Kathleen Belew

not a bug but a feature. not a coincidence but a tactic

Headed into the weekend, a gentle reminder that this whirlwind is specifically designed to make us feel exhausted, overwhelmed, resigned, & sapped of energy, and that it is more important now than ever to connect with your community. Hug your family, check on your friends, walk in your neighborhood.

I am writing a book about mass shootings in Colorado in the 1990s and I have been working on it for years, and I just found a whole new mass shooting I hadn't known about before. There are so many that they can still pop out of the archive and surprise me

And for those too young to know Iran-Contra, just go read the wikipedia page and look at *how many pardons* (it will blow your hair back i swear)

Everybody who read my last thread should know about this resource on all the problems with AI

I am definitely blocking people who enter a thread about teaching by arguing that it's meaningless anyway. Goodbye

PLEASE, tech friends

hello good morning howdy, I am teaching undergrads today for the first time in a long time and I hate that I have to start with the AI speech. Has to happen. I just hate it.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

This was a great conversation--first podcast interview about my new book! Thanks @meganrenoir.bsky.social and Hugh Wood and Mia Bay!

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

This is a new one. Grok is over on Twitter telling people asking "who is the woman in this video?" that it's me. About multiple videos. Not only is it not me, but what kind of I is this AI? There's a lot of video of me to compare it to. Weird and icky and I hate it

so democracy just dies, i guess

every one of you who told me to watch True Detective Night Country was right that it was amazing but now you all have to come keep me company every time it is dark in any context or, you know, whispery