I’ve been a professor for 32 years. My 25-year old daughter just just started her career as a physician’s assistant and her salary is the same as mine:

I've seen a preview of this work and it is magnificent. Preorder!!!

Yay! Thank you, I’m so glad you loved it!

Ha! Thanks so much for the support - love this.

Karen is very much in the book! :)

Thanks so much, Anna!

I've been told by very smart book world friends I need to talk A LOT more about the book here on bluesky. It's true, much of how books circulate is through the hard work of their authors, so I'll say this: I hope this book will change the way folks understand both the American story and our media.

Thanks, Dan!

With the book’s release coinciding with Juneteenth—and amid broader national reflections on the sate of democracy—this moment feels especially meaningful, as the project traces how Black media vision and storytelling have long helped push the nation closer to its democratic ideals.

A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom

We’re officially two months out from the publication of my book, A Second Sight: How Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom (June 16, 2026), and I’m feeling incredibly grateful for the early reception its already getting. You can pre-order (on discount) and support local bookstores here:

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

Three brand new smelling uncracked hardback books, 1. The Edge of Space-Time Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie Prescod-Weinstein 2. DURBA MITRA THE FUTURE THAT WAS A HISTORY OF THIRD WORLD FEMINISM AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM 3. YOUR DATA WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU POLICING IN THE AGE OF SELF SURVEILLANCE ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON

My latest book haul looking beautiful
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April 12, 1787: Free African Society Founded The Free African Society was a benevolent organization grounded in Christian religious faith and operating outside denominational differences to serve the social needs of Black Philadelphians.

#tdih 1787, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones founded the Free African Society in Philadelphia, a multi-denomination mutual aid org for freed people.

Provided core services (education, health, jobs, burial) denied to Black people by U.S. & local gov't.

Read ⬇️
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Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Wish I knew about this book when I wrote this article - but still, another part of the fabric of the space age!

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Women made the bras and girdles and women made the spacesuits

Everyone mentioning Columbia in the comments…omg. I had zero conscious memory of that even though I was in college when it happened. I googled the crew. Now I am newly traumatized. Challenger has always loomed large but apparently my brain just refused to acknowledge the other one

Whew

😢

An image of the Artemis II NASA SLS rocket. The launch vehicle is outlines in blue with the caption 'in the sea'. The service module is red with caption 'took them around the moon then burned up' At the tip the Launch Escape System is outlined red saying 'burned up' Second stage fairings are outlines black saying 'aerodynamic fairings that also burned up. Finally the re-entry vehicle is outlines green stating 'came home.

No problem!
This should make it easier to grasp: it's way more complicated than this but it gets the general idea across.

I’m presently living in the same unit Ron McNair lived in while attending MIT, teaching martial arts to the youth of Boston’s South End/Lower Roxbury neighborhood & playing Jazz in local venues like Wally’s & Estelle’s

I haven’t said anything because I’m superstitious but now I can: hi other challenger trauma kids who also ended up working their whole lives to be like Ronald McNair. Unclench your jaw.

We All Hate AI, but if You’re Poor, It Can Really Ruin Your Life Debt collection. Parole decisions. Oversight of public services. It’s all being outsourced to AI, with terrible consequences for poor people.

A human bureaucrat can destroy only so many lives in a day; AI can ruin the lives of tens of thousands at once:
https://bit.ly/4c1xglU

She’s incredible, I switched from the audiobooks to reading them after her narration stopped at number 5 because it was so compelling I couldn’t follow with different narrators

The sharply conservative Supreme Court, reshaped by President Trump’s three appointees, is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in most cases involving women and minorities, according to an analysis conducted for The Post. https://wapo.st/4tCkcJB

Okay this may be exactly what you are not asking for here because it’s old and was Hugo nominated (sorry!) but if by chance you have not listened to the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, which was renarrated brilliantly by *Rosamund Pike* a few years ago it’s a lot of fun

I've completely lost track of what I'm supposed to be distracted from.

been my goal all along lol

Although when I was an undergrad I worked in an after school program at an elementary school so I might really be hitting 25 years. I had a sixth grader in that program who still sticks with me to this day.

Just realized that the first college course I taught was as a grad student in the Fall of 2006, so the start of the 2026 school year this Fall will mean I've been an educator in a formal capacity for 20 years. Which is really an accomplishment when you're only 30 like obviously I totally am.