in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory

(on the right) Oh, we knew

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

Watch this clip from the grindhouse version of The Empire Strikes Back and just try to tell me it's not VASTLY superior to the legally available version????

Feels like a good moment to mention that I edit tattoos. Before you get something permanently on your body, I will check to see if it says what you think it says, search for unintentional references, see if it looks like something else from a different angle, kerning...all of it. #amediting

Are hornbills WAY BIGGER than you thought too?

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If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

Still using this damn sign.

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Actual Intelligence, always and forever!

If anyone is planning to do the #AScareADay October challenge (a story or poem a day, curated by yours truly!)... I've made a little recording of the first day's poem - Robert Herrick's 'The Hag' A nice quick listen (for fun or for the challenge) - enjoy! youtu.be/pGPeozcz4DM

Someone remind me to do this sometime.

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

Squidward Nooooooo

Charles II: Did you finish that statue of the Archangel Michael defeating the devil? Luisa Roldán: Si y yo hice la Diablo real fucking sexy, just like you asked

You didn't get your autism from your mom who treated her headache while pregnant. You got it from your dad who can name every model of airplane made since the 1900s.

I'm here to banish the darkness, if only for a moment. A vaccine for chlamydia in koalas. Developed in Canada by a global team, with help from the family of Steve Irwin. It reduces mortality, reduces disease severity, provides protection for baby koalas. Turning the tide on a deadly disease.

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

HE WASN'T KIDDING

A very weird thing about being an editor is reading an extremely intense scene, then having to pause to double-check whether "arm holes" is one word or two. One, for anyone interested. #amediting

You will never guess where this is going.

Editor-approved statement.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

roses are red violets are blue singular they predates singular you

Just removed the date label from an old book and discovered that someone has drawn a design for a teapot that can serve either tea or poison how's your day going?

This is an excellent piece that hit way too close to home.

Oh goodie, the Dust Bowl is back.

hermit crabs are creatures, too. loved editing this. slate.com/technology/2...

Percy is my least favorite Shelley, but I do think the world would be a better place if more people would read and comprehend the meaning of Ozymandias.

and that, as they say, is that

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I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Please please please read the alt text.

The queries have started about “What if I only used a little bit of AI for my story submission.” The answer is, fuck AI. Uncanny Magazine doesn't want your story. There is no grey area here. Send us a story using AI for any aspect, it will be auto-rejected and you will be banned. Period.

The answer to “how to use AI responsibly” is “don’t.”

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When I say “trust the process,” this is the process I’m talking about

I am so curious who ranks Top Chefs. Who has the ultimate power to decide, "You, you can *try* to be Top Chef. YOU, however, are a Top Chef Master—but still have to compete against these other Masters. But YOU, YOU are the ELITE, you get to judge them all! "Oh, and you are Tom Colicchio, you win."

Virgo: Look, we know you’re trying your best, but what’s the point? The sun will expand to engulf the earth in 7 billion years, so take a break. Eat a burrito.

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today” #TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.