Holy shit, Missouri! You did it! You beat out Florida and Texas! Today, you ARE America’s Sorrow!

Lemme tell you a couple cool things about gregstolze.com So, first, if you go there, you can sign up to be a patron. For five bucks—a mere $5!—you get an original short story mailed to you every month. 1/4

hey @bayoublastbeats.bsky.social found a post in the wild

Sure, billionaires are just a symptom of underlying structural and cultural problems But it’s the symptoms that kill you.

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

We should be learning from other countries...

A corona of white hair around a face doing this: 😧

I’m just some online dippity dumbshit, but what if they ran on -Everyone hates ICE -Iran -Economic nightmare -Rapists hiring rapists and then, after winning, fucked up AI?

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

They desperately want people talking about the danger of their dogshit extruder gaining sentience, and not the fact that it is currently actually factually poisoning Black people in the poor regions where they build data centers. Or convincing people to kill themselves, etc.

Becoming an AI shill right as the public is twigging how much it hates this shit is especially stupid for celebrity women, the demographic we love to hate. the dude shills will skate away unscathed, but the world will remember Bullock and Witherspoon as the dumb bitch faces of this nonsense

those airport restroom survey screens are wild. like do they expect me to be all “yes the restroom was absolutely filthy, let me touch this screen you encourage everyone to touch”

The one advantage of AI is, when something goes wrong, you can blame the machine. The drawback that pays for this is, "something goes wrong" generates no profit. (The hallucinations, ill-will, install costs, cognitohazards, environmental issues and mockery have no advantages for which to pay.)

Today the 12yo has selected as the Northern Stargazer Awareness Day! He looked at the face of this fish (who got his name from upward pointing eyes) and said, “I imagine him with a mug which says, ‘World’s Best Boss!’” These guys burry themselves in sand and have electric organs which can shock.

Today I described a character as "willing to fight any cop, at any time, for any reason" which I lifted from a meme about old-time country music.

Hey California folks, those debit cards we got 4 years ago for “inflation relief” are going to expire in 14 days and millions of you (and me) haven’t spent them! You can’t cash them out at an ATM. I tried. Please share this! If you don’t spend it, the money goes back to the state government.

Exactly one year ago today:

"hi can you recommend any super cheap, ethically made clothes that will last forever and make me feel like a swaddled little baby while also making me look like a super attractive, stylish man, yet take no time or effort to acquire? this is social media, so pls just drop a link."

Asking the forbidden question

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

(Fakir Birman was the stage name of Charles Joseph Fossez, a 1930s clairvoyant who was fined for «avoir fait commerce d’illusions» so gave it up to become a lingerie salesman – which is so ludicrously French, it’s a wonder he didn’t become a bicycling onion seller in a beret)

Hey, have you read THE ELITES? It’s a little bit BtVS and a little bit HELLRAISER and a little bit Tod Browning’s FREAKS as narrated by a snarky high schooler. It’s cute and fun. It’s also dark and horrifying. gregstolze.com/downloads/th...

“Using google gemini, you can generate blog posts and articles, even about things you don’t know anything about” Holy fuck, I feel like this instructor just said the quiet part out loud. How can you hear this and think that’s a GOOD THING?

In my current WIP, the band of freshmen just tried a disastrous instrumental cover of “Don’t Be Sad, Sex Robot” by the Perverse Incentive. Then the guitarist’s mom came in and offered them cheese toasties. I am starting to worry about the difficulty of turning this into a horror story.

AI is the perfect tool to very busily never make a decision ever, and that prospect sickens me. The handful of leaders who make decisions beyond who to lamprey onto quietly keep a lot of business afloat, and making their lives harder seems self destructive to me.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

By the way, I filled MY bag in just five minutes five seconds, so SUCK IT, everyone else at the blood drive!

Cranking up Ladytron to drown out that dumb ol’ tornado siren.

I like that I live in a country where half of the people would probably visit Omelas and ask why there can’t be more children getting tortured in the basement

“want to feel old” let me stop you right there. it’s not about what I want

“The Pope should stay out of politics!” Okay, then you should keep the Ten Commandments out of our public schools and keep your theology away from legislation about individual healthcare decisions, climate change, and social welfare programs.

OK, I gotta get better at self-promotion, so… today’s Story You Absolutely Should Buy* is… gregstolze.com/downloads/a-... What we have here is mythos-ish stuff, scalding horror, regret, a coroner’s daughter and a prequel to my novel MASK OF THE OTHER. It’s creepy! *but could get for free

i bet most cartoonists would go on Hot Ones just for the free meal. I know I would.

I try to be cool about stuff but there is a growing realization inside me that I’m 55 and if I have not figured out how to be cool about stuff yet I am unlikely to ever do so.

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

Cardio exercise is important to do so you can identify what dying feels like

Two worries keep #DELTAGREEN agents awake nights. 1) Am I going to be seized by energies beyond human comprehension, squeezed through a spacetime aperture the width of a dime with bone-liquefying force, and sprayed all over a car dealership? 2) Will someone film it on their cell phone?

Oh damn.

I'm online AND GenX, so it can be hard to tell if I'm being sarcastic, but... maybe it would have been VERY different for Franz if he had a word processor and some knowledge of Shitty First Draft theory?

Vital read from @ember-energy.org on the "twin fossil shock" and booming electrotech. "The temptation will be to reach for the familiar playbook – more drilling, more subsidies, more supply diversification. These reflexes were built for a world without alternatives" ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

I’m writing a story whose narrator is a high school freshman in a band, so I have to come up with a lot of fake bands and fake songs, @kathmachine.bsky.social style. Here’s what I have so far…

*death, war, gas prices, kidnappings* The news: are billionaires happy?

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call