If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

This right here.

I don’t hang around with lazy, credulous hacks, so my friends & I don’t have this problem.

It's a matter of when not if and it'll snowball as more companies reckon with their digital pantsless emperors. We should also remember that given the option to permanently replace all humans all major companies said yes

Uh oh. Surprise!

Ancient Aliens & other pseudoarchaeology TV shows/podcasts are not harmless entertainment. The purpose is to separate Indigenous people from their cultural history to support white supremacy. We need our own art & entertainment to combat disinformation pseudoscience, which is why I wrote FALSE FLAG

Anyone who says AI is “magical” after that same AI just helped trash whatever reputation they had needs help. 🤦🏻

when you hear about some dipshit using AI quotes in his book, this is exactly the image you see in your mind.

What a fucking tool. The author, not the AI. Sounds like a man discussing his “intoxicating” new robot girlfriend. Good Christ. His book is ABOUT the traps of genAI, then he fell right into the spiked pit dug for idiots.

AI can’t even COUNT things correctly. Come on now.

A guy saying “you can contribute to artificial intelligence “ instead of “you can contribute to human intelligence “ it’s super insulting to college graduates.

"don't ask questions, just get on the AI rocket ship" the "AI rocket ship":

The kids are allllllll right. Warmed my cold, dead heart. 🥹

Wild to think about

I cannot stress enough how much anyone who complains about the government spending money to give new parents free diapers should never know one single moment of peace

Since @victoriadahl.bsky.social 's #character Jane Doe is a sociopath who doesn't feel emotions, it WOULD be nice to be like her whenever you hear the latest screaming headline about #trumpthecriminal 😉 #Booksky #bookaholic #bookish #bookdragon #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddicts #bookaddiction

This is HILARIOUS. If you can get past the extreeeemely disturbing view of this man. Sorry in advance.

Rotting brains is the point. Complacent zombie consumers with no power.

So after the Utah Supreme Court repeatedly upheld residents' constitutional rights to fair districts and direct democracy, Utah Republicans have responded by packing the courts, creating a new constitutional court to seize power from the UTSC, and forcing one of the pro-democracy justices to resign

(The must-follow @victoriastrauss.com already covered this scam using well-known editors spontaneously reaching out and promising easy industry inroads, though Beth Meacham isn't on the list of names in this blog. But the text of the email I got is otherwise the same.)

The Salt Lake City Council this week approved renaming what used to be Cesar Chavez Boulevard.

Holy shit, people. This is so, so bad.

Sorry, I know this is behind a paywall. I’ll post more links as they come up.

She is a brilliant #writer, and this is one of her best #books (AND her most recent, so @victoriadahl.bsky.social is clearly getting better and better with each #story 😉) She also has an endorsement from fellow #author Kristan Higgins for this one! #booksworthreading #booknerd #bookish #bookworm

Just found my old iPod Shuffle in a junk drawer & omg 😍. It’s like listening to a radio station exclusively playing music I loved 15 years ago. Fantastic surprise.

My husband doesn’t think you have to pick a team to root for when watching a game. 🙄 Him: “You don’t even know any of the Cubbies.” Me: “YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I HATE THE PADRES’ UNIFORMS. Get your head in the damn game!”

The new technology that is going to actually transform this century is being able to manufacture and deliver solid state batteries at scale. There are so many applications for this, all of which will replace fossil fuels at a scale not seen before and enable things we have not yet dreamed of.

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

In the park with my dog, a car rolls up with the windows down, the boys are back in town-style dudes within, blasting Tracy Chapman’s “Give Me One Reason” and I discovered the cure for male loneliness you’ve all been looking for.

The original “now with AI!”

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Happened to me last year.

Anyway, we went to Cosmic Baseball tonight & had a BLAST! Highly recommend if they come to your town. Never seen kids have so much fun. A family dance party!

And here's an IG influencer who disclosed she was offered lots of cash to promote AI. www.instagram.com/reel/DXhvwoQ...

I love that pro baseball players now have all these outfits. I wonder what their favorites are.

So was the evil billionaire genAI plan to get consumers & companies hooked on AI for cheap, then start pumping up the prices once we were dependent? They assumed we wouldn’t be able to live without it by the time the bill came? Surprise. No one wants this shit, assholes.

Happy anniversary of this not happening

It was very clear when I lived in the Bay Area that a lot of the tech crowd did not really think of the average person being anything but an npc and would get genuinely shook up by pushback from the general public because it was obvious (to them) that they were smarter and deserved to be in charge

I’m hoping to clean out my closets this year & I have waaaay too many author copies of my romance novels. Anyone know of romance-focused used bookstores looking for stock? All the newer stores are too fancy for used books. 😆

Today’s the day I found out Mr. Beast is 27 years old. 😐 Why does he look like he’s 2 years into a mid-life crisis?

ok the Mr. Beast lawsuit, let’s go. step 1: don’t do this, or this, or this, or this

This is terrifying.

I am so upset right now, TikTok quietly added a feature which turns on an AI feature on all the TikTok’s you have already posted to allow Ai to remix and make content of your TikTok’s and I didn’t know, you must go to privacy settings on your TikToks to turn it off yourself, want to warn others 💔

Me, exactly 4 weeks after a haircut, every damn time: “Wow, I don’t even think I need a trim in 2 weeks. My bangs are still the perfect length, maybe I should reschedule.” Me, one day later: “Help, I can’t see! Fucking bangs everywhere. Why are they in my eyes??? It’s torture!”

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

So if someone opts in, and has taken photos of friends, relatives, kids, even strangers, they’re “giving permission” on behalf of all those people. So lots of people have no say in this. The whole “opt in” thing was always a charade but it’s approaching terminal nonsense at this point.

In case people think only “creatives” are being robbed. And yes, they’re scraping all your Gmail too. Your online posts & comments. They’re stealing our lives to create more profit. Good thing we’re going to get a cut of the earnings, huh. 😑

Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️