"Stop thinking about rules, start thinking about readers… "You generate your text while you're doing your thinking… "Here's the problem: experts use language in one set of patterns to do their thinking—but [even] those very same experts read with different patterns."

"Microsoft has now admitted to the enormous role it played in enabling… [Israel's] genocide…" Even Microsoft's game "developers were asking us to boycott their own work in the name of Palestinian justice."

Ford closed the science centre for no reason, is shrinking it dramatically, and gov’t doesn’t want you to know the truth about this. My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

We're reopening to submissions on January 1st. Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.

If the body of a work email contains "looking to the future," prepare yourself for bad news.

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Brave is not a better alternative to Firefox, esp. if you're attempting to flee the integration of AI, crypto. Look instead to things like Vivaldi (which has refused LLM integration explicitly) or Librewolf (fork of Firefox emphasizing privacy); know you'll still have to make an effort.

"U mad? Whatever, bro."

I can’t believe I have to adopt a new default browsers for the first time in 20 years, truly fuck this guy

So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.

Historians reported "𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗳 of the 550 names to be inscribed on the Memorial to the Victims of Communism should be removed… because of potential links to the Nazis or questions about affiliations with fascist groups."

Toronto/Ontario friends, who up for a fun little GDC alternative? 👀

"I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT… writes like me… It writes like the millions of us who were pushed through a very particular educational and societal pipeline… designed to sandpaper away ambiguity, and forge our thoughts into a very specific, very formal, and very impressive shape."

T-minus 834 hours…

The only thing a Canadian cannot bring to GDC is confidence that they'll be allowed to cross the border, either way in or out.

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

We've got the look for GDCheese now!

Happy surprise to have an episode of DDSWTNP on Pynchon's "Shadow Ticket" apport (asport?) into my podcast app yesterday.

Just realized they named that product "the Amazon Fire."

"The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul… carried down alive to wondrous depths, where… He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad."

"To stop those monsters, 1-2-3… Just don't look! Just don't look!"

A new device will fix me. Yes. I'm sure of it this time.

"Eh, making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel."

Yesterday, META suppressed accounts of creators and politicians that lean left while Brazil's Congress voted past midnight for a lesser punishment for Bolsonaro and his allies involved in the coup. They hid even Lula's account to limit reach while they also removed the press from the room.

"If you start getting certain social goods—necessities—as a matter of right, you're going to be less terrified of your employer. If you're less terrified of your employer… the employer is not able to impose, unilaterally, their preferences onto their employees."

"The current problem of AI knockoff books seems to have originated from the online KDP side hustle community. A quick search on TikTok shows close to 90,000 videos and tutorials on how to make passive income on KDP with constant AI publishing."

I don't make an effort if there ain't a "Good effort!" sticker in it for me. Preferably, a scratch-and-sniff.

Too often, Bsky is scrambled set of comments on a post you've not read—or would ever want to read.

“He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want… Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.”

Is there generative-AI spam for FaceTime calls yet?

Things my kid has used as a bookmark: pencil, plastic ruler, drink coaster, sock, Lego piece, paper bag, wadded handkerchief, a smaller book.

My body is a machine that turns.

who is this actually FOR who the hell wants to discuss a book with their *ebook management software*. i also don't wanna discuss my tea with my cup or my clothes with my closet.

Having just finished Suzanna Clarke’s “Piranesi”, I feel that it was a mistake to put what the publisher put on the back cover.

Be weirder and more unsettling

absolute hero

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Am tracking & rating what I read on The Story Graph and Bookwyrm.social. Gonna give up on Amazon-owned Goodreads in the new year. For what it's worth. app.thestorygraph.com/profile/lcsrzl bookwyrm.social/user/lucasri...

Streets in Toronto will be Waymo dangerous. Get it? Because these things will hurt people. Maybe even kill them.

www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo... I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people. #morrowind #thomasthetankengine

“AI” seems often an excuse for businesses to raise prices, reduce quality of service, and intimidate or lay off employees.

Got a copyright strike for posting a ten-second clip from Inside the Actors Studio that should be well covered by fair use provisions—but I don't want to bother filling out the form with my address…