A. W. Prihandita | Anselma

Omg it looks so beautiful lit up this way!

Val, congratulations!!! 🎊

Cover of EMILY M. BENDER & ALEX HANNA’s book, “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.”

Anyway, go read “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.”

It really just takes two letters: “No.”

Oh wait nvm I can actually disable comments LMAOOOO.

The truth of AI’s complicity in colonial logics and the truth of your complicity in those logics if you defend AI—those truths are here to stay. Put up or shut up.

If you’re here to tell me AI is here to stay right after I literally said this, I’m blocking you.

What really bothers me about all this “AI is here to stay, we gotta teach kids how to live with it” narrative is that it sounds exactly like “racism is here to stay, put up or shut up.”

They’re both technologies of colonization. We shouldn’t be okay with them being a part of life.

… FOR ME. I HAVE PROBLEMS, OBVIOUSLY. THIS IS A ME PROBLEM. If you can seek cozy with no strings attached, good for you, congratulations. Now forgive me as I try to keep all that out of my eyesight.

Comfort only feels comforting for me in, like, a hurt/comfort situation. The more the hurt is in proportion to the comfort, the more earned the comfort feels.

Try to hand me comfort on a silver platter, though? THAT pisses me off. It feels fake and irresponsible and gaslighty.

Absolutely no shade to people who like this sorta thing, but the more I hear the word “cozy,” the less cozy I feel. Whisper the word “apocalypse” and its synonyms, though, and I will thank you profusely for affirming my reality and feelings, and now we can all go to bed in peace.

Here are 13 Portland-area coffee shops and restaurants that have pledged to feed people who lose SNAP benefits The restaurants are doing what they can to feed people in the community.

Here are more Portland-area restaurants offering food to people losing SNAP benefits.

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Text: poem by Andrea Gibson :every time i ever said i want to die By Andrea Gibson A difficult life is not less worth living than a gentle one. Joy is simply easier to carry than sorrow. And your heart could lift a city from how long you've spent holding what's been nearly impossible to hold. This world needs those who know how to do that. Those who could find a tunnel that has no light at the end of it, and hold it up like a telescope to know the darkness also contains truths that could bring the light to its knees. Grief astronomer, adjust the lens, look close, tell us what you see.

Ohhh Andrea Gibson ;(

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026!

It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3!

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AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal

What the holy fuck is wrong with these motherfuckers?

What is it about AI that makes people lose their damn minds and spew bilge from their mouths?

(The key thing here is 'licensing deal' which = money, the love of which is root of all evil.)

I grew in poverty. My father had to drop out of school when he wad 12 to go to work after his father was killed in a car accident. He worked oj fishing boats while functionally illiterate My mother was not able to go to college so she worked low paying jobs until she was diagnosed

St Jerome writing in the 5th century, ahead of his time in hating on overly ornate special editions of books, where “parchments are dyed purple, gold is melted into lettering, manuscripts are decked with jewels, while Christ lies at the door naked and dying…”

I implore anyone who has an audience and speaks about genAI and LLMs to refer to them as products, not technologies, as much as possible.

Keep hammering that home.

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70% UNLOCKED! Lesley and Rebecca will be reading CreepyPasta stories selected by our followers and doing a small affirmation critique of the story. This live event is sure to be hysterical!

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The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩

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Drawing of a megaphone in chalk on a blackboard with yellow exclamation marks coming out of the megaphone. Text overlayed on the image reading: Submission open on November 1 - 30. The theme is Revolutions.

In 7 days, our next submission period opens, with the theme: Revolutions.

We're looking for bold, subversive fiction exploring cycles of revolution, counter-revolution, quiet resistance, and more.

⏰ Submissions open Nov 1. Full details on what we're looking for: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

No one has ever done a queer reading of this story, and I don't talk about it either bc, well, it's... not that obvious, & I don't wanna explain myself, but... 💜

that I see this story as romance, & that it's a form of queering the boundary btwn self & other + what love is + what intimacy is, and... yeah. Ace stuff, probably, if you will.

My favorite question was probably about the transgression of physical boundary btwn the doctor & the alien in the climactic scene, which meant I got to say (I think for the first time ever)

And sure enough, the first question I got in the Q&A was which FOB lyrics it was that inspired the story. 😂

They gave me many other questions after that, all of them so intelligent and interesting! It’s so nice to have people engage with my work and read it critically that way. 🥹

I opened with, “This story came out of my dissertation—wait, actually, no, it came out of a Fall Out Boy song lyrics at first, then the dissertation came along, then Viveiros de Castro’s equivocation, then Sedgwick’s paranoid and reparative reading.”

One of the professors here in a Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies class assigned my story in her syllabus, so today I got to meet her class and yap a little bit about Negative Scholarship.

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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover

Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

A worker sorts through a large pile of e-waste in an industrial facility, highlighting the environmental impact of discarded electronics.

We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?

In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.

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