pondering this

Every train, a note. A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

www.trainjazz.com TRAIN JAZZ

yes 😭

nensense

These Immigration updates are brought to you by a whole village but I need to say aloud that team leads @magicbeans.bsky.social and @yvonnezlam.bsky.social and our permanent editor @jostewart.myatproto.social are among the best, toughest, most determined truth-finders I have ever worked with.

AI is a labor problem.

“Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers.”

If you’re looking for a good thing to contribute to right now — and maybe especially if you use words to make sense of the world — I’ll just say that @unbreaking.org is a tremendous group of people. And we could use your help.

oh shit, i didn’t realize had made it to non-xbox platforms now! thank youuuuu

Our latest is up, it was brutal work this week.

A good afternoon to organized labor

And there is a modest strike fund (quite close to its goal!) to support striking @propublicaguild.org workers. If you have the capacity to donate www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr... (h/t @ethanmarcotte.com)

Donate to Support ProPublica Workers in Our Fight for a Fair Contract, organized by Eli Oberman We are the unionized workers at ProPublica, and we’re ready to… Eli Oberman needs your support for Support ProPublica Workers in Our Fight for a Fair Contract

There’s also a strike fund, if you’re looking to actively support the @propublicaguild.org workers: www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

“In support of the 24-hour work stoppage, the union is asking readers and audiences to not visit ProPublica, click on stories, or otherwise engage with ProPublica content on other platforms and partner organizations.” — www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

ProPublica’s union is ON STRIKE

i’m real sorry man 💜 been there, it really sucks

The worst unfollow+reply tactic from the deepest corners of Twitter’s cessiest cesspools, delivered straight to my inbox? The DREAM

yep same

Ugh, been there 💜 I turned off unsubscribe notifications a few years back, because the spate of emails that came in — usually after I’d written something personal, or about labor — were really getting me down.

—IT IS NOW

thank you thank you, if i ever get a wikipedia page i would like this post at the top of it

Melinoë, the main character from the video game Hades 2, is an angry pale-skinned woman with a blonde bob haircut. Her right eye is green, her left eye is red, and she’s glaring defiantly at you. A speech bubble has been hastily inserted into the image to make it look like she’s saying the previous post.

Oh thank goodness 💜

I think part of de-hyping AI is learning to read the research about its ill effects with an eye for continuity rather than novelty, which @naomialderman.bsky.social does here. ("A difference in scale may become a difference in kind" is still true, but continuities remain helpful to understanding.)

happy happy birthday, avery!! hope the day is: GREAT

oh my god

mike the way i just internally snapped like four pencils on your behalf, i’m so sorry

Mouthwords | everything changes Talk with your face.

“Your choice isn’t between risk and safety but different kinds of risk: choose well.”

I really needed to read @aworkinglibrary.com’s thoughts on finding our way out of workslop; maybe you needed to read them, too. everythingchanges.us/blog/mouthwo...

In the machine, we are always forgetting, chasing the same discourses and panics in circles. Instead of making restitution, we wait for the cycle to erase the screen and carry on as before. Stay long enough and everything rhymes with something that gave you scars, but that everyone else has forgotten. Resolution eludes us online even more than off. But then, the paradox: Nothing stays gone, either. Fast search resuscitates archives without even a bump in load time. Screenshots jump networks and decades; we have the receipts. Somewhere between the continual etch-a-sketch and structurally eidetic memory, the provisional and crucial ties of solidarity recede, always just out of reach.

I wrote this three years ago, watching the Next Twitter come online, and I am feeling it

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the links are never honorable, but today? even less so

happy fools day of visibility