Tootfinder

"chatbots over-rely on this kind of sensory-immaterial conjunction because[IT] impresses people passing superficially over a text--exactly the kind of fake-deep crowd-pleaser for which L.L.M. output is being fine-tuned."
(Original title: Will A.I. writing ever be good?)
https://maxread.substa…

Will A.I. writing ever be good?
Some notes on A.I. writing

"Space Advent Calendar"
https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2025/12/2025-space-telescope-advent-calendar/685096/?g…

2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Welcome to the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar, featuring remarkable images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. Every day until December 25, this page will present a new image of our universe.

Updated at 11:55 a.m. ET on December 6, 2025

Love it when I start writing a brief post to blab out here, and it starts becoming a list of ideas, and I quickly realize a blog post needs to happen 🔥
#writing #blogs #blogging

Writing a good #CLAUDE.md
https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md

i'm writing proper docs for git-pages; does this style of writing look good? does it communicate the point well?
https://git-pages.org/running-a-server/

Keep in mind: if you are a booklover and want to write reviews: consider writing it on #bookwyrm
https://joinbookwyrm.com

OK so, I've started cleaning up the PCIe code but also took this opportunity to do some tests.
I'm just writing to a random old SSD I have lying around that I used for some tests a while ago, I have no idea what writing to a random address is doing (I haven't even set a BAR on it so it's probably ignoring me) but the goal is to test the SoC not do anything real.
Here's a 128 byte memcpy to the BAR. It turns into eight 16-byte TLPs, presumably each generated by…

Pluralistic: Writing vs AI (07 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.

Hvis man har lyst til at nŸrde sprog med mig og et par kolleger, er her et spritnyt afsnit af podcasten Writing wrongs (med en lidt for dramatisk titel, synes jeg, men hvad): https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/writing-wrongs/id1797795962?l=da&i=100…

Terror in the State of Denmark - Conversations from a List of Resolutes
Podcastepisode · Writing Wrongs · 05.12.2025 · 1 t. 7 min.

Writing a blog post that the meat of which just POURED out in a draft. It's gonna take a bit of research and editing, but the bones are definitely there.
It's gonna be a fun one.
#blogs #blogging #writing

Why the sports column still matters — and why I'm still writing one https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6946845/2026/01/07/jerry-brewer-sports-columnist-introduction-the-athletic/

Like why would you spend hours or maybe even days or weeks on writing an essay or argument and refining it and agonize over the details and then you take a shit in the middle of it before you hit publish

'I am scared to live in a society whose members are incapable of having deep discussions and arguments'
From: @…
https://scholar.social/@gedan…

Collective Punishment Backfires (I wrote this):
"The American People are blowing whistles at armed and armored forces deployed on their streets, peacefully alerting their neighbors that danger is close. The American People are photographing and videoing the un-uniformed, unidentified, masked, violent, reckless for future prosecution."

Collective Punishment Backfires
when school teachers tried it we acted out even more ice is doing many things, including collectively punishing the people of Chicago, and by extension the American People. This has me writing instead of sleeping. Gassing neighborhoods, often near children, schools and hospitals is collective punishment. Discharging their weapons recklessly

It's before dawn on the 7th of January; I've written 10,000 words of a story that I first started actually writing on the 1st of January. It's about a God, a very old dragon, and how you reform a really sick society. None of what I've written yet is very good, but I have the bones of the whole story, including a satisfactory ending.
#AmWriting

The automotive industry’s big bet on a rapid adoption of electric vehicles — in the United States —continues to unwind.
Today, Stellantis, which owns brands like Jeep and Dodge, as well as Fiat, Peugeot, and others,
announced that it has “reset” its business to adapt to lower EV sales, which comes with a rather painful $26.2 billion (€22.2 billion) write-down.
It wasn’t that long ago that everyone was more bullish on electrification.
Even the US had relatively ambitiou…

Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy
The automaker follows Ford and GM in writing down huge sums after betting wrong.

from my link log —
META II: a syntax-oriented compiler writing language. (1964)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800257.808896
saved 2020-06-14 https://

This is a good commentary on the news that Stellantis is writing down €22 billion and blaming customers for not buying its electric cars. However, Stellantis has actually been slow to build and offer electric cars. If they don't offer them, how can customers be expected to buy them?

Stellantis s'effondre en Bourse : pourquoi l'excuse de la voiture électrique ne tient pas
Stellantis annonce plus de 22 milliards d’euros de charges exceptionnelles, ce qui provoque sa chute en Bourse. Pour s’expliquer, le groupe pointe une électrification trop rapide, trop optimiste, trop déconnectée de la demande. Le coupable idéal ? C’est un avertissement financier d’une ampleur rare. Stellantis

Docs: a Labour thinktank run by a current UK minister hired a PR firm in 2023 to investigate journalists from the Guardian and other outlets to ID their sources (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusiv…

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

Hrmm, worked on writing the #adventofcode 2025 Day 1 solve in Rust, wasn't too horrible. Pretty fast though I did have all of the tabs open trying to figure out how to do things.
#rust

writing a post as @… earlier and yeah no he would absolutely put it in the fridge

Chinese company #Gestala, founded and led by Phoenix Peng, aims to achieve whole-brain reading, writing, and modulation through phased-array #ultrasound https://www.gestala.com

格式塔科技 (Gestala) - 超声波脑机接口 | Ultrasound BCI & Neuromodulation
格式塔科技 (Gestala) 是全球领先的超声波脑机接口公司，专注超声神经调控与功能性超声成像。Gestala pioneers Ultrasound BCI, Neuromodulation, and Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUS) for better brain health.

That really is lovely writing:
"Every action you add is another set of house keys you’re handing to someone you’ve never met and hoping for the best."

If @… is correct, then this big dramatic reduction of ICE CBP in MN takes us from roughly 3750% of normal down to…about 2875% of normal. Yay.
https://writing.exchange/@davepolaschek/116013806927464588

And yet another developer-person I really looked up to in the past now using "AI"-generated "art" for their blog.
Really mind-blowing how people do not understand that this makes their whole writing highly questionable and unreliable—how I am supposed to know if you actually wrote that post yourself?
Get fucked.

Meta unveils teleprompter and EMG handwriting features for Meta Ray-Ban Display and expands Pedestrian Navigation for the glasses to four new US cities (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/856422/meta-ray-ban-display-emg-handwritin…

Meta is adding a teleprompter and virtual writing to its Ray-Ban Display glasses
The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are getting support for a few new features, including EMG handwriting with Meta’s neural band and a built-in teleprompter.

Martin Fowler's boardgame-related blog posts
https://martinfowler.com/boardgames/

I think I’m more offended it attributes a metaphor to me that I can find no record of me saying or writing.
https://elementor.com/blog/web-accessibility-myths/#myth-6-overlays-or-plugins-are-enough-to-make-my-site-accessibl…

My toots are getting too long and I sometimes want to share more than just (but also) my tech ramblings.
With all that metal running just fine, it's time to do sth else. And more.
The two excellent write-ups below pushed me over the brink, website and blog time!
Thanks to @… and @…

"The fact that large language models (LLM) have scraped my website and continue to do so has had me feeling less motivated to share my thoughts. But maybe the best act of rebellion against AI slop is to keep writing and not let the silicon valley bastards grind me down."
@…

I mentioned earlier that I was writing something on #LLMs. Here it is...
#LLM

Jeffrey Epstein,
at the very least, believed that he was orchestrating the downfall of the global order in the 2010s.
In June 2016, he emailed venture capitalist, early Facebook investor, and Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
writing, “Brexit, just the beginning.”
He then laid out the most succinct mission statement we currently have for what Epstein was trying to accomplish.
“Return to tribalism,” he wrote.
“Counter to globalization.
Amazing new all…

Here's how Epstein broke the internet
His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy

I spent way too much time writing up this Terms of Service for my website.
By viewing this website, you agree that I have permission to inject words, images, and other content into your brain. 1400 words - 7 minutes
https://felix.dognebula.com/art/terms-of-service.html…

After you have rung in the new year and the celebrations are done, you may find yourself writing out a New Year’s #resolution list. Spiritual growth has been a popular resolution among adults. We have put together a spiritual resolution list for adults and a separate one for children and youth. Learn more at

Trauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers
https://ift.tt/8vbG9Dj
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:50pmfull name / name of organization: Jennifer Case /…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Happy Glauber History Month.
Please celebrate responsibly!

So, #ClimateScience mastofriends, solve an argument between co-authors: When writing a paper specifically using outputs from #CMIP6 models, do you prefer to use GCM or ESM as descriptor?
GCM (global climate model)
ESM (earth system model)

When Elon Musk’s social media platform X launched a contest to promote its “Articles” feature,
the guidelines were explicit: Submissions “must not contain political, or religious statements.”
But when the company announced the winners on Tuesday, the results appeared to contradict those rules.
While the stated criteria emphasized high-quality writing and nonpolitical content,
more than $2 million in prize money largely flowed to users ranging from popular right-wing …

X awards $1 million prize to creator with history of racist posts
X said it would give $1 million to a user who had previously shared racist posts, including one supporting Hitler.

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
3. Do genre conventions provide an essential framework, or stifle original storytelling?
4. What would you like to see explored in prompts for this hashtag game?
5. What’s a no-longer popular trend in writing you’d like to see make a comeback?
---
3. Both. And neither. A convention is a tool. With enough experience you begin to see when breakin…

Uw favoriete nerd @… schreef over 'lezen' en ik raad aan te lezen wat ze schrijft over lezen:
https://www.felienne.nl/2026-01/

Special Schrijven | Writing
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! (As always, see below or online for English) Ook deze week geen gewone nieuwsbrief, maar een special over schrijven. Schrijven, dat mag duidelijk zijn, dat doe ik graag! Schrijven is een manier, misschien wel de beste, om de wereld te veranderen. Wie schrijft die blijft, maar ook: wat

Hi #Linux team - any recommendations for a work desktop computer with the following requirements:

• can do basic research stuff (reading, writing) and also a little bit of basic data analysis (with python or Matlab)
• would run a distribution like #ZorinOS or Mint
• with a Max…

Computing | Laptops, Tablets, Desktops, Servers and Computing Accessories
Shop our latest range of devices and accessories: Laptops, Tablets, Desktops, Servers and Computing Accessories. All from Insight UK.

We used to write a blog post at the end of every semester celebrating our interns. It was lovely to appreciate their work and find nice things to say about them. But when we shifted to letting THEM talk about their work and their experience, the post became much more powerful. Here they are, writing about what they got out of their internships and the different things they learned. ❤️

Any #writers on here in groups that have a good system for managing submissions and critiques? like we could do more with tech e.g. a task prioritisation queue, rather than a month for submissions, a month for feedback, which feels clunky
#writing #amwriting

And pinkie swear, too:
Putin says he is ready to guarantee in writing no Russian attack on Europe | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/28/putin-says-he-is-ready-to-guarantee-in-writing-no-russian-attack-on-europe

Updated 1st-round draft order after Cowboys stumble vs Lions in Wk 14 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/05/updated-1st-round-draft-order-cowboys-lions-week-14/87621821007/

from my link log —
Writing an async runtime in Rust.
https://michaelhelvey.dev/posts/rust_async_runtime
saved 2026-02-03 https://

Writing an Async Runtime in Rust
If you’ve used Rust to build anything for the web (or anything that needs to talk to something else over a network), more than likely you’ve encountered async / await syntax. You’ve probably had to install an async runtime (more than likely tokio ). Most of the time, things like tokio d...

Half my writing process right now is whispering ‘oh no’ as the story takes a turn I didn’t plan. The other half is anxiety-inducing levels of caffeine. #writerslife #creativeprocess #writing

I have an intentionally annoying Admin Notice with bullet points set up for this WP-powered backend I'm writing and I hope to fucking god it's effective.

Every post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_writing-journali…

Sometimes it is handy to use archives formats that do not confuse our windows friends. Or perhaps you want a quick listing, or to update files without reading and writing the entire thing (i.e. non-solid archives).
Zip or 7z can be handy. The problem is that with their Windows hertitage they do not (reliably) retain certain UNIX-y 'things'. Be that permissions or symlinks.
Here is an example symlink workaround. Permissions left as an exercise for the reader:

A simple shell‑based workaround for archiving projects with symlinks in formats that don’t preserve them (e.g. .7z or certain .zip files). It generates a script that records all symlinks, excludes them from the archive, and later recreates them after extraction.
A simple shell‑based workaround for archiving projects with symlinks in formats that don’t preserve them (e.g. .7z or certain .zip files). It generates a script that records all symlinks, excludes ...

interessante sprachwissenschaftliche challenge:
"The World Endangered Writing Day 2026 #Phonemoji Contest; or, How Do You Write a Raspberry?"
https:/…

@… I’m writing to ask why @newsguyusa@flipboard was suspended. He posts news and little else. He’s only been on your site for about 10 days. What reason is there for his suspension?

Perhaps LLMs can generate code because _writing 99% of code is trivial once you know what the software should do_.
But what do I know, I only have made software for 35 years.

I finally got around to writing up me getting my JavaStation Krups booting off a modern Linux NFS host; with kernel and Proll images to download; this is still a 2.4.27 and 2.5.1 kernel image; I didn't get far yet with 2.6.x - it's really fighting.
https://www.treblig.org/refurb/sun-javasta

Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1

This a great book! Teri's a great author! This is a great price!
If someone tries to charge you more for it, don't go there.
#Bookstodon #Humanity #GreatWriting

Much thanks and heartfelt support to @… for writing up the kind of article that I, too, have been dreading to have to write: that absolutist OSS is bad and we protect the commons with fair licensing, non-commercial and otherwise

Trauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers
https://ift.tt/8vbG9Dj
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:50pmfull name / name of organization: Jennifer Case /…
via Input 4 RELCFP

acab

"When we ask who is a part of building this new world, we must understand that WE ALL ARE. "
—A. Kazimir Brown ’19 M.Div., writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." https://

Hugging Face details how it used its new tool, Skills, to fine tune LLMs using Claude, including for writing scripts, submitting jobs to cloud GPUs, and more (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-skills-training

We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Happy New Year! May this coming year offer you liberation.
I’m thrilled to have two excerpts from a manuscript, You Must be an Image to Survive, You Must be a Text to Be Found,in the new issue of Works & Days from out now from Beautiful Days Press.
I’ll also be reading at the launch on January 15 in Brooklyn.

Works & Days
I have new writing in the journal Works & Days, and I'll be reading with Beautiful Days Press at Sunview Acropolis NYC on January 15, 2026.

'Melania' Is a Horror Movie
<em>Melania</em> Is a Horror Movie
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/01/melania-trump-documentary-horror-movie/685843/?gift=TPTA7XiYh…

'Melania' Is a Horror Movie
The first lady is trapped, and she doesn’t seem to know it.

Good lord... They got sooooooo much of Star Trek wrong.
#startrek #academy
The writing, the acting, but especially the writing.
No amount of cool effects or space battles can make bad writing better.

If you are an anti-fascist, you are against petroleum. Petroleum funds fascism globally. It is at the heart of the military industrial complex driving global imperialism, from both the US and Russia. Motonormitivity is fascist, both in it's elitist roots and in it's ties to historical fascism (Hitler hated bikes, just on principle). Oil is militarism.
Oil is the dominant resource which drives war, both in terms of it being the primary spoil wars are fought over and in terms of fueling the military vehicles and weapons that carry out those wars. Practically every war since (and including) WWII has been over oil. Genocides are carried out to secure oil. Gaza is over oil, in more ways than one.
Oil is the absolute enemy, and AI is simply an extension of that: an attempt to atomize us so we can't resist the oil-centric global order, one last grasp at the control over our lives oil has given to those whose power is now threatened by a solar punk future.
"I haven't written for a few weeks now. As I write the closing chapter and begin rewriting previous sections, everything feels both more distant and more immediate. The working title [Kairos] has only continued to feel more and more resonant, both during the writing and during my pause."
Now is the time to resist by making something different, by creating a world fundamentally opposed to these systems of oppression.
This is the last in my Kairos series. From here on out I'll be editing to try and make it more of a book than a series of posts. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. All editing is welcome (typos, spell checks, questions and challenges). Between ADHD and dyslexia, it's always hard for my brain to notice mistakes in my own text so I always appreciate the support of those who can.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/kairos

Tennessean J.T. Polk is snowed in, and that works for #writing:
#Bible

I'm writing a #befunge interpreter in #rust (for fun) , and I've decided to make it unicode compliant. That means that emojis will be fair game in the funge source code, and I think those programs are going to be amazing to look at!

Four Nieman Fellow alumni discuss the potential of AI in journalism, offering varied opinions on its value for writing, sorting data, creating images, and more (Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/ai-research-risks-journalism-ar…

Journalism at an AI Inflection Point - Nieman Reports
As artificial intelligence moves into newsrooms, four Nieman Fellows weigh in on the technology’s promise, limits, and risks.

"The Zersetzung is working. He is taking himself apart, piece by piece, and replacing the parts with synthetic fillers because the world has told him his own parts are defective."
"The Colonization of Confidence" by Robert Kingett (@…) is one of the best pieces of writing about "AI" I have ever seen. Read it over lun…

My most favorite subgenre of AI stan is the "AI software engineer" [programmers aren't engineers, engineering has formal requirements like e.g. engineering ethics].
Their logic goes like this:
"LLMs can generate a TODO-list application that pretty much works and only has a few hundred subtle bugs; therefore—as programming is the hardest and by far most intellectually taxing occupation that a human being such as myself can strive for to be an expert in—they obviously will excel and far outshine any human at any of those other, lesser, activities such as writing or art!"

"Even as the Earth is in peril, there is an absurd unwillingness to move beyond the status quo. Action must rise from the margins, as movements always do."
—Janet Smith-Rushton ’78 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections, in her piece titled "Let’s Get Down to Earth Again."

maybe i should have a website again
i've avoided it for years after deciding that i didn't like both the nature of my old writing and the reasons for writing
but i've worked on a lot of different things, and a lot of those are useful, and maybe it's good for there to be some unified repository of them that adds context

In some kind of record, I have moved 1247 steps today. I usually walk around more when I'm working from home, but there's literally nowhere to go and I have been writing a paper all day... Hope the storm dies down soon.

What’s a great example you love of a technical blog post (or similarly shaped writing) that:
- explains a tool, technique, technical idea
- by trying it to the author’s specific project or experience
- but also illuminates a larger concept, a bigger picture?
I don’t just want tutorials; I want writing that illuminates. I’m thinking of things where you read it and had a reaction like:
“Oh, FINALLY, I get it now!”
“What a nice example of _____!”
“This is great. I’m going to bookmark this for the next time I need to use / explain / teach a colleague to use _____.”
Looking for writing examplars to share with students. I want your favorites.

IIRC, Shadcn is a Vercel gig, so of course it’s both spaghetti code and wrong.
“The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button”
https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/

The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of JavaScript? How did we make a built-in browser control so complicated?

"The relationship between power, poverty, inequality, and lack of political participation is mirrored in the damage to the natural world. They cannot be divorced from each other."
—Yale School of the Environment professor Gerald Torres ’77 J.D. writing in the new issue of Reflections https://

#DearLazyWeb: A while back someone posted a screen cap of Google getting confused between Voyager's "The Doctor" and "Doctor Who."
I'm writing something up about LLMs and I'd really like to reference it. I'm gonna go through my boosts and hope I can find it, but could anyone with it handy save me a few hours of data spelunking?
Edit: @… found it. Awesome. lol!

'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'

Renee Good
Poet
Murdered by our government

As Americans slept and Donald Trump invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader,
an inconvenient deadline was looming:
the date for the Department of Justice to explain its controversial Epstein file redactions.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee noted the timing in a post on X, writing,
“We are sure it’s just a coincidence, but today is the statutory date for the DOJ to explain its redactions in the Epstein file productions.”
“We have not forgott…

Key Epstein Deadline Arrives as Attention Turns to Venezuela
The House Oversight Dems noted the convenient timing of Trump’s surprise attack.

from my link log —
Against SQL.
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/
saved 2021-07-10 https://dotat.at/:/3Q8D…

Alex Preti
ICU nurse
Murdered by our government

Praxis Conference: Writing With https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/28/praxis-conference-writing-with

Going into 2026 with only 7 potential blog post ideas sitting as drafts. Not bad. Might be a record 🤯
#blogs #blogging #writing

The State Leadership Initiative (SLI),
is a policy-focused organization that investigates and counters the influence of progressive ideologies
—specifically Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards
and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies
—within state-level bureaucracies and government,
particularly in conservative "red" states. 
🔸Focus on Policy Influence: SLI investigates how national associations and "shadow gov…

Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social)
New pro-Trump group, the State Leadership Initiative (SLI), is “writing the blueprint for dismantling bureaucracy in every red state.” Nate Fischer—a founder of New Founding, which is backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen—is an SLI co-founder. The board includes Heritage president Kevin Roberts. 1/ https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/19/meet-the-group-writing-the-blueprint-for-dismantling-bureaucracy-in-every-red-state/

Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.

Let's flood Congress with postcards!
Let your elected representatives know you care!
#TheMajorityProject: 12 Million Postcards to Congress – Signs Of Justice
https://www.signsofjustice.com/products/tmp<…

The Majority Project: 12 Million Postcards to Congress

AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/54e274c5-de86-4b3e-96a9-95a46b5e48a0

I thought this was pretty funny. Awkward dinner parties.
Hopefully no paywall, gift article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/20

A 2025 Ranking You Won’t Read Anywhere Else
Salmon with Abraham Lincoln and Jesus, plus other hypothetical dinner parties from The Katie Miller Podcast

Peace and love, my friends.
Glauber Ribeiro, 2025.

Northwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration,
I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31
so I can save money.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish.
The supposed pricetag is
$75 million
(more than Cornell, less than Columbia, much more than Virginia).
And it will include the usual surrender of academic freedom tempered by a bullshit assurance
(and press rele…

Northwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration, I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31 so I can save money. Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish…

@… , what do you think of Bandcamp?
My musical ex-partner Jack Urban asked me for my opinion.
From what I can see, it has good reputation and is used mainly by people who dislike the streaming status quo.