I hate to talk about it, but I have to talk about it. Long post incoming: www.patreon.com/posts/158715...

Did you discover, as part of the Anthropic settlement, that your publisher failed to register your copyright? The @authorsguild.org is collecting information authorsguild.org/anthropic-cl... (This is a correction of something I posted yesterday w/ a significant error. Apologies for the mistake)

I think it may really be time to start migrating away from google entirely.

NO THANK YOU

FYI, Neil Gaiman appears to be lurking around Bsky again All are encouraged to block: bsky.app/profile/neil...

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

I love not using AI. I love reading books written by human beings, hand-sewing little creatures, watching for bats during dusk, listening to human experts to learn about a topic. Not using AI is very fun.

And this is why AI deskilling is a feature and not a bug to the AI companies. They want you to be utterly dependent on externalizing your thinking to AI so that when the subsidy period ends you have no choice but to pay the real cost forever from then on. I suggest you keep using your brain instead!

no matter what your focus is, whether it's disability or domestic abuse or queerness or elementary schoolers or grandmas or public health or tax spending or economics or small business or policing or people with cancer, ICE will always, always, always make it worse

we should rescind that nomination because training a model on a dead man's work is unacceptable.

An EISNER NOMINATED HORROR MYSTERY, no less!!

Everyone knows Hollywood is fucked, but most people don't actually know why. The studios used the strikes as cover to cancel a full 1/3rd of TV production across the board. 1/3 of TV cast & crew are out of work. Fully. There just aren't jobs for them. Many are people who made your favorite shows.

“Hi mom, do you remember me?”

Shout out to the people who saw the picture of Uranus and neptune at Universal fan fest and just said loudly: the lesbians!

the artistic process

hi, as some of you know Them was sold last month and i was laid off as a result. this is a gofundme for myself and my colleagues who have been impacted, pls share and donate if you feel called <3 www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

@staceyabrams.com: “Do not abandon the South. They incubate evil here, but they farm it out everywhere” Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams joins The Weeknight just after Tennessee Republicans fast-tracked a new gerrymandered map that wipes out the state’s only Democratic, majority-Black district.

Once again foiled by my lack of Spanish.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

If you're a book creator and you're mad about our latest scandal du jour I encourage you to channel that energy into: 1. Calling your reps (house) and demanding they vote no on HRs 7661 and 2616 2. Volunteering with AABB. We NEED more people. We NEED this energy. TLDR: Touch grass, call your reps

Kids are nothing but property to use and abuse for the Genital Obsessed Party.

If this new reconciliation bill is enacted, ICE will be able to run at roughly quadruple capacity relative to pre-Trump levels. They are giving themselves the funding necessary to radically transform the scope of the agency.

Hitler was the best orator of his generation. Reagan was the best orator of his generation. That skill/talent isn't indicative of having good policies or being a good leader. He had a Nazi tattoo for almost 2 decades and lied about not knowing it was a Nazi tattoo, per his reddit acct.

I'm sure I'm not the first to note this, but my theory on why fandom has gotten so toxic recently is the confluence of these factors: 1) collapse of culture criticism as a profession, 2) fandom becoming mainstream, 3) rise of parasocial attitudes due to social media, and 4) drop in media literacy.

throw him in the trash. no exceptions, no mercy www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Heads up to Chrome users who prefer not to not allocate 4GB of their drives to Gemini Nano weights.

People, often people around the world, ask 'why aren't....' people ARE the media doesn't show you

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it

Obviously out of practice eating out around dinner. Left the house 2.5 hours before the movie, didn't get seated until an hour before the movie

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

Passing this along - fucking scammers leveling up, here's a new one to pay attention to.

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

The Fifth Circuit has ordered a halt to the mailing of abortion pills, cutting off the primary way that thousands of women have obtained safe abortions in the years since Dobbs and raising grave public health risks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/w...

This is why we need to uncap the House pronto and create multimember districts via population density, which would give cities absolute control of the House and the spending, forcing the Senate to adapt. Oh, and it would basically demolish the Electoral College, so…yay.

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MAJOR UPDATE for all INDESIGN USERS. Adobe has screwed us again. If you are using the latest version (any 21.x), indesign will automatically generate AI alt text for ALL IMAGES. Instructions to change your defaults in the screenshot and linked here: helpx.adobe.com/indesign/usi...

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

Remember when Trump kept promising that NO tax dollars would be used for his ballroom because he already had $400 million in private donations? So I guess one of the impeachment investigations will be, "what happened to the $400 million in private donations?"

"but republicans will never vote for impeachment" is a sign you just don't understand this shit. democrats need to fucking fight for what is right. what is right is removing a criminal corrupt president and his cronies. if the gop wants to go on the record backing this, LET THEM. over and over.

this is the same type of posting they did when cracker barrel changed its logo

I have considered Moleskine to be outrageously overpriced for quite some time but using AI to generate a sketchbook cover betrays a level of hubris that is wild even for them. Those high prices and they couldn't be bothered to pay a human? Dump 'em. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

I'm not the first to note this but AI psychosis just seems to be "experience what it's like to have yes men" and shows what has happened to any billionaire who has any kind of public profile

One of my stronger parenting beliefs is that if you offload storytime to AI you are failing as a parent and your kids will one day look back at those moments with disappointment

Oh, this is BAD, friends. Epstein-Barr Virus (different Epstein) can cause mono at first infection but when it reactivates, it can cause a paralysis syndrome or even multiple sclerosis.

Insane, far beyond Red Scare era treatment of Communism which still could certainly be studied FIRE has complained, but where are all the NYT WP Atlantic etc pundits who so wrung their hands over optional guest speakers being protested at Oberlin?

Been a tough week and I am distressed to discover colourpop discontinued my favorite fun eyeliner