Lilly Dancyger

I’m utterly uninterested in “debates” about whether AI can do things well. I wouldn’t care if it could. 1. It stole from me. 2. I prefer me having my job to a computer having it. 3. I don’t teach “with” Lockheed or Raytheon; why wld I teach with Anthropic or OpenAI?

Some are born with the gift of prophecy

Truly, I mean I went to *graduate school* for *journalism* lol

the enemy of my enemy is still my fucking enemy but i hope they drown each other flailing

a fan of this energy tbh, and ambitious politicos should be trying to outdo each other here

Next president will have to rebuild the federal government while fighting a cadre of insane billionaires the whole way. The more bleak things get the more absurd it seems to consider electing some common weasel who wants to be president because he wants to be president

DHS agents detain Columbia student after entering University-owned residence, Shipman reports <i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates. </i>

fyi the Columbia student newspaper has far more details on the ICE raid on a Columbia residence hall (including the likely name of the student in question) than any of the journalists y'all are reposting who aren't on campus. 🙂 support student journalism!

That’s how they get you

these brave little buds need a place to stay! perhaps you can help?

lol you know... she didn't mention that part

people taking "elevator pitch" way too literally!

lol I heard a story from an agent once about being pitched through the stall door *while she was peeing* at a conference. people are wild.

truly, advanced level stuff!

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Great AWP-survival advice from the @barrelhouse.bsky.social eds in their newsletter today, but especially valuable is @tmcallister.bsky.social's inside tip: "Overall, try to be mostly normal most of the time." [as in, don't demand rejection explanations/try to pitch your book to ppl at the booths]

Chicago pope loves everyone except JD Vance has got to be one of the funniest reoccurring bits of this terrible timeline

Also then he wouldn’t have any money, and I’d pay $2,000 to make that happen

It’s very important that we be mean to these losers

Can someone please teach Johnny Weir how to pronounce Anastasia before I lose my mind

There’s a John and a Johnny who work in my building and they often do repairs together—it just feels right

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

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I don't have a work-issued computer but I do all of my writing *and* all of my email job on a 13-inch Macbook Air 🫣

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

In other news, coffee grinders make terrible teachers and your ottoman makes a lousy tennis coach.

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”

"LLMs identified relevant conditions in fewer than 34.5 percent of cases."

www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...

Something the AI people never get is that if you can generate a book every day, so can everybody else! I have access to Claude and if I wanted a book written by Claude, I could have one today! Why do I need you?

"If it takes you six months to write a book but I can shit my pants today, who's gonna win the race?"

Yeah, I guess even though I said it's not about distance... getting up and walking six feet to the kitchen is more of a barrier than just clicking a couple of buttons. Enough to make me not do it 99% of the time!

Distance isn’t really the issue, it’s more that when I mindlessly pick up my phone and see it bricked I go “oh right” and put it down again. I could walk a few feet and unbrick it but it’s more about the interruption of the unconscious action