The only thing worse than having a cold is recovering from the cold and still having congestion because your body doesn't know that you're fine now. You feel perfectly fine except there's just a pound of snot in your sinuses that won't come out.

The natural end-point of the phenomenon of believing other people aren't real is interfacing with something that you know isn't real so that you don't even have to deal with that repressed guilt of dehumanizing other people anymore. The irony is the way the pathetic fallacy makes people treat AI.

the thing about "AI" "agents" is a depressing number of people move through the world as if they are the only real person in it. when they "talk to" these chatbots they don't notice the shallowness because that's as far as they ever plumb anyway. the obvious if:then shadowplay fools them completely

Very cool to get a cold the week before Christmas when you’re trying to finish work projects by the end of the year that require you to use your voice.

The first Kirol/Lluwen fic has been posted to AO3. The rest of you need to step it up, nerds. Get this ship sailing. #MTGLorwyn #Vorthos

I don't get generative AI because I don't get why you would want to give up the most fun part of creating something—the time spent making rough drafts, concept art, sketching out outlines—just to be left with the really time-consuming and frustrating editing part.

There really was a period of time when the worst people in the Magic internet sphere would occasionally ooze into the mainstream online world. You'd have to be like "Yeah, no, fuck that guy, but actually for a lot of other reasons only familiar to a niche group of nerds online."

Carefully discerning which pages of this month’s @theonion.com are okay to use to wrap the white elephant gift for the work holiday party and which ones will get me pulled into an uncomfortable talk with HR.

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

One thing I've been thinking about is how there are so many ideas for how we could change the world through greener infrastructure and socioeconomic changes, but there really are no new ideas available for a maintaining of the status quo. We've exhausted all the ideas of how to keep this shit going.

your honor i love them

I love cleaning and refilling my fountain pens because I love my hands being covered in splotches of various colors that won't come off until next year.

Today I was supposed to work on podcast editing but instead I wrote nearly 10,000 words of fanfiction because I am normal.

if you do this to me after I die I will find a way to kill you

I actually did go low/no caffeine this year, and it's been great for me, and I do appreciate it when I can get something decaf at a coffee shop. But also, I like coffee and I don't need something that's not decaf coffee or espresso. I don't want sweet milk or dirty sodas or whatever.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

If I were to propose that elementary school classrooms should focus on playing games on tablets and eating candy instead of educating children, people would understand that I'm an idiot. But if I say that college courses should just give impressionable young adults whatever they want...

YOUR STUDENTS ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS. Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.

Reminder for everyone looking for audiobooks right now (whether its bc you can't find a physical copy of the hockey romance or another reason, I'm not judging) Libro.fm is a GREAT audible alternative. They have a similar credit system and you can even AVOID the monthly payment structure too.

One of the best pieces on AI that I've read all year. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Have not been able to get this passage from @vajra.me out of my head:

We are living through a period of history that will be studied for a thousand years and I hope that, when the textbooks of the future are written, at least one of them includes a line about this moment.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

This show is actually very good because it’s defying contemporary film and TV trends. For one, it asks you to actually watch it! So much of the story is in facial expressions and body language, using on-screen texts that aren’t verbalized, micro-moments that are lost if you’re on your phone.

It appears the AI was trying to take them to a different magic school. @rainbowrowell.bsky.social

Everyone talking about cutting the cord with Spotify, may I also remind you that you can absolutely also cut Amazon out of your life. Neither Spotify nor Amazon are necessary for you to live a happy, fulfilled life!

I was prepared for the gay hockey show to be softcore porn levels of explicit but I was not prepared for it to actually be a good show.

I have some insight into college courses, and I have for over 10 years now, and I can confirm: It's gotten worse.

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:

I love that we live in an age of technology where software can update every single day with radical changes to both its operation and UI so that it is nearly impossible to find any sort of actual troubleshooting guide that can help you. Official websites already out of date after only a week.

all stanning of popes is necessarily conditional, the Church is the Church, but the man said AI won't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation so with all our conditions intact yes we stan

Look, The Last Jedi should be higher, and Rogue One lower, but having TLJ in your top 5 is correct and having Revenge of the Sith higher than TFA is also, I'm sorry to say this, correct.

i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do

I think that a key step in reversing the direction this country is headed, and the world at large, is to legislate sports betting out of existence.

I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Thing that rattles around in my head: Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour." I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.

Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh

There is no reason to drive any faster than 40mph outside of an interstate highway. And even then it's dicey to go over 60mph. You are piloting an enormously heavy machine going fast enough to liquify anyone you hit and you should think about that constantly.

Anyone know how to hide the Copilot icon that just suddenly appeared in the lower right corner of my Word documents on my Macbook? This is incredibly annoying when a large portion of my job includes sharing my screen while writing in Word docs.

One way to conceptualize these numbers is that after 10 years of working a full time job, I am now estimated to be further away from buying a house than I was when I started that job.

I think this really gets to the core of my opinion re: AI in video games (and maybe in art in general?). It should never create anything. There is potential, however, in its ability to interface with what was already created by human hands. A tool, not a product.

“Uhhh actually Frankenstein is the doctor not the monster” yeah man go ahead and tell him that, maybe call him “the creature” Go ahead and say some more mean shit to big ol Frankie Jr and see how that shit goes for you

Watched @arsenaultrivera.bsky.social shoot an innocent woman in the face and immediately die of shame and embarrassment tonight.

Having access to the podcast account on here means I am often accidentally liking funny posts on behalf of the Vorthos Cast.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

You should preorder this book and you should do it through @bookshop.org if you can! Support local bookstores, support Magic fiction, support yourself through maybe winning a pretty incredible prize.