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Tricia Donovan
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annamerlan.bsky.social
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
www.motherjones.com
September 24, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue

www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
www.404media.co
June 1, 2026 at 5:05 PM
misfitsguide.bsky.social
I love the people in my city 😍
heathercherone.bsky.social Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · Feb 23
BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social
‘Abolish ICE’, ‘Caleb Chilliams’ Among Winners of Annual Snowplow Naming Contest
The other winners of the fourth annual contest were Stephen Coldbert, Pope Frío XIV, The Blizzard of Oz, Svencoolie and Caleb Chilliams, Chicago officials announced.
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February 23, 2026 at 5:15 PM
misfitsguide.bsky.social
Hey #edusky a new example of generative AI providing repeated incorrect information just dropped. Add it to your critical thinking activities around believing AI. Wow.
February 20, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

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February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
misfitsguide.bsky.social
I see the update is going well... 🙄
February 9, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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muellershewrote.com
This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.

These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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mishimakitan.bsky.social
You love to see it.

cybernews.com/security/dev...
One developer’s tool strips AI and other junk from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
A developer released a free tool called “Just the Browser” that disabless AI features, ads, and other unwanted junk in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
cybernews.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
One of the reasons we have such an established, thorough record of the lies ICE, Bovino, and DHS told about alleged aggression from protesters and observers in Chicago is that a group of protesters and media orgs sued ICE. Continuously grateful for the people and lawyers who waged that fight.
January 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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rincewind.run
what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"

you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
January 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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ivacheung.com
Hi Darth,

When you asked this 2 months ago I replied I was working on a cookbook. It's now out—the PDF is FREE & print copies raise money for a food security & sovereignty charity. With 1 week to 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving it would mean so much if you'd be willing to share it! 🙏💜

ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...
After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung
After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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anamariecox.com
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · Nov 14
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
misfitsguide.bsky.social
What a fun Friday activity. Thanks @clairewillett.bsky.social
Tricia, 43, lives in a third-floor walk-up in the heart of Chicago where house plants double in size each year, and Abbey’s Desert Solitude and her own independent novel A Misfit’s Guide to Infiltrating a Cult—two books she was reading while working from home—sit atop a stack of unread books facing out at eye level on her crowded bookshelf. She throws pottery alongside retired, white Democrats, like a Taylor Swift song come to life.
November 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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soraya.press
if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Screenshot text from The Atlantic: For now, money is still pouring into the AI industry. But there’s also something circular about these investments. To wit: OpenAI has agreed to pay $300 billion to Oracle for new computing capacity, Oracle is paying Nvidia tens of billions of dollars for chips to install in one of OpenAI’s data centers, and Nvidia has agreed to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as it deploys Nvidia chips. Attempts to illustrate these circular investments have produced a series of byzantine charts that one software engineer referred to on X as “the technocapital hyperobject at the end of time.” The consensus seems to be that although this is legal, it likely cannot go on forever.
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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isaacbutler.bsky.social
For the Atlantic, I wrote about Christopher Marlowe, romantic ideals of genius, and how Stephen Greenblatt has finally pushed his speculations too far.

www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
The Stubborn Myth of the Literary Genius
What two new books on the English Renaissance reveal about the appeal of speculative history
www.theatlantic.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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wolven.blacksky.app
Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.

Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings
Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."
www.reuters.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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hollyanderson.bsky.social
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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theonion.com
Report: Friend Has Been Going By Middle Name This Whole Fucking Time
Report: Friend Has Been Going By Middle Name This Whole Fucking Time
CALABASAS, CA—Astounded that it had never come up at any point in the six years they had known each other, local woman Lucy Reed, 25, reported Tuesday that her friend Nicole Silberthau had apparently ...
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September 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
You use ChatGPT? Wow. Crazy that I am your moral and intellectual superior.
September 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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eccantwell.bsky.social
current AI policy on my class syllabus
In this class, I expect you to be doing your own thinking, brainstorming, outlining, and writing. I do not currently see any beneficial applications of AI in the high school Humanities classroom (and I have done a lot of research and reading on this!). Remember that asking AI to create an outline for you or to generate ideas is actually robbing you of the experience to make connections that would help assignments feel meaningful and worthwhile to you. For the assignments in this course, I would ask you not to use AI during any part of the thinking or writing process. This includes heavy use of Grammarly to substantially change/rewrite your work (not just, say, check for misplaced commas). Just as I find myself infinitely bored by looking at celebrity faces that all have the same noses, mouths, and cheeks, I also do not want to read a hundred papers that all have the same tone, cadence, and style. Your voices are irreplaceable and uncorrectable. Don’t throw away what makes your writing compelling and unique in pursuit of some surface-deep cosmetic perfection! Of course, there may be some exceptions to my general no-AI policy; for example, in recent years I have approved several student projects that have incorporated AI into what was, ultimately, a student-created and student-owned concept. Those students approached me with specific ideas and were transparent throughout. If something like this might apply to a project we do in this class, please come talk to me about what you’re envisioning, and we can work through some thoughtful approaches.
August 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
it's giving this [complimentary]
still from Miss Congeniality: And if anyone tries to hurt one of my new friends, I would take them out. I would make them suffer so much that they'd wish they were never born. And if they ran, I would hunt them down.
August 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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mapcenter.com
'Maps on Vinyl' by Damien Saunder is my first ever exclusive distribution deal! Find copies of this gorgeous book at Tunnel Records in San Francisco, Hey Books! in San Diego and Ward Maps in Cambridge. Know any book store owners who want in? Gimme a holler www.mapcenter.com/store/p/maps...
"Maps on Vinyl" by Damien Saunder — The Map Center
This truly unique atlas of album covers, each featuring a map, is as enlightening as it is entertaining.  Presenting 415 album covers – beautifully reproduced, expertly laid out and accompanie...
www.mapcenter.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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laurenginsberg.bsky.social
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
earlymodjustice.bsky.social Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · Jul 23
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
chicagomaroon.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
misfitsguide.bsky.social
"It is not a benefit or feature. It is a yoke." Looks like I've found the tagline of every AI argument I have. Thanks Roxanne! 😍
roxanegay.bsky.social Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Jun 19
And I resent the way companies are trying to force it. The other day Slack emailed saying they were adding AI to their product that already functions fine. I immediately cancelled that account. I don’t want it. It is not a benefit or feature. It is a yoke. I am happy on this hill even if I am alone
June 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM