Your annual reminder that his father was Turkish, his mother Syrian and the Home Office would have hated him. #StGeorge Patron saint of Malta, Ethiopia, Georgia, Portugal, Aragon & England, among others. Less liked by dragons.

This one is gonna be good! We are delighted to celebrate our GoH, @amalelmohtar.com, with this main event! francesca ekwuyasi will join Amal for this hour of conversation, questions, reading, & signing! This event (like all of them) is open to all conference attendees. Tickets @ tricon-halifax.com

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

What I really needed right now was a giant omniscient machine intelligence second-guessing me.

It's already hard enough for Roma artists to get recognized without this infuriating bullshit.

I really needed more reasons to be infuriated about Gen AI, holy fuck.

Maybe we don’t call it a ‘singer’ if it doesn’t have vocal cords.Making a synthesizer reproduce violin sounds does not make it a violin.

Why unblocked everyone lol

This is actually a really interesting tell, because the "invevitability of AI" narrative sure feels like it's really about the inevitability of climate change, what with how obviously AI accelerates it and immediately requires extreme increases in energy production

Priceless post from the official White House social media

If you wonder why the "Quiet Posters" feed doesn't work for you anymore, it is because the @why.bsky.team subscribed to an anti-anti-ai block list, rendering it useless for over 300 000 users. Good job bsky team!!

We are out of rainbow trucker hats. I repeat: We have sold out of rainbow InfoWars trucker hats. (We'll restock them. But you can still buy the union-made shirts.)

hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think

I briefly unblocked why to verify that he has blocked me, so yes I'm on the AI hater list, it feels good to be chosen for something so prestigious.

It's just fascinating to me how the Bluesky team keeps taking active steps to look bad. They don't just randomly step on rakes. They go into the shed, lift the rake off where it's hanging on the wall, carefully place it on the grass, and then step full force on that motherfucker.

Hey I just wanna point this out and be super clear on this. If you're a writer out there and you're using AI for stuff, even if you're making excuses and saying 'oh, it's just for this' or 'it's not for my actual drafting' or whatever else... I don't respect you. You aren't my peer. Not sorry.

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I sighed again. I was having a lot of opportunities to do it and I think I was getting good at it.

I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

That feeling when you realize that you do actually want something and your hesitation has been 100% about managing your own expectations.

My fun fact about weed for 4/20 is that the Spanish term marijuana was widely adopted in the US as a strategy to racialize cannabis consumption as part of a racist anti-drug campaign, which is why modern cannabis users and producers avoid the term.

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The other fabulous part of the AI publicity plan is “teach this junkware everything you know so that I, a rich CEO, can use it to put you out of work”. Wild how that isn’t being received with enthusiasm by the general public.

If being left behind by ai would mean they would actually leave me alone and not force their ai on me, I would be happy to be left in the dust

I'm pretty sure I shared this when it was first published, but it holds up. As always, the headline seems like it covers the joke, but the article just gets better, and the final stinger sticks the landing.

Still thinking about MERCUTIO by @kateheartfield.com and I'm like "Oh I didn't know I was being OCCUPIED by a book" but -- the language, the descriptions, the dream-like sections of inevitability and terror -- the way these characters fight so hard against what seems to be fate --

today at 2!!!

I am baffled that one of the biggest proponents of UBI posts all of their stuff on Substack, a platform designed to funnel wealth to Nazis. I'd love to read some of those essays. I won't.

Today!!!! Imma get sparkly for the intro. Come join the disruptive fun FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME!

Not entirely sure why this needs to be repeated every four hours and yet scores of people still don’t get it.

My performance reliability hit 60 percent and I could talk again. I said, “Fuck you, ART.”

Every time I open a bag of Cheetos, my orange cat tries to stick his head right in there and it's hard for me to really believe he shouldn't.

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

Exactly one year ago today:

this is just to say I have had an issue fetching the posts that were on the timeline and which you were probably hoping to doomscroll forgive me the takes were so hot and so rate limited

Well well well... would you look at that... you can now follow along on BackerKit! 👀 tiny.cc/recordedantho

I should stop making fun of Bluesky, the truth is, my brain isn't doing much better than it today.

In case you were wondering what's going on today :V

“Why does [insert thing here] suck now” is reliably answered by a) private equity, b) AI, or c) both

So, I’m awkward with actual humans. It’s not paranoia about my hacked governor module, and it’s not them; it’s me.