Bread and circuses, but they keep all the bread

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I believe I previously covered this.

i stg like half of my saved posts are tips for turning off ai bullshit on various programs

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Every discourse on book Threads is an op. “Some people only read the dialogue in books?!” No they’re not. They’re lying for attention, and you’re being indignant for attention.

Spread Me by @sarahgailey.bsky.social

v cute puzzle today 🐬🐊🐿️🦊🐣🐑🐰🐆🐟🦉 I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 24th 2026 (Hard), in 05:30 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Time to put a variety of small creatures on little boxes

my entire yard smells like lilacs 🥹

“lena” by qntm (2021)

support the Ignyte Awards!!!

really thinking today about how home is found in people

FIYAH the magazine's hiatus does not impact the operations of the Ignyte Awards or a future convention. We are operating on some shared infrastructure, though, so expenses related to being fully hosted independently will be taken into account in a future crowdfunding/sponsorship cycle.

Here are the 8 dems who voted for this shit. Just in case you live in their district. The vote has already happened but it'd be good to give em a call anyway to let them know what you think about that.

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I really think that the profession of journalism needs to reckon with how much they've either willingly collaborated with a movement of absolutely deranged bigots, were taken in by these bigots, or turned a blind eye to the bigots buying influence in newsrooms

adorable?

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I'd be including not one, but two pieces from Playboy in my philosophy of tech and tech ethics syllabi.

Possum jar in the works

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

Just bc I had occasion to send this link out 2x today, if you know someone who wants to write a kids' book, I wrote this blog post 8 years ago and still stand by it about how to get started so that I would not have to give the same advice over and over again www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2018/11...

"avowed doesn't have romance paths" they said

Genuinely, genuinely, getting booed is like the least of what eric schmidt deserves and later Google execs really should be [I am told by my lawyers to stop posting]

Just in case there are young artists out there seeing lots of posts about fandom and the best way to learn to draw is getting obsessed with one character, etc: That’s just how some people get into drawing, don’t try and chase fun that isn’t for you because it won’t be fun. Just draw what you like.

DESIGNED BY GOD ONLY FOR DEATH 😤🙂‍↕️

HENCH became one of my top ten immediately upon reading, and I'm SO excited to break into VILLAIN 🎉🎉🎉

On the other hand, if you’re suing a billionaire, start demanding their AI logs in discovery

In anticipation of VILLAIN’s release tomorrow, here’s a review I wrote of HENCH 5 years ago. amalelmohtar.com/review-hench...

everything, you useless, illiterate hole in the ground

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fighter, rogue, wizard, paladin, monk, ranger

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 15th 2026 (Tricky), in 03:01 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Pals I’m en route to TriCon in Halifax! It’s been just over 10 years since I was last in the city (for my honeymoon!) & I’m so excited to head there again. tricon-halifax.com

This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.

It's fully a cottage industry, an entire circular sewer drain of grifters who makes their money from discovering and designating enemies for their audience to attack. They believe in nothing, they have no values, except perpetuating their infinite hate parade and skimming money off the mob.

Cats being gloriously weird little dudes, part 8647.

not bad for early pre-travel morning I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 14th 2026 (Tricky), in 03:43 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

A wonderful interview and write-up of @allwillrise.bsky.social - really captures so much of the mechanical complexity, narrative richness, political intensity and outright silliness, absurdity + humour, that we’re trying to capture in the game 🔥 www.pcgamer.com/games/advent...

Oh my goodness. @amalelmohtar.com has a way of reviewing books that pierces straight to the heart of a story with a clarity that stuns even the author. I feel speechless and touched and seen. 🥹

A lot of men aren't handling the shift from having to be NEEDED to having to be WANTED particularly well.

"I absolutely want to harm the defendant, but I don't believe that this court is capable of harming him, so I don't see how that could be relevant" is *chef's kiss*

HELL YES

Noooo respect whatsoever for all the libs being Very Reasonable about data centers, as if their ignorant status quo bias made them experts rather than just naive.

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

The discourse around "This is a tell for AI writing" really only serves the AI bros, because (they believe) it will tell them how to change the AI to make it indistinguishable from a human. We need to keep our em dashes. Our rules of three. The tell for AI is: is it hollow, does it say nothing.

At @sarahgailey.bsky.social's book launch for MAKE ME BETTER and they were saying people in certain social situations have roles and they looked RIGHT AT ME when they said "or the crazy one" I have been ATTACKED Also buy this book

Looks like someone is impersonating us to scam recent college grads and others looking for #gamedev work. In the Age of the Scammer you should assume everything you see is a scam until proven otherwise. Stay safe out there! ❤️

VILLAIN comes out ONE WEEK from TODAY and I am practically vibrating with excitement and The Anxiety™.