This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

Very much second this.

Mr Baker, a former EIC of the WSJ was moved to the Op-Ed pages when the journalists who worked for him rebelled at his conservative biases.

“That’s not a typo. I just hallucinated a new spelling.” You see how dumb that sounds?

I have written more than 30 novels. A fair chunk of them have been on the NYT bestseller list. When I come across a writing advice book that advocates invisible narrators and simple, robust language, I can formulate a largely Anglo-Saxon reply just fine, bub. Fuck.

It seems to me that this gentleman may not be well.

Maybe city planers should take a note from zoologists and stop naming streets after people.

I can tell I’m getting old because I can’t work at night anymore. It’s not that the work isn’t quality, but if I have a particularly good day, I can’t sleep after. A good session at the keyboard is like drinking a double espresso two hours before bed. Makes my tomorrow rough.

this is the first time i have ever had a feeling about st patrick’s day

A horse is a horse of course, of course He follows a lifestyle we don't endorse He drinks the blood of a sheep by force The vampire horse Count Ed. -- @samguyjones.bsky.social

1) What do the Epstein files say? 2) Who killed Alex Pretti? 3) What were the effects of DOGE? 4) How do we ensure free and fair election? 5) What can be done to reform healthcare and health insurance? Gotta keep a list these days…

Oh, have we hit the “It was all a social experiment!” stage?

I still don’t know who killed Alex Pretti.

Tried to watch Scarpetta, but the flashbacks to the killings turned out to be a non-starter. The Darling Wife said, speaking for women in general, "Our deaths are entertainment." And yeah, sadistic voyeurism is part of the murder mystery toolbox, and that's. . . a choice.

I am a Sarah Taber fan.

That feeling when you see discourse about your work, and you can lay out exactly why you made the artistic decision that you did. But also it's in a fan space and you can't wade in without exercising a power and authority that would degrade the space. So you go take a walk or something instead.

His makeup is getting worse, impossibly. Is his physical appearance part of the “fascists lie not because they want you to believe them but to show they can lie with impunity” bit?

"Trump’s commitment to cover all maritime trade in the Gulf is also being rowed back." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

There are books I loved when I was young that I can't enjoy anymore. They haven't changed. I have. The failures of craft that didn't bump me when I was sixteen just throw me out now. I don't find books I can lose myself in anywhere near as often, and when I do, they're precious.

Anyone want to lay odds that Hegseth sees this as unmanly weakness, orders them to do it, and we lose a ship?

Some of the best things I've ever been involved with started as a way to address a colossal fuckup.

Breaking Epstein Investigation Update! NM DOJ has begun searching Zorro Ranch. ⬇️

Ok. Hit me with your best online Call of Cthulhu ttrpg campaigns to watch. I want to see some folks playing before I start running this…

Every deep insight, every cunning turn of phrase, every moment of poetry that LLMs deliver was strip-mined from an actual human being who laid their heart bare in prose. So how do the best human writers stack up against their own plagiarized work?

The discourse about Trump wearing his weird baseball cap seems to center on whether it's respectful instead of what kind of creeping gangrene is crawling up from his neck rash and consuming his still-living flesh. Which is to say, I am concerned about the president's health.

“I got no nothing against God. ‘S just that the pious keep puttin’ the devil in charge.”

I think about this a lot

This thing where kidnapping and/or killing heads of state is the go-to strategy for foreign policy sure does open up some wild possibilities.

Behold the will of the American people. 🙄

I prefer my spiritual guidance without sadism. Not an infallible guide, but I think less fallible than some others.

Writing good romance is proof of mastering the craft.

Jefferson Mays is a gift.

Sad but accurate

So many more important things in the world right now, and my attention keeps getting pulled to the president wearing cheap baseball caps in all the pictures I've seen of him lately. Is that a weird sartorial choice? Is his scalp sloughing off? These are the things I wonder about...

If you haven't read the hidden semi-canon Expanse short story The Last Flight of the Cassandra, it's apparently part of a humble bundle right now along with a gazillion indie comics (?!). Go for the fiction, stay for the charity (Comic Book Defense Fund). www.humblebundle.com/books/indie-...

So prediction markets really are just insider trading platforms?

“… the witness who alleged Trump sexually assaulted her was interviewed by the FBI four times. If the witness wasn’t credible, a second, third and fourth FBI interview probably wouldn’t have been warranted.”

AI hallucinations -- still the weirdest fig-leaf synonym for "errors" -- are fundamental to how LLMs function. When errors are fundamental to your tool, you shouldn't use it in any cases where errors have adverse consequences. This is becoming my Carthago delenda est.

The Trump Administration: Abuser culture all the way down.

Trans people are not the problem. If you are concerned about trans people, I'd recommend taking a moment to think about who told you that was a critical issue. They may not have your best interests at heart. People being needlessly cruel to trans folks? Now that is a problem.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

I have heard that TCM is airing Gaslight opposite the state of the union address. If true, hahahahahah...

A) This series of books is screaming for a streaming adaptation. b)As an action aficionado I’ll say regardless of how you feel about it being a legitimate adaptation, Breck Eisner is a master of action geography. There’s some complicated stuff here, and at no point does it devolve into choppy cuts.

I try to be kind. I regret those times when I have been needlessly cruel. Then some rando treats me with contempt, and I turn into a raging asshole and I don’t even feel bad. I guess I feel a little bad for not feeling bad, but…

Seems legit.

I've said it before: the defining characteristic of white supremacists is that you wouldn't want to fuck them.

"Right Wing Bed Death" is the name of my next band

Just doing my part of boost the Streisand Effect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

So if -- and I write Sfi-Fi and Fantasy, so I'm all about the if -- LLMs were a secret gateway for demonic forces to invade the world, how different would it look? (Starts writing notes for an electric ouija horror movie...)