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Look I bet it has an AC of like, -1 in that gear. Even ThAC0 10 would have a hard time hitting that beast. Also in my head canon this thing is like 10 feet long.

Wow there's a lot of serious takes let's lighten things up a bit because the world is on fire. What's a favorite pre-2000s movie that you love. I'll start: The Rock (still humming the themes) Highlander.

Holy shit see friends THIS IS WHY YOU KEEP POSTING ABOUT YOUR STUFF. I didn't see this until TODAY and holy shit this looks absolutely my jam.

This is a great piece. Love this part -- the "I" is the central lie of LLMs.

Yeeeeeep. I deeply worry as the ranks of editors gets thinned out we will lose so much institutional knowledge of the craft and that shit takes time to develop. For me as a writer I'm lucky to have a dayjob. I don't need this to eat. But some folks? Really really do. Plus like...

I love how inevitably in these articles it's a matter of confusion why people hate AI. It's really simple: tech took the wrong lesson from Facebook's Newsfeed and decided marketing rules didn't apply to them. Let me explain.

GET EM

If there's only one member left of Milli Vanilli wouldn't it be Millus Vanillus

Tbh I'm okay with this. You know I saw an interview by the creator of Zig and he said something that resonated with me: he feels like he has a hostile relationship with every piece of big tech software. You suddenly have these upsells. This engagement metric they decided was important. These...

I still remember that post that was like "Look for me AI is a tool that helps me get my tangled thoughts into any sort of order someone would like to read." You know what else does that? *Writing*.

Time for a power up #thethirteenthgod www.royalroad.com/fiction/1472...

lol. lmao, even.

I don't think the tech bros would have gone with the messaging of "it's inevitable, we'll force it on everyone" if they remembered how much rage people felt when they opened their iTunes only to find a new U2 album on it. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...

So uh anyway. Here's a periodic reminder to double-check your word counts in your manuscripts because I definitely realized I fat-fingered 180k as 170k in a query draft, and now in my head this book has been 170k for MONTHS and I'm just wrong. Whoops. 183k. Mb, mb.

It takes strength to look the person who could fire you in the eye and tell them that both they and their boss are giant pieces of trash. You usually don't win, but you definitely leave a mark, and you write your place in history. That's what Scott Pelley did today.

The opening page of the Florida AG's lawsuit against OpenAI is quite the statement.

I run an EXTREMELY niche jewelry shop. Have for ten years. Our artists are all LGBTQIA+. Our staff, LGBTQIA+. Our customers are either queer, queer adjacent via family or friends, or allies. Something I can tell you? QUEERNESS SHIPS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. YOU DON'T LEAVE RED STATE PEOPLE BEHIND.

FACT CHECK: TRUE Fuck data centers. If everyone hates them, how the hell are they able to keep building more?

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

Oh hey! HAPPY PRIDE MY FRIENDS! Just to toss a word out to all the bi-folks in straight passing relationships: you still count. It's still your Pride too.

“Is this character straight-coded?” said nobody, ever, because being straight has never had to hide behind symbolism and subtext to show up in our media.

Okay yes yes yes 100%. To get on this soap box for a minute, because my grandparents and, to a lesser extent, my parents are like "back in my day we didn't have AC and we turned out fine" I mean you also had lead paint we can make some changes it's fine. AC is VITAL in some climates.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO @hebaha.bsky.social lookit lookit lookit

Fine @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social I just named one of my folders organizing this project "Current draft final final"

Yes. Friends, always post about your stuff. I promise you, you won't bore your audience it is very good to do. Some of my best friends I didn't realize they had a book coming out! ....and it was the third book. In a trilogy. I had just learned about. :/

Bros IT'S CALLED MORTALITY. Just go to fucking therapy instead of incinerating billions so you can weekend at bernies someone like a fucking ghoul.

…Removing your own stylistic cues & voice for fear they make you "sound like AI" is a sure-fire way to make your work bland & lifeless, to say nothing of what it's gonna do to you psychologically, emotionally, & hermeneutically. Develop your voice, & write how you fucking well want to goddam write.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting ‘thank-you gifts’ from other birds

One of the things we've considered for a recruiting piece is a long form piece about working in Insurance. My boss has suggested "We just use AI." And I'm still not 100% sure to articulate how fucking disrespectful it feels. But if he takes t hat route I damn well will articulate it.

You know what. I just love all my friends. I've just met so many wonderful people here and you all delight me. And the friends who aren't here. (Uhm. Everything is fine I'm just being sappy and sentimental)

NEW EXAMPLE FOR FONT LESSON JUST DROPPED

I did a lot of data entry right out of college and got super good at using the numpad. perfectly typing in a long string on the numpad without looking feels so good, man. I bet this is what it felt like to be one of those archers at agincourt and see your arrow punch through a knight's chestplate

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Remember, if it was actually as revolutionary as the billionaires wanted us to believe, they wouldn't be shoving it into literally every fucking thing.

“If I’m getting you a six-figure book advance, I don’t want you to be putting it into ChatGPT,” said a top literary agent. “Go to the fucking library.” nymag.com/intelligence...

Considering how opaque financials are in the video game industry to the avg. player, @jasonschreier.bsky.social did a great service in making this very informative video.

Maybe we shouldn't listen to what this frat bro has to say because ol Elon sure has a shitty track record of managing his businesses.

Seriously, Ali's newsletters delight me and make me think.

I literally made a face and went ick reading that quote. Like. I'm just imagining Charlie and the Chocolate factory with Charlie texting his uncle, or how different Animorphs is if they have Facebook.

Oh yeaaah. That nymag article being quoted is like "anyone who is a working writer today... you're using AI one way or another at least in part because... it is really incredibly valuable." Absolutely- and I cannot emphasize this enough- the FUCK not.

“Please have 2+ years of experience with an engine we announced on Friday” really sums up the state of the games industry.

@firefox.com seriously what is this. This looks like a joke. Is there a way to remove the GIANT VPN BUTTON?

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Okay but Firefox what the fuck is up with this update and making the "VPN" button that I don't want to use suddenly gi-fucking-gantic. You're not making me want to use it more you're making me want to hide it even more.

Random af but I've been learning C for funsies and yo pointers are cool as shit.

MOOOORE. MOAAAAAAAR.

Hey @hellenus.bsky.social @ithayla.bsky.social are yall starting to feel better?