Anne Kosseff-Jones

@annekosseffjones

Line and copy editor at Radical Care Editing. Abolition and social criticism. Free Palestine. Passionate about making AI/LLM use socially unacceptable. Minneapolis. She/her.

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Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· 3d

Come on, there's surely enough space on that last line to add "And we are leading the charge!"

Screenshot of NYT.com front page. In a section labeled "2026 Primary Calendar":
Headline: "With El-Sayed's Victory Comes a Wave of Islamophobia." The deck reads: "As Muslim politicians like Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan have become more prominent, they have experienced considerable bigotry."

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· 20d

Well shit, I've been caught by some rage bait. But seriously, this is grimly funny syntax from the NYT.

A paragraph from the NYT under the subhead "The death has come up in the race for governor."
"Wisconsin Democrats will select their candidate for governor in less than three weeks, and the primary has been chaotic. An establishment front-runner recently left the race, and a state legislator who is a democratic socialist, Francesca Hong, is polling well, raising questions about how she would fare in the general election." I have double underlined "is polling well" and single underlined the dubious conclusion "raising questions about how she would fare in the general election."

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· 23d

Love him!! He reminds me of this passage from The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner where the mariner realizes how magical the sea creatures are.

Beyond the shadow of the ship,
I watched the water-snakes:
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they reared, the elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes.

Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and every track
Was a flash of golden fire.

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· 24d

Periodic reminder that I would love to line edit or copyedit your nonfiction books about building a better world or understanding the world with an eye toward liberation. Organizing books, academic books, books in the interstices...

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· 27d

His article argues so articulately against what he did!

"Over time, the models may well improve and correct some of these behaviors, but it was recently argued that as long as LLMs are used in research, these errors will always exist. LLMs work not by seeking truth or through logical reasoning but by making probable connections. And efforts to improve these programs to avoid unwanted behaviors may be all for naught because LLMs tend toward sycophantic behavior that keeps the user engaged."

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Jun 10

I know enshittification of customer service predates LLMs/"AI," but things really seem to be accelerating. The below are from a typed exchange with USAA, not over audio, so there's no explanation for the apparent "mishearings"; also, I never once mentioned "Zelle" or "payments" in the exchange.

Screenshot of part of my exchange with virtual customer service assistant. I say: "None of these apply"; it responds "How can I help you with Zelle[copyright symbol]?"

Screenshot of part of my exchange with virtual customer service assistant. I say: "I need to speak to someone"; it responds "I can help you with payments. Please choose from one of the following below."

Screenshot of part of my exchange with virtual customer service assistant. I say: "I need to speak to a human"; it responds "Sorry, I didn't catch that. To get you to the right place, I need a few more details. For example, you can say: 'Make a payment' or 'Status of my payment'. Now, how can I help with Payments?"

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· May 31

Anyone want to brainstorm prosocial changes to this tag on a local park? “JUST STOP CAR[RY]ING [WATER FOR FASCISTS]” seems hard to pull off😂.

Graffiti outside a skatepark: red all-caps on a beige wall that reads “just stop caring”

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· May 12

I made this photo from May Day my phone background and it brings me so much joy.

Brightly colored papier mache whistle costumes lined up in a row in a large grassy park on a sunny day after people paraded through South Minneapolis in them. One is purple with Prince’s symbol on it, one shows the “rebel loon” design, one says “ICE out,” etc.

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Apr 16

All of Minneapolis somehow got the Bluesky controls today.

Screenshot of the "feeds" toollbar at the top of my Bluesky display. "Twin Cities Left Stuff" is highlighted, but below it is only a red bar with an error symbol and the word "Forbidden."

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Apr 9

I just don't think you can ever promote your institutional integrity while putting important news alongside robber baron lifestyle stories like this. It degrades the journalism so much and gives away the game that this is a business, not a public service, and one that caters to the selfish wealthy.

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Mar 18

Shoot! Even with "paste special," the cells look like this in the target sheet.

A screen shot of four cells from a copied-over Proton spreadsheet. Each cell reads "#REF!" and has a red flag in the top right corner instead of showing the values I want to display from the sheet I copied..

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Mar 8

Reupping this to see if anyone has found a way to turn it TF off. I absolutely did not sign up to use Gemini.

The bottom of an email from fucking Google Gemini. It says “this message was sent to you because you signed up to use Gemini. Gemini is available in select markets and languages.”

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Feb 25

While I was trying to do my research on this to respond to your post (I still don't get the Central neighborhoods and I live just west of them), I came across this cursed map. AI is a scourge.

A map of Minneapolis, with each of the neighborhoods marked with a different color corrolating to a legend with the correct neighborhood names. However, In labels in the middle of each neighborhood on the map itself is the name of a different Minneapolis suburb or MN city. SW is labeled "Eden Prairie, Philips is labeled "Rice Lake," Longfellow is labeled "Fridley," etc.

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Feb 13

My tabs accidentally made a reverse rainbow! (For transparency, there are four additional tabs to the right that I cut off and presumably dozens behind the arrow on the left but I may never know...)

Screenshot of just the tabs at the top of an open Firefox window. From left to right, the color of the tabs are: blue, green, green, yellow, yellow, yellow, orange, red, red, red, red. The tabs are for an ecclectic variety of websites, including Google sheets, proton, the Chicago Manual of Style Online, and various news sites.

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Jan 15

Yes. Minneapolis is beautiful right now in many ways that are very difficult to capture and broadcast (but it’s still worth trying when you can do so safely!).

Image of a stripy orange and grey and yellow sunset. Bare trees and hundreds of-year-old houses dor the horizon.

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Jan 1

These two consecutive ones have come awfully close to true, though the economic necessity reason for the second isn't played out in the prediction.

Screenshot of the two items in the thread labeled "There will be so many cars that none of them will be able to move" and "People will work until age 100."

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Dec 4

The most New York Times (unbelievably derogatory) framing possible.

Screen grab of a headline *from the second-most-prominent* position on the NYT.com front page that reads "Her Roof Was About to Be fixed. Then Immigration Agents Showed Up." The deck reads "The Trump deportation agenda is reverberating beyond immigrant communities as agents begin fanning out around New Orleans." It's a "5 Min Read"

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Dec 1

Handshake meme, with the left-hand arm labeled 'Woody Guthrie's guitar" and the right-hand arm labeled "UCONN admin." The label over the joined hands is "The role of acoustic stringed instruments in the Revolution."

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Oct 30

Hi Sen. Smith's comms team. I'm a constituent who appreciates the underlying message here, but calling Trump "Dear Leader" is very much an example of this phenomenon and I hope you rethink it!

Screenshot of an @hermit_hwarang tweet from June 15, 2021. The text reads, "american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???"

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Oct 20

I wasn’t going to!

Sign inside bathroom stall that says “Caution
Do not put hands in toilet!”

Then in smaller letters, “it contains a sharp device that can cause injury.”

There is a depiction of someone doing this with a red cross-out circle.

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Sep 22

I know that "legacy media should bring back copyediting and ethics, which are intertwined" is not a winnable fight, but in case anyone out there is interested in doing journalism, this could easily be recast so it doesn't reinforce disinformation, and you don't even have to add "without evidence"!

CNN.com red "Happening Now" banner. It reads "President Trump expected to link autism and Tylenol use during pregnancy. Watch live." But I have edited it by hand to read "President Trump expected to claim link between autism and Tylenol use during pregnancy. Watch life."

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Sep 18

Explaining to my kids that community action sometimes means sacrificing access to the middle school musical cartoon Weird Al vehicle Milo Murphy's Law🤣.

Screenshot of Disney+ cancellation confirmation.

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Sep 16

A nice thing: I was always between "meh" and 👎 on sunflowers until moving to South Minneapolis. But it's impossible not to love them here—they're such a wild, beautiful, integrated part of the urban landscape, and, while I can't 100% explain it, I feel like they have good politics.

Picture of a South Minneapolis street corner, but you can't really see houses, just three big trees in the background, including one maple in the midst of turning rusty red, and about 25 sunflowers in the lower foreground, growing wildly and cheerfully.

A sidewalk in South Minneapolis—there's a house visible in the background, but closer tot he photographer is a fence covered in abundant, wild-growing yellow flowers that aren't in fact sunflowers but capture the vibe I'm talking about anyway:).

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Sep 1

Lake Superior not beating the Greatest of lakes rap.

Image of brilliant blue Lake Superior water in the foreground. In the background is a 70ish-foot sheer rock cliff with an extremely picturesque pink and cream lighthouse perched on the edge and green trees cascading down the cliff behind it.

Image of a rocky Lake Superior beech with a piece of driftwood and many smooth round stones on it. A small, wildly wooded Island is visible in the blue water about 60 feet from shore.

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Jul 17

I really believe that the remarkable prominence of this story on the NYT. com front page in a time of fascist collapse is part of the story of how we got here. All criticism/fury directed at the editorial decision-making, not the writer, who I'm sure is trying to make ends meet in a dying profession

Screen grab from a big feature on the NYT front page. Headline reads "Why the Gen stare has every generation talking." Then the deck: "A deadpan look from teens and young adults is drawing comparisons to the boomer "lead paint" stare and the millenial pause." By Samantha Chery

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Jul 4

Happy to oblige, though it's kind of hard to capture without a drone (!). I should note that it did not actually topple the soccer goal itself.

Best possible overhead view I could get of the monster Hmong pumpkin plant. Two raised wooden garden beds are visible in front of a vine-covered fence. At the end of one, and taking up all the space in between and beginning to encroach on the other, is a thriving squash plant with big green leaves and yellow flowers. It is vining over a toppled soccer goal in the foreground.

A view of part of the monster Hmong pumpkin polant with tall caged tomato plants in the background. Several large weeds embarrass me by growing tall between the fence and the garden beds.

A 10-foot leafy green tendril grows out of a thriving Hmong pumpkin plant, venturing out into a weedy lawn, over a toppled soccer goal.

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Jun 26

Hey, this is super racist!!

Screenshot of tweet from @hermit_hwarang, Twitter handle "📖 '5 Characteristics of Neoimperialism'. The tweet reads:
american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Jun 23

@prisonculture.bsky.social is at it again, inspiring action with advice about how not to be crushed under the weight of the Terrible Things. I don't think I know anyone who doesn't need this essay right now. Find it here: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

A screenshot of a paragraph of @prisonculture's essay. It reads:

"Uncertainty can provoke fear and fear is an ingrained survival mechanism that takes priority over our brain’s other functions. When humans feel as though we cannot control a scary or painful situation, we often just give up and want to hide. Being afraid can have you turn inwards seeking protection - this is normal but we have to push ourselves, especially now, to turn outwards in defiance of fear. This is not, I believe, a time for retreating and for staying in a defensive crouch. This is a time when I think we should be trying lots of different things to see what makes a difference."

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Jun 8

Also "perceived by the public to be violent" is doing some real heavy lifting. Resistance to colonial/white supremacy is almost always considered violent, no matter how it is conducted. From "Let This Radicalize You" by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social:

Screenshot of an excerpt from Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba's Book Let This Radicalize You: "If you chose to disrupt these systems, passively, destructively, or by way of extending mutual aid, the concept of violence may be stretched and manipulated by the powerful to encompass your work. That is why we must not allow the frameworks of the powerful to define the bounds of morality in our politics and our action. The elastic concepts of criminality and violence, as controlled by the powerful, will always be bent against us."

Anne Kosseff-Jones@annekosseffjones· Jun 7

Two tiny pieces of fun to bolster me for the fight in a dark world. 1. Got to be the first person to tell my kids about Puritan naming practices, and 2. Burned a baking project so badly it accidentally made kind of a beautiful stained-glass window.