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my dudes there's no such thing as "too late" to regulate AI, that's a fake idea. AI models aren't untouchable data gods, they're algorithms hosted in cloud storage. Saying we can't regulate AI is like saying we can't deplatform Child P*rn bc "it's already out there". Like, 1s and 0s can be deleted

submitted 11 hours ago • 26 comments

Was very excited when Last Week Tonight asked @404media.co to help out with research/fact checking for an AI Slop segment that ran last night. I thought it turned out very good! Here's a few mentions of our reporting, and the full segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

The heat is on! A few afternoon or early evening t'storms may provide a bit of relief to some, otherwise expect temps to peak in the mid 90s with heat indices in the mid 100s. Be sure to follow the important heat safety tips attached! (No really, stay cool and hydrated.)

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Got a few minutes to lament those extra seasons of Rome we never got? You'll weep like Tiro as Pullo wields the blade on Cicero. youtu.be/1cIVJD1cmbk?...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

🌞Happy solstice everyone!🌞 Today I’m sharing one of my favourite sunny illos to mark the occasion - my artwork of the Ancient Greek Temple of Apollo at Bassae🇬🇷 🏺#AncientBluesky

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

indulge your inner goblin or gtfo

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This is kind of a weirdly personal one: a bit of wish-fulfillment about a big, beautiful old house riddled with ghosts, friendly and...otherwise. The author's note is only half true; Dad was happy with girls and happy to help us learn whatever we wanted, so this one's for him, too 👇

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Guys, @cheriepriest.com can transform even a cozy tea kettle into a thing of abject horror, so when she says something's a real project of her heart we should preorder the darn book already. Which can be done here: bookshop.org/p/books/it-w... (See also? Cinderwich! bookshop.org/p/books/cind... ☠️🍃)

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks for the shout-out re: IT WAS HER HOUSE FIRST ❤️

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

Studying the carbon isotopes of fatty acids in pot residues has revealed that humans consumed milk in Britain from 4000BC and as long ago as 7000BC in Anatolia, a region in Turkey known for its farming during the Neolithic period. #cheese #news 🧀 #history #science #archaeology #food

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

submitted 10 days ago • 166 comments

That’s an arrest.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Listen up.

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

submitted 19 days ago • 313 comments

She Survived Genital Cutting, Then Shared Her Reconstruction on TikTok Shamsa Sharawe made her name campaigning against female genital cutting. Then she heard about surgery to rebuild what had been taken from her. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/w...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

one of the most important things I drill home for new/young writers is that Everyman(tm) does not exist, but the specific IS the universal; and addressing specific details/needs - even if they don’t apply to everyone - is still a concrete way to build interest, empathy, and audience.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Jesus his publisher stole 14,000 GBP from him

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

The Luddites had a great phrase for what they opposed: "Machinery hurtful to commonality." It's an excellent reminder that being a Luddite doesn't mean you hate technology, but that you hate the way capitalists create and use technology to destroy community and human flourishing.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

This entire thing is such a shitshow. I really wish that (a) publishers wouldn't spend author royalties and (b) that they would just be fucking honest about it so that people who think they'll be getting $8000 to pay bills on May 31st don't find out on May 30th.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

submitted 31 days ago • 45 comments

I feel this way about stories

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

submitted 32 days ago • 102 comments

If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

Our standard three-act story structure tells us that things will get worse and worse, until some massive confrontation — after which they'll be great. This expectation is really bad for us, especially when during this current traumatic moment. My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

submitted 35 days ago • 23 comments

This is not an idle threat, either. Most publications will not only fire you, they will blacklist you for using AI. Some of our fields are small, and we talk, mostly because we tend to run in the same circles. You will be found out.

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Can we have a real talk about AI… how the fuck is everyone not disturbed as I am? Why the fuck would you kill our planet faster just to make some dumb shit? How can people possibly consume AI content like it’s normal? I truly don’t understand how normalized it’s become and it’s scaring me

submitted 46 days ago • 26 comments

#FrescoFriday - A vibrant panel from the Tomb of the Dancers, Ruvo di Puglia, ca. 400-350 BC. The colours, movement, and individuality of the figures are particularly striking. #MagnaGrecia #Art 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9357). Link - mannapoli.it/magna-grecia...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 47 days ago • 68 comments

What Chels said. I am tired of pretending that there’s an inch of respect I have for people who use genAI bots to produce work. Yes, even ‘just to get an idea’. Yes, even ‘only for first drafts’. I will never trust your judgment or your work product. And yes, I can tell when you use it.

submitted 48 days ago • 11 comments

Fantastic piece from @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on the tide finally starting to turn: "But what really matters—what is measurable and knowable now in a way that was not a few weeks ago—is that standing up to Trump is going to be worth it." slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 56 days ago • 29 comments

The toddler: I want to give you some space. ::hands me a felt meteor:: @edidin.bsky.social

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

(whispers into the void: "hubris is feminine in ancient Greek")

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

For the afternoon crowd! Good news for a great little shelter in rural Tennessee, courtesy of the internet and the World's Goodest Boy 👇

submitted 64 days ago • 12 comments

It's actually wild. There's literally no mention of why Jackie Robinson is important in the MLB press release. At all. Just that he "played his first Major League game on April 15, 1947."

submitted 71 days ago • 21 comments

A frustrating article that, for all its length, omits: - kids’ perspectives - the Lost Girls generation www.theguardian.com/society/2020... - racial bias in diagnosis - medication shortages - overlap with autism & sensory processing - anxiety & depression as consequences, not comorbidities

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

Ah the fall of the Roman empire in checks notes 40CE.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

What if a eulogy, but 80% funny (I hope)? If you want to skip the potentially sad parts, just click through and scroll to the bottom - and rather than condolences, please consider a donation to the tiny no-kill shelter in Tennessee where we met Greyson as a pup. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-wei...

submitted 75 days ago • 6 comments

the only AI session I cared about at #acrl2025

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submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

submitted 95 days ago • 75 comments

What we need is for everyone to talk like this the moment one of these losers starts their stupid culture war bullshit.

submitted 96 days ago • 18 comments