“She is fucking fantastic. And has been on the edge of all the frayed edges for a long time. Has been ahead of the curve forever.” — Alina Stefanescu on joanne mcneil and Alina is rarely wrong and Joanne rarely misses from what I’ve read. TLC yo’self and discover a new author today.

🚨pub day for ATTACHMENTS!🚨

For some reason, it’s out on Mon not Tues, so I have 24 hrs to be a bestseller! Plz retweet! Plz buy this book! Imho it’s good! Others seem to like it too! Plz rate and review on whichever evil site you prefer! I love you!

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don’t really see anyone talking about this but: arrestees at CUNY were charged with *felonies* while arrestees at Columbia were charged with misdemeanors. nobody should be charged with anything but it is a travesty that poorer & racialized students bear the brunt of this struggle

People will hold on to this line, against all evidence, because to admit otherwise would be to acknowledge that support for Palestinian rights is a mainstream reasonable demand that cannot be ignored.

Massive brutal police repression of students. Called in by administrators. With the Biden Administration’s vocal support. All to protect a genocide. During an election year. Morally revolting and politically suicidal.

I obviously knew the liberal embrace of militant anti-racism in 2020was phony but I have to admit I’m still taken aback by how easily so many hysterical anti-Trump types are ignoring this.

Think about this. This person in Gaza is identifying the political function of genocide as severing a people from human existence and saying this moment of international solidarity is even more powerful than that

Framing this as a “suppression of discourse” is galling. PEN America expected writers to keep providing them with labor and time while ignore the org’s glaring “except for Palestine” stance. Writers said no and the org has refused to change. So writers have withdrawn their labor.

Shameful. No mayor is great on policing, but the way in which Michelle Wu 吳弭 keeps abetting the BPD and overlooking its well-documented excesses is completely unaccepable.

“WRONG WAY” starts just the right way.
What a grand new novel from joanne mcneil
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Full video of the Terry Bisson memorial event at the Lost Church. Great lineup. This link goes to my bit, followed by 'They're Made Out of Meat.'
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Had a good time talking about technology and labor histories with joanne mcneil and Malcolm Harris and the LA Festival of Books this weekend — the place was packed! Thx to all who came out, and to Yves Gore for sharing this photo

With the arts in upheaval (if not full-on collapse), I hope my conversation with douglas rushkoff on Team Human this week might be helpful.

We talked candidly about what it takes to be a writer now—what needs to change and how do we start?
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A look at the dark underbelly of AI with joanne mcneil. The author of 'Lurking' and 'Wrong Way', reveals you don't know about the hidden labour behind ChatGPT.

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'Stories from the AI Underclass’ | Joanne McNeil | Friday 14th June

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My new book *A Natural History of Empty Lots* from Timber Press is one of the 2024 titles featured in Barnes & Noble's preorder promotion this week—details at the link if you want something to read in October that's not about the elections 🌞:
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My NEW BOOK now has a page on the UC Press website! It's a (nearly) real object! I'm so hyped for this to be out. It's the best thing I've ever written. All killer, no filler. And the cover design is unbelievable. I can't wait for people to crack it open. ucpress.edu/book/978052039…

This Saturday, 2pm, excited to be in conversation with Brian Merchant and Malcolm Harris at the LA Times Festival of Books — come join us! Tickets: tixr.com/groups/latimes…

A gorgeous review from Book Post | @bookpostusa.bsky.social, and much-deserved praise for Zito

Seven ways to look at some bullshit:

(1) first, Storywise is an Israeli startup. You—Angry Robot, any other publisher that gives a shit about human life—should be boycotting them, not give them gatekeeping rights.