No one wants you (or anyone else) to look at them with smart glasses. Unless they’re smart like telescopes and microscopes.

Likewise. Happy for my glasses to be just dumb lenses.

I don't even want my progressive lenses anymore. I'd rather just take them off to read.

Same. I want my glasses to correct my vision just like I want my washing machine to wash clothes and my stove to cook food, and none of those things should require smart features or AI

I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 2. I do not want them smart either.

I have been wearing glasses since I was 8. I do not want them smart.

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

I love you guys but I’m not in competition with ai I respect your decision to battle ai by insisting that this is an occasion to prove that human creativity is better. But I don’t respect ai. No, I already know that humans are better than Super-Autocorrect

Be certain, as is always the case with things such as this, that ANYTHING can be considered sexual and can end in a blanket account shadowban under this. It is easily weaponized it is determined by an AI moderation system. There is no accountability or recourse. you probly can't read this.

I guess I'll keep shouting this message from the rooftops until it sticks. Lumping disparate technologies under the ✨"AI"✨ label only inhibits clear discussion and reasoning about what each does. >>

Debates about acceptable manliness are about how much misogyny is acceptable in public.

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'AI'-free zone here. It's utter nonsense to suggest anything but a tiny minority of writers would even consider using it.

"Anyone who is a working writer today ... you’re using AI one way or another at least in part because it is not only seductive as hell but it’s really incredibly valuable.” I've never found it to be seductive OR valuable. I *like* the process of researching, writing, re-writing, and editing.

I always want details when I read things like this. Incredibly valuable *how*? I can't think of any way it could help me. Literally. Above and beyond the environment-destroying plagiarism-bot issue - what's it doing that's helpful?

I do not think it is possible to do this. The world today is so different from the one I grew up in. If you add cell phones into a story that doesn't have them, there are so many "why didn't they--" questions that arise.

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

We are going to need retroactively enforced anti-corruption legislation. And sooner Democratic lawmakers start announcing it and drawing it up, the sooner some of the corrupt may feel just a little fear and hold back.

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

The only issue I have with this is that there are no successes of AI. These companies are financial train wrecks. I'd rather see regs so that when they collapse the rest of us don't (again) pay to prop up the ones who broke everything.

Things that make me bounce off a book lately: - Too much "as you know Bob" right up front - Just not my thing You'll notice both those things are 100% subjective. Write what you want, and enjoy yourself. Love, a reader.

Love it or hate it, large-scale theft and environmental destruction have been embraced by corporate America. You might not be able to stop your boss from flushing the company's money down the drain trying to "10X" your output, but you can try to understand why you should stay away from this garbage.

Canadian visits to Maine have fallen by more than 25%. A drop with severe repercussions for Maine’s tourism industry. With summer upon us it’s hard to see those numbers improving unless Trump alters his ill-tempered rhetoric and policies (He doesn’t care!). To fix, change Congress! #MEpolitics

When you're on meds, stay off the phone. I'm just saying.

I am not especially optimistic about the near-term future. But I have lived long enough to see the law of unintended consequences come for a lot of people who've richly deserved it. I don't know the future. I'm going to keep fighting for the best one I can, because what else would I do?

Creeped the hell out of a lot of us at the time. It’s always disconcerting to see history flattened.

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Also AI boosters are con men or marks.

We have ICE and not healthcare because this country won't fix its heart. We aren't getting healthcare for all until we do.

Seems like the AI bros' spurious use of the human-centered term "hallucinations" to describe errors of their algorithm was more of an admission that they knew the term would apply to the people *using* the tech, not the tech itself. (PS. There is zero acceptable use of LLMs in any context. Zip.)

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As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Allowing the stupidest people to ever live to feel like they are the intelligent ones was a historical error and must be addressed with prejudice

Can...can I *not* do this?

News: OpenAI had a negative 122% operating margin in Q1 2026, and ChatGPT growth has stalled. Based on its current trajectory, OpenAI is on course to lose over $36 billion in 2026. www.wheresyoured.at/news-openai-...

Spotted today: AI-generated shoe ads featuring women who all look like Elastigirl. ...Why would I be interested in a product when you won't show me what it looks like on a real human being?

The claim that AI will be used to boost productivity and improve everyone's lives would have just a little bit more credibility if the big tech companies weren't already using AI exactly as every knows they will, which is to fire people and extract more work from those remaining.

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5 more days until my new book is out! Me, anxious? Psssssssh that'd be silly. Uh. Anyone wanna know more about it? Or have other questions? There's a dog!

I don't know that I've seen 10 artists live, but I do know the exact Afghan Whigs show that lost me a big chunk of my hearing. (My fault entirely, and damn it was a good show.)

It's set in the not-too-distant future, after humanity has nearly extinctified itself and is slowly putting civilization back together. The MC is an old, retired war robot who has avoided thinking about their part in those events for a long time, until someone forces them back into the world.

every copywriting job wants you to live in nyc but pays like $50k a year

PSA for YouTube Creators! Just wanna share this in case you don't want Google to have access to remix your YouTube shorts with GenAI using Gemini! YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED. Here is what it's doing and how to opt out of said option if you don't want your shorts to be remixed with AI.

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

The worst* thing about surgery is realizing there’s no way to explain to the cats somebody else will be feeding them for a bit. *not the worst

i have many justifications for hating AI but ultimately don't think i need any besides "they stole the book it was my life's dream to write without compensation, and did not get punished." their hands are literally in my pocket and they can fuck off

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