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Dakota Nyght
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☀️ Author of "Hope for Breakfast" Substack 📚 Developmental and Line/Copy Editor 🌱 Writer, Artist, and Climate Resilience Gardener dakotanyght.com
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · 27d
Lots of small actions add up... here's your good news for going into the weekend. Also... there's at least three dragons in the clouds in this week's featured photo. Can you spot them?
Ground Swell of Resistance
Lots of small actions add up, my friends. Let's keep it up.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · 29d
Happy Punctuation Day!!! (Three exclamation points lets the reader know the degree to which I am excited about this, and three marks looks more visually balanced than two... and yes, that is the kind of deep thought that I put into punctuation choices. 😂) Cartoon by @sandraboynton.bsky.social
Image is a cartoon cat holding a red pen and the caption: Please note: September 24th is National Punctuation Day. Period. (Or excamation point, depending on your level of enthusiasm!) The cartoon was drawn by Sandra Boynton.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Sep 19
It’s sort of fascinating (in that watching a car wreck sort of way) to track the way stories are published and then shared, and the ebb and flow of what has staying power and what doesn’t.... Here's a roundup of good news for this week.
Looking Below the Surface
Good news that flew below the radar this week...
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Sep 12
The news has been an extreme rollercoaster ride this week, but good things are still happening.
Stay Strong: Not Everything is Terrible
The news has been an extreme rollercoaster ride this week, but let me provide evidence that there are still bright spots of positivity out there...
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Sep 6
#EFACon25 has been such a delight so far. The presentation topics are thoughtfully curated and relevant to multiple levels of experience. I also appreciate how easy they've made it to navigate the virtual format. Looking forward to day two!
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Aug 29
It's been a bit since my last issue due to taking vacation time, but I'm getting back in the saddle. Here's the link to this Friday's Hope for Breakfast.
Keep It Up: Rainbow-fueled Defiance
What struck me this week is the plethora of “small” defiant actions from people… they don’t necessarily strike down laws and make big sweeping changes across the US, but they create solidarity, educa...
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Aug 29
My editor hat is on today: All authors who had books downloaded from LibGen or Pirate Library Mirror to tarin Anthropic's AI are potential class members in the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit. They may be entitled to damages if the lawsuit succeeds. Sign up at the link to receive notices about the case.
Anthropic AI Class Action: Important Information for Authors - The Authors Guild
Earlier this summer, a federal court in California issued a major ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic, one of the copyright class action lawsuits involving AI. The court held that a trial should occur over w...
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Aug 1
Good news to fuel your weekend recovery and also some suggestions for coping skills if you need them!
Joy-Boosting Skills and Good News
Some suggestions for building resiliency along with good political news to fuel your weekend recovery...
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 28
Good bits of news to power the week ahead...
Breakfast Bites (7/28)
Happy Monday my friends, here's a few bits of good news to power your week with.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 26
Humor is an important tool in this fight... as is seeing where we're making gains. Here's some good news for going into the weekend.
Building Strength through Laughter
Hello Sunny-siders, if we're laughing, we're not crying or cowering. Here's some humor and good news for your weekend.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 17
Good political news for the week, a bit early.
On This Day of Good Trouble
Hello Sunny-siders, here's a round up of some good political news for the week.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 16
If reparations were made to the people whose work was used, and the energy demands were solved, perhaps I'd feel more neutral about it. But right now, I'm appalled every time someone casually uses AI for something small.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 16
I think that for specific uses like this, there's value. Or for differently abled folks who need assistance. But humans are very bad about limiting our use of new toys to NEEDS and not wants.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 16
There have been some really neat things that have come out of it... new antibiotics, more efficient solar panel materials... some scientists are using it to analyze whale songs. My understanding is that these models are different than the ChatGPT/Gemini/CoPilot models that are being pushed on us.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 16
And the studies coming out now about how using AI actually *inhibits* brain function—I intuitively felt that from the start, but it's gratifying to see the studies coming out now that prove it. I'm afraid for my kids. Schools are talking about deliberate AI training. Can't avoid it, but I'm opposed.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 16
*LLMs (plural, oops!) I'm also an editor, and the writing that AI spits out seems fine on the surface, but once you dig down and actually analyze it, it is recursive and often incorrect. My colleagues have horror stories about the facts and sources that it makes up.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 16
I don't use it because of the way companies ripped off artists and writers to train the early LLM (I've been anti-AI since Midjourney), and because of the ridiculous energy and water needs that AI servers require. No thank you!
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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · Jul 15
ARTISTS:

A lot of folks use wetransfer to send final files to their AD. Just a heads up that they changed their terms of service to say that they own the right to any work you upload and can use it to "train" their machine learning and also to reproduce it indefinitely
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 7
Happy Monday friends, here are a few bits of good political news to give you a boost and some resilience for the week ahead.
Breakfast Bites (7/7)
Happy Monday friends, here are a few bits of good news to give you a boost and some resilience for the week ahead.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 4
I love this bit of your post: "The Framers of our Constitution... used these marks to do what their words alone could not. They used a brigade of periods, commas, and semicolons to inscribe a 'voice' into what would otherwise be a collection of terms and phrases subject to interpretation at will."
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 4
To quote @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: "When you don't assume the outcome, you recognize that you may be able to participate in shaping it… that is the most basic tenet of hope, that the future is being made in the present... " Hang in there friends. It's not over yet. #politics #hope
Ooof. Keep Your Chins Up
Hello friends, it has been a tough day. Let's engage in some aggressive self-care practices this weekend, and jump back in the fray as soon as we can. The only way out is through, and I'd rather go do...
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50501 Montana @50501montana.bsky.social · Jul 1
There is still time to stop this abominable bill in the House. Call your representatives TODAY. (Some sources say the vote may happen tomorrow.) Use @5calls.org to find your representatives numbers, or if you're in MT:
- Rep. Zinke (202) 225-5628
- Rep. Downing (202) 225-3211
indivisiblemisoula.bsky.social Indivisible Missoula @indivisiblemisoula.bsky.social · Jul 1
Trump’s Tax Scam would give ICE a bigger budget than many militaries around the world.
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jul 1
Split personality time! (As in me and my content... not you, hah.) If you're a comics writer/artist and are brewing something about Loose Ends, Oneshi Press just dropped a call for submissions.
oneshipress.bsky.social Oneshi Press @oneshipress.bsky.social · Jul 1
📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 📢
Our fifteenth anthology's theme is LOOSE ENDS.
Weave us a tapestry of the unfinished, the unresolved, and the wildly mysterious in your short comic.
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Anthology #15: LOOSE ENDS
Call for submissions for short comics exploring the unfinished, the unresolved, and the mysterious for our 15th anthology—LOOSE ENDS.
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5 Calls @5calls.org · Jun 29
To date, you have made OVER 500,000 calls via 5 Calls to your Senators to oppose HR 1 🔥📞🔥

NC Senators have received the most calls and notably Thom Thillis was one of 2 Republican NOs on the procedural vote last night.

Keep the pressure up! The fight on the floor is not over...

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Calls made with 5 Calls in Opposition to H.R. 1: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Budget Reconciliation)
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Dakota Nyght @dakotanyght.bsky.social · Jun 30
Hope for Breakfast: My own little effort to push back on the hopelessness and despair... good political news to fuel your mental health and resistance efforts.
Breakfast Bites (6/30)
Hello my friends, here's a few bites of positive political news to fuel your resistance efforts this week. Pushback works... so don't give up!
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