Olivia
@oagennaro.bsky.social
I write things and teach young people • Literacy, Mental Health Advocate • Book/TV/Music/Theatre nerd • she/they 🏳️🌈
Check out books from my fiancée @tayberryjelly.bsky.social
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Check out books from my fiancée @tayberryjelly.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/oliviaannegennaro
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Olivia
@oagennaro.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Patreon update | Olivia Anne Gennaro
Get more from Olivia Anne Gennaro on Patreon
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Update from me: There is more benefit to being a paid Patreon now! Throw me a couple bucks to write about music and books!
www.patreon.com/posts/127237...
www.patreon.com/posts/127237...
Watched E1 of Pluribus. Like if The X-Files, The Twilight Zone, and The Leftovers had a baby
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Watched E1 of Pluribus. Like if The X-Files, The Twilight Zone, and The Leftovers had a baby
Ordered my suit for my wedding today ☺️
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ordered my suit for my wedding today ☺️
I have not seen all the Star Wars movies
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I have not seen all the Star Wars movies
I’m especially interested to see how many of these are going around…
If you’re an author who has been contacted by a seemingly AI marketing or other scam, can I talk to you?
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I’m especially interested to see how many of these are going around…
For the evening crowd
New newsletter is live: in which I review the two main articles in NY Mag's "Stupid Issue" and ask, "Are standardized tests even a good measurement?"
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
Are we stupider than before?
how much should we trust tests?
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
For the evening crowd
There is a discussion guide to a story I wrote!
Announcement!
Our first issue and discussion guide are now available #free on Teachers Pay Teachers, through our Outreach Editor’s ( @1storyteller.bsky.social ) storefront! We’ll be adding more!
Check them out, tell your teacher friends! #EduSky #TPT #TLSky #TeacherSky #Literacy
Our first issue and discussion guide are now available #free on Teachers Pay Teachers, through our Outreach Editor’s ( @1storyteller.bsky.social ) storefront! We’ll be adding more!
Check them out, tell your teacher friends! #EduSky #TPT #TLSky #TeacherSky #Literacy
Nimblewitlit | TPT
Browse Nimblewitlit resources on Teachers Pay Teachers, a marketplace trusted by millions of teachers for original educational resources.
www.teacherspayteachers.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
There is a discussion guide to a story I wrote!
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In a time of slop, AI or not, it’s time to lean into niche communities and odd work by passionate weirdos with well-honed clarity of intention and craft
This is so relevant to my day-to-day thinking at @hubcitypress.bsky.social. instead of being demoralized and saying, let AI do all the publishing work and pump out more slop to boost sales, our new focus is carefully curated + clearly human created. Hence the focus on short stories, novellas, etc.
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In a time of slop, AI or not, it’s time to lean into niche communities and odd work by passionate weirdos with well-honed clarity of intention and craft
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i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
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good piece on the destruction of Indiana U, a previously great public university
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...
Anatomy of a Fall: The Case of Indiana University (Guest Post)
Indiana University on November 3, 2025 by Johannes Türk Chair of Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana Universit...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
good piece on the destruction of Indiana U, a previously great public university
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...
Our tree is going UP
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Our tree is going UP
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Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
If you’re an author who has been contacted by a seemingly AI marketing or other scam, can I talk to you?
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you’re an author who has been contacted by a seemingly AI marketing or other scam, can I talk to you?
New newsletter is live: in which I review the two main articles in NY Mag's "Stupid Issue" and ask, "Are standardized tests even a good measurement?"
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
Are we stupider than before?
how much should we trust tests?
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New newsletter is live: in which I review the two main articles in NY Mag's "Stupid Issue" and ask, "Are standardized tests even a good measurement?"
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/are-we-stu...
(Seriously stop inputting student personal information into AI to write IEPs.)
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
(Seriously stop inputting student personal information into AI to write IEPs.)
Reposted by Olivia
Somewhere, a school / district privacy officer is sobbing.
November 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Somewhere, a school / district privacy officer is sobbing.
Reposted by Olivia
I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
Day two of cutting down my debt before I get married by writing! You can help by upgrading here:
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/upgrade
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/upgrade
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Day two of cutting down my debt before I get married by writing! You can help by upgrading here:
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/upgrade
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/upgrade
I got myself into some credit card debt over the summer that arose because of car repairs wiping my savings. I did a balance transfer between my cards to get a lower interest rate, but I’m getting married in February and I want to start off strong.
So I’m doing a tip/subscription drive!
So I’m doing a tip/subscription drive!
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I got myself into some credit card debt over the summer that arose because of car repairs wiping my savings. I did a balance transfer between my cards to get a lower interest rate, but I’m getting married in February and I want to start off strong.
So I’m doing a tip/subscription drive!
So I’m doing a tip/subscription drive!
Patreon supporters got mini reviews of some of my new favorite books!
www.patreon.com/posts/139407...
www.patreon.com/posts/139407...
Mini Book Reviews! Several months late... | Olivia Anne Gennaro
Get more from Olivia Anne Gennaro on Patreon
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November 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Patreon supporters got mini reviews of some of my new favorite books!
www.patreon.com/posts/139407...
www.patreon.com/posts/139407...
Big update!! Can I get a subscription/tip drive going?
I just wrote 800 words discussing the NY Mag issue about stupidity (and standardized testing) and subscribing for even free will get you that!
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/i-bought-a...
I just wrote 800 words discussing the NY Mag issue about stupidity (and standardized testing) and subscribing for even free will get you that!
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/i-bought-a...
I bought a planner & and other goals
it's that time of year
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Big update!! Can I get a subscription/tip drive going?
I just wrote 800 words discussing the NY Mag issue about stupidity (and standardized testing) and subscribing for even free will get you that!
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/i-bought-a...
I just wrote 800 words discussing the NY Mag issue about stupidity (and standardized testing) and subscribing for even free will get you that!
oliviaannegennaro.beehiiv.com/p/i-bought-a...
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Authors, please, I beg of you!!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Authors, please, I beg of you!!
They still need help. Can anyone match my $30?
I know its the end of the year and people are hard up, but we could really use some assistance here. The American medical system is rough to get through.
If @linkara.bsky.social might share?
If @linkara.bsky.social might share?
I've been swamped with taking on the Cwej30th Anniversary celebrations, which has been an amazing job, but we're nearing the end of the year, and we could use a little push to get us through the bills we have from medical costs creeping up on us.
wyldercommissions.weebly.com
wyldercommissions.weebly.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
They still need help. Can anyone match my $30?
Classic Doctor Who no longer on Tubi and the serial I was in the middle of hasn’t been uploaded to YouTube yet :(
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Classic Doctor Who no longer on Tubi and the serial I was in the middle of hasn’t been uploaded to YouTube yet :(
Wanted to take a moment to plug my Patreon as it's something I'm working on expanding as I make writing more of my life. Mini book reviews are coming up!
www.patreon.com/c/oliviaanne...
www.patreon.com/c/oliviaanne...
Olivia Anne Gennaro | Patreon
creating Music Analysis and Other Writing
www.patreon.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Wanted to take a moment to plug my Patreon as it's something I'm working on expanding as I make writing more of my life. Mini book reviews are coming up!
www.patreon.com/c/oliviaanne...
www.patreon.com/c/oliviaanne...