Join us in congratulating our fiction selections for the 2026 Best of the Net issue. The Great Renunciation by @laurenbarbato.bsky.social, The Sisters by @angieellis.bsky.social, The Harvest by Katie Field, Year of the Rat by @kirakh.bsky.social, and Baby Teeth by Sofia Sears are our fiction selections for 2026! Special thanks to @andrew.porter.writer for judging.

Join us in congratulating our fiction selections for the 2026 Best of the Net issue.

Special thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social for judging.

#bestofthenet #fiction

The joy of coming into the house to hear the Hair Original Broadway recording on full blast.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Was just asked to make a friend a reading list … higher education finally proving its worth.

I personally think not safe to remain in any personal relationship with anyone who is using LLMs to analyze your relationship, make conclusions about your motives, or determine how to treat you. I think this is beyond red flag—it should be an immediate dealbreaker.

UNENDING TORMENTS

At a recent work event, an administrator asked if I'm using AI in the classroom. When I said that a creative writing class should be an AI-free zone, she asked: What about outlining? What about generating ideas? This is a person responsible for guiding the humanities into the future. We're cooked.

Mantra: Literature matters. Literature matters. Literature matters.

Just saw my first Tesla hearse.

rimonoroni Follow christians: what could possibly be in that evil book.... what horrible spells does it hold within its pages... what black magic does it propagate.... the talmud: so if you send your kid off to Torah school but he has a really hard time with it, send him back home and go to school yourself instead so that once you've learned Torah you can go and teach your entire family. in fact, once some rabbi went out to go to Torah school and do just this, and on his way he came through this town and he asked if he could stay in the synagogue for the night. and of course the rabbi said yes but weird enough no one was in the streets and something was kind of off about the whole place. so our hero went into the synagogue only to find a seven headed demon just hanging out in the library!! our hero is terrified and prays super hard and because of this the demon is vanquished. he goes back to the rabbi and is like "dude wtf" and the rabbi was like "listen i know this is unorthodox but you're well known for how good at praying you are and this demon has been terrorizing us for well over a month and we were desperate. we knew you wouldn't die" and the guy was like "i didn't know that!" who do you think is in the right? hm. tough question. anyway. what were we talking about again? oh right. what if you make your sukkah doorway 1/7 of a cubit too short. would that be fucked up or what rimonoroni Follow #what? look up Bavli Kiddushin 29b <3

I love the Talmud

Doing the good work.

Don’t forget to block bsky.app/profile/atti... everyone

The Roads Amputated the Legs Or: Writing sentences that define possible futures

I’ve always been interested in how changes at the line level have a powerful effect on a story and the reader. AI had me thinking about the “democratizing” of prose and all the ways this is a problem. I wrote about it in my newsletter. Check it out.

open.substack.com/pub/danieljc...

‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say Several current and former officials blame intense pressure from the White House.

BOOFUCKINGHOO
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

PRO of Pro In de eigen uitlatingen schrijft Progressief Nederland ‘PRO’ met drie hoofdletters. Jacobin gaat hierin mee omdat we vinden dat partijen zelf over hun naam gaan. Dat geldt ook voor andere partijen als DENK, BIJ1 en 50PLUS, omroepen zoals HUMAN en rappers zoals MF DOOM.

Love dit. Get rekt NOS.

Man, gotta love opening day.

The Roads Amputated the Legs Or: Writing sentences that define possible futures

I’ve always been interested in how changes at the line level have a powerful effect on a story and the reader. AI had me thinking about the “democratizing” of prose and all the ways this is a problem. I wrote about it in my newsletter. Check it out.

open.substack.com/pub/danieljc...

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Rattlesnake (Official Video) YouTube video by Flightless Records

The only music for writing:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-i1...

The University of Iowa presents Homecoming, a reading, 90 years of writing at Iowa. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Harding, Alexander Chee, Sarah Minor, Lauren Haldeman, Rodney Dailey II. Friday March 6, 7-10PM, Checkerspot Brewing, 1421 Ridgely St. AWP 2026 Baltimore Maryland

The Beautiful Room Is Emptier Now,a tribute to Edmund White. Alysia Abbott, Brian Alessandro, Alexander Chee, Alden Jones, Rakesh Satyal. Associated Writing Programs Conference Saturday March 7, 3:20-4:35pm, room 301, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center.

If you’re at AWP2026, I am reading tonight at this Iowa Writers’ Workshop event with Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Harding, Sarah Minor, Lauren Haldeman and Rodney Dailey II. Tomorrow I’ll be honoring Edmund White alongside @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social, Alysia Abbott, Brian Alessandro and Alden Jones.

Is Instagram threads one of the circles of hell Dante was talking about? What a seer!

CNN Could Be Next Up for a Right-Wing Reboot Thanks to the Ellisons With Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN could be the next media property slated for a right-wing turn.

"'If Bari is going to be running CNN, expect people to leave.'

This is further proof that there is seemingly no amount of money or power that can force any journalist not married to her to like or respect Weiss, a tool in every sense of the word ..."

theintercept.com/2026/03/03/c...

Say no to surveillance society.

Nice pull and an important reminder that, no, things haven't always been like this.

AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM | Reading List The U.S. and Israel continued their deadly imperial spiral this last weekend with a joint operation in Iran that resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties and the assassination of Iran's supreme lea...

We must stand against U.S. imperialism.

For a deeper analysis of imperialism, war, extractivism, and a left internationalism that could organize against these forces, consider the titles on this list.

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...

Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about.

Their stories should be known:

Yeah I won’t be using Canvas anymore.

Frustrated? Intro to communism reading list with pdfs, online text, and audio books for each

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Ossicle Daniel J. Cecil THE WALL IS splattered with a thought or two at a bar the size of a living room. To the left of the liquor is a mural lavishly depicting a crowd of yuppies swirling around open bott…

Well, well, well. I’ve got a new piece up on effy literary, a lit mag I found on @chillsubs.bsky.social. They’re doing awesome stuff, including publishing this odd non-fiction number about AI, listening and sight, and fungus that takes over the brain. Enjoy: effyliterary.art/2026/02/13/o...

Ossicle Daniel J. Cecil THE WALL IS splattered with a thought or two at a bar the size of a living room. To the left of the liquor is a mural lavishly depicting a crowd of yuppies swirling around open bott…

Well, well, well. I’ve got a new piece up on effy literary, a lit mag I found on @chillsubs.bsky.social. They’re doing awesome stuff, including publishing this odd non-fiction number about AI, listening and sight, and fungus that takes over the brain. Enjoy: effyliterary.art/2026/02/13/o...