Sara Davis
@literarysara.bsky.social
Reader, writer, environmental steward, recovering PhD.
Philadelphia
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Reading Roundup: October 2025
The Crying Book, Women, The Wax Child, and assorted reread novels.
literarysara.net
This month I read The Crying Book, Women, and The Wax Child. (I also reread a stack of familiar favorites for comfort.) 💙📚 #BookSky
I was vibing with this morning's gentle, reverent poem in my inbox, but somehow missed that it was penned by the wonderful @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social!
“The speaker of today’s poem imagines loved ones coming to their funeral—and they have some directives, and some requests," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1402.
Read "Gloria Mundi" by Michael Kleber-Diggs: https://bit.ly/3Xb2ezJ
Read "Gloria Mundi" by Michael Kleber-Diggs: https://bit.ly/3Xb2ezJ
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I was vibing with this morning's gentle, reverent poem in my inbox, but somehow missed that it was penned by the wonderful @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social!
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
A grant-funded, one-day retreat for trans fiction writers in Philly. Tell your friends! www.shendelman.com/fictionists
The Philly Fictionists — Julian Shendelman
www.shendelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A grant-funded, one-day retreat for trans fiction writers in Philly. Tell your friends! www.shendelman.com/fictionists
All the climate-related links I've been bookmarking for the last few months, including climate impacts, what the White House is up to, and some good news.
Climate Roundup: Fall back
What's been happening in climate news for the last few months, including: climate impacts; what the White House is up to; AI and in the environment; and some good news.
literarysara.net
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
All the climate-related links I've been bookmarking for the last few months, including climate impacts, what the White House is up to, and some good news.
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Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.
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Reminder that Spotify has still not gotten rid of their ICE ads. They think they can just stay silent without answering to the public. Let’s show them how wrong they are, let’s hit them where it hurts! These corporations don’t understand anything unless it hurts their bottom line.
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reminder that Spotify has still not gotten rid of their ICE ads. They think they can just stay silent without answering to the public. Let’s show them how wrong they are, let’s hit them where it hurts! These corporations don’t understand anything unless it hurts their bottom line.
This month I read The Crying Book, Women, and The Wax Child. (I also reread a stack of familiar favorites for comfort.) 💙📚 #BookSky
Reading Roundup: October 2025
The Crying Book, Women, The Wax Child, and assorted reread novels.
literarysara.net
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This month I read The Crying Book, Women, and The Wax Child. (I also reread a stack of familiar favorites for comfort.) 💙📚 #BookSky
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Got my 35mm film from the 10/18 march developed. Suddenly Chewie's got his New Hope look back lol.
Nikon FM2n, Nikon Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Gold 200.
#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter #NoKings
Nikon FM2n, Nikon Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Gold 200.
#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter #NoKings
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Got my 35mm film from the 10/18 march developed. Suddenly Chewie's got his New Hope look back lol.
Nikon FM2n, Nikon Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Gold 200.
#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter #NoKings
Nikon FM2n, Nikon Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Gold 200.
#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter #NoKings
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Sexy South Philly Community Fridge
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October 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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For the price of one of the several Substack newsletters I cancelled this year, I just invested in worked-owned feminist media--and you can too!
HAPPY MONDAY, FLYTRAPPERS. Welcome to The Flytrap's 1-year anniversary subscription drive campaign. We are celebrating a whole year of existence, and using this joyous occasion to delight our followers with paywall drops, flash merch sales, and subscription sales.
October 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
For the price of one of the several Substack newsletters I cancelled this year, I just invested in worked-owned feminist media--and you can too!
I'm seeing an influx of new folks--Hello! Welcome! I hope you like it here more than the Other Place!--so it seems like a good time to reshare this group of awesome storytellers and creatives. We are international, we love books, and we always want to talk about the environment. go.bsky.app/9HqWB1b
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm seeing an influx of new folks--Hello! Welcome! I hope you like it here more than the Other Place!--so it seems like a good time to reshare this group of awesome storytellers and creatives. We are international, we love books, and we always want to talk about the environment. go.bsky.app/9HqWB1b
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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If you use Word and don’t want Microsoft snooping in your stuff, this is your reminder to go to File - Options - General - Privacy Settings and uncheck all “optimization” settings. 🙄
October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
If you use Word and don’t want Microsoft snooping in your stuff, this is your reminder to go to File - Options - General - Privacy Settings and uncheck all “optimization” settings. 🙄
This month I read Creation Lake, H is for Hawk, and Theory of Water. 💙📚 #BookSky
Reading Roundup: September 2025
Creation Lake, H is for Hawk, Theory of Water.
literarysara.net
October 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This month I read Creation Lake, H is for Hawk, and Theory of Water. 💙📚 #BookSky
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I love my dictionary. No slop, except for the definition listed under s.
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I love my dictionary. No slop, except for the definition listed under s.
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and every time you use AI, you are justifying the existence of these data centers. you are implicitly agreeing that it's ok to charge these households for the additional power the centers are using.
"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
and every time you use AI, you are justifying the existence of these data centers. you are implicitly agreeing that it's ok to charge these households for the additional power the centers are using.
Today in Cities Are Good: got home from a day-long walk and found my neighbors all sitting around folding tables in the middle of our block. Eating pizza & potato chips, dogs on laps, little kids running around. I didn't have anything to contribute but they pulled out a chair & plate for me anyhow.
Today in Cities Are Good, Actually: settled into a subway seat to play Pokemon Go on my ride home. Felt a light tap on my shoulder, turned around. A man about my age, masked up like I am, showed me his phone: also playing Pokemon Go. We laugh quietly, then go back to minding our business.
September 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Today in Cities Are Good: got home from a day-long walk and found my neighbors all sitting around folding tables in the middle of our block. Eating pizza & potato chips, dogs on laps, little kids running around. I didn't have anything to contribute but they pulled out a chair & plate for me anyhow.
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Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to “high”
September 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to “high”
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"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...