Kate Littlejohn

A reminder: For the Holidays, your friends and families want books. Buy them books. If you aren't sure which book to get them, buy them more books. People want books!

People who are ‘AI’ boosters and whine about ‘anti-AI’ sentiment bewilder me. You have Twitter and LinkedIn; you have politicians and journalists on your side; businesses are all pro-AI.
What exactly do you want?
Yall behave like it’s literal sacrilege to be critical of AI

Congratulations!

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands

And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

If kids are continually getting the message 'just get AI to do it', how will they ever feel like it's worth their time and energy to do the work of learning and developing their knowledge and skills. It absolutely breaks my brain to see this being pushed by educators. I despair for these kids. /4

Our household motto has always been 'you get better at what you do.' I can't count how often I've said that to my girls when they've been stuck or felt like their skill level didn't match their aspiration or vision. And it's helped them grow their skills in art, writing, thinking /3

One is a talented artist and has worked so hard to get better and better - her teacher told her to put her drawing in AI to animate it. How would that teach her anything? She said yesterday another student struggled to draw something and was pushed to get AI to do it. How will that child learn? /2

I feel really sorry for kids right now. They are swimming in genAI slop everywhere they go. It's pushed on them by everyone. My kids regularly tell me that teachers advise them to use it for *everything*. How do they become great at things when they're actively supported to avoid mental work? /1

We had the technology to google “what temp is done for turkey” before we had AI.

The idea that we need AI to tell us how to cook a turkey because we don’t want to ask other humans ignores the many millenia of people finding ways to give each other answers without asking someone they know.

(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer

am i supposed to be consuming or am i supposed to be saving for a house i'll never be able to afford. can yall make up your minds

In Mussolini's Italy, the fascist movement was obsessed with people wearing suitable attire in all social settings. Thomas Mann describes this brilliantly in one of his novellas. The fact that transportation secretary Duffy obsesses over how one should dress to fly in an airplane, while being

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.

Screenshot: "The bottom line is that artists’ rights are workers’ rights. You are not being progressive or radical by denying artists the right to control their own work. You are not helping the underprivileged by making it impossible for anyone who isn’t already rich and privileged to take up artistic careers. Your pirated Taylor Swift song isn’t feeding the poor. If you want to fight the power, maybe try hacking JP Morgan instead of pirating a vampire romance for your Kindle. In fact, the constant devaluation of art has been a huge boon for large corporations. There is no one happier that it is increasingly acceptable to pay nothing to photographers, artists, writers, and musicians. Doritos would love for you to crowd source their next TV ad and Apple is thrilled you’ll pay more for an iPod because you know you can steal the music you’ll listen to on it."

This is an older article I still link to all the time because it continues to be so relevant. electricliterature.com/taylor-swift...

Isaac Chotiner like my editors haven't assigned me a new act of violence in two whole weeks I gotta start freelancing

Concerning the Chotiner is opening up new fronts

Of *course* she is a 'cook completely inappropriate meals in the office sandwich press' person. Of course.

I hope you get to spend lots of time reading and writing with beautiful pens on excellent paper using delicious inks - have a wonderful rest of 2025, thanks for being a fun person to chat with about all things pens, books, notebooks and everything else

Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that. "You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now." Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.

I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.

Tech bros really can't understand why we're hostile to technology that a) is frequently confidently wrong and b) threatens to ruin our already terrible lives

“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”

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Seeking: NSW History Teachers. Have you taught History 7-10 in NSW? Are you interested in taking part in an online interview for a PhD study at WSU about the representation of women in the NSW history syllabuses? Please enter your details into the form below for further details. https://forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb Contacts: Kate Littlejohn, Kay Carroll

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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?

I've been battling with this - I really like so much about my leuchtturm but they just don't cut it for me on the paper front. I desperately wish they did.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Donate to Veterinary care for Butter Bean, organized by Tristan Gall Hi everyone. I run Geelong Guinea Pig Rescue in Geelong and we have one of our perma… Tristan Gall needs your support for Veterinary care for Butter Bean

I don't usually share things like this but my sister's partner runs a small animal rescue and has had some very big and unexpected bills for one of his older rescues - he is completely self-funded and does amazing work with the guinea pigs he rehabilitates - any little bit helps

gofund.me/60b29d002