or-TEE-lay 🇵🇭 Author of THE GROOM WILL KEEP HIS NAME. Editor @cntraveler. As seen in @esquire, @catapultstory, @buzzfeednews, etc.
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Matt Ortile retweeted
Oh NOW y’all want to get into the duchess
‘THE LEGEND OF KORRA’ reached #7 on Paramount+ in 17 different countries today.
Surpassing Avatar: Seven Havens most of those countries.
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America: We need to kill the humanities so we don’t lose the AI race to China
China: Every child shall read Jane Eyre
ALT New York Times headline about how Jane Eyre is now mandatory reading for ninth graders in China
Matt Ortile retweeted
What kind of fuck ass country has multi generational school shooting survivor families
Mom who survived school shooting coaches son through Oregon attack: 'Please be as quiet as possible' trib.al/0dxoVCa
Matt Ortile retweeted
so the writer is a passionate AI enthusiast who has used chat-gpt to write a story and a book. but in order to advertise pangram, accused an African writer for using AI—due to the racialised hypervisibility propagated and weaponised in the imperial theatre of discourse.
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I won't be at rehearsals today Liz I'm busy trying to win my feud with a Brooklyn-based store that refused to sell me an animatronic bird for $15,000
Matt Ortile retweeted
By whose permission did @vauhinivara feed Caine Prize submissions into AI to figure out if it is AI? Did the writer give their permission? Did the Prize? I hope actual action with consequence is taken.
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As a mentor to emerging writers of color, it Is ethically bankrupt to feed years of African prize winners without their knowledge or consent into ChatGPT, morally bereft to focus on this particular prize as fraudulent, and then choose the Atlantic of all places to publish this.
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This is exceptionally disappointing. Vauhini Vara has been treading a fine line using AI in her writing as a “critique” of tech, first in Ghosts then in her memoir, where she raised good questions about how tech shapes our personhood, knowledge, and episteme. Until this moment:
Exclusive: Another prestigious award has gone to a writer who seems to have used AI as the crisis of trust in the literary world intensifies, @vauhinivara reports: theatlantic.com/books/2026/1…
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celebrities sneaking a photo in the Met Gala
Hurricane Isaias: Flamingos ride out storm in zoo’s bathroom wsbtv.com/news/trending/hurr…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This photo isn't from the current Hurricane Isaias story. It's a file photo taken at Zoo Miami during Hurricane Andrew prep in 1992, confirmed by photographer Ron Magill, not from the 2026 ZooWorld event in Panama City Beach. snopes.com/fact-check/fla…
Matt Ortile retweeted
In the second year of my MFA in Iowa, an essay of mine got a Notable Entry in Best American Essays. Someone in my program emailed me asking which essay, asked for a copy and went to a party to rip the essay apart. he rubbished the essay to everyone.
they are a SICK bunch
