The mutilation of national monuments under this administration is really not that different from the mutilation of the rest of this country's institutions. Whoever is next has to get rid of this shit, and they probably can't be the same, but this version Cannot Continue.

Had to unfollow a long-time mutual today on Tumblr because I am just *so tired* of being insulted or made to feel bad for being an American for petty stupid shit like paper sizes.

As much as I'm exhausted of AI, the world is full of things that aren't AI and it's great for the soul and it breaks my heart a little promoting that doesn't get as much attention as only being against stuff. So imma make a thread of things I like:

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

In an ideal world, I'd have the bandwidth to care about historical monuments getting damaged by unqualified contractors on a no-bid contract, but at the moment I just don't care at all (given everything else going on) but it is funny to mock, and we need joy to keep going

Had to pick something up at the mall today and Macy’s has huge World Cup displays for the US and Mexico. Hey we have another cohost? That we are notably closer to? Hey, Canada, I notice you.

They want to unmask their enemies because getting ratioed on twitter by anons drove them insane and led to an inflated sense of victimhood that’s only gotten more distorted since. It’s a violently narcissistic power grab where journalists & MPs can have much easier access to everyone else’s manager.

I must not discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total brainworms

This is what I’m talking about. This is the follower & point count from the bio of a guy a whole TON of you are arguing with today. What are you even doing. These accounts exist to put you on a list. Don’t say your piece and then block. Just block and party on

This has the potential to derail him because people the more AI is forced on people, the more they hate it. It's not "illiteracy". It's the fact it's being forced on us with no discernible benefit to us. #cdnpoli

This is an excellent thread top to bottom

The sheer fact that they included "spellcheckers", a technology that has been around for decades, as "minimal AI" is telling, as if they so desperately want to be able to say that everyone is using it that they have to add basic spellcheck to the list.

So the aggregate results from this survey will, by default, not show how many authors don't use it at all, because apparently not using it at all means you are "AI-Minimal." There are 5 answer options, but apparently they couldn't devote a single one to a simple "I don't use AI in any capacity."

Alli's new author survey on AI use dropped today, and their email said they wanted to see how people are using it, from those who do, to those who avoid it entirely. Funny then how the only option in the survey for those who don't use it is labeled "AI Minimal".

Anyway, so all of that, and the Alliance of Independent Authors sends out a survey on AI use rigged to make it look like we're all using AI no matter our answers. It pisses me off. Here endeth the rant.

That isn't proof that AI is the future and we have to get on board or be left behind. It's just proof that if you flood a market with cheap crap, the people who don't want cheap crap will quit buying anything that isn't from a previously vetted source.

I am sick of "AI is here to stay so we have to learn to get along with" language, as if this whole thing isn't an unsustainable house of cards propped up by media hype and billionaire money.

But I was told it was inevitable.

Hello from overthinking hell. I'm not thrilled to be here again.

more pocket-sized books. more books that fit in coats like contraband and can be taken out to avoid eye contact in any situation.

Ugh I was sleeping so comfortably and then TORNADO WARNING

The Internet IS a festering plague-hole right now compared to what it once was and could be again, but the thing is that it’s awful for everyone, not just for children - children are just the canaries in the coal mine.

I do in fact believe we COULD create an online world that’s safer for kids without destroying everyone’s online privacy from big tech and repressive governments - but this would also require more and more nuanced work than the authoritarian sledgehammer solution of age verification.

I really do think a lot about how big tech systematically destroyed all the reasonably-safe places intended specifically for kids online…. and now powerful interests are turning around and claiming that we have to destroy Internet privacy because being online is obviously dangerous for kids.

Allowing everything to become a grift/hustle for venture captailists and fascist billionaires has had far reaching consequences that we're going to have to grapple with for a long time

I am taking a much needed vacation but it's the middle of Common Bonds 3's crowdfunding. What if: opportunity? One RT = one vacation pic when I am back on a wifi tonight and/or later. It's gorgeous out here on Quebec's North Coast www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

There are things I am liking and things I am disliking about Sanderson's Wheel of Time volumes, but mostly I am becoming increasingly convinced against "what would the fans like to see" as a writing method, a number of things in TGS and ToM have felt a bit too winking at the audience for my taste

Got to have a whole conversation with my work trainer/new coworker about how Death Note got terrible after L died and what anime we're watching and what our favorites are and co-writing with friends and querying and majoring in creative writing in college. Good time! Many things in common!

My trainer just mixed up "IUD" with "IED" and THAT was whiplash

Oh, I did NOT sleep last night, and now I have to go a full work day. Wish me luck

Okay. Fine. If the Cubs winning the World Series got us on this hell timeline maybe the Knicks, my all time most hated pro team, winning it all might get us back on the right timeline.

When the Cubs won in 2016 I was putting a baby to sleep so didn’t have the TV on but just *heard it* the moment it happened, and I live on the South Side

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

The Cubs topping the list of trending topics because the Knicks won the NBA Finals is *chef's kiss* 😂💙🐻

I do not care about basketball, but the basketball thing s making people incandescently happy, so I’m happy.

Is correlation causation? In this provocative article, we find that correlation is in fact correlated, and conclude that this means causation.

‪t's not that I think lying or pretending the things the right does and has always done is better than the current situation. But I do think the fact that they *had* to lie and pretend it was something else maybe said something important about US, the people, that was important, and we've lost it.

HELLO THIS SHOW WHICH I HAVE ALREADY NAMED MURDER BESTIES WAS CUSTOM DESIGNED IN A LAB TO BE MY FAVORITE SHOW I'VE EVER WATCHED www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-o_...

We know you have a lot on your plate, so this is coming from a place of support... Use 'Scot-free' instead of 'Scotch-free.' Use ‘shoo-in’ instead of ‘shoe-in.’ Use ‘piqued my interest’ instead of ‘peaked my interest.’ Use ‘case in point’ instead of ‘case and point.’

My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.

I'm getting real sick of these fucking "Oh there won't be any AI in the final product-" IT'S ALREADY THERE IF YOU'RE USING IT AS A BASE! I'm so glad I rarely buy new games anymore bc at least all the games I've bought pre-AI will never have Gen AI in them.

As a game enjoyer and a game dev dabbler. If I see you using actual temp assets that literally says "temp.jpg", then I can see that you are trying and i applaud it. If you have tonnes of genAI assets and just calling it temp to avoid criticism, then I think you're pissing on me and calling it rain

"dark influences are funding AI haters," "evil elites are funding protesters" etc etc where is my check, man

They put the data centers where my local Grasshopper Sparrows lived. A bird I love enough I have one tattooed on my body. A dark foreign influence couldn't pay me enough to make me *love* the data centers, that's how much I hate them on my own with no incentive www.npr.org/2026/06/10/n...

The place I donate blood gives points that you can exchange for gas cards which means I actually know the current exchange rate of blood for oil. Blood is going for 20.618 times an equivalent amount of oil.

I genuinely expected more people to make this point about the military and white supremacy and was really surprised when people continued to make it sound as if it was likely an individual and not systemic problem

Ionno man, maybe if (game) companies stopped using GenAI to start with, they wouldn't have to release "we're sorry" statements about how "some early GenAI assets" ended up being the GAME'S COVER.

16/? I know this is more of a rant than an educational thread. But if I were to wrap this up with advice: ffs read something different. Read something old. Read something published in another country. Read something different, old, and from another country.

15/? I've found myself digging out books 10-20 years old and reading those, because at least those all sounded different from one another (including the trad books). MY GOD how the sentence structure varied! The use of punctuation breaks every AI tool and newbie author group rule and it's amazing.