My favorite part of this is it’s basically a reverse Alinsky tutorial. “To oppose AI correctly, you should depersonalize the issue, stop highlighting villains, focus on the abstract rather than the concrete, avoid making demands, and make sure not to appeal to anyone’s self interest.”
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The Ghost of Birdseye McPherson
Watch the performance at the 2026 Atlanta Fringe Festival.
If your response to the data center backlash is "oh no, those poor hyperscalers! People are using inexact data in their arguments against OpenAI and Grok. Everyone should just let them proceed with their buildouts and focus instead on PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY," then you're either a grifter or a mark.
“It is going to be a long bitter cold for people who care about things; and it therefore devolves upon us to lend each other comfort when we can, the little sun of the warm melt given from one hand to another.”
Tal Lavini wrote about the tuna melt and other miracles buttondown.com/theswordandt...
In case folks - patients or medical professionals - might find it useful, here's an edited version of a letter I sent to my own physician(s) about the reasons I refuse the use of ambient scribes.
The most elegant tense in English, the Law Enforcement Exonerative
Hamilton NolanNews organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”
I never expected the response to this essay to be so volcanic or so positive. I didn't know I was tapping such a deep vein of feeling. I just needed to put down my own, and I subbed it because I was proud of the work and needed a paycheck. thank you so much, for reading. I am humbled.
Assigned MediaMagdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
we are witnessing a company who thought they invented the ham sandwich realizing in real time that they sell ham, bread, and mustard at the grocery store
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