The only way to win the communications war long term is to stop using the tools owned and controlled by those that hate you and want to stack things against you.

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A little bird's tipped me off: Ada Palmer's fantastic book INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE is on sale for $3.99 in its Kindle incarnation. I already have a hardback, thanks, but e-book lovers on tight budgets, curious about the Big R, may wish to acquire @adapalmer.bsky.social's much-talked-about tome.

Suw is great. I can't recommend her work highly enough.

If a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

I have not personally used X/Twitter for some time now. It was already an unpleasant place prior to its takeover by Elon Musk but since his acceptance of hate speech and anonymous online abusers, it has become utterly unusable.

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Evergreen: The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Renee Nicole Good is the one whose reputation should be protected, whose death should be marked by flags across the country being lowered to half-staff, who should be getting tearful tributes and acknowledgments from politicians and media figures. These are the people we ought to honor.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

this is what they do in broad daylight, on camera what's happening in the detention facilities we're not allowed to see?

Discworld QOTD, from Equal Rites “Zoon tribes are very proud of their Liars. Other races get very annoyed about all this. They feel that the Zoon ought to have adopted more suitable titles, like ‘diplomat’ or ‘public relations officer’. They feel they are poking fun at the whole thing.”

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

I’m a journalist, and I 100% support actions that remind legacy media that neglecting their responsibility or practicing irresponsible journalism will not be tolerated.

Our posh new OG images are live too. I said I would do more actual coding this year and this is the first little thing piccalil.li/blog/date-is...

Weirdy Whitby on Friday 13th February, anyone? This has been a lovely regular evening for the last year or so, and it's a delight to be back. 'The Black Heart Of Whorlton Castle' is a terrifying tale that my teacher Mr Hirst relayed to us on a school trip in 1984. I have pictures. And a song...

What — me worry?

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When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.

There is a TikTok going around that I think is suggesting women ask a date/prospective date to just choose a paragraph for the man to read out loud. Dude has problems reading and kinda ragequits. Makes me despair and think of: * 3-cueing * low US level of functional adult literacy

Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter - as.ft.com/r/2f3e7a51-e...

When Elon changed the name of Twitter to X everyone was like "what the fuck, that sounds like the name of a website for extremely illegal pornography made by and for nazis" And behold what it became. Nominative determinism go ew

Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism,” 1995 theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

you should read @isabel.kim's WIRE MOTHER and also probably follow them clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

Gleafer. Stop being doom and gloom. Post something nice. *shakes fist* POST IT. Good monkey. Enjoy my Little Blonde Angel Support Group! All the sad goths who fell for the sunshine one. Crowley, Blackbeard, Sherlock, Loki and Spike.

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Also Joust. Both the arcade machine and BBC Micro port by Stu

Essex MUD. I was playing it 46 years ago. OK, not exactly video, more like text but it was an MPORPG

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Update on the ORG betting challenge: I took the strategy of not placing any bets and keeping my $1000 starting fake dollars instead since there was no rule that you had to bet. I came in second place.

the big GenAI companies really need to figure out that they’re merely at the beginning of an absolutely historic-level PR disaster

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

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My first stand-up comedy special in 12 years, Night Thoughts, is streaming on Hulu in the US and on Disney+ outside the US. It’s been nominated for a Golden Globe & Vulture called it the best comedy special of the year. Watch it!

This post by JA Westenberg is so good. And it's forcing me to look again at my own site, PressThink. "The Case for Blogging in the Ruins." www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for... "Most blogs are abandoned after three posts," she writes. The ones that persist have these things in common:

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

The SFWA have put up a survey asking everyone, writers and readers of Science and Speculative Fiction for their views on Large Language Models usage by writers. Along with the multiple choice questions it has two spots for longer form replies. Here are mine: kevinmarks.com/sfwasurvey

All of the papers I assign for my MA students in my lecture classes (not in seminars) are historiography papers explicitly for this reason. It’s the critical skill to learn after the BA, and vital to have pre-PhD, should MAs want to pursue that route.

brilliant idea, everyone I know *loves* having to do this once a year at work, bet they can’t wait to do it all year long on an app