A photo of John Green’s book The Anthropocene Reviewed, held open to the essay titled “Diet Dr Pepper”, with a can of Diet Dr Pepper in the background.

I am annoying everyone in my house while I read this book, because nearly every page I want to read a sentence out loud or talk about Edmu/ond Hai/l/wley. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

Help! My Husband’s Best Man Made a Stunning Admission During His Wedding Speech. I Might Never Get Over It. I barely got through the reception.

JFC, Prudie. Groom outsources thinking, language, and basic human emotions to ChatGPT, and you give the letter writer the bridezilla treatment?

Note to the bride - yeah, him having AI write his vows is a big fucking deal. No, you're not overreacting.

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And has anyone summed up the male gaze better than “he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with tender reverence for her abysmal purity.” Abysmal! I die.

Chapter 1: “an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.” I die.

I’m rereading The Age of Innocence for the first time in 25 years. I remember May Welland and Madame Olenska a bit - but I did not remember the sparkling, lethal humor of the writing. My god.

This is a post about AI.

Every once in a while, I get to witness a student truly coming to a new understanding of the world - an awakening, a sudden explosion of wisdom. It is messy, breathless, and it's utterly inconvenient to the structures of academic writing. Mind-altering realizations get Bs on standard rubrics.

Dear students,
Your AI-generated emails asking for excused absences are too verbose and make you sound like a bootlicking asshole. You don't need 6 overwritten, sycophantic paragraphs to say "I was ill, but I'll get the work done."
Sincerely,
Your human professor

Reframe the sentiment as “you only need two video games” and see how quickly the white American male gets involved in politics.

The Impossible Plight of the Pro-Tariff Liberals They finally got the Democratic Party to listen to them. Then came Trump’s second term.

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I’m head-scratching at the ways that tribalism has made the left forget our critiques of globalization / free trade.

Global consumer capitalism is a labor, environmental, and human rights nightmare.

Can we both critique the tariffs as a regressive tax AND critique global capitalism?

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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I feel like a difference between my early adulthood and the current era is the absence today of a meaningful concept of “selling out”.

The economic, technological, educational, political and cultural context today means that we are ALWAYS selling ourselves. We can’t afford to not sell out.

I’m so glad he read that article so I didn’t have to. I would have blown a gasket.

If one more person says to me “if you want better writing from AI, you need to give it more and more specific prompts”…..

So, dear admin, what you’re saying is that this shit sandwich would taste better if I seasoned it? No thank you.

What people really don’t want to hear is that shaming people who brag about writing emails with AI would be just fine. Admirable in fact. Norms can sometimes do what law won’t.

USian pro-democracy activism is quite old and white.

College students today were in early elementary school when Trump was elected in 2016. For them, the US IS a dystopian hellscape - we have to make a case for why it’s worth saving.

And listen to them about how it must change.

You'd think that with a technology as grandiose as AI, students would learn to cover their cheating tracks a bit better? Alas.

How to defend your neighbors (or yourself) from ICE enforcement in D.C. Trump has threatened mass deportations, but D.C. residents still have rights. We've rounded up strategies to protect yourself and your community.

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Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IN CASE OF ICE: CONOCE TUS DERECHOS EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:

DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR. ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge. Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door. NO ABRAS TU PUERTA. ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.

ASK THEM TO LEAVE. If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission. 2 PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN. Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.

REMAIN SILENT. You have the right to remain silent. If the agents ask you questions, tell them, "I wish to remain silent." PERMANECE EN SILENCIO. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio. Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles: "Deseo permanecer en silencio".

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

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Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."

Every Trump apologist laughing at Democrats for “defending MS-13” is endorsing a conception of law in which the executive branch can abduct and disappear U.S. citizens to a foreign prison without even giving them an opportunity to object. It’s really that simple. These losers just crave fascism.

DAVID BROOKS says “we have nothing to lose but our chains.” David. Brooks.

MAGA is a death cult.

@rivka-otter.bsky.social

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.

The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.

1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.