Liana Krissoff

I really love America sometimes.

This was a delightful scro//. "Lousy smarch weather" is a classic in my house but I also love "is it about my cube?" "We'll live like kings! Damn hell ass kings!"

“I won’t be needing *this* anymore!”

It’s well known that no one writes dialogue like Richard Price, but this, from Lazarus Man, should be in a museum:

“Bloody nose.”

“Yeah, I can see that. It looks broke too. You should get that administered to.”

They've created a tech environment that's just so hostile to elders, y'all..

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

Doctorow—who once, pre-AI, publicly thanked me for my copyedit of his book—is at least consistent in his techno-libertarian defense of Open at all costs.

I have never done an email interview or anything of the sort without signing off, “Feel free to edit at will!”

Those sidebars in your textbook that are so tedious to write that you got AI to do it and now you save 15–30 minutes of work per sidebar? Mayyyybe the world doesn’t need the sidebars.

Even the internet's favorite dog account calls out Ring video cameras what they are: Mass surveillance.

As soon as you hear that distinctive “whoosh” warning sound, get out of the way.

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:

-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

i need an emotional support perogi

Paperback book, with a gorgeous cover illustration (by Trevor Barnes) of a somewhat menacing water bird defending her egg in a treetop nest.

In addition to being smart and affecting, this is excellent heron content. Highly recommend Commodore Rookery, a chapbook by Christy Lee Barnes published by @finishinglinepress.bsky.social.

www.finishinglinepress.com/product/comm...

Secret Lives of Church Ladies being pulled from a bookstore shelf.

Secret Lives of Church Ladies face out in a bookstore display.

One week, two Charlestons (SC and WV), two indie bookstores, and lots of ongoing support—almost six years after the pub date—for the big success story from the little university press.

I’m so sorry (and angry). What a loss.

I'm still processing the news. I loved this gig so much. Getting to shout about great books by especially newer authors has been one of the most uncomplicated sources of joy in my life, and I'm gonna be sad about this for a long time.

man's always hated books and the people who love them tbh

As an individual, it’s pretty easy not to use Amazon dot com, Alexa, or Prime.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end TPS for Haiti, making clear that TPS holders cannot be deported or denied work authorization while the case moves forward. AILA celebrates this win & will carefully follow further developments on Haitian TPS.

Yesterday I made a coffee & brushed my hair & sat down for a zoom meeting, only to find that the meeting was entirely an AI hallucination. Gemini saw an email thread about possible meeting times, picked a random date and time, & popped it on my calendar. DAMMIT GOOGLE I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS NONSENSE

Looking at continuing-ed course listings. “People who took this also took . . . Beginner Pickleball.” 😭

There’s a lot of evil in the world right now, including this specific variety: the “best bookstores in X city” blog post that includes Amazon affiliate links . . . to books.

To the hundreds of businesses small and large whose promotional emails I’ve been summarily unsubscribing from in the last week: I’m sorry. You can blame Gmail’s forced AI update that can’t be disabled without also turning off inbox sorting.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Lessons of Springdale: Towns must prepare if they want any say over data centers Data centers are eying land in Western Pennsylvania. In Springdale, a 5-2 vote approved development. What can be done to mitigate noise and well-water impacts?

Well-reported story about the forthcoming data center just outside Pittsburgh, how state law made it inevitable even though the municipality didn’t want to approve it, and how energy prices are set:
www.publicsource.org/springdale-d...

Conservatives don’t avoid hypocrisy, it's a flex. It says the rules apply to the suckers, not to them. Their entire worldview is that they should be in the powerful in-group that can do whatever it wants, and everyone else should be in the powerless out-group they can command, exploit, and oppress.

Many tears of frustration have been shed in this household over Ad*be.