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“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

submitted 8 days ago • 121 comments

I really like how Casey Cep has the “Weird, twisted Americana” beat at The New Yorker.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Being passively evil is so last decade. This is evil on purpose, baby.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I know people have ten million things to say about Severance, but I just want one of those ORTBO hats

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

new blue micro NF www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2025/02...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

submitted 66 days ago • 467 comments

[tentatively] crying laughing throwing up

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

into which type of hell have we fallen?

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

backed out if AWP v last minute but hope you all find nice cushioned chairs to sit upon and have a rest.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

This is incredibly bad— a CDC website clone but w fake and misleading health advice (especially about vaccines), brought to you by the NGO formerly run by the current HHS secretary.

submitted 74 days ago • 10 comments

YES.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite genres are: 5. author did research for 12 years to write a tight 275 pages that make you gasp a lot 4. teen girls are people too! 3. something sinister is happening in book world as an allegory for the real world 2. sentences like wisps 1. a gal has a thought while doing the dishes

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

the amount of mealy-mouthed people crawling out of the woodwork to imply mahmoud khalil doesn’t deserve our full-throated support is evidence of the conditions that allowed him to be disappeared in the first place.

submitted 85 days ago • 69 comments

đź«Ą

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

submitted 88 days ago • 119 comments

cry-laughing on a monday vis a vis: "We are in the era of the post-literate writer." blgtylr.substack.com/p/story-basi...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Naomi Kanakia: "The people who understand th[e] process [of selling a literary novel] generally don't talk about it, because part of being a successful literary commodity is the illusion that you are sui generis and have some unique voice that you'd never allow the system to dilute." SCREAMING ❗‼️

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

in this economy, I need a car honk sound that’s gently like “hey little buddy, just letting you know the light is green; no worries!” the one-size-fits-all “Fck You” sound is entirely too loud.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Murderer.

submitted 97 days ago • 13 comments

“My faith in the reader is profound.” love love this interview with forever-buyer Paul Yamazaki. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/02...

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One thing that genAI boosters aren't prepared (or frankly equipped) to handle is how the right-wing tech CEO set are going to shift the models toward right-wing outputs. There will be a concerted effort to make these intentional propaganda machines.

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments

My feed should be flooded with the stories of laid off federal workers.

submitted 108 days ago • 3 comments

would read the book on this. 💅🏼

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

huh, it’s almost as if…

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

submitted 114 days ago • 65 comments

Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it

submitted 114 days ago • 70 comments

god bless @tupelopress.bsky.social

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

for my mom: seeking an anti-fascist newsletter by an independent journalist or several that aggregates news weekly or daily. any suggestions? #journalism #journalismsky

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

I love High Country News so much. talk about a paper doing its job.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

newsletter rec of the day—to keep things bite size and to keep forward motion manageable/possible

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.

submitted 117 days ago • 107 comments

Is it really so hard to write “Trump issues illegal order shuttering most of USAID”? American democracy will die in plain sight with bad headlines.

submitted 117 days ago • 24 comments

I’m sorry what.

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment