May-lee Chai (she/her)

The author’s guild website offers guides for filing claims and also on boilerplate contract language for AI protections.
#AWP26

“Class actions have been a really important vehicle for collective action,” Kazi says, adding that if you have published a book you should definitely check out the settlement website (almost 500,000 books are members of the class).
#AWP26

How to Resist Al in Writing & Teaching, Sponsored by the Authors Guild Thursday, Mar 05, 2026 @ 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM EST • Room: Room 310, Level 300 ena Venue: Baltimore Convention Center Session Code: T159 Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion

Description Among practitioners and teachers of writing, a resistance to Al is taking all kinds of creative forms: organizing among colleagues to change language in publishing and teaching contracts; crafting legal strategies to counter those of Al companies; refusing requests to incorporate Al into writing and teaching practice; and much more. This panel, drawing on the tradition of workers' inquiry, is meant for those interested in hearing from colleagues deeply involved in crafting these strategies. Show Less

Decided to attend a panel for the first time in a couple of years here at #AWP26. And it’s this one, featuring @vauhinivara.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, Carmen Maria Machado and Umair Kazi.

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

New on MS NOW:

The war with Iran is costing the U.S. an estimated $1 billion a day, according to two congressional sources with knowledge of the matter.

Based on that estimate, the U.S. has spent at least $5 billion on the war since it began on Feb. 28.

Cartoon by
Jeff Stahler
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‼️‼️‼️ Renee Good did NOT deserve to have her brains blown out in front of her dog for not complying with armed vigilantes who were terrorizing HER community.

You simply arrest, fine and release.

YOU DO NOT MURDER!
ARREST ICE AGENT ROSS NOW ‼️‼️‼️

On behalf of Brian’s family, we want to express our deepest gratitude for the overwhelming outpouring of support, messages, and contributions over the last 24 hours. At this time, our priority is Brian’s wellbeing. We are taking a necessary step back from the public eye to allow him to focus fully on his recovery in private. While he looks forward to engaging with you all again very soon, his health and his family remain the current priorities. Thank you for your continued patience and for being such an incredible community. Please keep Brian and his family in your prayers. — Team McGinnis

And for the record, I’ve been running long before this, and yes even after breaking my arm standing up for what I believe in. It’s only made me more determined. Anger is real, and so is resolve. Take care.

A message from Brian McGinnis, the firefighter and Marine veteran who was forcibly removed and injured by officers during his anti-war protest at the Capitol

That’s work!

maternal gran worked in the fields picking the harvest. she had her own veg garden, and still keeps animals to this day.

I honestly have no clue if my paternal gran was ever like, employed, but she did have her own farm with animals and everything, where she did most of the labour most of the time.

for sure they did: factory work, cleaning, corner shop work among other things

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June 2025)

One grandmother was a teacher, one worked in hospitality, one was a lab assistant (yes I have 3) 💛💛💛

My maternal grandmother was a shopkeeper along with her husband. I haven't gotten a clear explanation of my paternal grandmother's job (which is typical of my parents).

Nothing exciting. Cook and seamstress, both worked into their 70s and provided their daughters (seven between them) with options and freedoms they could hardly have dreamt of for themselves.

I admire them greatly.

My paternal grandmother worked retail in a department store in the Bronx until around 1970.
My step- grandmother was a piece of work.

My maternal grandmother and grandfather ran a business together. She was probably more of a businessperson than he was.

My grandmother worked in the late Forties in San Francisco at the Emporium department store in their women’s sweater department. The goods were so fine that they were kept in glass cases. Occasionally, men would come in wanting to try them on. She would treat them as any other discerning customer.

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Rep Epically Trolls ICE Barbie Over Alleged Lover’s Blanket Tantrum Kristi Noem’s murdered puppy Cricket was also honored.

Kristi Noem’s murdered puppy Cricket was also honored.

Always enough money for another war in the Middle East but never enough money to help people here at home.

BREAKING: This administration lies about everything.

Apparently, the GOP has a Nazi problem.

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Fruitvale Station (2013) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : One day of his life “Fruitvale Station” presents us the last slice of one plain life which was ended too soon by a sudden incident. As shown in the movie, his life was rather unremarkable before his death drew the at…

Ryan Coogler's “Fruitvale Station” (2013) is surely worthwhile to chekc out, considering how much he and his frequent lead actor have advanced during next 13 years. My old review written in 2013. kaist455.com/2013/12/20/f...

A deeply moving film, with stellar performances by all the actors. I am still haunted by it.

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I think Trump should go through with Elon Musk on Jeff Bezos’s yacht to show it’s safe.