My XOXO talk is online. It's a v. personal look at what it was like to cover the pandemic, live through it, be broken by it, and heal from it. I talk about my approach to journalism, a 7-part code for being a public figure, why I left the Atlantic, and a lot more. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Avid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atlantic, while his two New York Times bestsellers, ...
This has got to stop. Itâs got to become career and social instant death. No more âboth sidesâ, no more diner interviews, no more âI keep him on Facebook because heâs funnyâ- just salt the earth.
Can I just- It is absolutely poisonous that the right wing continues to make faithfully doing your job a risk to your life. I felt it as a library worker, every teacher I know feels it, doctors, journalists, now the damn weather reporters who are mostly known for keeping people safe and dad jokes.
âIgnorance is becoming socially acceptable.â Meteorologists talk of death threats from the army of crazed conspiracy theorists who believe the government can control the weather.
Itâs their job to warn residents about destructive storms â but political polarization has made them targets online
Reposting especially for @yvonnezlam.bsky.social@paigecmorgan.bsky.social and anyone else from our Arcadia readersâ theatre group whoâs made it over hereâŚ
1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff www.404media.co/the-editors-...
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
If your boss tells you that you have to work today and youâre in the path of the hurricane and youâre worried about your job please know that you can call FEMA and apply for relief for your lost wages. Donât risk your life for some power-tripper. People in NC died because of their asshole managers
"intolerance towards labor, craft+art in a landscape that rewards instantaneousness, entitlement to artists+an unshakable penchant for the derivative; raw profit. tools like AI threaten not just writing in an existential, humanistic sense, but practice itself" www.late-review.com/p/the-own-wo...
on writing as practice, internet fiction, and the right to be untalented
The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading is now available for pre order here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi.... Feel free to share this link and the launch discount code NEW30 for 30% off far and wide. đŚ
The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading
As one of millions of people dealing with tricky decisions about long-term care for aging family members: please let this happen!
Kamala Harris will propose a major new initiative today: expanding Medicare to cover the cost of long-term care at home
Harris will pitch the initiative as a way to help "sandwich generation" families and propose paying for it mostly with savings from Medicare drug negotiations.