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A huge, somewhat scraggly, thousand-year-old Sitka Spruce, in bright sunshine against a blue sky, with an adult human standing at the roots for scale. “The tree is the World’s Largest Spruce with a circumference of 58 feet, 11 inches, diameter of 18 feet, 9 inches and 191 feet tall for a total of 922 AFA points.”
Things feel grim, so here’s a very large, thousand-year-old tree with me standing next to it for scale
“Warning the participants that they might be exposed to misinformation by the AI didn’t temper the persuasive effect either.”
“Interestingly, the people in the study didn’t tend to think the AI autocomplete suggestions were biased or to notice that they had changed their own thinking on an issue in the course of the study…”
I mean, he doesn’t look any *more* like an underdone potato than in any of his other photos
Tonight at 6pm (ET) is Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine's Spring Contributor Reading Event featuring 9 readers from our Spring 2026 Issue
Use this link to join the reading:
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So the junior employees will continue to use AI to generate code without necessarily understanding how it works, and then the senior employees will try to fix it? How will the junior employees ever get better at writing code? Won’t this devastate the productivity of the senior employees?
Anyone else see the problem here?
“What safeguards are in place, Amazon plans to ‘reinforce.’ Namely, senior engineers will be called upon to review the GenAI-assisted production changes prepared by junior employees.” thenewstack.io/amazon-ai-as...
That’s great news!
This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.
a deeply personal interdisciplinary intersectional natural history-memoir-cultural studies mashup I could (and probably will) read all day.
Just started reading “Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival” by Maria Pinto and it’s fantastic —
Even if you don’t normally read kids’ books, I highly recommend taking a look at #KidLitArtPostcard today just to get a hit of beauty, joy, and whimsy
I’m chipping in from PDX! If others are looking to donate, give the actual donation page a second to load — I’m hoping the lag means lots of donating happening now 💸
What if your spreadsheet skills were essential to the resistance
from 2019
because, like, what are the Earthside folks gonna do about it? But that means there are really EIGHTEEN names total. Well, the readers don’t need to know them all…right?
Me, earlier today: why there hell did I start writing this sci-fi SHORT STORY with NINE ships in it? They are generation ships, so the inhabitants basically renamed them all as soon as they were outside the VanAllen belt
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Of course they did. “Won’t someone think of the wealthy business owners???”
I didn’t know Oregon was one of only 3 states so closely tied to federal tax income!
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This is the only sane approach
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
And the same for folks who “can’t write” — your own words and thoughts are better than a thousand pages of grammatically perfect, auto-generated drivel.
It's black history month, and so our writer S. Baum decided to cover black trans people you may not hear about in your history classes.
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A rainbow foil sticker with a cartoon frog saying WOW!
I broke my boycott of Amazon (since July 8, 2025!) to do this. Worth it, especially since they didn’t see one dime from me
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