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I love how all these "how to write with AI" things start from the premise that the product is the purpose of the assignment. I promise you, there is no shortage of shitty student essays. The purpose is the process, to train specific cognitive skills. The product is a goal to help shape the process.

Just in case anyone read the piece below and wondered if my dad's "somersault" and store room run-up was real and, if so, what it looked like... Here it is!

My hottest AI take is that the executive class is petrified of labor and saw that whatever else LLMs are/aren't, they're fine labor-smashers + that a ton of ordinary people find the artificial hyper-complexity and scamminess of modern life and work so unbearable that they'll throw a god-box at it.

Blind Alley No. 455

I'm not a basketball fan in any way, but the idea that a Championship Game wouldn't take precedent over a regular season game is so ludicrous, it's obviously only happening for one fucking reason, and it's as the article states: "so that men aren’t inconvenienced."

Kerry Kennedy says she ‘absolutely’ blames her brother, Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., for recent measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania. The state has surpassed more than 1,000 measles cases this year, making it the largest state outbreak in 30+ years. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

It's so easy to get exhausted and cynical with digital creation at this juncture, where obscure and terrible machines dominate the professional process. It's nice to recall that sense of achievement in getting the thing in your head to appear on the screen, and to do so by working through a process.

Taught my first coding class since the AI era this evening - good old fashioned manual HTML & CSS. And they loved it! (Well, okay, were bewildered(!) at first, but enjoyed the challenge and satisfaction of seeing the system respond so directly to their inputs). Really heartening 🙂

Dudes online are doing sex macro spreadsheets and smashing their faces with hammers to impress each other and mainstream America is like we want the fifty-something with the sad eyes who cries when he holds the baby

Tonight, I’ll be talking about ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with Lina Khan, Chair of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, at Columbia Law School. Lina was kind enough to offer an advance blurb for my new book! 🔗 Register to watch live online at the link below.

The story of a product that almost certainly should be recalled. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

This move from Google destroys entire ecosystems. Birds, bugs, plants — all the many things that make our planet habitable — obliterated. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big news: The 19th is hiring a sports reporter. Read more about the vision here:

“The Alberta Premier’s office did not acknowledge requests for comment.” Danielle Smith was happy to use $4M of Albertans’ money to fill TV, radio & social media with ads telling you how to vote in her $200M referendum. Now suddenly she has nothing to say. 1/2 #abpoli

Republicans are the party of rape.

Alt text lol also do it lol I fucking dare u the people ARE yearning for a Best of Erin Fogg Unsolicited Email Newsletter That Explicitly Violates Multiple Federal Laws

Oh, what's that? You want context? WELL I GOT CONTEXT also check ur spam folder lol idk

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

Please. Do not lie to us people magazine.

New PRESS BOX: Our October Issue is about detective novels. Michael Connelly stopped by headquarters to talk about his 26 Bosch novels, his Amazon series, dadcore, and his days as an LA Times cops reporter. Then Chris Ryan picked his Top 5 private eye novels. open.spotify.com/episode/4occ...

Pleased to announce that my silly TikToks about AI are now officially *major award winning* silly TikToks about AI. :) Thanks to @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org for this award but also for helping legitimize/incentivize science communication! www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa...

Alt Text: people magazine cover for sexiest man alive. The “winner” is actor Noah Wiley, a white man with brown hair, a salt and pepper beard, and dark brown eyes. Has never hit 356 home runs wearing a dark blue shirt that is not appropriate for to teach yoga in, but I am sure he is nice, congrats

I am once again calling for a Joey Votto hosted travel show, so we could continue to enjoy him all the time, even in the off season. What a man.

I hope the sexiest woman alive is comparably seasoned.

For Taking Your Lumps 💥🩹🤕 #art

If I don't get at least twenty emails, I will be very disappointed in all of you.

RIP

Anyway, read my book, it's fun! And the cover layout means that link previews always crop to center Mickey's butt, which is delightful to me

The chapter on toxic fandoms is Chapter 10, "The Empire Must Be Defended", built around an analysis of the new Star Wars trilogy, the next chapter "Wakanda Forever" shows how Black Panther's reactionary narrative couldn't keep its imagery from being important to movement, at least for a few months!

Liberatory energies and movements do emerge from and make use of fandoms and their images (e.g: Black Panther in 2018, John Boyega's speech in 2020, or the Hunger Games salute in Thailand protests) but these uses are contingent and easily subsumed back into more disciplinary fan modes

Organized fandoms act as volunteer pinkertons, and while the creeps enforcing fascist visions are in actuality a tiny minority of most fandoms, loving a of particular franchise/character produces a political ambivalence that often leans towards compliance with corporate aims over artistic ones