something is unlocking

I’ve never really counted but I must have played Doom at least that much in the last 30 years. Probably StarCraft 2?

showing up to the doom modding community like

As social media has been withering I so often see stuff about how “oh you can’t say [platform] is dead yet because there isn’t a replacement.” My guy. My dude. Bro. Sister. Friend. Comrade… We don’t need a replacement for any of these platforms.

#WIPSnips “brother” #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips “forest” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

intermission then encore showing at the top of the hour

Repeating in 30 minutes. It’s bonkers fun. You can dance to it. I believe the kids would say that it “slaps.”

Let's add that when Roots originally aired in 1977, it was estimated that the final episode was watched by 100 million people in the U.S. 85% of all television homes in the U.S. tuned in to all or part of it. The power of progressive monoculture has never been surpassed.

Tonight at 8PM ET www.megalopolis.lol

#WIPSnips I don’t have “hoarse” exactly but I think the way Dana’s voice is cracking when she gets fired probably is close. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Tonight at 8PM ET www.megalopolis.lol

#WIPSnips “title” The rules for the most popular music competition / fight show of 2077 “Ultimate Rockdown” and a little bit about its current reigning champion, Missy. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips Don’t have “caffeine” exactly but there is coffee for a hangover #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips “hour” Arguing politics at the halloween party. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Slightly increase a band Blue Oyster Bar Cult

Slightly Increase a Band Bus Halen

#WIPSnips “nothing” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips no “smack” but there’s some slapping. I think I might have shared this part before? Or another part of this scene. Anyway, Curtis gets hassled in an elevator and seven foot tall teen cyborg Samara breaks it up. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I’ll happily get an “Algorithmist” t-shirt so people know I hate “artificial minds.” Fuck all the way off with this sad sack desperate to be a victim old white man bullshit (said as an increasingly old white man). It’s a (shitty) tool. That’s it. Turn off your computer and talk to a fucking person.

The dumbest thing about this "we need to teach kids A.I. in school to prepare them for the future" shit is that, even if you believe that is necessary or good (it's not), the whole interface of LLMs is natural language. The only way to be "good" at using AI is to be good at... reading & writing.

#WIPSnips “north” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips “wing” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“Them that dies will be the lucky ones.”

#WIPSnips don’t have “premium” so here’s something sort of related about insurance denying a claim. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

People who have spent decades being “important” and building echo chambers around themselves love AI chatbots not just for the anime girl sex chat of it all, but also because of its fawning validation. If it’s doing the same thing as everyone else around them, then surely it must be conscious.

Anne Hathaway

I was just remembering how a decade ago I was hearing from people in film/video production spaces that pivoting to immersive/VR was important, because it was the future. It has yet to take off as predicted. Maybe don’t trust what tech marketing is trying to predict so they can sell you their toys.

I have mostly pulled back from social media (despite how often I’ve been posting here lately). I have an email newsletter that I use sporadically where I share stuff. If you’d like to receive those sporadic musings and life updates you can join it here: mailchi.mp/a9ff5b455148...

#WIPSnips “empire” Dana conversing with her VR sex chat co-worker Allie from Kaleidoscope. Might have shared this part already but this is the one instance of empire in the book, which I’m a little surprised by. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Wolf of Wall Street Once Upon a Time in Hollywood I’m sure I could think of more but those two stand out.

Someone said on Insta how the generative tools give the *feeling* of competency, and this kind of exemplifies it entirely. This person doesn't want to be competent. Simple as that.

#WIPSnips “rebellion” Transcript of the speech given by the leader of the rebellion on the moon colony after they’ve overthrown the military dictatorship imposed on them. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips “reset” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips “chosen” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips “immediate” What could possibly go wrong, if a corporation starts taking over policing? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips “chicken” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

GOOD. According to the article, OpenAI was part of the planning team for this school. Inexcusable to give that company any role in education. cc @rweingarten.bsky.social & @aft.org - please COMPLETELY CANCEL your partnership with OpenAI to push "A.i." on teachers and students!

#WIPSnips no “photograph” but I do have pictures #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips “work” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

4th annivesary of WEEKEND@BERNIE'S playing now

Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

#WIPSnips “Convoluted” #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The pizza in my hand is always my favorite pizza.

And more importantly, I think, how to win them back: