Pitchaya Sudbanthad
@pitchaya.bsky.social
Author of the novel BANGKOK WAKES TO RAIN, selected as a best book of the year by the NYT, WaPo, and Kirkus.
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
October 8, 2026 at 11:07 AM
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
With decades of climate science and annual data, who could've foreseen this?
Bangkok faces submersion risk
Bangkok could have as much as one-third of its area permanently submerged by 2050 if the government fails to overhaul the country's water-management system and take more aggressive action on climate c...
www.bangkokpost.com
October 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
With decades of climate science and annual data, who could've foreseen this?
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Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use
www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
www.courthousenews.com
October 6, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use
www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
September 25, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
Remembering how the street turned into a small stream as water rose from the drainage pipes up to my knees in less than twenty minutes. Never underestimate how fast water can go.
September 30, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Remembering how the street turned into a small stream as water rose from the drainage pipes up to my knees in less than twenty minutes. Never underestimate how fast water can go.
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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
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...
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Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable.
Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
September 25, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable.
Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
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AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems:
“Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
“Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
September 24, 2026 at 12:30 AM
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems:
“Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
“Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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The Authors Guild is grateful the Court has unsealed some of the most important filings in our case against OpenAI and Microsoft. (1/7)
Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work
(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their p...
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September 21, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The Authors Guild is grateful the Court has unsealed some of the most important filings in our case against OpenAI and Microsoft. (1/7)
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Speaking to assembled dignitaries at the UN on Tuesday, outgoing UN chief António Guterres railed against big oil for treating “the atmosphere as an open sewer” and warned again of the catastrophic effects of the climate crisis.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Speaking to assembled dignitaries at the UN on Tuesday, outgoing UN chief António Guterres railed against big oil for treating “the atmosphere as an open sewer” and warned again of the catastrophic effects of the climate crisis.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Of course they all fucking knew! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...
www.publishersweekly.com
September 21, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Of course they all fucking knew! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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“Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules…ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.” —Umberto Eco, On Ugliness
September 17, 2026 at 6:26 PM
“Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules…ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.” —Umberto Eco, On Ugliness
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In New York, as air pollution fell, the toddlers' cognitive processing improved, the study found.
In London, ULEZ coincided with improved lung health in children.
When elected representatives take action to clean up air, our children benefit from better health:
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In London, ULEZ coincided with improved lung health in children.
When elected representatives take action to clean up air, our children benefit from better health:
share.google/rnnWnmxNOzWF...
Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds
Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores
share.google
September 19, 2026 at 10:50 AM
In New York, as air pollution fell, the toddlers' cognitive processing improved, the study found.
In London, ULEZ coincided with improved lung health in children.
When elected representatives take action to clean up air, our children benefit from better health:
share.google/rnnWnmxNOzWF...
In London, ULEZ coincided with improved lung health in children.
When elected representatives take action to clean up air, our children benefit from better health:
share.google/rnnWnmxNOzWF...
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"Getting answers from a bot can create “the illusion of learning” for students who reach for A.I. “at the first hint of struggle,” the M.I.T. committee wrote in its August report."
An M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind.
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 4:54 AM
"Getting answers from a bot can create “the illusion of learning” for students who reach for A.I. “at the first hint of struggle,” the M.I.T. committee wrote in its August report."
"Getting answers from a bot can create “the illusion of learning” for students who reach for A.I. “at the first hint of struggle,” the M.I.T. committee wrote in its August report."
An M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind.
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 4:54 AM
"Getting answers from a bot can create “the illusion of learning” for students who reach for A.I. “at the first hint of struggle,” the M.I.T. committee wrote in its August report."
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I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...
Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News
Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.
themorningnews.org
September 16, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...
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RIP Annie Dillard, one of the great, if not the greatest, non-fiction stylists of our time
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:02 PM
RIP Annie Dillard, one of the great, if not the greatest, non-fiction stylists of our time
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
"In short, we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species."
The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2026 at 5:30 AM
"In short, we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species."
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If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-.
Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.
Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.
September 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-.
Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.
Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.
On this anniversary, here's my TMN piece from a while back on living across from the WTC, before and after.
Pieces of the World - The Morning News
For people who lived near the World Trade Center, 9/11 can still be traced to debris that lingers around the neighborhood. A map of what the tourists don’t see.
themorningnews.org
September 11, 2026 at 7:14 AM
On this anniversary, here's my TMN piece from a while back on living across from the WTC, before and after.
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Black square (“and so on to infinity…” inscribed in Latin around its edges) representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, as pictured by the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd, who himself passed into infinity #onthisday in 1637. publicdomainreview.org/essay/b... #OTD
September 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Black square (“and so on to infinity…” inscribed in Latin around its edges) representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, as pictured by the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd, who himself passed into infinity #onthisday in 1637. publicdomainreview.org/essay/b... #OTD
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NGC 1566 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2o2hBzW
September 9, 2026 at 4:00 AM
NGC 1566 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2o2hBzW