I think the real threat of AI in publishing is not that good authors are going to start using AI, but that good authors are going to now have to compete with the "Fruit Island" of books

This is like John A. MacDonald saying that First Nations peoples "deserve a good education". What the fuck, PinkNews.

🤮 To be clear, it is the cited transphobic shite that makes me vom. Humphries can get bent.

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time. But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned. But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives. 1/

paramount/cbs announces theyre halting their IDIC policies

bsky actually might be a vanguard for whatever the next phase of social media is, not in the decentralization sense but in the "we actually never intended for users to use the website and got mad when they did" sense

I propose a new metric: Time To Enshittification (TTE). TTE, as an industry-wide thing, appears to be asymptotically approaching zero, at an accelerating rate. Could the actually mathematically knowledgeable people like do a cool graph or something please

After psilocybin-assisted therapy Thursday, after literal years of starting online autism tests online and rage-quitting them, finally completed two, RAADS-R and CAT-Q, today.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Coming soon. Tell your friends and remind your enemies.

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

Consider that a convenient and robust bus and bicycle focused infrastructure system would be pretty useful for distributing wrath

This is just Sim Sysadmin

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming

No, I'm going. Anything has to be better than here.

There is a certain flavor of anger I get from people bullshitting me. This is a good comedic reframing of something I have a hard time addressing lightly. www.threads.com/@dvdcolumbo/...

yeah whatever. anyway I think there should be a special Nuremberg trial just for journalists

one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces

I used to be #2, happily quite some time ago, and just want to say that whatever you are having fun with is cool and I apologize for that shit I said in the early 2000s

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

Fun random #baduk spotting in Albuquerque. People here are really friendly and outgoing and I learned about a local meetup!

the "it's not x, it's y" clanker speech pattern is 3-3 invading our language (most obscure ref you'll read today unless you are a go/baduk/weiqi homie?)

My resolution for the New Year is to attack and dethrone God.

Is it just me or do crypto billionaires only seem interested in “innovating” pedophile islands

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

there a trillion magazines now called like ThoughtThink. Unsaid. CensoredMedia. The Believer. CrossingLines. The New Principles Of Thought Project. and every single one has written the same article a million times over that is just "i had to take a diversity training at work and it was annoying"

If your whole web presence is Instagram I am not bothering. Their design is so drastically hostile I will never interact with them.

It is not my birthday anymore but these are good pictures

If you just assume that most stories about crime waves being pushed by the police are propaganda without much (if any) basis in fact, you'll rarely be proved wrong.

Basically, the Liberals are such corrupt refs that they're ruining the game, even for the teams they're rigging it for.

Dear @theguardian.com: fuck you and fuck your transphobic garbage rag.

it's great how we tag team too. like the admin appoints someone new and this site is like "alright defense bros, you're up, whos got the good posts on this"

It was only a matter of time, but Canada has joined the censorship bandwagon with Bill S-209. Sign the petition, call your MPs, raise hell. www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...

Thinking about the TNG ep where they thaw out some 20th century knuckle heads and how they were able to use the wondrous new technology without creating an account

what's it gonna take, people? like there are SEVERAL people who i respect who do really good journalism who won't fucking leave substack and it's driving me MENTAL.

If you work for MasterCard or Visa and want to blow the whistle on the situation internally toward Steam / itchio, create a ProtonMail for E2E encrypted conversation and email me at: [email protected]

i guess if i had one regret it'd be so much better than the real number

Turns out the old editions are fine and you don't need to support this garbage

BCers, you have until 2 pm today to tell this electoral reform committee to get rid of first past the post. Or to keep it, if you're some kind of weirdo. Like, the bad kind of weirdo. Submitting is easy, you just have to make an account and then write your comment in a text box. That's it.

Absolutely immaculate take. This 100% will happen.

This is going to be a potentially triggering 35 part thread. If you wish to share it, for the sake of your audience, please do not repost every section of it. Share the start of the thread and allow your readers to decide whether to read the whole thing.

Yesterday, I had to do some very quick thinking on my feet to address a senior leadership directive to embrace LLM tools. I think the best metaphor for what I did was departmental judo because the executive in question agreed with me while also looking mildly concussed.

Just fucking pac-manning their way up the acronym, exactly as I expected they would

Tech companies invented an "AI" that speaks like corporate middlemanagers and came to the conclusion that it meant the AI was sentient instead of the correct conclusion that middlemanagers aren't

"Digital asbestos" *Yoink* into the lexicon with ye