Roz Foster
@rozfoster.bsky.social
Writes about meaning and modernity.
rozfoster.substack.com
www.youtube.com/@TheSpindlePod
Also: Senior Agent at Goldin Literary.
rozfoster.substack.com
www.youtube.com/@TheSpindlePod
Also: Senior Agent at Goldin Literary.
The largest grid operator in the US is warning the Mid-Atlantic about strain during the storm.
Burdensome data-centers should reduce their draw to accommodate.🤞
Big Tech & Energy have decided the long-term solution to the crisis is going nuclear.☢️
Watch⬇️(5 mins)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Sv...
Burdensome data-centers should reduce their draw to accommodate.🤞
Big Tech & Energy have decided the long-term solution to the crisis is going nuclear.☢️
Watch⬇️(5 mins)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Sv...
The Electricity Crisis is Coming to a Head : Big Tech Needs to Bring Its Own Power
YouTube video by The Spindle
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:47 PM
The largest grid operator in the US is warning the Mid-Atlantic about strain during the storm.
Burdensome data-centers should reduce their draw to accommodate.🤞
Big Tech & Energy have decided the long-term solution to the crisis is going nuclear.☢️
Watch⬇️(5 mins)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Sv...
Burdensome data-centers should reduce their draw to accommodate.🤞
Big Tech & Energy have decided the long-term solution to the crisis is going nuclear.☢️
Watch⬇️(5 mins)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Sv...
The power grid serving mid-Atlantic data centers are at capacity & Big Tech wants more. If they want to avoid a disastrous outage, they're going to have to bring their own power—fast.
The 1st in a series on a return to nuclear energy.
rozfoster.substack.com/p/the-electr...
The 1st in a series on a return to nuclear energy.
rozfoster.substack.com/p/the-electr...
The Electricity Crisis Is Coming to a Head
Big Tech Needs to Bring Its Own Power
rozfoster.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:33 PM
The power grid serving mid-Atlantic data centers are at capacity & Big Tech wants more. If they want to avoid a disastrous outage, they're going to have to bring their own power—fast.
The 1st in a series on a return to nuclear energy.
rozfoster.substack.com/p/the-electr...
The 1st in a series on a return to nuclear energy.
rozfoster.substack.com/p/the-electr...
Working 9 to 5 with cookies & coffee today! 🎶 I love these cookies!! Such a fun gift from @marthaackmann.bsky.social, author of the riveting biography: AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton! 🙏☕️ 🍪
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Working 9 to 5 with cookies & coffee today! 🎶 I love these cookies!! Such a fun gift from @marthaackmann.bsky.social, author of the riveting biography: AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton! 🙏☕️ 🍪
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
✨Journalist & biographer @marthaackmann.bsky.social dives deep into Parton’s life [telling] the story of a woman whose talent, faith in herself, & humility...helped her...become a cross-generational icon.✨
— @bostonglobe.com
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/a...
— @bostonglobe.com
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/a...
Dolly Parton turned down Elvis, and other tidbits from a new biography of the singer - The Boston Globe
In “Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton,” Martha Ackmann dives deep into Parton’s life, from her humble beginnings in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains to the present.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:02 PM
✨Journalist & biographer @marthaackmann.bsky.social dives deep into Parton’s life [telling] the story of a woman whose talent, faith in herself, & humility...helped her...become a cross-generational icon.✨
— @bostonglobe.com
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/a...
— @bostonglobe.com
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/a...
⭐️"A deeply detailed...account of Ms. Parton's life and career..., Ms. Ackmann adds factual heft to Ms. Parton's ... narrative." — @wsj.com on @marthaackmann.bsky.social's AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DOLLY PARTON. ⭐️ @stmartinspress.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘Star of the Show’ and ‘Ain’t Nobody’s Fool’: Dolly Parton’s Reign
Dolly Parton’s voice brought her early success as a performer. Her songwriting talent and her business savvy made her a music titan.
www.wsj.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:47 PM
⭐️"A deeply detailed...account of Ms. Parton's life and career..., Ms. Ackmann adds factual heft to Ms. Parton's ... narrative." — @wsj.com on @marthaackmann.bsky.social's AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DOLLY PARTON. ⭐️ @stmartinspress.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Happy Pub-Day @marthaackmann.bsky.social and AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton! 🩷 🎊
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
Photo by Kathryn Hough 🙏
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
Photo by Kathryn Hough 🙏
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Happy Pub-Day @marthaackmann.bsky.social and AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton! 🩷 🎊
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
Photo by Kathryn Hough 🙏
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
Photo by Kathryn Hough 🙏
3 heavy-hitting American talents, 1 podcast:
✨Claire Potter @tenuredradical.bsky.social✨ interviews ✨Martha Ackmann✨ on her biography of ✨Dolly Parton✨, AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL, out 12/30 from @stmartinspress.bsky.social.
Pre-order here ➡️ shorturl.at/hysDX
Watch here⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9--H...
✨Claire Potter @tenuredradical.bsky.social✨ interviews ✨Martha Ackmann✨ on her biography of ✨Dolly Parton✨, AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL, out 12/30 from @stmartinspress.bsky.social.
Pre-order here ➡️ shorturl.at/hysDX
Watch here⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9--H...
What Would Dolly Do?
YouTube video by Political Junkie Substack
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
3 heavy-hitting American talents, 1 podcast:
✨Claire Potter @tenuredradical.bsky.social✨ interviews ✨Martha Ackmann✨ on her biography of ✨Dolly Parton✨, AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL, out 12/30 from @stmartinspress.bsky.social.
Pre-order here ➡️ shorturl.at/hysDX
Watch here⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9--H...
✨Claire Potter @tenuredradical.bsky.social✨ interviews ✨Martha Ackmann✨ on her biography of ✨Dolly Parton✨, AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL, out 12/30 from @stmartinspress.bsky.social.
Pre-order here ➡️ shorturl.at/hysDX
Watch here⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9--H...
Claire Potter @tenuredradical.bsky.social in the @yalereview.bsky.social writing on Susan Brownmiller's radical blockbuster, AGAINST OUR WILL: "The book [was] a larger rebuke of a society that rendered women, and the violence used to keep them in check, invisible.⬇️
yalereview.org/article/clai...
yalereview.org/article/clai...
Claire Bond Potter: “The Book That Changed How We Think About Rape”
Claire Bond Potter on Susan Brownmiller’s landmark 1975 book, Against Our Will , fifty years later.
yalereview.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Claire Potter @tenuredradical.bsky.social in the @yalereview.bsky.social writing on Susan Brownmiller's radical blockbuster, AGAINST OUR WILL: "The book [was] a larger rebuke of a society that rendered women, and the violence used to keep them in check, invisible.⬇️
yalereview.org/article/clai...
yalereview.org/article/clai...
THE NEGOTIATION (2 mins)
Death & the Empress negotiate a price.
Look at those costumes! 😳 The characters & their drobe were rendered w AI from my own hand-drawn illustrations.
I hope this inspires for Halloween.
www.youtube.com/shorts/25v_5...
Death & the Empress negotiate a price.
Look at those costumes! 😳 The characters & their drobe were rendered w AI from my own hand-drawn illustrations.
I hope this inspires for Halloween.
www.youtube.com/shorts/25v_5...
The Negotiation
YouTube video by The Spindle
www.youtube.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
THE NEGOTIATION (2 mins)
Death & the Empress negotiate a price.
Look at those costumes! 😳 The characters & their drobe were rendered w AI from my own hand-drawn illustrations.
I hope this inspires for Halloween.
www.youtube.com/shorts/25v_5...
Death & the Empress negotiate a price.
Look at those costumes! 😳 The characters & their drobe were rendered w AI from my own hand-drawn illustrations.
I hope this inspires for Halloween.
www.youtube.com/shorts/25v_5...
Theo wants to lead a seminar: HOW TO GET BY ON YOUR GOOD LOOKS FOR LIFE. He's not much of a lecturer, tho. It would be more of a silent, learn by example thing. Very pro-luddite. Very anti-AI. Super grassroots.
October 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Theo wants to lead a seminar: HOW TO GET BY ON YOUR GOOD LOOKS FOR LIFE. He's not much of a lecturer, tho. It would be more of a silent, learn by example thing. Very pro-luddite. Very anti-AI. Super grassroots.
10 Rules You Need Now for Stability in the Risky Age of AI
1-Know yourself
2-Take care of yourself, then others
3-Live & work w purpose & meaning
4-Think well
5-Communicate well
6-Solve problems
7-Connect w people
8-Adapt & learn
9-Master basic tech
10-Know data/digital literacy
1-Know yourself
2-Take care of yourself, then others
3-Live & work w purpose & meaning
4-Think well
5-Communicate well
6-Solve problems
7-Connect w people
8-Adapt & learn
9-Master basic tech
10-Know data/digital literacy
October 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
10 Rules You Need Now for Stability in the Risky Age of AI
1-Know yourself
2-Take care of yourself, then others
3-Live & work w purpose & meaning
4-Think well
5-Communicate well
6-Solve problems
7-Connect w people
8-Adapt & learn
9-Master basic tech
10-Know data/digital literacy
1-Know yourself
2-Take care of yourself, then others
3-Live & work w purpose & meaning
4-Think well
5-Communicate well
6-Solve problems
7-Connect w people
8-Adapt & learn
9-Master basic tech
10-Know data/digital literacy
If you have a problem you can't get rid of:
1. Face it.
2. Understand it.
3. Solve it.
AI in the arts, humanities, publishing, tv & film is a problem. It's not going away.
I'm working on solutions.
What are YOU doing?
How am I facing AI? Visit me👇
www.youtube.com/@TheSpindleM...
1. Face it.
2. Understand it.
3. Solve it.
AI in the arts, humanities, publishing, tv & film is a problem. It's not going away.
I'm working on solutions.
What are YOU doing?
How am I facing AI? Visit me👇
www.youtube.com/@TheSpindleM...
The Spindle
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If you have a problem you can't get rid of:
1. Face it.
2. Understand it.
3. Solve it.
AI in the arts, humanities, publishing, tv & film is a problem. It's not going away.
I'm working on solutions.
What are YOU doing?
How am I facing AI? Visit me👇
www.youtube.com/@TheSpindleM...
1. Face it.
2. Understand it.
3. Solve it.
AI in the arts, humanities, publishing, tv & film is a problem. It's not going away.
I'm working on solutions.
What are YOU doing?
How am I facing AI? Visit me👇
www.youtube.com/@TheSpindleM...
What's with the hard, corporate push to use AI—even when it threatens the need, purpose & meaning of our work?
Are we paying too much attention to the excuse of beating China to AI dominance?
Or not enough?
The answer affects us all. ⬇️
youtu.be/d7Rr4q5PKWs
Are we paying too much attention to the excuse of beating China to AI dominance?
Or not enough?
The answer affects us all. ⬇️
youtu.be/d7Rr4q5PKWs
Why Are We Being Pressured to Use AI or Die?
YouTube video by The Spindle
youtu.be
September 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
What's with the hard, corporate push to use AI—even when it threatens the need, purpose & meaning of our work?
Are we paying too much attention to the excuse of beating China to AI dominance?
Or not enough?
The answer affects us all. ⬇️
youtu.be/d7Rr4q5PKWs
Are we paying too much attention to the excuse of beating China to AI dominance?
Or not enough?
The answer affects us all. ⬇️
youtu.be/d7Rr4q5PKWs
Reposted by Roz Foster
Preorder AIN’T NOBODY’S FOOL (hardcover or ebook) @bn.com from 9/3 - 9/5 and get 25% off with code PREORDERS25. Note, this discount is available only to B&N members but free memberships are available - learn more @barnesandnoble.com/membership/
September 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Preorder AIN’T NOBODY’S FOOL (hardcover or ebook) @bn.com from 9/3 - 9/5 and get 25% off with code PREORDERS25. Note, this discount is available only to B&N members but free memberships are available - learn more @barnesandnoble.com/membership/
Reposted by Roz Foster
I have a new book coming out at the end of the year. AIN’T NOBODY’S FOOL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DOLLY PARTON is a deep dive into an American Original.
September 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I have a new book coming out at the end of the year. AIN’T NOBODY’S FOOL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DOLLY PARTON is a deep dive into an American Original.
Woot! 🙌 Congratulations, @robinmbernstein.bsky.social 🏆
I'm thrilled to announce that Freeman's Challenge has received Nonfiction Honors for the Massachusetts Book Awards. I'm incredibly grateful.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
#BookAward
#MassBookAwards
#prisons
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
#BookAward
#MassBookAwards
#prisons
September 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Woot! 🙌 Congratulations, @robinmbernstein.bsky.social 🏆
Welcome to the future! 🤖 Datasets from the US🇺🇸 & China🇨🇳 are on track to develop distinctive AI entities reflecting national character.
Read my latest to learn what that'll look like.
➡️ rozfoster.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Read my latest to learn what that'll look like.
➡️ rozfoster.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Future of US & Chinese AI
Datasets Are on Track to Create AI Reflecting National Character
rozfoster.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Welcome to the future! 🤖 Datasets from the US🇺🇸 & China🇨🇳 are on track to develop distinctive AI entities reflecting national character.
Read my latest to learn what that'll look like.
➡️ rozfoster.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Read my latest to learn what that'll look like.
➡️ rozfoster.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
AI isn’t coming for your job. It’s already taking it. CEOs are telling you how. AI isn’t going away, folks.
Here’s what Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins said a few days back & why it should scare you a bit.
I’ll say more in the thread below about why it might also inspire you. 🧵
Here’s what Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins said a few days back & why it should scare you a bit.
I’ll say more in the thread below about why it might also inspire you. 🧵
August 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
AI isn’t coming for your job. It’s already taking it. CEOs are telling you how. AI isn’t going away, folks.
Here’s what Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins said a few days back & why it should scare you a bit.
I’ll say more in the thread below about why it might also inspire you. 🧵
Here’s what Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins said a few days back & why it should scare you a bit.
I’ll say more in the thread below about why it might also inspire you. 🧵
On Cleo Abram's HUGE, Sam Altman describes a "proactive" GPT-5 AI companion.
The plan: With access to your private email, calendar, photos, files, mic, camera, AI will make suggestions & take autonomous action.
*Think* about this.🤔... 😳
Learn more:➡️ shorturl.at/BdGLZ
The plan: With access to your private email, calendar, photos, files, mic, camera, AI will make suggestions & take autonomous action.
*Think* about this.🤔... 😳
Learn more:➡️ shorturl.at/BdGLZ
August 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
On Cleo Abram's HUGE, Sam Altman describes a "proactive" GPT-5 AI companion.
The plan: With access to your private email, calendar, photos, files, mic, camera, AI will make suggestions & take autonomous action.
*Think* about this.🤔... 😳
Learn more:➡️ shorturl.at/BdGLZ
The plan: With access to your private email, calendar, photos, files, mic, camera, AI will make suggestions & take autonomous action.
*Think* about this.🤔... 😳
Learn more:➡️ shorturl.at/BdGLZ
Google & OpenAI are trying to persuade you to grant them full access to your private files. Your emails, your photos, your files.
They're aggressively targeting young people.
If you're a student, parent or teacher & want to know how and why, read this:
➡️ substacktools.com/sharex/v98ZV...
They're aggressively targeting young people.
If you're a student, parent or teacher & want to know how and why, read this:
➡️ substacktools.com/sharex/v98ZV...
Google & OpenAI Battle for Your Kids' Minds & Privacy
Aggressive AI Marketing Puts Your Kids’ Data & Autonomy at Risk in the Race for AGI
substacktools.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Google & OpenAI are trying to persuade you to grant them full access to your private files. Your emails, your photos, your files.
They're aggressively targeting young people.
If you're a student, parent or teacher & want to know how and why, read this:
➡️ substacktools.com/sharex/v98ZV...
They're aggressively targeting young people.
If you're a student, parent or teacher & want to know how and why, read this:
➡️ substacktools.com/sharex/v98ZV...
Google & OpenAI are fighting to sell you or your kids on waiving your rights to privacy while damaging your ability to think.
DEAL! 😂
Read my latest to learn why aggressive AI marketing is targeting kids & putting all of our minds & data at risk.
open.substack.com/pub/rozfoste...
DEAL! 😂
Read my latest to learn why aggressive AI marketing is targeting kids & putting all of our minds & data at risk.
open.substack.com/pub/rozfoste...
Google & OpenAI Battle for Your Kids' Minds & Privacy
Aggressive AI Marketing Puts Your Kids’ Data & Autonomy at Risk in the Race for AGI
open.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Google & OpenAI are fighting to sell you or your kids on waiving your rights to privacy while damaging your ability to think.
DEAL! 😂
Read my latest to learn why aggressive AI marketing is targeting kids & putting all of our minds & data at risk.
open.substack.com/pub/rozfoste...
DEAL! 😂
Read my latest to learn why aggressive AI marketing is targeting kids & putting all of our minds & data at risk.
open.substack.com/pub/rozfoste...
Why is Big Tech racing to lead the market for a universal AI assistant? 🍭Targeting Teens, Google is the closest to being able to ship.
Join me as I explain how Google has all the pieces and is selling full data transparency to young generations.
Watch now! ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TkE...
Join me as I explain how Google has all the pieces and is selling full data transparency to young generations.
Watch now! ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TkE...
The Universal AI Assistant — The One Product to Rule Them All
YouTube video by The Spindle Pod
www.youtube.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Why is Big Tech racing to lead the market for a universal AI assistant? 🍭Targeting Teens, Google is the closest to being able to ship.
Join me as I explain how Google has all the pieces and is selling full data transparency to young generations.
Watch now! ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TkE...
Join me as I explain how Google has all the pieces and is selling full data transparency to young generations.
Watch now! ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TkE...
Awesome to see @wweek.com, hailing from my old stomping ground of Portland, Oregon, featuring Scott Alexander Howard's literary spec-fic THE OTHER VALLEY amongst its staff's top reads for the month! 🙏
@loanloan.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social
www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...
@loanloan.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social
www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...
Portland’s Top Reads: July
Here’s what the city’s been reading.
www.wweek.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Awesome to see @wweek.com, hailing from my old stomping ground of Portland, Oregon, featuring Scott Alexander Howard's literary spec-fic THE OTHER VALLEY amongst its staff's top reads for the month! 🙏
@loanloan.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social
www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...
@loanloan.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social
www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...
What are your favorite bookshops in upstate New York? I’ll go first!
Diamond Hollow in Andes ➡️ diamondhollowbooks.com & The Lost Bookshop in Delhi ➡️ thelostbookshop.com
✨📚✨
Diamond Hollow in Andes ➡️ diamondhollowbooks.com & The Lost Bookshop in Delhi ➡️ thelostbookshop.com
✨📚✨
July 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What are your favorite bookshops in upstate New York? I’ll go first!
Diamond Hollow in Andes ➡️ diamondhollowbooks.com & The Lost Bookshop in Delhi ➡️ thelostbookshop.com
✨📚✨
Diamond Hollow in Andes ➡️ diamondhollowbooks.com & The Lost Bookshop in Delhi ➡️ thelostbookshop.com
✨📚✨
The cure for everything is a walk in the woods. 🧵⬇️
July 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The cure for everything is a walk in the woods. 🧵⬇️