The unhinged ones are just there to lull you into thinking "What is your PIN?" is a good choice

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the only "bsky is a bubble" take you will ever need

Who knew those "Spot the Mistakes" puzzles in the newspaper Fun Pages were actually training us for a future when this would be a critical life skill?

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I can't tell if they're indoors.

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"Lead with Kindness." -- good advice from @heidishmoo.bsky.social #bsides312

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wtf

I spend YEARS brainstorming and MONTHS outlining and that IS the work. Zero tolerance for this shit.

Take it from a Pulitzer Prize winner!

Chicago North Siders: The LSD street closures that were supposed to start at 9 seem to already be in effect. Everything Foster to Sheridan seems blocked. Happy Friday!

Ooh! I really enjoyed the first book. I look forward to reading this one

New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

Martha Wells, Platform Decay.

People should to stop using AI to plagiarize and make "art" and start using it for to figure out how to block "send flowers to your mom" ads for people whose moms are dead.

I can finally tell you that I was the fiction jury chair for this year's Pulitzer. I had a blast, and am so grateful for the experience.

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Opposition to AI is becoming more & more bipartisan among US citizens while support for AI is becoming more & more bipartisan among elected officials. Guess the jig is up re "representative democracy"

"This reads like a mashup of IT and Lord of the Flies with a bit of a crime thriller edge. It’s disturbing, often graphic, and leans into the idea that growing up isn’t just inevitable, it’s something that takes from you." - Early Reviewer Preorder: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803654...

For people who don’t visit this site regularly it’s almost impossible to convey how big and domineering this thing would be, but this does a pretty good job

This is a really cool event although I did like it better when it was at a venue in my neighborhood and I could walk to it.

A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.

Hey hey @beltpublishing.bsky.social's 50 Maps series is headed to PORTLAND! (OR). So now our published or forthcoming list includes: Madison Chicago DC Twin Cities Boston Columbus Cincinnati Milwaukee Great Lakes Detroit Cleveland Buffalo Pittsburgh Portland Where should we go next?

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The thing about older adults, especially those over age 80, is that they can absolutely be in good health and still drop dead the next day. We have too many 80+ hanging on to these positions of power. It prevents younger folks from moving up, and creates crisis situations when they suddenly die.

Picture > 1,000 words

I did, but to be fair, I usually do.

I have played versions of all of these and own most of them.

I am so upset right now, TikTok quietly added a feature which turns on an AI feature on all the TikTok’s you have already posted to allow Ai to remix and make content of your TikTok’s and I didn’t know, you must go to privacy settings on your TikToks to turn it off yourself, want to warn others 💔

Tonight!

Downloading Grease 2 GIFs in anticipation of Hurricane Paulette

I think the Contains Trump's Face labeler thinks that Youppi is Trump

Kinda wild

Writing tip: Make the perfect the enemy of the good. Then it's way hotter when they fuck at the end of the book.

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Holy shit

“An investigation into the claim - dubbed "Operation Bear Claw" - took a closer look at the video and found the "bear" was actually a person in a bear costume”

This is a great piece, the first thing I have ever read that made me root for Notre Dame.

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.