For the weekend crowd...

This is my shocked face: 😐

Had one of those ideas pop into my head that could be anything from a picture book on up to a sprawling adult fantasy epic. I mean, it's nice to have the imagination kick in, but a little DIRECTION would be nice sometimes...

You had me at “Vartox, Terraman.”

And today comes news that, unsurprisingly, Disney has also opted out of the Anthropic settlement.

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So…when people complain and threaten the bottom line, things change. (I still wouldn’t use a Ring.) www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

So, apparently Warner Bros. Discovery is opting out of the Anthropic settlement... 🧐

Currently conducting a small amount of business with someone who's very clearly using AI for responses to me. It just SO obvious and distasteful, and I wish we had already developed a polite way to say, "Please don't do this to me," because the only ways I can think of right now are REALLY rude.

New fantasy novel idea!

Elected Dems, I know it goes against everything you believe in, but one of you is going to have to screw your courage to the sticking place and release the unredacted files to the world and suffer the consequences.

Age verification? When I saw it in the theater, it was called "STAR WARS."

The most depressing aspect of that NYT AI piece is her confident assertion that someday people won't care if something is made by AI or not. Mainly because there is an excellent chance she's right. We're just running full-tilt into a WALL-E wall, aren't we?

I am putting my #resistance #shortstory "Four Minutes" up for sale again, this time with proceeds benefiting the Immigrant Defense Project. barrylyga.com/four-minutes...

This is like a note you'd find on a scrap of paper on a desk in a dystopian video game. Jesus Christ, what have we become?

I don't currently have a rep, but YOU probably do, so...call!!!

When I last DM'd (a million years ago), I knew all of my players had read all the manuals. So I would randomly change up the characteristics of monsters. Oh, you tried using fire against that troll? How sad for you -- they're vulnerable to ice now.

This is a really good way to put it. I would add only that it's important to note that the radium was stolen in the first place.

I feel like 90% of national news reportage these days is just a few guys kicking back with a whiskey and a joint, going, "You KNOW... TECHNICALLY, you could say..." And then writing it up and vomiting it into the national oatmeal bowl.

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An LLM can do an awful lot, but it cant experience inspiration.

Been preaching this for years. Right your novel out of order!!! No one will ever know — or care!

Fifteen-year-old Barry literally gasped out loud upon reading this for the first time. Like Agent Albert's monologue in #TwinPeaks, an OUTSTANDING example of a character shift that is shocking and yet completely sensible.

They should agree to it, get the money, then renege. You know. Like Trump does.

If Joe Biden had shat himself on national television, Donald Trump would have been calling him "Diaper Joe" in a heartbeat, and MAGA Republicans in Congress would follow suit within days. So, elected Democrats, what is stopping you from mocking this (literal) shitshow of a human being 24/7?

I want to believe that this kind of person exists and that it's not just somehow performative. But it's difficult because up until this point there have been SO MANY things that have happened that should have been the last straw. Still. I want to believe.

If you want to give teachers a raise, but "there's no money!", then this is a pretty good compromise. Can't expect the feds to do anything, but states and municipalities should move to strike public school teachers from the tax rolls.

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Don’t threaten me with a good time, Senator Thune.

If you ever need to be slapped in the face with the incongruous and near-kaleidoscopic nature of English spelling, help a third grader learn their weekly spelling words.

Loot that drops after defeating me: - Apple Watch - glasses that can never be fully cleaned - Roblox gift cards - random assortment of Raspberry PI boards - Legion of Super-Heroes action figures - copy of REPLAY by Ken Grimwood, well-read

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OK, this is pretty funny. Now give me my money, Anthropic.

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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov! Guess what? Bodycams are meaningless if no one is going to be prosecuted for what the cameras capture. I can't believe I have to explain this to a sitting senator.

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

From my #newsletter: Your #serialkiller of the month is John Edward Robinson, who didn't just murder -- he was also a conman and...stole a baby??? barrylyga.com/serial-kille...

My decision to stop patronizing Amazon even BEFORE the election is looking better and better every day.

Truly skilled at never being able to read the room.

Yeah, honestly I’d forgotten I was following him and if I’d missed the post yesterday, i probably still would be.

Giving more rules and regulations to an organization that flouts the current rules and regulations is an...interesting stratagem.

And many of these people weren't born with such money. Which means that they either deliberately jettisoned the old friends who could have been that check on their worst impulses...or never had such friends in the first place, even before the money. Which is...interesting.

Name three comics you’ve owned in at least three editions: - Watchmen (originals, TP, Graphitti limited edition HC) - Crisis on Infinite Earths (originals, slipcase hardcover, TP) - Adventure Comics #247 (original(!), Adventure Digest reprint, DC Silver Age reprint edition, Archive)

Okay please shit on jkr But don’t use the logic “it’s suspicious an adult wanted to make a magical world for children” Bc that’s how you get “everyone who works on media for children should be jailed” ass logic

Final Jeopardy! answer, 2041: "This Secretary of Homeland Security murdered a puppy and was eventually exiled to an ice floe north of the Arctic Circle." No one is able to answer. Tie game.

Called both my senators today to thank them for voting against the ICE funding last week. We have to reward the behavior we want to see, not merely punish the behavior we dislike.