If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

Saved a bumblebee I found dehydrated in my hallway. Gave it water. Didn't have any sugar, but hoping watering it and setting it outside was enough.

Key word "only."

If you squint real hard you can see the exact moment when our cat jumped on the bed and meowed directly into my ear last night

🧵 I have to wear shoes with specially designed (and expensive) support to avoid foot pain, and I wore through the right heel way faster than should have happened. I contacted returns and they sent me a replacement pair, but the agent not-so-subtly implied I wasn't wearing them right. ...I wasn't.

at a job interview "whats your biggest weakness?" "understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics" "could you give an me an example?" "yes i could"

Spoilers for The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon rrtewwbad.ljamberfantasy.com

I'm such a sucker for this stuff.

Sharks smile too.

Move over Hemingway, "Elon Musk, please help" clocks in at a cool four words

how do we know peter thiel doesn't have a supervillain bunker powered by geothermals

If the technical advisor to Bluesky why.bsky.team can block 300k users for disliking AI, and thereby break a service that Bluesky advertised, we should all be able to do the same by blocking moderation.bsky.app send post

This reads to me like a tacit admission that it was never a sincerely held belief but rather an orchestrated culture war to get people fighting over shit that doesn't matter. Remind me again: who did she visit on her boat? What did the emails show them planning?

Conversely, if you're a coward...

Hero.

Just hit me: generative LLM 'AI' is what ontological evil would actually look like. It's a construct that emulates humanity but possesses none, that fosters bonding but feels nothing, that unerringly follows a nature that is foundationally malevolent to the human beings it encounters.

🎶 I wear this crown of thorns Upon my Liar's Chair Full of broken woofs I cannot repair 🎶

On top of reasons of role deconstruction and bodily autonomy, this is one reason why it's so important to many people in power to eradicate trans folk. If you're secure with yourself, feeling good BEING yourself, they can't tell you you're broken and then sell you a "fix"

You know, at some point we're really going to have to reckon with what repeated covid infections does to impulse control and its effects on society (especially politics). Repeatedly catching a brain-attacking illness and shrugging it off as "Just losing sense of smell," has been catastrophic.

some motherfuckers are always trying to ride the leopard

What GenAI has revealed to me is that I have been playing my life on hard mode, that is, actually having respect enough for myself and other people to care whether what I do is standing on a firm foundation of my own work and understanding.

Strange but true: my favourite Bible verse happens to also be the favourite of the President of the United States. أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَه إِلَّا اللَّه، وَأَشْهَدُ أَنْ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّه‎

it's called Vibe Coding because u can stick it up ur ass!!

amazing run. I was authentically astonished! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQx_...

"If you meet the Buddha on the road-" Lemme stop you there. The Buddha is the guy who meets *me.* He's ambling along when suddenly a fog gate appears behind him and my health bar rolls out to greet him. I'm a three-phase fight and his monk build is under-leveled. When I'm done, he's rage-quitting.

Obsessed with this phrasing: "Satan encountering him." This is some Chuck Norris level of hype. Did Gregg encounter Satan on the road? No, Satan encountered *him!*

Um.

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

This appears to be a trend. I wonder if a third will try, be caught on camera, and later arrested? That would be awful.

Dreamed last night that Stephen Colbert played the lead in a sequel to "The Hateful Eight," called "The Last Hater." It was so appallingly awful it wrapped back around to being good.

Everyone wanted to invade Afghanistan. Pure vengeful bloodthirst. Iraq took persuasion in the form of naked lies from the politicians, who were the only ones who really wanted to go in. Iran? Both political leaderships want it, but they know it can't be sold to the public so aren't trying.

"While Copilot buttons are being removed, it looks like the underlying AI features are here to stay, though." Wanna bet?

Getting jaded and joyless as you grow older is a decision. You can be dismissive about the new, or you can choose to resist the calcification in your brain and put in the effort to delight in it. All the best old people resisted, remaining engaged and interested with the new for its own sake.

I mean, readers do like trash, but they like *well executed* trash. Most problems are failure of execution, failure to write to a viable market, or lack of advertising strategy. It's very rare someone fails because readers bounce off and don't realise it's actually a work or genius.

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Blue Sky timeline today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XNF...

BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.

Yep, I know. I'm well aware. There's just not a fucking thing I can do about it. One man isn't the problem. All of them are monsters. That's why they haven't done anything. You understand? They want this.

How much trouble am I about to be in?

As an author, I feel this. If you ever want to feel better about yourself, read any classic work of fiction, then ask yourself how much of it AI would ruin for the sake of making it clearer and more concise. Our humanity is flourishing imperfection.

Not to be all political, but remember how Reagan lost his marbles completely, and his White House staff went on to Weekend at Bernies' him until his term was up? How they, to this day, pretend he was only diagnosed with Alzheimer's after leaving office? Came to mind today.

In TEWWBAD, the mentor of the protagonist encourages her to read 'too adult' books, then gives her free reign over the library if she promises to show whatever she wants to read and to listen if told to wait. "Reading what you’re not supposed to is a rite of passage for anyone with a decent mind."

Look, I read Fifty Shades when it was popular in 2012. I was 13. I believe my main takeaway at the time was how terrible the quality of the prose was. Kids will always get their hands on this stuff, and will mostly be fine.

X just suspended an account for telling US soldiers, in first 365 days of service can GET OUT out just by reporting "failure to adapt" This will also apply to drafts, and may be useful information you can pass on As a foreigner (UK), I feel this must become something every American knows

I'll never understand people this cowardly. Just be an adult and say "Sorry, I've reconsidered. My bad. Take care." Then unmatch/block. Giving people closure isn't difficult, and you don't have to give a reason or even hang around for awkward conversation! Decency isn't demanding.

Without saying they should accept rudeness and entitlement from bad readers, the majority of writers are too sensitive about their work, and their unwillingness to self-criticise holds them back from achieving their best. Yeah: how's *that* for discourse??

Say you're on drugs without admitting you're on drugs.