore confronts an ugly truth about bedtime
open.substack.com
jfc. www.parents.com/gen-z-parent...
Gen Z Parents Don't Want to Read to Their Kids, New Study Shows
A new study from HarperCollins Publishers shows that parents, specifically Gen Z parents, no longer want to read to their kids. Experts warn that not reading to kids could lead to long term consequenc...
parents.com
this is the most important thing you'll read all year-> "We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line."
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
theguardian.com
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
I don't know if he still does it, but GRRM writing his books on an Apple IIe word processor makes more and more sense to me every day
How To Be a Writer, #24262111: Open work-in-progress No, not that one Not that one either Nope. Try another one. Yeeeeaaahhhhhhhh - no. Worry vaguely that you might *just* have too many works-in-progress - But wait, what's this great new idea? Tea.
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel
a man with a beard is talking to another man in a movie .
Alt: gif quoting "I don't know. It's a mystery" from the movie Shakespeare in Love.
media.tenor.com
Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman.bsky.social · last yr.Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel
if there's one thing my dad's gonna do, it's drive exactly the speed limit in the middle of a five lane highway
one day you're carefree and wild and then suddenly you find yourself scrolling through a podcast called "Boring History for Sleep" but can't choose an episode because they all sound too interesting
The electric bills in Pennsylvania have gone up because the state cut a sweetheart deal with AI data centers. Good times out here.
“Many people think that a wealthy man wants to get married”
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last yr.This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩
“[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” – Judy Blume #booksky
I will voluntarily disconnect from the Internet and all of the benefits it provides to my life before I will use the world burning plagiarism and lying machine intentionally.
Boogaloubrown@boogaloubrown.bsky.social · last yr.40 and up crew please don’t think you you won’t need AI. Learn that shit before you turn into our parents with cell phones!
"Writing and reading are not effortless. But, without that effort, we will slide deeper and deeper into inchoateness, darkness, violence, diminished freedom for all and a diminished state of human being."
Opinion | The end of writing and reading will be the end of freedom
Why graduation season is so heartening to me.
washingtonpost.com
Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
technologyreview.com
Streamers can't play music in the background as they talk, can't play games with licensed soundtracks turned on, can't even show a trailer with the sound on without fear but sure let's let Sam altman take everything for free
Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · last yr.Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
Mantel imagined the politician, writer and best-known journalist of the French Revolution having no doubts about it at all: “I wonder why I ever bothered with sex. There’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.’” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it
theguardian.com
"Tragically for historians and literary scholars, her poetry does not survive today, except for one striking, thought-provoking line: 'I ask your forgiveness and I am a mountain tiger.' These words inspired L.M. Elliott’s 2015 historical novel, Da Vinci’s Tiger."
Meet the Mysterious Renaissance Muse Immortalized in the Only Leonardo da Vinci Painting in the Americas
Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings and artworks left behind by the men who admired her
smithsonianmag.com
the internet drives each person insane a little bit differently. it is beautiful to see
"Should writers and editors be concerned that AI will soon make them unemployable?" "Yes! And, therefore, we should exercise our agency and respond to that concern, individually and collectively." For The Frontlist, I spoke with @vauhinivara.bsky.social about 'Searches,' one of 2025's best books.
Exclusive: Vauhini Vara wants communion, not "content"
Behind the book with the author of 'Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age,' one of Esquire's best books of 2025 so far.
thefrontlist.org
Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
theguardian.com
"Those plucky venture capitalists need something to invest in, after all, and what better than generative AI? Be glad, fellow tiny economic unit, for a small number of people are getting insanely rich! That’s what being human is all about, right?"
Emma Newman@emmanewman.bsky.social · last yr.Felt incandescently angry, might delete later. enewman.co.uk/rage-rage-ag...
