We're in Westworld with generative AI already. Meaning, if your reasons for hating it are still it's "ugly" or "soulless", then you have needed a better argument for a while now. Corporations using dead people to steal work from living humans? That's a much stronger stance. Lead with that.

Profoundly disappointed in myself tonight, that I allowed depression and anxiety to stop me from driving 10 little miles to see my idol live in concert for the first time. What a fucking loser.

You ever wonder how companies can promise "no animal testing" was done on the products they sell? How do they know their ingredients are safe? Is it because they rely on other companies having tested their ingredients on animals or humans in the past?

trump: birds go fast cabinet: yes mr president, sir, birds go very fast. trump: why don’t we use birds to pull airplanes? no one knows. maybe I’m the first person to think of it. cabinet: sir, mr president, sir, you are the smartest person in the world. trump: I believe it’s pronounced “worlm”

For a company that famously says a game will be released "when it's done" Rockstar sure are making a lot of weird, arbitrary release date promises.

I hope you are all aware that we live in a time where, essentially for free, anyone can turn any photo of you into a video of you undressing that is—at a glance—indistinguishable from reality. This has always been the larger, more nefarious intent of all those men building generative AI models.

They didn't called TWIX Snickerdoodle "Twickerdoodlix" and that's what is wrong with this world.

Just discovered Coyote Ragtime Show, an #anime which manages somehow to be a perfect blend of Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Ghost In The Shell, and Trigun, tailor-made for me personally.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Guess I'm gonna start up a private insurance company for trans kids (and adults). You know, like pet insurance? Not because trans kids are pets—everyone knows trans kids are superheroes—it's just the only example I can think of at the moment. Anybody know how to be a Non-Profit CEO?

Justice for Maeve

wow, which common vaccine was it?

Why am I just now finding out King Princess is coming to KCMO in 3 weeks??

I am so glad One Punch Man is back!!

excited to tell you that, for the first time ever, Big Bad Film Fest is sharing writing from their programs online -- including this piece I wrote for them last year about the incredible motorcycle chase in Tomorrow Never Dies

Sometimes "verse" is just an essay cut into smaller more bitelike crumbs to render taller a tale of drums that sound profound, but pound (and pound) where pounding thrums for slightly longer (yarn-like, unwound) than childish thunder from those who wrote 'em. And shouldn't ever have been a poem

Frogs Together Strong

Whew this piece is so scathing.

I wrote a song I could masturbate to. Figured it would be wrong not to share.

"Jamie" That time I laid you down By the pool; just us, too Let my fingers drown Deep inside of you Ain't much we couldn't say Sinner's twins, lust burned through Wound my every day Synced into your mood You remember, Baby? That I loved your smile How I called you Jamie Like your name was mine?

It was a dream I had Since we were young To wake up in bed Underneath your tongue You remember, Baby? That I loved your smile How I called you Jamie Like your name was mine?

Writers, if you're not enjoying the process of writing unless someone reads what you've written, you are in for a lifetime of bitter tears.

Garbage just blew the roof off The Midland, #KCMO

They Cloned Tyrone was a cinematic masterpiece and it is in the same realm as Sinners. the message behind it is incredibly brilliant as it relates to the Black community but widely misunderstood.

Goddammit, Vern. I just spit cereal milk on my keyboard. 🤣

Come for me, cancel culture. Do it, come for me! All over my tits!

Protect Trans Kids

"What the hell is wrong with you, Tinda Lee???" - Everyone once they get to know me

Pretty sure the finale of Peacemaker season 2 is gonna be a full on fast zombie-style Nazi-slaughter fest and I cannot wait.

Met somebody the other day whose last name was "Begay" and I've never been more jealous of a human being.

If you're nothing without the audience, then you shouldn't have it.

Last night I dreamed I had been asked to run for Vice President of the United States. In the dream I thought, this won't be an easy road for a proud Lesbian. Then I remembered I was a doughey, middle-aged white dude and woke up screaming.

Never let feelings of guilt about not standing up for *everything* stop you from standing up for anything.

My first reaction to the new season 2 Peacemaker opening credits song was kinda meh. But now, just four weeks later, simply hearing those big opening notes makes me cry instantly! It's such a great song and it matches the story so well.

While making Spartacus: Blood and Sand, the actors had a prosthetic penis they could wear for nude scenes. They called it "The Kirk Douglas". I'd like to propose a new prosthetic asshole for actors doing bare buns scenes, and we will call it "The Charlie Kirk".

The defense enters into evidence the Private's "IWJF-O" form.

Wow, @Kohl's makes you walk through the entire store before you get to their tiny Amazon returns desk. I respect it. Slightly annoyed to realize that's why sometimes Amazon forces you to go to Kohl's instead of a UPS store though. How much does Kohl's pay for that, I wonder.

It can't be coincidence that both Trump and Putin's names are slang for farts.

Did you know dogs have webbed feet?

My fellow grammar nerds: Is it meet-cutes or meets-cute?

Ever think about how pitch-shifted songs were originally uploaded to TikTok to circumvent anti-piracy measures and now it's basically their entire platform?

The other day I saw someone walking down a hospital hallway talking on her phone, on speaker. But the volume was really low, so she had to hold the bottom edge speaker up to her ear, then she lowered the entire phone to talk into the mic. Did she just... not know about, uh, phone mode?

[Gandalf Voice] THIS TOO... SHALL PASS!

Oh no, no www.theverge.com/netflix/7775...

The moment you deploy the phrase "filler episode" you are no longer qualified to criticize television. I don't make the rules.

Ah, I see the "TV Shows are long movies" crowd has entered the fray.

It's JAMIE. We've been over this, Mikaela!

Made the mistake of telling someone what I think of Taylor Swift's lyrics and I may never recover.