John Raucci

If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.

Me: No, you didn't "do your own research", dad. You googled something specific which returned biased results based upon your previous interactions with google and then skimmed until you found some that confirmed your point-of-view.

Fantastic thread

“Peace through strength” is doublespeak right out of 1984. Don’t fall for war mongering propaganda.

INCIDENTS AROUND THE HOUSE, Josh Malerman: This is the rare novel that's authentically scary. I mean, this is THE EXORCIST level of scary. The audiobook version is good, too.

AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide - ACRLog This week I was on a panel at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) virtual conference. Along with my fellow panelists Andrea Baer and Emily Zerrenner, I joined moderator Sarah Appedu to discuss the c...

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

There Will Never Be Another 'WTF With Marc Maron' | Defector I heard Marc Maron announce he was ending his podcast the way that I imagine he’d’ve wanted me to—while walking through my neighborhood in Los Angeles, through wired headphones, just a little too hopp...

This is the best piece that will ever be written about our show! Thanks @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social! defector.com/there-will-n...

Fell in love with The Brutalist (2024) yesterday on my first-time watch. Just a gorgeously shot and brilliantly edited film. Brody is stunning.

Next up is Bullit (1968), another first-time watch. Yes it’s a DVD. I’ll never give up physical media.

Last day of school yesterday for my boys and they had 8 kids spend the night here: Madness. Cookies. Chaos. Video games. Random outbursts. Maniacal laughter…

…but that was all just me in the other room.

The kids were quiet.

I am eating a donut right now. It is tasty.

Burn it down: a license for AI resistance (opinion) Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.

“Writing faculty have both the agency and the academic freedom to examine generative AI’s dishonest training origins and conclude: There is no path to ethically teach AI skills. Not only are we allowed to say no, we ought to think deeply about the why of that no.”

First post. Looking to connect on:

rhetoric and composition studies
VHS collecting
horror movies
80s horror
board games
vinyl record collecting
thrifting and yard sales
The Last Drive In
Pittsburgh Pirates / Steelers / Penguins