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alix e. harrow

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hugo-award winning and NYT-bestselling author in charlottesville va; agent: kate mckean; she/her

  1. “None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill

    This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.

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    In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

    "None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill

    In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

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  2. centuries of fairy tales & folklore about not trusting glittering, deceptive entities that flatter our vanity and look at us. eating the fae food, mesmerized by the mirror, etc. clown behavior.

    For three weeks in May, the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of a corporate recruiter on the outskirts of Toronto. Allan Brooks, 47, had discovered a novel mathematical formula, one that could take down the internet and power inventions like a force-field vest and a levitation beam.

Or so he believed.

Mr. Brooks, who had no history of mental illness, embraced this fantastical scenario during conversations with ChatGPT that spanned 300 hours over 21 days. He is one of a growing number of people who are having persuasive, delusional conversations with generative A.I. chatbots that have led to institutionalization, divorce and death.
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  3. kpop demon hunters is playing at our local theater this weekend and let me tell you the 4th grade groupchats are going insane. in ten years Golden is going to come on at the bar & these kids are going to activate like sleeper agents

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  4. anyway love & victory to the curators, archivists, and librarians who are, at this very moment, thinking of creative ways to fuck up all this paperwork. "here's a list of every bone fragment on display from 1991-2015." "what do you mean that file was ALSO unreadable? hold on, i'll fax it over"

    The letter calls on each museum to designate a point of contact to provide details on plans for programming to highlight the country’s 250th anniversary. It also asks for a full catalog of all current and ongoing exhibitions and budgets, a list of all traveling exhibitions and plans for the next three years, and all internal guidelines, including staff manuals, job descriptions, and organizational charts, along with internal communications about exhibition artwork selection and approval. That material is due within 30 days, with “on-site observational visits” and walkthroughs expected. Within 75 days, Trump administration officials will schedule and conduct “voluntary interviews with curators and senior staff.”
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  5. this might seem like a sad footnote to fascism compared to things like the militarized occupation of major cities, but: if you want to control the future, you have to control the past. and we can't let them have it.

    The White House is conducting a comprehensive internal review of exhibits and materials at the Smithsonian Institution in an effort to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive about what should ...

    White House orders review of Smithsonian exhibits to ensure alignment with Trump directives | CNN Politics

    The White House is conducting a comprehensive internal review of exhibits and materials at the Smithsonian Institution in an effort to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive about what should ...

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