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Kate Wheeling
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environmental writer for hire. "reasonably articulate," according to my dad. "whimsically eco-militant," according to my ex.
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katewheeling.bsky.social
Wild to me that the takeaway to learning that people don’t want to buy AI-generated art would be to hide it until people give up on caring about it.

Like, ma’am, I will die on this hill. I only want to read books written by people.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
Quoted text: “If you hide that there’s A.I., it sells just fine,” she said. Ms. West, who also teaches classes on how to write with A.I., has gotten blowback from opponents of the technology, including occasional death threats on social media. But she believes that in time, A.I. generated fiction will become widespread and popular. “Eventually” Ms. West said, “readers will not care.”
February 8, 2026 at 10:42 PM
katewheeling.bsky.social
Can’t stop talking about this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece about the ways the tech industry has tricked us all into trading connection for convenience and how to break free of it. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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janehu.bsky.social
i hope i live to see the day that journalism is more widely understood by its funders as a public service / utility rather than as a vanity project or potential revenue generator
February 4, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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olifranklinwallis.bsky.social
I started writing about "GEO" - the AI equivalent of SEO - and accidentally went on a rant that I've been storing up for my entire 15-year career in journalism substack.com/home/post/p-...
January 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
it's funny how often the new york times' "first entries in a live blog covering a breaking news event" are so vague as to be actively harmful. it happens almost every day. maybe don't run a live blog if you aren't willing to describe things anyone can see with their own eyes
nytimespr.bsky.social NYTimes Communications @nytimespr.bsky.social · Jan 7
You're showing a screenshot from the first entries in a live blog covering a breaking news event. Our journalists report what we confirm, and our live coverage continues to be updated. Readers can follow the developments here: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Three videos of the shooting posted on social media and verified by The New York Times show two federal agents trying to get a woman to exit a vehicle that is partially blocking an intersection. The driver reverses, then pulls forward and begins to turn. A third agent pulls out a gun and aims it at the driver, then fires three times.
January 7, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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kendrawrites.com
Mass transit, pedestrian focused communities, and bicycles...
seachanger.bsky.social malena @seachanger.bsky.social · Jan 5
we have the coolest opportunity to address cataclysmic climate change, microplastics, oil imperialism, social isolation, traffic violence, urban heat island effects, storm water and flooding ALL AT ONCE…
January 5, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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litbowl.bsky.social
"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."

Happy New Year. From The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde.

#poem #booksky #writing
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
And everything is flawed, if you want to look at it that way. The analogy that has helped me most is this: in Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of boat-owners rescued people—single moms, toddlers, grandfathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore it’s futile; therefore my efforts are flawed and worthless, though that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake. They went out there in fishing boats and rowboats and pirogues and all kinds of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au- thorities to get in, others refugees themselves working within the city. There was bumper-to-bumper boat-trailer traffic—the celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
OpenAI is furious that DeepSeek might have stolen all of the data OpenAI stole from all of us

www.404media.co/openai-furio...
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM