going to come back to this post in the near future because i did mention the “big goose egg for short fiction” in 2025, but i have more to say on the subject of my relationship to short fiction and how i’m thinking about it going forward

just need $500!!

Teri is so close! let’s get her across the finish line here!

Teri is so close to departing for a writing opportunity that will further her delicious and horrible and necessary voice in the speculative fiction genre! she’s fundraising the final costs of the trip and every bit helps!

actually getting this linked this year! my year-end wrap up post! (the only blogging i do all year, lmao) www.digicara.com/blog/endings-a-2025-story

in fairness, how could an eagles/bills game end BUT in sloppy, ugly fashion (go birds!!!)

continuing to be confident in my position that earnest use of the word “debate” in the context of adults engaging with each other is an absolute disqualifier to taking the user of that term seriously

from suffering eagles fans began, and to suffering we shall return

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

I am of two minds right now. 1) I have no belief nor do I have any faith in the two party system, and 2) GOD IT FEELS GOOD TO SEE THE REPUBLICANS GET DOG WALKED AT THE POLLS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TONIGHT.

Starting tomorrow, every major news organization will be publishing thinkpieces saying that Zohran Mamdani's victory isn't signficant, and even more crucially, that it couldn't happen in a city like yours. They're wrong. It is important. And every city could have this.

i made a helpful reference

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

Learning that the CEO of this website reads books from the middle to skip the "boring" parts really clarified the whole project for me tbh.

You don't have to get less angry as you get older. That's why you have to drink more water. It's coolant for the rage

whew that last repost is really it for me when it comes to computer sentience - way too many people way too comfortable professing they want to own another agentic personality

Luckily, computers aren't sentient. And they never will be. But the fact that people THINK they own sentient creatures and aren't troubled by that idea is... deeply worrying

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Ah so maybe the “depictions of fictional violence is the same as real violence” people and “ChatGPT should have personhood” people are maybe the same type of people

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

Looking at art as Art - something that doesn’t have to swaddle you up in emotional comfort and confirm you - gives you the chance to think about what you hold as moral and why. If you want art to agree with you all the time, you erode your ability to question the world and yourself

i should run the nfl. the tush push and taunting are all legal. who cares. let them play ball

i just keep coming back to the chasm between the excitement i felt as a kid with the ways technology could help me connect with more people directly and the demoralizing way LLM use now is abstracting away from connection by putting a chatbot between people

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

Firing everyone who calls a loser a loser does not make the loser less of a loser and that's what these losers don't get. They will NEVER NOT BE LOSERS

trans people aren't the downfall of civilization no matter how many monster truck show people who pivoted to blasphemous megachurch spectacles say so. they weren't right about pokemon cards or e-drugs or whatever, they're not right about this. it's a stalking horse for social domination by losers

this shit on us is a trial balloon. the spiritual equivalent of the most obnoxious motherfucker in your office will not rest until he can call the cops on you for buying the wrong shoes. they never do. cut that shit off at the pass or you're next

here's the nut of my appeal to cis people on the escalating transphobia: do you really want some college debate club dweeb who fooled a bunch of dealerships into buying him a state senate seat deciding how you dress and act and live for you

congratulations to our amazing friend @zinrock.bsky.social for being invited to panel at a con that will both fill the creative well AND is an accessible local Florida event! let’s help Teri get to this creative community! gofund.me/369353d91

well there's been a lot of bullshit today but hopefully we can at least end it with the Dallas Cowboys getting their shit kicked in on national television

seeing this cast specifically in this modeling way reminds me of reading a quantum mechanics primer and a florentine patronage letters academic book in tandem - language is a tool of positionality as well/in line with it being a tool of communication.

This! And encoded in that difference is the whole neoliberal capitalist mindset, because to the people who build these things, those objections are, respectively, (a) irrelevant to profits;(b) a forgettable externality; (c) a healthy marketing environment; and (d) the whole point in the first place

“stay in your lane” is a difficult line to hold when so many people have made it their mission in life to attain zero knowledge about how anything actually works such that they effectively have no lane to stay in when it comes to conversations requiring some degree of expertise

the only thing worse than proving them right in their joyous assumptions is the inevitability of proving yourself right in the hollowness of your own. i wouldn’t be able to stand the smugness of their celebration, probably, so why not let the bitterness of my victory kill me instead?

I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op

I feel like we’re not that far off from people associating complete sentences with genAI and accusing anyone who can form a coherent thought that wouldn’t get underlines in Word 2003 as being an LLM

the amount of people who still don’t understand this utterly foundational fact is staggering

continuing to ask what people even think the point of being alive is if even the most personal of emotional communications efforts are things to be outsourced to the alphabet soup plagiarism machine

this stance toward engaging with art/life (or, not engaging, as the case may be) again makes me wonder what exactly it is this kind of person thinks you’re supposed to be doing with your finite time on earth

no one ever asks, “what’s it like to be perfect?” we all assume, of course, that perfection is impossible. but in the asymptotic approach… it’s maddeningly good. the kind of good that makes you yearn for self-destruction.

“live fast, die young”? no, i’m here to live slow, and live forever.

for just one year the NFL Draft should be conducted conclave style. just put the GMs in a room and don't come out or report anything until all seven rounds are done.

the 18-game season is obviously bad for NFL players, and is a shameless money grab for the league. if anyone was actually interested in player health and safety, one way to extend the season - increase the size of the active team roster, and prohibit any player from playing in more than 16 games.

you are a story my dreams keep telling me is too good to be real, but then i wake up to you

low key think some of these sports journalists who are super high on Rodgers to the Steelers have bets out on where he lands/that he lands because idk how you’ve watched football in the last couple of years and think he’s a good acquisition for any team

i love this story and you should definitely read it! i love when the structure of a story invites the reader into the scene with the characters!

when will the old white men (bots?) on here realize it’s blocking on sight when i check their follows and see they only follow femmes/women