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Writer - WaPo, USA TODAY, Guardian, WIRED, The Nation, etc. Chicago + UVA 🤙🏽+ USC Annenberg. Assistant Prof. at Columbia College Chicago Joshua 1:9 🙏🏽
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Similar vibes to what I was going for here. Democracy is, generally speaking, less comfortable than being a relatively favoured group in a non democracy. I don't think we should deny this is a genuine cost to some, but we should insist it's worth it. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

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Finished another round of edits for my manuscript. Sent it off to one agent, send to another today. Still trying to find more Black agents or agents who have Black clients as well. Feel like I'm running to a lot who are closed for queries or aren't looking for historical fantasy.

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From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all. youtu.be/w7tRNkiLz9A?...

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This was in our department’s kitchen 😂

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In this Op-ed for Scientific American, Asmelash Teka Hadgu and I discuss one of the many reasons the idea of replacing US federal workers with so-called generative AI systems should terrify us. 🧵 www.scientificamerican.com/article/repl...

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Can anyone in book publishing explain to me why the UK bookcover seems to always be better than the U.S. cover for books? Is it because the US one comes out first?

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A couple weeks ago after one of my many “publish locally!” rants, I started corresponding with this author about writing for her dads local paper in Montana. Just a perfect example of the form: www.boulder-monitor.com/featured_con...

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“The idea that Meta can ‘remove bias from our AI models’ is ridiculous — in a very real sense, LLMs are collections of biases extracted from data and expressed on demand.”

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Working in getting the manuscript of my novel to 60k words. Right now at about 53k. Also, got a manuscript request! Due at the end of the month 🙏🏽

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Dissects Trump's Tariffs on Novara Media www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlF...

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“Paid protesters” is such a weird accusation the Right always makes.

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Cuts impact small farmers in West Virginia where Trump won 70% of votes. Trump cut $500 million program for food banks to buy local produce. Federal funds on average comprise about one-third of states' annual spending. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

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I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus." www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...

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The University of Toronto is bringing in three big names, who are leaving the U.S. for a variety of reasons, but the increasing authoritarianism and cowardice of universities won’t help.

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It’s patently false, but notice that “humans won’t be needed” to these people is identified as the desired future rather than the deeply dystopian vision that it actually is.

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it seems like people move Right to Left for super-egoic reasons and Left to Right for more emotional, interpersonal reasons. Am i wrong? (Aside from the standard caveats about generalizing or creating binaries)

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In the last 2.5 years, Sam has -Reneged on promises to keep OpenAI a nonprofit to ensure it "benefits all of humanity" + joined the Forbes billionaires list -Been fired by his board for deceitful behavior -Ingested artists + writers work to train his AI products without asking or compensating them

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

In the querying agents part of my road to published author. Not the funnest part but hope i don’t have to go through dozens of people.

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In the process of editing my novel. Currently checking chapter 30 of 36. Really happy how things are turning out and eager to move the the query stage on my road to being an author.

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Left the remote on the other side of the couch 😥

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Our pundit class treats the Right as if it is purely reactionary. We speak about it as if it has neither agency nor ideology. Everything they do is framed as a response to the Left; as if the Right is a child and the Left is the adult who should know better.

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Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity. newrepublic.com/article/1920... via @newrepublic.com

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

It’s also weird coming from folks who assert that using pronouns is totalitarian ideology. But again, only the Left has agency.

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