'Treat women like humans. It sounds ridiculous that we still have to say this, but some still see women as inferior to men. Until men start considering women as equals and — this is important — men stand up to other men who don’t, nothing will change.'

One more time with feeling: The fear is not AI is so good it can credibly replace human creators at the same level of quality—it's that it will be deemed good enough by bosses and clients, who will choose the cheaper, shoddier option. That's the process that's already begun here.

“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day.

Just set one day’s work in front of the last day’s work. That’s the way it comes out. And that’s the only way it does.”

— John Steinbeck, 1962

No formal investigation will be opened into math education professor Jo Boaler, following a complaint filed with Stanford. Stanford “has concluded that no formal process is needed and that the allegations reflect scholarly disagreement and interpretation.” stanforddaily.com/2024/04/22/uni…

'Not only is Get Lit a champion for a declining art form, or an antidote to falling literacy rates in the pandemic’s wake; it has been a saving grace for young people struggling to envision a future for themselves.' 💜 Read all about Get Lit in the @LATimes 🤩

Parker’s resignation underscores both the limits of civilian oversight and the power of sheriffs to ignore them. For him, a former police officer and coroner, it no longer made sense to keep trying.

Shakespeare in his prime.

How can any one mind achieve so much over a span of time so brief?

SPJ continues to call for the release of The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and imprisoned journalists.

“Journalism is not a crime. The world needs journalists who hold the powerful to account and shed light on the truth,' said SPJ President SPJ President. spj.org/news.asp?REF=3…

Thinking about this Ethan Hawke interview

'I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.'

- literature laureate Wisława Szymborska.

What book are you reading right now?

#WorldBookDay

Young adults have found a new outlet for their existential stress: running a marathon, Maggie Mertens reports: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Some of you have been sharing my writing since the olden days of Twitter. Thank you. I'm happy to say some of those essays, plus new work, will be in book form on Sep. 10 from Scribner.

Pre-order anywhere you buy books. Tour dates coming soon. Hope to see you on the road.

People tend to think of classics as being “boring,” but we wouldn’t keep reading them for hundreds of years if we didn’t love them.

Let me introduce you to some FUN classics:

The bitterest and bloodiest fights of the late 21st century won’t be between fascist theocrats and atheist communitarians, it will be between those who want to preserve John Donne and those who don’t care he was ever alive.

Social media features such as endless scrolling and push notifications are “particularly risky” to young people, whose developing brains are less able to disengage from addictive experiences and are more sensitive to distractions.

New APA Report: apa.org/topics/social-…

460 years after his birth, always worth seeing this Shakespeare infographic again… 🥧

Wow. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned as Stanford University president this summer for overseeing labs that produced falsified research at 3 different institutions over 20 years, returns to biotech with $1bn in funding.

'You should treat the ocean as if your life depends on it, because it does,' marine biologist Sylvia A. Earle explained in 2019. #EarthDay

By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the oceans.

In 2019, we took a closer look at this now-ubiquitous material, how it’s impacting the world and ways we can break our plastic addiction. #EarthDay to.pbs.org/3K3pcjf

Among the many, many terrible things about this, it's absolutely wild that Instagram—which has faced years of criticism for being a toxic and malign force for teenage girls in particular—is allowing an AI undressing app to be advertised on its platform

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