Chloe Thompson

The Physical and Spiritual Art of Capoeira (Published 2018)

www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/a...

Hopefully that works — if not, let me know and I can dm you a pdf or something!

Did you get ahold of one? I have an institutional subscription to NYT and could send it if not

Collage piece made from purple decorative paper, lavender tissue paper, and ink-stained paper towel

Collage piece made from pieces of fountain pen ink drawing

Collage piece made from tan decorative paper and pieces of orange and peach ink drawings

Collage piece made from cardboard, tan decorative papers, and orange and peach ink drawing

Some art pieces from a while back

*screams in history of science*

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This op-ed is excellent

a tabby cat's fluffy front paws standing on a wooden table, shot close-up

these are important

Hey y’all: if you use Libby and you hate them allowing generative AI content and incorporating it in other ways you can go to your profile, scroll down to “help and support”, and take a survey to tell them that you hate it

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

I repost this on every platform when I see it

The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back. They were not defending a universal right to freedom of speech; they were defending a right to monologue. They could say what they want, and you could shut up and like it. The cynicism of the effort can be known by its fruits: an administration that issues executive orders “protecting” free speech while engaging in the most sweeping campaign of state censorship since the Red Scare.

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I use duckduckgo — they’re great on privacy and I can opt out of the AI features easily enough

I really like the framing of why “can llms do x” is the wrong question and the inversion of Goodhart’s law here

I think a lot about the Jude Doyle’s line, “freedom and safety are just two names for the same desire.”

It definitely gets easier, but there’s a bit of a learning curve. Try to be patient with yourself if you can!

That makes sense! And thank you for linking to the blog post, I hadn’t seen it before. It’s definitely reassuring to hear about when experienced writers encounter similar challenges — it combats the feeling of “I don’t know what I’m doing and thus can’t do this”

It definitely does! Over time you develop the ability to knit without devoting too much direct attention to it, but that’s really challenging at the beginning. Good luck!

If I may ask — what do you focus on in the lesson? I struggle with this a lot myself and I’m always interested in ways to address the problem!

Joseph Finder ~ • Follow 2d • G • • • It's the 250th anniversary of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. A local TV station mapped the route out with nods to past and present Boston-area landmarks, including all seven Dunkin' Donuts a modern-day Paul Revere could stop at: https://www.nocboston.com/news/local/paul-revere-midnight-ride-boston-today/3685215/

i often see things that make me say "this is the most Boston thing I have ever seen in my life" but i think this one might have swept them all

Row tightness like that often comes from accidentally pulling more on the yarn as you go. You might want to try smaller blocks of fabric where you just focus on stitch consistency — always maintaining the same amount of tension is also a skill that one needs to learn in knitting!

Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon? The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.

No one wants to watch their PhD program be eliminated. It’s nearly the same story when it’s “innovated” away.

Me & @seeshespeak.bsky.social in the Chronicle. Read it below ⬇️

www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

AI Grief Observed These remarks were delivered this evening at the Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series at Illinois State University. "There is no good way to say this." These are the opening words of Yiyun Li’s l...

Took me a long time to get around to reading this, but I'm glad I did. Grief, genAI, why it was born when it was and what it means for our ability to cope and think.
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-grief-obs...

all this omg if you use these words ppl will think you use chatgpt! Omg stop using emdashes. Excuse, I will use whatever the hell I want. Writers wrote whatever they wanted and this machine gobbled it all up and now we can't use words and punctuation because the machine spits it out? Absurd.

The Democratic Party is out there trying to pick the perfect candidate like they look up the perfect coffee-maker on wirecutter. If they have this doodad and that price point, they’re a winner.

That’s not how politics works. It’s a game we play together, not catalogue shopping.

My book is (surprisingly?) here so if you thought your book was on a topic they'd neglect or that you'd be exempt, reconsider

GUYS. The comment period for the upcoming ACIP meeting ends on the 13TH. If you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here:
www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. You CAN submit anonymously!

Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due.

Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors.

Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.

This is a clear/helpful way of talking about llms

Congratulations!