It is imperative to protect cows from the fairies in Irish folklore in early summer: tie golden flowers like marigolds to their horns, collect the clay they have tread upon, and do not share dairy products near Beltane to avoid the gaze of aos si. #FolkloreSunday
This guy gets it.
Nuke it from orbit, and salt the earth.
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
Important work by the Author's Guild to establish rules of the road for AI. Impressed by the bipartisan nature of the work, particularly Senator Blackburn's framework that unauthorized AI training on copyrighted works does not qualify as fair use.
authorsguild.org/news/authors...
@authorsguild.org
Seems ... bad.
“Adjunctification is no longer only a university labor problem; it is becoming one of the models through which modern life organizes human beings: necessary, available, temporary, and always adjustable.“
On May 20 and 21, Authors Guild legal staff and board members went to Washington, D.C., to remind members of Congress of the importance of free speech and make the case that artificial intelligence mu...
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
this story is batshit insane www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
Citizen of Somewhere Else
The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.
Probably my favourite thing Ian Fleming wrote was this essay on how he wrote the Bond novels, which is vile, revealing and full of genuinely good advice and observations
lithub.com/ian-fleming-...
www.scientificamerican.com
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
There is no literary spy—and perhaps no literary character, full stop—more famous than James Bond, which should already be enough of an argument for any aspiring writer, but particularly any aspiri…
Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their AI training datasets - this bill would force them.
If that sounds good, we REALLY NEED YOUR HELP! Please sign this petition in support of the bill, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/
"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself."
working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...
1/ 🧵 OMB is advancing a proposed rule that would destroy the American scientific enterprise. Randos keep disagreeing with my 'here's how to fight it'
I do this for a living. So before the "how," here's the "who" --- and why you should listen to me on this one.
Martin Concagh
By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...
It speaks incredibly well to the Fleming estate that while they have (perfectly reasonably) made a lot of money out of James Bond, they haven’t mutilated the original books or tried to soft soap how vile Fleming clearly is in order to get even more money, I think.
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Trump's Russ Vought Is Trying To Kill American Science. We Can Try To Stop Him, by Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon. Join Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland...
