AI is empowering a new generation of online scammers but it's also making them really lazy.

these Wicked sequels keep getting worse

sliwa got to him, man

Ceci n'est pas une food replicator.

Family Dog Suspected Cause Of Miniature Chuck-Wagon Disaster https://theonion.com/family-dog-suspected-cause-of-miniature-chuck-wagon-dis-1819564597/

My novel about systematic evil & the need for regular people to team up & fight it is now available in the UK. Sadly, some themes never go out of style. THE DEVIL IN SILVER. With a gorgeous cover and a wonderful introduction from the great @sgj.bsky.social www.penguin.co.uk/books/476343...

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers:

coming here while twitter is down

This isn't even what the article says! It's mostly about how nobody can really tell if AI is useful for science or maths, and as ever with every single one of these stories, there's one anecdote of a person saying "yeah it's good but you know, you need to check if it's right"

Happy Birthday to the world’s greatest living actor, Nicolas Cage!

Interesting Freddy deBoer piece on LLM hallucinations: open.substack.com/pub/freddied...

The problem with, say, trying to sell copies of one's book online, isn't limited to the algorithm or the competition. One thing I've noticed is that nobody has any money.

Car Rolls Up To Stoplight Blasting Google Maps Directions https://theonion.com/car-rolls-up-to-stoplight-blasting-google-maps-directio-1819579513/

From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue: youtu.be/842OX2_vCic?...

Curating my Bluesky feed to get the perfect ratio of people saying everyone needs to get off X to people reposting screenshots from X

Peter Weller starred in a PSA about this four decades ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y46...

The Shadow Year is on Fantasy Book Review's list of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of all Time. www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/top-100-fant...

Does "used LLMs at any point during the writing process" necessarily refer to having the LLM write prose for you? Because these days, technically, I'm using an LLM every time I Google something.

me, preparing for winter

I wrote, not paywalled, about the Compact white men essay that everyone with opinions about shared these opinions about ages ago. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/loss-of-pr...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

It's my capybaraversary. Met these guys a year ago today in the Nordelta suburb of Buenos Aires:

To those who celebrate, Happy Thanksgiving. To those who don’t, Happy Thursday.

I’m a writer not a publicist so expect periodic similarly inelegant reminders that my book is coming out in May.

okay here's that "one set of footprints" thing

Trying to read this with an open mind, but it doesn't bode well that Yudkowsky needed three years to figure out that intelligent beings are hard to control.

i appreciate the critical thinking skills of people i agree with

New Hell House LLC installment just dropped on Shudder.

“How did the Super Pandemic of 2026 start, Grandpa?” “Well, Timmy —“

I really liked A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE but had a feeling a lot of viewers would be unhappy about the ending and boy was that right.

A reminder if you’re in Chicago: tonight at 6:30 I’ll be at the U. of Chicago Divinity School with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez for a panel on Horror Writing and Religion, hosted by @americanwritersmuseum.org as part of their “American Prophets” series.

A reminder if you’re in Chicago: tonight at 6:30 I’ll be at the U. of Chicago Divinity School with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez for a panel on Horror Writing and Religion, hosted by @americanwritersmuseum.org as part of their “American Prophets” series.

Tomorrow night!

Join us this Friday, Oct. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Chicago as we talk horror writing and religion with @bymattruff.bsky.social, author of LOVECRAFT COUNTRY, alongside Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez. Free to students! Register here: bit.ly/46EnYIF

Thank you Christian Mingle.

I am, as they say, reupping: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

Well I don't have time to vote in all of them.

I'll be at the University of Chicago on Friday, Oct. 10 as part of the @americanwritersmuseum.org American Prophets series, talking about "Horror Writing & Religion" with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez. Details/tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdh6zhtd

Finished watching Alien: Earth and really enjoyed it. I'd describe it as the rare example of an idiot plot that (mostly) works, and at some point when I've got time I'll try to unpack that in an essay.

When you've been watching Alien: Earth and find yourself staring at the sourdough containment.

I'll be at the University of Chicago on Friday, Oct. 10 as part of the @americanwritersmuseum.org American Prophets series, talking about "Horror Writing & Religion" with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez. Details/tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdh6zhtd

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Alan Ball sent a postcard to his family during the summer of 1953. Last week, it arrived at his home in Idaho. “It has mostly brought a chuckle to me because, you know, who gets their mail returned after 72 years?”