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"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" There are many calm discussions about AI happening. The old rule was that whoever got mad on the internet lost the argument. Now it's whoever assigns someone else some emotional state or motivation has lost the argument.

Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.

RIP Bud Cort. Harold and Maude in the pantheon of perfect movie intros

You know what ELSE the government shot down and later claimed was some sort of balloon?? Wake UP, Earthli--uh people, I mean people.

logging on

Heathers

Valentine's cards used to be fucking brutal lmao

I desperately want the AI bubble to burst already for so many reasons and among them is that I’m tired of feeling exasperated over people I otherwise respect and think are generally pretty sharp getting suckered into thinking the hype might be real

Are you a Locus Award voter? (You can be, there's nothing stopping you!) If you are, and if you enjoyed The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers, by Terry Bisson, spare it a click in the Best Non-Fiction section of the ballot! poll.voting.locusmag.com

Ti'n bron ddwy fil o flynyddoedd yn rhy hwyr i ddechrau cwyno am hyn, gwboi.

Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

Every time www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/...

What movie moment made you exclaim… “THIS IS CINEMA” 🖤

…also, the grassy knoll was people!

"Back and to the left" but with a butt cheek rather than JFK's head.

I'm in there somewhere!

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Breaking News: Ten people were killed and about 25 were hurt in a shooting at a high school and at a home in British Columbia, Canada, according to the police.

(me, menacingly): you've read your last free article

She's a star! 🌟 Thank you to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for your review of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR 🌌 Read the full review here: www.publishersweekly.com/9781955765411 Preorders are open for THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out March 25th! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

Age verification? This was my first concert.

Age verification? I know what both mimeographs are and what the ink smells like BECAUSE I HAVE TURNED THE CRANK.

age verification. the vivid memory of how perfectly my thumbnail fit into the Y

The real tilt in the arts is towards cosmopolitanism, not the left as such. Great reactionary artists tend to be elite, aristocratic types. They don't really fit in with low brow, 'merica style right-wing politics.

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We'll be reclaiming this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqr4...

Age verification? This was my world heavyweight champion.

Age verification? I got to see Superman the Movie in the theater for free because a poem I wrote about the planet Krypton won a contest they held at Kaufmann's department store in downtown Pittsburgh.

The defunct webzine The Smart Set has replaced all bylines with "catharineagaundo." Who cares, except that my essay "The Term Paper Artist" has been reprinted half a dozen times, most recently last year by McGraw-Hill, and for a $1500 fee. How will the next payday find me without a byline?

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

#OtD 10 Feb 2025 Israeli authorities raided 2 branches of the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem. Even though censors approved all the books police claimed books contained "nationalist Palestinian themes" and arrested the owners. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1357...

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

don't forget they were trying to sell you NFTs on latenight talk shows, they were asking you to join the Metaverse without any legs, they were claiming you could raise your family up out of poverty on gambling apps. now it's 'writing' 200 books a year - the same shitshake with a new flimsy straw.

Have you tried crawling on your belly (but not too close!) and weeping as you ask?

Chris Rufo doesn't have a career outside of being a "culture warrior." This is his movement. He made his bed. Now he gets to lie in it.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/149... My kickstarter launched today! It is the 5th book in the City Between, Shards of Reflection. Mina is a newly made vampire and doesn't know who turned her. But City Between vampires gain the memories of their victims, so she can't tell which memories are hers

"I haven't even picked a single pee-caaahn!"

Jake Paul losing an argument with himself on twitter is definitive proof that he should continue his getting punched in the head by professional boxers career

...wh-what what the fuck do you mean what the fuck do you mean there's a Sandoval/Department of Energy report on a device called THE TEENY TINY TACNUKE www.osti.gov/opennet/serv...

lol

There's def a gap; even leaving side films about the ambitious wealthy or larger-than-life heroes, what we see otherwise doesn' involve working people but instead people who *look* like working people: small business people, including successful criminals the jobless underclass the POLICE!!

Does anyone else feel that in recent decades movies rarely depict average working people? In the 70s and 80s we had movies about struggling families, stories about people most of us could understand. Not necessarily about the struggle, but where it was an obvious factor.

I wrote my thesis on the demise of the working class in fiction, it is definitely real and just keeps getting worse!

[circle of love] Nora Roberts: ok ladies we've got a new storyteller here tonight Roberts: everyone say hi to Coral hart Coral Hart: oh that's not my real name Hart: i have to keep my real name secret because readers hate anything its associated with Roberts: