Now, using an LLM to get past the point where you feel like you’re chiseling the words out of stone tablets located inside your ribcage is still a terrible idea, don’t get me wrong. I just worry that in the haste to condemn LLMs, we’re over-romanticizing the human creative process.

Annabelle Lee and The Cremation of Sam McGee have the same meter and rhyme scheme and my insomnia hobby is swapping lines between them. Twas many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, lived a maiden fair whom you may know by the name of Sam McGee.

ARAGORN: You have my sword. GIMLI: And my axe! BILL: And my saxophone! COUNCIL: …um. ELROND: Wtf, Glorfindel, you were supposed to be watching the doors, you KNOW how I feel about this guy

Teachers, if your union leadership is advocating AI use, they are advocating against you and you need new leadership. Full stop.

"The Maltese Falcon" era of San Francisco is officially now more dangerous than the version today which makes every tech investor want to invent Robocop

i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil

Reagan's project was successful: now, many Americans have no idea what a "public good" is. Their only framework for social interaction--outside friends & family--is set by the concepts of private property & consumer choice. That explains a lot about voting patterns & the dying sense of civic duty.

Some of you will believe any horrific allegation about our president merely because it's fully consistent with who he is

"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Juice.

another new deogie here! tinyview.com/deogie/2025/...

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

This thread started as a Facebook post the first year I worked at the homeless shelter, 2013 I rewrote it as a Twitter thread in 2017 Now it’s here on Bluesky. This is truly my opus.

You should take Vajra's advice and fill out SFWA's survey. But you should also read his entire thread. He has much to illuminate on how our field is being poisoned.

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

The SFWA is asking for folks to fill out a survey on "A.i." I highly recommend telling them exactly how you feel about this pernicious product.

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The guy who famously crosses every border in one night without documentation?

we, in the United States, through Trump’s mass deportation scheme, have engaged in abductions and torture for the past year, none of it in secret, much of it attested to in legal documents. there is nothing to expose, only to face.

I don't think people realize how big a deal Interlochen is in the classical music world for kids. Premier place in the country to spend the summer if you are a band kid. For $25k Epstein was allowed to use it to recruit victims. This scandal touches so many parts of society.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

On a related note here is a photo of Barbra Streisand’s house.

Landry rushed to clarify he isn't resigning as governor of Louisiana and this will be, like, his side gig I guess. The state constitution explicitly bans state officeholders from simultaneously holding any federal office.

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

I always forget just how hard ACT UP went and then I get reminded.

OWLCAT GAMES

Imagine historians using AI

started / going

Michael Sheen is just. An exemplary human being in so many ways

Hard archaeologist endorse

Gentlemen, the bar has been raised!

I honestly still can’t believe they did this it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

What do these corporations all have in common? -Lockheed Martin -Palantir -Microsoft -Amazon -Comcast -Google -Apple -Meta -HP -Nvidia -T-Mobile They all have lucrative government contracts — and they're all donors to Trump's $400M ballroom.

But hey, some guy on Twitter says it's the future and inevitable.

This guy is trying to show his fucking face around here again. Don't let him get a foothold.

2025 Quiz of the Year! 1. What the fuck? 2. Seriously, what the actual fuck? 3. Shall we put more brandy in the eggnog?

i’m just going to assume the 90% of pages that they blacked out is ONLY donald trump

Safe to say based on very recent discourse: many haven’t heard this message, or bothered to see how the issue is actually playing out.

Do you notice how, the higher the evidence stacks up that our ruling class is basically just a gaggle of coercive arse-grabbers covering up for each other, the more extreme their terror of foreign sex criminals and transgenders lurking in toilet cubicles grows

The system that created Epstein and Trump, that rewarded them and protected them, is a system that inevitably produces monsters like them. Each vantablack rectangle in those files is a policy failure, proof that the system is *continuing* to create and reward monsters.

You can tell, by how many vantablack rectangles there are, that there are people right now whose stories won't be believed for another quarter century. The purpose of a machine is what it does, and it is so very obviously a machine for enabling wealthy and powerful child abusers.

I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement

i think it's good that one party owns all the news media in the country which it uses to spread its propaganda nonstop and the other party just argues online with anyone who points out that this is a huge failure for them

Yes, this is a real government ad… “Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?” In a country built on centuries of actual discrimination, the EEOC is using civil rights language to insulate white male mediocrity from competition.