AI bros are the flat earthers of tech bros. You can never make them realize theyre wrong. Theyll double down and pull the most wildest mental gymnastics Spend your time creating, not arguing with a brick wall

Very happy with Memory Express, super disappointed in Canada Computers. CC refused to take my credit card twice. 1st time, last month for RAM, I paid by e-transfer. This time, for GPU, I just decided to cancel. Ordered GPU 1 hour ago from ME, and they've already shipped it out!

Moving into David Frum’s house to start an open-pit mine in his living room. Confident he won’t stand for “the country’s courts…inventing new obstacles to development.”

Come watch me try to survive The Long Dark! Tonight I’m exploring Pleasant Valley for the first time. twitch.tv/tachyondecay

I've been saving this for a cozy winter day on my couch.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I zoomed out too far on Google Maps in satellite view and it turned into a view of the whole globe, and I’ve just spent the last 10 minutes globescrolling and cannot even with how beautiful and wonderful our planet is.

I'm eepy but I'm hoping some Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden will wake me up! twitch.tv/tachyondecay

One of the upsides of introversion is when a friend cancels plans, I'm disappointed, of course, but then my next reaction is, "Couch! Couch couch couch couch!" 🎉

Best Buy has shipped one part of my order with Purolator and one part with FedEx, so I guess it’s a race! 🏁

Playing Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay Come hang?

🎵 Spending money on myself like it's going out of style (it's not, but PC component prices are only going up up up so we're buying now now now) 🎵

🎶 I don’t want a lot for Christmas I just want one thing from you. For that A.I. bubble to burst, And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶 🎄

Cozy Christmas Day stream starting now! I'm trying Tiny Bookshop for the first time, then might play some Long Dark after that. Come hang? twitch.tv/tachyondecay

“The door-closing and towing gigs being picked up by Marenco and others in Los Angeles are examples of how as automation advances, it can create new work for humans pressed into service to patch over its shortcomings.” Create jobs for people and tax the criminal rich by leaving Waymo car doors open

The WSJ AI vending machine piece has me thinking about how the AI bubble encourages companies to pivot to software while offloading more and more physical labour on *us*. It really should be the other way around.

Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

More Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden now on twitch.tv/tachyondecay

Time loop? In a secondary world fantasy??? Yeah, that’s right: THE EVERLASTING by @alixeharrow.bsky.social takes big swings that pay off in a story about stories, fighting fascism, and love at all costs kara.reviews/the-everlast... 🌈📚💙 #bookreview

THE GREAT MATH WAR wanders at times yet covers such a pivotal intellectual moment in the history of mathematics. kara.reviews/the-great-ma... #bookreview 📚💙

Companies and organizations hopping on the AI bandwagon *now* is so cringe, and we should make them feel that way. Like, you're late to a party that never should have started and the cops are minutes from breaking it up. What are you even doing?

My neighbours are away for the week, and as is tradition for the third year I get to look after their cats, checking in on them twice a day. We hang out, and I give them a daily Christmas present the neighbours left in their stocking. I look forward to this every year.

Watching one of my traditional Christmas films, Home Alone, or as I call it, "One of many movies from my childhood that gave me unrealistic expectations about an attainable size of house"

Going to play The Long Dark for a cozy, short Sunday stream over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay

Not me obsessively checking the USPS tracking on this shipment of wool that was last updated as “in transit to next facility” on December 13

Damn, Clair Obscur used gen AI art?? Patched out or not … damn. And I wanted to play it so badly.

Going live with Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden followed by the final episode of Dispatch over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay

There is *no* ethical use of genAI. It is built on stolen art, through exploitative labour, and every day as they train new model and answer query, they burn immense amount of energy & water. It has no place in our field, none.

Friday night Banishers and then Dispatch over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Instagram: Psst … your other account has a notification. Me: A real notification or just you telling me one of the people I follow posted a photo? Instagram: 👀 Real Me: … Instagram: … Me: *switches accounts* Notification: Your main account commented on someone's post!!

Gen AI is a shambling zombie horde, biting everything it comes across and eating everyone's brains. RIP Firefox.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

IMO "Redemption" is underrated and perhaps an even better two-parter than "Best of Both Worlds." Yeah, you heard me. Come at me, bro.

Finally watched I Saw the TV Glow. I admire the abstruse creativity of its writing and direction. But I didn't really like it. 🤷‍♀️ I'm a bad queer, sorry.

My success today calls for hot cocoa and a donut

In a broad sense, on a day like today, please take care of each other, stand with Jewish folks who are hurting after this horrific antisemitic attack, and reject any attempts to co-opt that pain and trauma to drive more division and hate. ❤️

Successfully removed the stubborn bolt that was preventing me from swapping out toilet seats! Now to take a break for lunch before I attempt bidet installation.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Live now with Banishers, followed by Dispatch, at twitch.tv/tachyondecay

RUINED HISTORY, the 6th entry in Claudie Arseneault’s Chronicles of Nerezia, continues the series’ theme of fighting for your found family. PLUS: more Wagon lore!!! kara.reviews/ruined-histo... 🌈📚💙 #bookreview

Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill

This whole thread but especially the point about asking your librarian instead. As I keep telling people, genAI hallucination rate: 30-80%; librarian hallucination rate: 0%

I have purchased RAM. 😭 In related news, now selling: -A kidney -Freelance copyediting services (One of these is a joke. But which one?)

It's just so surreal listening to podcast hosts and other small celebs scraping by on advertiser $$$ hawking "Pixel 10 with Gemini!" like it's not just a privacy-destroying algorithm that talks to you.

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

Surprise Friday stream over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay