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@racheledini.bsky.social
Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
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Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
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Anyway time to post this again.
AI is a tool of fascism.
AI is a tool of fascism.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Anyway time to post this again.
AI is a tool of fascism.
AI is a tool of fascism.
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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and yet people still have trouble understanding why "self regulation" does not work
excerpt: Meta allegedly chose not to “sound the alarm,” but instead stopped the research, the lawsuit said. “The company never publicly disclosed the results of its deactivation study,” according to the suit. “Instead, Meta lied to Congress about what it knew.”
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
and yet people still have trouble understanding why "self regulation" does not work
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You know that experiment in the 60s when they found out that the closest resemblance to a female turkey that is needed for a male turkey to try to mate with something is just a tennis ball on a stick?
I'm starting to think that maybe we shouldn't be judging the turkeys too harshly anymore
I'm starting to think that maybe we shouldn't be judging the turkeys too harshly anymore
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
You know that experiment in the 60s when they found out that the closest resemblance to a female turkey that is needed for a male turkey to try to mate with something is just a tennis ball on a stick?
I'm starting to think that maybe we shouldn't be judging the turkeys too harshly anymore
I'm starting to think that maybe we shouldn't be judging the turkeys too harshly anymore
I hate everything.
one of the more bleak aspects of ai chatbots is it’s starting to blow up real marriages
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I hate everything.
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"This one-dimensional bot agrees with everything I say" is not the basis for a stable relationship, my dudes
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"This one-dimensional bot agrees with everything I say" is not the basis for a stable relationship, my dudes
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One of my favorite takes on this website by the Ball Knowers was that the year plus of cracking down on anti-genocide youth movements in this country, on campuses and otherwise, had no effects whatsoever on turnouts come November nor in general for mobilization etc. Goldfish levels of myopia.
I think @brendannyhan.bsky.social is exactly right in this piece, but I’d go one step further here. Elites very explicitly told young people to sit down and shut up. Society punished them for standing up for their beliefs, and targeted and vilified the organizers. Now we need need them.
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
One of my favorite takes on this website by the Ball Knowers was that the year plus of cracking down on anti-genocide youth movements in this country, on campuses and otherwise, had no effects whatsoever on turnouts come November nor in general for mobilization etc. Goldfish levels of myopia.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
My cables are up to date, plants don’t last more than five minutes with me, and I deal solely in Pyrex and midcentury modern melamine, thank you very much.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My cables are up to date, plants don’t last more than five minutes with me, and I deal solely in Pyrex and midcentury modern melamine, thank you very much.
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Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
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The people who told you they were protecting the kids only to be part of an international child abuse ring? They're your enemies. The people who are gutting social services, educational funding, medical research, the environment, etc are your enemy. Not the drag queen reading story books.
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The people who told you they were protecting the kids only to be part of an international child abuse ring? They're your enemies. The people who are gutting social services, educational funding, medical research, the environment, etc are your enemy. Not the drag queen reading story books.
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I have a feeling that we’re gonna eventually discover straight up Tobacco Industry levels of Pure Evil on the part of the Silicon Valley.
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed that people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to a legal filing that was released on Friday.
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I have a feeling that we’re gonna eventually discover straight up Tobacco Industry levels of Pure Evil on the part of the Silicon Valley.
This is fabulous (thread).
OK so here is my Music Theory Explainer for why Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is a genius piece of songwriting.
First, you have to be aware that Cohen is of Jewish extraction (It’s in the name - Cohen).
Next, know that figuring out which key Hallelujah is in, is not easy or straightforward —
First, you have to be aware that Cohen is of Jewish extraction (It’s in the name - Cohen).
Next, know that figuring out which key Hallelujah is in, is not easy or straightforward —
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This is fabulous (thread).
This is great.
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This is great.
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Can’t say how important this panel excerpt with @drtanksley.bsky.social is—particularly, IMO, for teachers using grading/anti-cheating programs run by AI.
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Can’t say how important this panel excerpt with @drtanksley.bsky.social is—particularly, IMO, for teachers using grading/anti-cheating programs run by AI.
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
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TY, Lisa! 💙
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So fucked up!
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@wisewonders.bsky.social
@fireeyebooks.bsky.social
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So fucked up!
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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well, this guy would certainly know about getting owned
Simply being "owned" isn't "horrific" (all wives were "owned"), or do you not believe providing "safe haven" was a form of protection?
By that standard, the Van Daan family that hid the family of Anne Frank were subjecting them to "horrific mistreatment." 🤦
By that standard, the Van Daan family that hid the family of Anne Frank were subjecting them to "horrific mistreatment." 🤦
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
well, this guy would certainly know about getting owned
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
Thread.
this guy seems to be huge into hashtag resist which makes it even more frustrating because tbh there are some parallels between then and now worth considering.
he is insistent that's it is unreasonable to judge the past by the present's standards, but it's both reasonable and useful.
he is insistent that's it is unreasonable to judge the past by the present's standards, but it's both reasonable and useful.
that guy is really still defending slavery huh
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Thread.
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It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
I came across this article in ELLE while looking for insight into the ending of Malice (which made no sense). Trouble is, the article’s summary of the ending bears no relation to the events in the finale. Almost like it hallucinated it. And sure enough, there’s no author: just “Team ELLE.” 1/5
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I came across this article in ELLE while looking for insight into the ending of Malice (which made no sense). Trouble is, the article’s summary of the ending bears no relation to the events in the finale. Almost like it hallucinated it. And sure enough, there’s no author: just “Team ELLE.” 1/5
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I read a little of this. gotta take a break and come back to it later
but hi
CSA survivor here who had a home birth with a midwife in Boston
I *deeply* get why people get sucked into this world. medical treatment feels like, and sometimes just is, abuse
AND there’s a lotta snake oil out there
but hi
CSA survivor here who had a home birth with a midwife in Boston
I *deeply* get why people get sucked into this world. medical treatment feels like, and sometimes just is, abuse
AND there’s a lotta snake oil out there
This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It’s great that there is an initiative like this. It’s also horrific that such an initiative is necessary.
We are now accepting enquiries from parents of trans kids currently in Key Stages 3 and 4 for our trial half-term in 2026.
Full details: www.essehouse.co.uk/the-esse-house-school
Full details: www.essehouse.co.uk/the-esse-house-school
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It’s great that there is an initiative like this. It’s also horrific that such an initiative is necessary.