Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.

67% error rate

I’ll never really understand why teens use social media, even with all the nefarious marketing and math. They see their parents and grandparents on it. It’s the epitome of not cool. What is youth without making fun of your elders?

Read Don Quixote and Clarice Lispector. Drink a café con leche at 1AM and write a prose poem about sentient spiders, nuclear fallout. Stare at a spider. Ask it about sentience. Send an email to your favorite living writer. This is key- NEVER USE AI. You will be kings and queens of the job market.

Bravo!

I'm working on more stories in my "Toltec Wuxia" cycle. Both Western & Eastern sword & sorcery tropes fit nicely in the chaotic period after Quetzalcoatl's incarnation was forced off the imperial throne by dark mages and went into exile. The 1st, "Whispering Shards," was in a recent anthology. 1/

250 years and we still don’t have siestas. It’s true. We are a failed state after all.

This is also what I tell myself when gazing into the abyss of my boys’ bedrooms.

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Democrats are mobilizing against working people. Nothing new. What IS new (to them) is that working people are winning! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Literally manifesting a united front against the will of their own constiuency with a swiftness and vigor they could not muster to even feign resistance to open fascism

VIVA ECUADOR!!!!!!!!!

The Vichy Dems are losing. Joy to the world.

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

In 300 years, people will know more about the 1700s than the 21st century. AI is not only anti-human, its anti-history.

But I was told it was inevitable.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

The first time I volunteered and helped organize ICE watch was during the Obama administration when ICE was kidnapping my students and their families in Humboldt Park, Chicago.

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This is correct. Fascism is bad at arts and sports because these things bring people together.

What a beautiful thing for an amazing human and writer!!! Congrats to @ilanaslightly.bsky.social

Yes, but capitalism and fascism have always gone hand in hand. One cannot exist without the other. :)

NOBODY, REALLY NOBODY, can body slam my kids to sleep or tell them stories of far-away British Kings who poop on their loyal subjects, sparking a 100 year Marxist-dragon revolution, like I can! Do you hear me, Echo? NOBODY!!!

In Germany, Google is liable for false answers in its AI "overviews" that pop up at the top of search results. I wish we had this in the States. Make them pay for misleading users. the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

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We're letting machines do our thinking for us, and pretty soon, if guys like this are any indication, we'll let them do our feeling for us as well. He's right, why bother going anywhere, just read the wiki. Why stand in front of the Mona Lisa, your screen has 4k resolution. Why date, just play Sims

You’re gonna want this novel!

If you use AI to write, you are, in fact, not a writer. “Efficiency” and short cuts will not develop the necessary experiences and neural connections needed to sustain creative and/or analytical thought. But of course, you could always let an app live your life for you.

This is also how I write.

Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

As a writer, there are no shortcuts to research. You experience it. Research, especially when it involves other, real people, changes you. Even your neurons! Readers then feel that change, and experience your experiences too. AI “shortcuts” will make you a worse writer.

These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.

Magnificent! :)

What an amazing cohort of finalists! Such a beautiful thing! HUGE FELICIDADES to all! lithub.com/here-are-the...

Yeah, I don’t use Google anymore. So much promise shittified.

Shitty shitty shittification. The Internet is dying!

The only thing inevitable about AI is that it’s already dead, and we just need to recognize it.

Americans didn’t do this with electricity, trains, TV, or rocket ships. When the most consumerist society on the planet thinks a product is shit, it’s very likely shit. :)

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

And this is why they are so desperately trying to entrench themselves in education and government. They’re hoping to create generations of captive users who have no other choice but to use their tech if they want to read, work, write or think

Yes, I know AI use causes cognitive debt but did you know that you can also be $170k in financial debt WHILE using AI. Break the bank and your brain in one fell swoop!!!!

The Democratic establishment is not only incapable of a backlash but they will solidify most of GOP’s record just as Clinton, Obama, and Biden did. I mean, for the love of god, Harris supported a genocide. Hope exists in a backlash against both parties.

The best place on the entire planet and we’re just gonna let it die

Apartheid.

The Internet really didn’t work out for us.

So much can be said about Odysseus' cleverness and bad behavior, but I'll never forgive the little shit for neglecting and abandoning his poor sweet good dog Argos.

Just a friendly reminder that AI use causes cognitive debt and decline. www.media.mit.edu/publications...

We really should’ve ended the Confederacy.