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avery larsen
@guion11.bsky.social
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living in fear of being perceived

also wanting everyone to read my books

hoping these are not mutually exclusive

she/her

Faust meets finance romantasy: https://books2read.com/marginalvirtue

economic zodiac: https://books2read.com/economastrologics
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avery larsen @guion11.bsky.social · Jun 14
Some news! I wrote a book! And it’s really good! And as of last night it’s live on Amazon and Barnes and Noble! www.amazon.com/dp/B0D72FK9SV

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/marginal-v...
Amazon.com: Marginal Virtue eBook : Larsen, Avery, Elvy: Kindle Store
Marginal Virtue - Kindle edition by Larsen, Avery, Elvy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Marginal Virtue.
www.amazon.com
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
ok when you uncheck it, it takes away the promotions tab. which was the only way I was surviving in my inbox.

it honestly feels like this is deeply punitive, they are holding a gun to our head to try to force us to opt-in to this shit no one wants
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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motherjones.com
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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mrjoncryer.bsky.social
I filed my claim.
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
guion11.bsky.social
YES!!
jodimca.bsky.social Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 8d
There will be! Working on the edits for Fiona and Satoshi's book right now.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
guion11.bsky.social
Just finished this and wowowow this book is wonderful. My favorite professor called literature the Great Conversation, and this book made me so nostalgic for her seminars. A+
jodimca.bsky.social Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · Oct 22
Okay USA, I know you have plenty of other things going on at the moment, but my new book An Academic Affair will be released in your country in only a few weeks (11 November!!), and if you wanted to pre-order it, I would simply love that.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...
A trope graphic for An Academic Affair (a blue cartoon cover rom-com featuring images of a white man and woman glaring at each other while holding large stacks of books). The tropes read: enemies to lovers, fake marriage of convenience, one bed, he falls first, academic rivals.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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candicefrederick.bsky.social
www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Is AI being shoved down your throat at work? Here’s how to fight back.
Is AI being shoved down your throat at work? Here’s how to fight back.
Resistance to exploitative AI starts with building a movement.
www.vox.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
Heritage, for its part, was so upset about this reporting that it threatened to sue Vox to try and stop publication. But we are confident in our source and our reporting.

Here's a gift link to the piece that Heritage tried to kill www.vox.com/on-the-right...
The toxic culture behind the right’s civil war
A Heritage insider alleging “openly misogynistic and racist” conduct shines a light on the right’s inner workings.
www.vox.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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jackjenkins.me
For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
guion11.bsky.social
How did we get so lucky to get to live on Earth, a planet that sometimes shows me northern lights even in my suburban backyard
Tree silhouetted against the northern lights, which are gorgeous pink and green. The tree trunk is partially lit by a streetlight
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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davidclewis.bsky.social
when the bouncers have reluctantly let me into the club but immediately realise they’ve made a horrible mistake
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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museum.of.emilyk.art
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Hope is active. Doom is inactive. Every time you say “it’s over” you have completely given up and simply handed it all to the fascists.
craigcalcaterra.bsky.social Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Oct 24
The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.
October 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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louceph.com
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM