M. D. Silverman

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.

as always: they're not stupid, they're bought and paid for

(from Here Comes The Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization by bill mckibben)

F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents

Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force.

"Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

The belief that all technologies are inherently neutral is wrong on so many levels, but learning that is going to take generations, isn't it?

Tel Aviv, Israel, tonight. Demonstration of thousands calling for an end to the war and a hostage deal.

📸 Aviv Atlas

no more educational material for your children. just poisonous right wing slop.

I was just in the protest against the genocide in Tel Aviv ✊✊

It was so emotional I cried and many others did as well 🥹

Signs about the Holocaust, starving babies, but also thousands of people and a strong speech of hope

I’m so proud of this growing Jewish faction 💗

woooooooow

This is so depressing. Childhood should be about drawing and imagining and playing, not plugging shit into AI to make it "real"

And I want to be really, really, really clear:

I AM AMERICAN-ISRAELI. I AM **BEGGING** THE WORLD TO MAKE ISRAEL STOP.

I have been so grateful to @chrislhayes.bsky.social for continuing to foreground the horrors in Gaza and I don't begin to know what to do with the fact that watching those horrors unfold has not been enough to move the world to stop Israel from carrying them out.

In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.

It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

"“The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city."

Yeah, this is how to do it.

We were told digital media would replace books and we were told video games would replace books and we were told streaming video would replace books and people are still buying and reading books.

We refuse to watch quietly while Trump marches us into yet another war in the Middle East, this time following Israel on their genocidal mission. No war with Iran! Free Palestine!

what a stupid presidency, what a stupid fucking war

"Now is the time for peace" yells the warmongering piece of shit known as Donald Trump

The US is the aggressor here. As we have been for decades now.

Gods help all of the innocent lives that get ruined because of this.

Congratulations to everyone who insisted Trump was at least better on the Middle East than Kamala on being once again proven to be complete fucking morons. By the way if you reply to this saying I’m “blaming the left” for her loss you are also a moron.

given the history of the genre calling zohran mamdani a "magical realist" feels pretty racist to me

The idea that we can "easily" overthrow the regime in Iran is a fantasy of people that have never served. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of slaughter. Iraq still isn't peaceful. Libya is a war zone that's been in civil war since we dropped bombs. History is screaming!