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Honesty, agency, community, solidarity, a refusal to abandon basic principles of decency and accountability...I see these things everywhere. We're in a possibility space, even if it may not feel like it. We don't have to live like this, and our regime knows it. That's why they're in a frenzy. /x
January 10, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Honesty, agency, community, solidarity, a refusal to abandon basic principles of decency and accountability...I see these things everywhere. We're in a possibility space, even if it may not feel like it. We don't have to live like this, and our regime knows it. That's why they're in a frenzy. /x
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This summer, I took myself to the beach for two days & wrote a letter to my fellow educators about “AI.”
My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”
Welp.
I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”
Welp.
I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
“Human Beings! Human Beings!” An Open Letter to Educators on the Dangers of AI
A high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor denounces AI as a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
rethinkingschools.org
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
This summer, I took myself to the beach for two days & wrote a letter to my fellow educators about “AI.”
My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”
Welp.
I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”
Welp.
I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
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Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editor’s Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed.
Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose.
(Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...
One thing that keeps me happy as an editor is I don’t get grumpy about clients’ mistakes. Bemused, sure. Time-stressed, sometimes. But there is no imposition in the thing that is the whole point of our arrangement. If I get to be the one to show you an important skill, that’s good for both of us.
December 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
One thing that keeps me happy as an editor is I don’t get grumpy about clients’ mistakes. Bemused, sure. Time-stressed, sometimes. But there is no imposition in the thing that is the whole point of our arrangement. If I get to be the one to show you an important skill, that’s good for both of us.
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In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.
December 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.
and the best quiche is personal size, made in a jumbo-muffin pan, with a big rumpled free-form crust.
fuck it, I've had a good run. the only good pie is quiche.
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
and the best quiche is personal size, made in a jumbo-muffin pan, with a big rumpled free-form crust.
copula
vermillion
fundament
desquamate
borborygmus
demimonde
shambolic
oubliette
blenny
vermillion
fundament
desquamate
borborygmus
demimonde
shambolic
oubliette
blenny
asymptotic
schizmogenesis
parthenogenesis
exegesis
inchoate
disinter
orgiastic
eschatology
schizmogenesis
parthenogenesis
exegesis
inchoate
disinter
orgiastic
eschatology
Sanctuary.
Ephemeral.
Pedagogy.
Efficacious.
Auspicious.
Caxixi.
Birambau.
Cabasa.
Proprioception.
Interoception.
Prognostication.
Retrognostication.
Ambivalent.
Agnostic.
Gnostic.
...there's more lol.
Ephemeral.
Pedagogy.
Efficacious.
Auspicious.
Caxixi.
Birambau.
Cabasa.
Proprioception.
Interoception.
Prognostication.
Retrognostication.
Ambivalent.
Agnostic.
Gnostic.
...there's more lol.
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
copula
vermillion
fundament
desquamate
borborygmus
demimonde
shambolic
oubliette
blenny
vermillion
fundament
desquamate
borborygmus
demimonde
shambolic
oubliette
blenny
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I didn't know what I was doing when I sent that text. I'm so happy I did.
Organizing seems daunting until you do it. We all need each other more than ever. Building trust and relationships and community is something to do now so it's there when you need it. Start what you need, join where you can.
Organizing seems daunting until you do it. We all need each other more than ever. Building trust and relationships and community is something to do now so it's there when you need it. Start what you need, join where you can.
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I didn't know what I was doing when I sent that text. I'm so happy I did.
Organizing seems daunting until you do it. We all need each other more than ever. Building trust and relationships and community is something to do now so it's there when you need it. Start what you need, join where you can.
Organizing seems daunting until you do it. We all need each other more than ever. Building trust and relationships and community is something to do now so it's there when you need it. Start what you need, join where you can.
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a helpful starter pack to find stuff you may be interested in and/or is local to you
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
a helpful starter pack to find stuff you may be interested in and/or is local to you
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.
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You wonder who they mean,
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.
-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.
-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.
October 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
You wonder who they mean,
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.
-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.
-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.
A protest sign tip: paint markers draw strong, thick lines, and fast. They’re at the art store.
October 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
A protest sign tip: paint markers draw strong, thick lines, and fast. They’re at the art store.
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This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Criticizing the enlightened centrist isn’t kicking them out of the so-called tent, it is presenting them with an opportunity to stop eroding the integrity of the tent by tirelessly trying to find commonality with people who want to burn the tent down.
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Criticizing the enlightened centrist isn’t kicking them out of the so-called tent, it is presenting them with an opportunity to stop eroding the integrity of the tent by tirelessly trying to find commonality with people who want to burn the tent down.
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Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
December 17, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
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"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement
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I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy
September 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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“We’ve gotta block and build at the same time. That means confronting both elected officials and the corporations that are lifting them up." - @ashdashlee.bsky.social #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We do not comply: how do we disrupt the momentum of Trump’s cruelty? | V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Every day brings more devastation. But daily forms of rebellion can restore our sense of purpose
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“We’ve gotta block and build at the same time. That means confronting both elected officials and the corporations that are lifting them up." - @ashdashlee.bsky.social #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
www.vanityfair.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.
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The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
July 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
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Today in the garden.
June 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Today in the garden.