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It’s dark, and cold, and wintery, and for the first time since…middle school maybe? I’m reading Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising. It’s still as wonderful and haunting as I remember it.

Already researching the pros and cons of three different non-chromium alternates.

Second: Trust! Third: AI! Understanding: Absolutely none!

Say it with me: THERE👏IS👏NO👏ETHICAL👏USE👏FOR👏GENERATIVE👏AI👏

i guarantee your book will look infinitely more appealing if you find some public domain artwork you like (there are tons of places to find high res public domain art and photos) and slap a cool (free?) font over it

like...writers...you can't rail against A/I books then turn around and use A/I covers artists, why would you denounce A/I art but casually use ch@tgpt same goes for A/I voices and music we are ALL at risk of getting exploited -- we shouldn't be sabotaging each other and making it easier for them

shoutout to Count Benyowsky, the 18th century con artist who convinced the french government to fund his conquest of madagascar and then paid the locals to pretend he was king if anybody stopped by. we used to have proper criminals

Not giving clicks to that terrible vox article but "The world's idea machine" is running at full tilt, all the time, always. It's rich assholes that constantly use AI to avoid paying for the idea machine (ARTISTS) that's the problem.

So I'm subbing for an aide today, and I'm in currently in the classroom of the teacher they hired over me for a full-time probationary English position. Shes having kids submit essays to chatgpt. And using its output for their final paper. I'm gonna fucking scream.

Art is never about "Who can produce and sell the most the quickest" and people like Cuban and the other billionaires will never understand the process.

When 97% is 'no clear consensus', and 52% is 'the will of the people', it's time to face facts that Governments do what Governments want to do regardless of what their people actually want.

🌿 Verdant is a singleplayer survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world, frozen in the 80s. 🌺 You wield the power to take or restore life - and combat is always just a last resort. #verdantgame #indiedev #gamedev

Gillibrand and Schumer. How fucking surprising. NY is dying for a progressive Senator.

I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers. I use social media to talk to people about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.

In honour of Rob Reiner, have David Moore's thread on the best sword fight in movie history and exactly how nerdy it is.

For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.

you can’t love Jews without loving the rabbis who led the resettlement of our Afghan allies you can’t love Muslims without loving the Muslims who guarded Oslo’s only synagogue after a terror attack in Denmark neither antisemitism nor Islamophobia is allyship love us all or leave all of us alone

It’s entirely possible rich people are just lucky fucking idiots.

Narrative role on work with indies! www.workwithindies.com/careers/unco...

Acquaintance of mine was suspended during her first year of teaching at a poor public school for assigning a book. Not because of the nature of the book--just that she assigned a whole book instead of these snippets.

It's hard to believe that it's only been ten years since UCLA English Lit grad Lee Gold launched her influential zine Alarums & Excursions (named after Elizabethan drama). Its hard to believe, as it's actually 50 years, as it launched in 1975, and she only wrapped it this year.

James 2:14-17 Even God knows your shitty thoughts and prayers don’t mean a damn if you don’t DO anything about the problem.

I am so so so so goddamn sick of reposting this STW panel. So sick of gun culture. So sick that this never stops happening. The Bible also says 'faith without action is dead' but you never hear that part when the pro-gun politicians offer their latest mealy-mouthed thoughts and prayers, do you?

The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.

Oh that’s…that’s a bad idea.

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

I have logged hundreds of hours in the past quarter century mentally traveling to the multiverse fork where SCOTUS didn't steal the election for Bush. It's a lovely place, you should visit sometime.

It is truly insane the lengths they are going to to detain this one person. I hope one day he takes them for millions.

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Buy yourself or your loved one a cute thing for Christmas or just because!

I feel like if you told people Liz Callaway and Patina Miller sang opposite each other as angels meditating on the nature of guilt and redemption, and then showed them HAZBIN HOTEL, they would think you’d gone insane.

i stand by this statement every year

We really need to double down on outwardly stating our work does not contain AI. We're seeing it in movie credits and books, we have to start putting it on things we make and pressuring others to label their work as human made, and normalize that as much as we can, I think. stuff like this maybe

we are going to win. it's not always going to feel like a victory. my heart is full of rage at how many will suffer while we get there. but they are in free-fall now.

All I’m hearing is Mark Cuban wants nurses to work for less than a living wage, which they already do, so fuck him.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

“We are not monsters,” a federal agent told Öztürk at one point. “We do what the government tells us.” ICE agents sure love using the Nuremberg defense. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/n...

And in a lot of cases are the ones pushing it, and using the guise of "Well, they said we had to" to cover their fascist beliefs.

Listened to it first this morning while getting the dogs ready before heading to work. Literally screamed, "Oh fuck OFF" as I was walking to my car, and then immediately played the entire episode again on the drive into work. Holy shit folks, this is an EPISODE.

So the product has encouraged SUCCESSFUL suicides and it seems at least one murder. But we're all supposed to accept it as an inevitable part of education, health insurance, government bureaucracy, policing, art, and so on. Any Dem candidate has to include banning or harshly regulating this tech.

Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.

Most google docs default to Arial, so I would assume that, even though it is a font I despise for no real reason.

THIS. EVERY FUCKING WORD OF THIS. They caused measurable environmental damage, took twice as long as they would have done with actual humans, didn't give a legion of gifted creatives a payday (That we all always need all the time) and then have the fucking audacity to whine that people don't like it

Looking through old Pokemon cards and realizing I don’t need much to finish the Master of the Base Set. Only problem is one of them is the Charizard. 🙃

I get the the hypocrisy is the whole point of the thing but if a Dem did this the GOP would be up in arms about overreach and states rights, and it would dominate the news for weeks.

welp

The Trump Administration extrajudicially executed Colombian fisherman Alejandro Carranzaas for alleged drug smuggling (without evidence), but pardoned right-wing ex-Honduran President JOH actually convicted of conspiring with drug cartels to traffic over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last