Increasingly tech is seeking to solve for the problem "humans exist," which is what you'd expect to see in a system where humans are seen as a cost and not a value.

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Garbage show in a dead mall. Thanks for letting me down once again, Jackson. 😅

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"I'm, like, the Tom Holland of the horror world." - @jonathanjanz.bsky.social discussing spoilers during @novelnightmares.bsky.social earlier this week.

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This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review. For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.

Overheard at Timmy's... "It's good for people!" "It's not good for people!" "It's good for the soul." "It's not good for the soul! Do you want me to kill people?!"

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The government is shut down, millions of Americans will be harmed, and our mad oaf-king's priority is his tacky and grotesque "Restoration France by way of Atlantic City" bribery disco.

"I did give him, like, a paragraph of happiness!" - @jonathanjanz.bsky.social defending his treatment of a certain character during @novelnightmares.bsky.social book club.

Hearing @jonathanjanz.bsky.social talk about his daughter doing a book report on one of _his_ books during @novelnightmares.bsky.social book club is _hilarious_.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Autism $peaks raised ~$34m in 2024 and spent 1% on family services and grants to help Autistic individuals. They spend approximately 25% of their budget on lobbying and another 25% on research (primarily on genetic testing and causation, i.e. eugenics). They aren’t trying to make our lives better.

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

I hear this, but my imposter syndrome just uses this as an example of how I'm not even a good enough imposter to fail into such a high role.

Allison and I are still just falling in love when she tells me she hasn't seen The Evil Dead. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

The US has gone from "walk softly and carry a big stick" to "react to every perceived slight like the most insecure guy in the room"

I swear to fuck if y’all don’t start saying BEING AUTISTIC IS OK instead of “this isn’t the cause so leave it alone and keep looking”

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Most Americans do not understand how wildly behind the rest of the world we are in so many aspects of life.

I let one of the vanity domains I never actually used expire. Good job, me, being all responsible. I deserve a treat. Like maybe another domain...

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

This is one of the weaknesses of civility politics, it falls for the form. That humiliating content farming is debate-shaped, we have to treat it as legitimate! Fox News is news-shaped, we have to treat it as legitimate! The Free Press is newspaper-shaped. etc etc.

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

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For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

"It's a problem with my books... And that's not going to change." - @danielkraus.com in last night's @novelnightmares.bsky.social meet-up, on defining a genre for Angel Down.

I would like to remind anybody from an opposition party that a big thing that would help to excite me to vote for you would be running on a platform of "I plan to aggressively prosecute any of these assholes who are still alive when I'm sworn in"

What the actual fuck?

In a meeting and misheard "tap-to-pay" as "tap-to-pain" and I don't think that's entirely wrong...

Did I spend time this weekend developing a whole alternate brand for @getsopuzzled.com just for a single event in a few weeks? Of course I did. cjr.dev/2025/09/01/o...

Had a dream last night that @joshmalerman.bsky.social released a book called "Demon Waffle." There was outrage because the German edition was renamed "Blood on the Griddle" (no idea if it was translated literally) which was deemed to be an infinitely superior title. No idea what the story was.

There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.

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New school year means new irritation with informational forms sent home by teachers. Got one today with room for "Parent/Guardian #1" and "Parent/Guardian #2." Awesome that they kept it generic. Ridiculous that they assume there are no more than two people who need to be listed there.

The mass-delusion event of 2025 seems to be close to a burst

"There were lots of things that I probably would have liked to do and then the whale experts were like, 'No. You can't do that.'" - @danielkraus.com to @novelnightmares.bsky.social about Whalefall.

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." -- Orwell, "1984"

"Generally, I don't write down ideas because I think ideas are garbage." - @chuckwendig.bsky.social to @novelnightmares.bsky.social.

can’t believe we opted for 1984 dystopia (surveillance and denial of historical fact) and Fahrenheit 451 dystopia (erosion of literacy) instead of Brave New World dystopia (everyone gets fucked up on government-sanctioned drugs and goes to the movies all the time)