Ich see trees of grene Redde roses too Ich see them bloome For me and you And Ich thynke to myselfe What a wondirful worlde Ich see welkin blue And cloudes of whyte The brighte blessid daye The darke sacred nighte And Ich thynke to myselfe What a wondirful worlde www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

I read a piece in The Nation that got me to thinking about why people write and play music and make art and do a lot of other things that require a lot of effort and don't necessarily bring in a lot of money and recognition. More at the Treehouse Writers blog. treehousewriters.com/wp53/2026/04...

I'm not crying you're crying it's suddenly so very dusty in here or it's allergies or something

Thank you.

"And another thing, it wasn't me. It was her who... she's right behind me, isn't she..."

Yes.

Ohellyeah. Been there done that.

It’s literally all I want. Twenty-two episode seasons that return on a reliable yearly schedule and run for 5+ seasons. We used to be a country.

Researchers have discovered that girls read more than boys during school vacations - which might help to explain why they outperform boys academically.

Seconded.

Same for if you use chatbots to "improve" your writing. A chatbot is all about the average. It will smooth all the edges off your prose, the stuff that makes it alive and interesting. Being a good writer is not about being blandly average.

This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

I know there area a lot of people saying we should abandon space exploration in favor of fixing this planet, but if we eliminate the inefficiencies of end stage capitalism there's plenty of resources to do both - and likely synergy between the tech we'll have to develop in the process.

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

So... we're back to being a luna-tic race...?

If you don’t stop in mid-sentence to check a thing and then three hours later you’ve learned the entire history of canned food but not finished the sentence, why even be a writer?!

Yup. Also, leaving out issues of plagiarism, etc, one relevant question for many creatives is "why introduce into my workflow a purported tool that will add friction and slow things down." If you have skills and a method that works for you, "AI" is generally a drag, not a boost. Time is precious.

I write poorly a lot. I don't show that stuff to other people. The good news for me is 35+ years of professional writing helps me write poorly less, and to more easily rewrite and make better the stuff I've written poorly.

Seriously. Do these people have any explanation for how anything was written *before* AI?

Yes, this this this THIS. I am not being sneaky about it. *I WRITE BECAUSE I WRITE*, not because of some wild and vainglorious sense of "I want my name on a Book Cover". I am the writer. I. Myself. I would not allow AI to touch and pollute any word i set down on a page. Trust me on this.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

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I liked this edition of @ninametz.bsky.social's newsletter a lot. For me as a viewer, I don't want to watch a show where the important parts of the plot were farmed out to AI. I want to watch something created by people engaging with the craft. buttondown.com/NinaWatchesE...

Blood Money: The Anthropic Settlement "I’m mad for all of us who were stolen from, forced to give the best of us to these corporations without our consent or knowledge..." She says it ALL.

...the Full Monday Morning Glare...

Since the "keep politics out of stories" argument is popping up again, I'm just gonna link to this article from 2015. "What 'entertainment without politics' means is 'entertainment that regurgitates the norm and doesn’t challenge my assumptions in any way.'" www.uncannymagazine.com/article/poli...

i suppose I should count myself lucky to be one of the humans who was alive at a time in which you could still see the Milky Way in the sky...

...I read the Mars book. I kind of skidded off the writing. I never read anything else this guy wrote despite fawning reviews of stuff. Looks like I dodged a bullet.

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

@adapalmer.bsky.social I am finally reading your Renaissance book. But every time I pick it up my Maine Coon comes and parks on top of it. Either I have a keen amateur feline historian on my hands... or there's something in that book that my cat really REALLY does not want me to know...

Sorry about the fuzzy outlook but you might imagine she's not exactly steady and motionless on this position... anyway. Proof of cat.

I feel this to my core.

Oh groovy. These people just can't stop, can they. Moneygrubbing little TROLLS. Sorry, Locus.

Tiny fossil seashell imprint on a Brighton beach pebble.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

You gotta laugh sometimes, right?

Buy the books they want go bury. Read them. Share them. Yes I am calling for a literary insurrection. Starting NOW. starting with YOU. You know what to do. *go and #%^/%;< READ.*

Whole thread. Read it.

I would like to personally thank this episode for killing Sora

I just put gas in the car day before yesterday at $5.29 a gallon. And that was at the CHEAP station. Down rhe road they were selling it at $5.69 a gallon. And I already suspect that next time I need to fill up I will be looking back at these prices with fond nostalgia.

This is huge.

whenever folks talk about harry potter and separating artist from art they always have this indignant 'OH SO IM A BAD FOR BUYING THESE BOOKS?' but thats not the real issue. the reality is that many will BELIEVE you are bad, and that is VALID. its not your choice what others think of you

I just... got an ad... for a gas powered portable sawmill... who do these people think I am and what do they think I do for a living?!?

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