Krista Benson

Am I nonbinary? Or maybe I don’t have a gender, but I’m like a trickster fae? Everybody sees something and it’s mostly foreign and ill-fitting and sometimes it’s useful.

The thing that was a red flag for many, including me, is the upscale changed Kurt's use of "opiate" to "opioid", which is a word nobody could recall being in popular use in the 1990s. At some point everything will get transmogrified through some unnecessary AI lens.

Somebody posted a bit of Kurt's journals in the Nirvana subreddit today and wanted to know if it was real. A bunch of people said no, but it WAS (somebody photocopied the original page for proof) and it turns out the bit posted was AI upscaled and the upscale changed words.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

We say porn is the canary in the coal mine of expression for a reason. This is another reason. The push to shut human labor and compensation out of the market and shift it to AI is designed to exclusively benefit tech oligarchs. It's coming fast and hard for porn, as it will for everybody else.

When I was a stringer with the LA Time in Jerusalem, my correspondent called big, round numbers "metaphors," because no one was standing at the entrance to the protest or the graveyard with a counter. Estimates are educated guesses, not mathematical facts.

I am famously (because I keep repeating it) an American-Israeli Jew, and I feel it's important to note that yes, "74,000" is a largely magic number. "Magic" because 1) round numbers always are 2) Israel always lies about casualties 3) we still don't know how many bodies remain under the rubble

Reminder: The U.S. has been staging public executions for a while now. ** (this text also serves as alt-text for the picture of Renee Good below; she's smiling; the text appears in the bottom left of the image)

I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

Oh Wow.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

THIS SHIT. This right fucking here. They want us to give up. They’re fucking counting on it.

Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

Everything about the raid on Rep. Omar’s residence is shameful. Everyone involved should lose their jobs. For a start.

Anyway, happy First Monday everybody, this Supreme Court term is going to be an absolute nightmare, just like they will continue to be until we decide enough is enough and get serious about court reform.

Being a stupid “change leader” in my university is the most thankless ass job I gave myself. I was accidentally perceived as efficient and now I have to do work that people mostly resent me for.

And that’s what you’ll get if his stooges like Mike Rogers wins. Short-term, self-dealing liars.

AI and its chips and data centers are the only thing keeping the stock market in the black right now. He doesn't want his 20-car pileup to get even worse as gas and grocery prices soar. He’s putting his short term political interests over the huge risk AI poses.

We need to be absolutely clear. Donald Trump is trying to forestall any meaningful limit on AI development, which even the people developing it say has a serious chance of dooming humanity, for one reason. The midterms.

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

Rewatching Nashville after the death of Hayden Panettiere is a VERY different experience. More painful, more relatable. But also, Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere are a FORCE on screen together.

not saying things aren't homophobic now but obviously the issue now is really transphobia is bigger and ... those were really, really different times wrt what was possible viz representation.

O hey Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers -- Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down. huh.

You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.

This whole thread is a fascinating story about resilience and building habits and also immigration law for children. What would happen to my brain if I too my existing 5-6 miles I walk everyday (I don’t own a car) to 10-15 miles a day or more?

there is no more romantic relationship status than ‘in cahoots’ and more people need to understand that

“Sweetie, now your grievances are EVEN MORE grievous to me. We will destroy.”

IMO, we need a wholesale revaluation of faculty scholarship, like they do with currency, because the amount of scholarship expected of job candidates is also out of whack. Whether this is a back-formation from the tenure book IDK, but essentially needing a completed ms for hiring isn't good either.

Legal writers: don't do this shit Everyone else: don't fall for this shit

My high school calculus teacher came to our event🥹 Thank you Mrs. McDonald!

Today marks 50 days until the election and 10 days until ballots drop. Your task today is to make sure you and your friends and family are registered to vote. abdulforsenate.com/vote

This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.

The whole thread, but especially this 👇. Teaching is not simply content delivery, and almost none of the "let's put AI in education" discourse acknowledges that fundamental reality. Probably because it's emanating from everyone except actual teachers.

It’s been 25 years.

there is no AI without the human, in any sense 2/n bsky.app/profile/oliv...

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Hey, so based on what other people have said, and what I have now myself experienced, it appears to me that publishers are, um, how do I say this... Not doing a good job (or possibly any job) of checking to see if rights have reverted on a work before claiming them in the settlement.

ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

"I am vocally in favor of something that is deeply unpopular among most of the people I need to vote for me" well you're probably going to lose your primary, idk what to tell you