The violence being done to language & truth by this craven, mealy-mouthed shitstain is second only to the actual vicious & unjustifiable violence to which he’s signing his name.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

My audience is content lovers. Lovers of content.

"Generative AI is basically a cosmic game of telephone where information is passed through a process that privileges the frequency of information over nearly all else."

Josephine is being banned by the Calgary Catholic School Board from reciting this great poem by Sarah Tsiang that deals with the online sexual harassment of young women for the Poetry In Voice contest. Let's all listen to her brilliant reading for Freedom to Read Week www.youtube.com/shorts/LNY3Y...

R-r-r-rolling up the rim to win—but if you drink the "coffee," you've lost.

"Absent from both the federal government and the CCC’s statements is any commitment to reducing Canadian military exports to an increasingly hostile and belligerent U.S."

Looks like he's about to turn to the camera and say "What's in your wallet, boy?"

If you use generative AI to create environmental details, you will rip the soul out of video games. Yes I am being dramatic but also I am very serious

"That's the end of my presentation. Are there any questions?"

this is what motivated me to write this

US Environmental Protection Agency really protects auto manufacture: "We had to find a way to keep the Clean Air Act from being blamed for putting [Jeep] out of business…" 20 years later: "We don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs for the domestic industry," that is, SUVs.

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Autofiction

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"Thought leadership" so often like "oily water."

I've learned to expect a stinging judgement from Gerstmann when he begins with an analogy to professional wrestling.

I've been running workshops recently about horror, but one of the things I've tried to impress on people is that prose is a form that has distinct advantages over movies and TV, and as writers, we should be exploiting those advantages. This is a really good piece about that very thing.

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Don't croppy that toppy.

Everyone once in a while a scholar I respect will let slip something like "oh, yeah, I use ChatGPT to create spreadsheets for me, since it's good at that and I don't have the time" and I'm just... like... that's still part of the problem?

So glad the Conservatives and Liberals were able to come to an agreement about when they're allowed to straight up ignore the law in order to help out their business buddies.

Keep thinking about that hardcover left on the seat on the subway. Was it abandoned? Fell out of the reader's bag? Was the reader finished with it? Did they plant it?

Frankly, generative AI is being given too much credit for devaluing art and labour. Dipshits who think the Idea Guy is the only one doing real work and everyone else is a mere technician who should be grateful they're allowed to be there at all have been a thing for as long as art has been a thing.

a huge part of why i agreed to make a puzzmo mini crossword every day for a month is that crossword puzzles seem to be one of the actual battlefields for getting my peer group to stop giving money to the NYT

“Computer literacy. Internet literacy. Social media literacy. Mobile literacy. Virtual reality literacy…The pitch to train schoolchildren on the latest tech has stayed roughly the same since the introduction of personal computers in the late 1970s…” And yes indeed, we do fall for it every time.

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

“ai can do peer review” but can ai make you want to quit academia

“Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores. He blamed students having unfettered access to technology that atrophied rather than bolstered learning capabilities.”

LOL The projects never finish, because if they did the money would stop flowing to the mobsters. Can't have that.

"The Epstein household may have reached extremes of sadism, but its political economy is becoming less exceptional by the day… [His] victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order."

the lesson of the pandemic lockdowns should have been "the only people important to the functioning of society are the workers who actually do things" if every rich asshole on earth vanished in a puff of smoke tomorrow, nobody would notice or care

Software so unresponsive, obscure, and outside of your control that it will take you out of your work, blank the screen, lie to you about being finished some task—you never initiated. (There were two more resets to go!) Little wonder they felt it necessary to ask you not turn it off in frustration.

Just a casual reminder that Mister Rogers NEVER told you to “look for the helpers”. He told BABIES that, so they wouldn’t lose hope in dark times. YOU, ADULT, ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF THE HELPERS THE BABIES ARE LOOKING FOR. Get your fuckin helmet on and get out there.

"Things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those [social media] platforms… "And the most dangerous thing for platforms is not racist garbage. It’s unmonetizeable content."

Maxschisms, my ol' code-made, hand-corrected mashups of sayings, aphorisms, etc. "A rose, by any other name, never boils." "An apple a day makes an ass of you and me." "Even a broken clock can serve two masters." "The more things change, the more the tough get going." nitter.net/maxschisms

worldbeesanctuary.org/donations/fu... or www.gofundme.com/f/g8vut-keep...

It's so blatant how badly they want to throw garbage at us and ask us to pay for it.

I've "collected" over 250 intros from MSDOS games in good quality on this channel. youtube.com/@dosgameintr... #DOSGaming #retrogaming #retrocomputing

Why, dear me, any kind of royalty, howsoever modified, any kind of aristocracy, howsoever pruned, is rightly an insult. The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race. There never was a throne which did not represent a crime. - Mark Twain

"The one back there said they got on to her when she was trying to fence your RAM. Just cheaper for them to kill her and take it. Save a little money… I got the one who had the laser to tell me all about it."

When the novel is big.

Rouse has got ninety-nine problems but being thick ain't one.

Consider "capta [cf. data], that is, elements of our attention, identity, & intellectual labor which are neither freely given nor exchanged for a wage, but are being captured & coerced from us, then monetized in ways that facilitate further coercion, extraction, & behavioral modification"

Doesn't spread so well though, does it?

"I’ve been working as a writer for the past decade and watching my industry shrivel up and die as a result, so you’ll excuse me if I, and the rest of the everyday people who stand to get screwed by AI, aren’t particularly excited by what AI can offer society." ~ @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

me and my moring joe

I won the Geography Award in the eighth grade. So, like, watch out.