Also, Clarke Peters doesn't get half the recognition he deserves.

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I'm still mad about "crypto" being taken from me, but I can also co-sign this as long time science fiction aficionado.

I will agree with this, and amend slightly that having someone read an older book and acknowledge that it didn't magically start to suck as soon as it left the new release shelf is like being kissed by a pixie in the autumn sun. Back lists keep the lights on!

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

I'm not sure what it is, but something about Ellen's expression in this photo makes me think she's testing, or about to test, my grasp of object permanence.

Oh no, I thought it was Buy SOME Books Friday. Oh well, too late now.

Any time anyone ever tells you that the biggest companies in the world wouldn’t waste hundreds of billions of dollars on AI, show them this. This is the core profit center of one of the largest tech companies in the world, and it’s run like a sloppy pre seed startup in the web3 era

I love the story. It's not true—the details on that are in the thread if you click through—but it feels like it should have been.

I hereby renounce my adulthood and demand my mom come pick me up

If I were king of the universe all cops would get one of two cars. 99% of cops would get the golf cart. And the uniform is the polo. The other 1% get to drive the Gran Torino with the custom paint job. These are the ones who have probably solved/prevented crimes, & don't have huge complaint files

It might be time to tap the "A Day In The Life of Joe Conservative" sign again.

Watched the first two eps last night, and so far I'm in agreement with Variety. Going to pace myself and do a couple of eps at a time.

Yeah, y'all: we told you it would. LLM based "AI" concatenates strings of next-most-likely tokens. It bullshits. It makes shit up. An inventory situation where the systems need to "count" & "report" doesn't *change* that fundamental architecture; so why are these people continually surprised by it??

Went to the good deli last night 15 minutes before closing. As usual there were two high school age girls working there. Also as usual they were blasting out rock from my lifetime as their cleaning music. Deli girl 1 & I did an impromptu duet singing along to For Whom The Bell Tolls, and then...

The world of the Sourdough is built on a foundation of folklore that feels both invented and ancient, which is the hardest trick in fantasy writing. https://gnofhorror.com/the-sourdough-compendium-review-a-g-slatter/

Bye bitch

Tell me you never watched Person of Interest without telling me you never watched Person of Interest. (I could also really have done this as "Tell me you've never read an actual book...", but I don't think anyone thinks the Epstein class actually read.)

Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

My favorite kind of comic. "Oh, you think you've seen this before? Buckle up, Chuck. This is going to either blow your mind or explode in mid-air, but either way you're gonna get up close to some stuff you haven't seen before."

The Spectre is so fun Imagine you commit a crime in Gotham and you’re so worried about Batman you don’t even realize there’s a bible thumping vengeance ghost who’s on his way to literally force feed fire ants down your urethra or some other sicko shit that feels straight out of a Terrifier movie

Democracy dies in the darkness.

This is the way. We didn't stop teaching basic math once calculators were invented. Critical thinking and writing are foundational skills students need to develop (& strengthen) without AI.

Bill Pullman, Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Jane Kaczmarek, and Ed Begley Jr. all out here making anyone who watched TV or movies in the 80s feel like the sound they make getting out of their favourite chair. (And they all have one.)

a company claiming to be worth $1.75 trillion reporting a $4.9 billion net loss on $18.67 billion in consolidated revenue for 2025, all run by a white supremacist fake engineer with a head full of cottage fucking cheese I'm sure it will go fine

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live (This time I'll do 10 that'd surprise most people who know the music I mostly listen to these days...) Accept Ozzy Osbourne Social Distortion Sonic Youth Ministry Ice Cube Soundgarden Jesus and Mary Chain Red Hot Chili Peppers Pearl Jam

Wait, WSB knew about GenAI? Must have been a time slip.

there are so many different answers to "what is 2+2" and yet it turns out the 4 community has low diversity of thought

Your fairy tales don't fit my scars I don't need a crown to touch the stars I'll kiss thе dark, I'll bless the pain My kind don't die, wе just change our name

I have to add "the brain is like a muscle" to the list of things my parents repeated me a million times but I somehow did not interiorize until I repeatedly experienced myself.

Science textbooks narrow-mindedly coalesce around a very narrow range of theories, while new age bookshops are refreshingly diverse.

i have many justifications for hating AI but ultimately don't think i need any besides "they stole the book it was my life's dream to write without compensation, and did not get punished." their hands are literally in my pocket and they can fuck off

Anyone who disagrees with this is team "put tongue to boot for Nazis"

Rousseau said that the greatest trick ever played was that the rich managed to get the poor to use their strength against themselves. That was in 1762. You would have thought we would have seen through it by now.

For no good or even justifiable reason I still have hope that the current rush towards hatefulness and fascism will turn around one day, and we'll have much better people filling the seats of leaders. If that happens, I will still never forgive the people who were pro-hate. Not ever.

Less than a decade ago

Two immediate thoughts: 1) imagine the poor bastard who is peaking on mushrooms and walks out into his backyard to touch grass, and looks up at this? 2) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Find out what it is and use it to destroy them.

The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.

I like "extraction class". It's pithier than my usual "parasite rentier scum of late-stage capitalism".

"Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"

For @thewalrus.ca, I write about Canada Post. What do we want and expect from it? And is that $1.57 billion in the red really a loss? thewalrus.ca/canada-post-...

This is the key, I think (re grad’s booing AI boosters). The very rich are leading a completely insular life cut off from not just non-rich opinions, but a distorted sense of what “work” is.

He's probably not lying because he probably didn't even pay taxes, he used the loopholes. I bet you $10 right now that I pay a MUCH larger share of the money I make in a year in taxes than Jeff does. I don't want to pay less. I want him to pay more. (For pure CanCon replace Jeff with Galen.)

My favourite kind of meeting: * I write a 10 page report explaining something in detail, why it happened, and how to resolve it best for the future. * one of the people who should read and understand all 10 pages asks Spicy Autocomplete to summarize in 1 page

I tend to think of the magic of liminal and implied spaces as being urban, but of course Emily is right. The threshold is a temporary temple, wherever you find it.

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...