No, I will not “shut up” about “AI” being an ecology-wrecking fascist grift, and honestly I judge anyone who asks me to do so.

Having some thoughts about the nature of my fears as a Canadian that I want to try to express in deep solidarity with everyone in Minnesota and elsewhere fighting our common enemy. This thread will not be in the "Canadian asshole" genre. (The opposite, I hope). Still, mute if you want.

If Discord does add AI "features" to their platform it will be a big pain in the ass for me to extract myself but I will damn well do it. I use discord for so many things, but I will bail on all of them. Butlerian Jihad now.

'Tough break with your Aunt and Uncle, but they should have complied with the Stormtroopers'

I encourage everyone to fill this out.

I thought we voted to keep the conservatives out in our last election, my bad.

People are launching substacks in 2026. It's ridiculous. There's no excuse for it.

This is my favourite movie fight scene in years. Not related to John's post, but watching it again just now, it struck me that in many ways it is what a Murderbot fight scene should be.

Authorities *should* be afraid to escalate. Authorities *should* hesitate in crucial moments. Authorities *should* be in more danger than civilians. If they don't want to be in more danger than civilians, they need to see if the Post Office is hiring.

I can’t speak for the entire Jewish community, but personally I have been watching many of y’all under-react to ICE actions for the last year and suddenly understanding in a whole new way how my family ended up being rounded up and massacred in camps and y’all should think on that.

Every year, I put in a proposal for a panel called "An Hour Of Your Life You'll Never Get Back: Five Old White Dudes Talk Condescendingly About Why Dune Is The Only Important Science Fiction Novel," but for some reason they never put it into the schedule. I'm being censored by the Worldcon Elites.

the spectrum of queer experience is vast and complex, and none of us know what's going on inside families that are not our own but my feed is full of media outlets describing a woman with a very-much-living-and-in-the-picture wife first and foremost as though she was a man's widow, and I just

also, here is the image with alt-txt for bluesky people

Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement https://theonion.com/insecure-frustrated-bully-with-something-to-prove-cons-1819575405/

I think one issue we're seeing is that ai is almost custom-designed to appeal to executives: a sycophantic yes-man who repeats your own ideas back to you and tells you you're brilliant. They're convinced that if the little people just give it a chance, it will be the most successful product ever

ICE agent who shot, killed Minneapolis woman to face jealousy of other ICE agents.

If I see you repost an AI-generated image that purports to be the killer I will seriously lose respect for you.

I was getting tired of being told what to do. Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.

I'm a member of CUPE 4600, the union of contract instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants at Carleton University, and we have just launched an open letter demanding AI guardrails in our work. Please sign and share if you can.

Chrystia Freeland's first act as Ukrainian economic advisor is suggesting they cancel Disney+

Breaking news from ✨The Daily Spell✨! I solved the Wednesday, January 7 puzzle in 3m 54s. the-daily-spell.com

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An excellent thread of advice to complement the advice on Writer Beware's Small and Independent Publishers page: www.sfwa.org/other-resour...

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Pierre Poilievre.

This is also one of my personal most anticipated books of the year, you should preorder it!

Oh hey, Indigo has Mercutio among its "most anticipated books of 2026", so it is 30% off until Jan. 11. ($18.89 CAD for the paperback, which comes out in August). I'd love this novel to find its readers, and pre-orders help, so Canadians, please check it out if you can www.indigo.ca/en-ca/mercut...

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Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

Breaking news from ✨The Daily Spell✨! I solved the Friday, January 2 puzzle in 2m 13s. the-daily-spell.com

SCANDAL: SO CALLED SOCIALISTS PAY A FAIR AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR WELL MADE CLOTHES INSTEAD OF CHEAP GOODS PRODUCED UNDER TERRIBLE CONDITIONS

Happy new year, may you get all the obituaries you wish to see.

As a new year's resolution, tonight I will add sea salt to a pot of water.

I asked ART, Do you want World Hoppers or something new? ART considered, poking thoughtfully at the tag data for the new show. It said, New, as long as it’s not realistic.

This is my funny sort-of encounter with Dan Ackroyd. I used to live in Kingston (Ontario) where Dan could sometimes be spotted. My brother founded Kingston's Haunted Walk and the first year he and I were the only tour guides. 1/

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

A lot of writers have busted their butts all year to publish great fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and journalism. Consider sharing their work today. Consider what you send people's attention to.

There is nothing democratizing about large corporations owning access to all our ideas, or all our information about how and where to fight them.

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

As someone smarter than me said, why would I want to read something no one could be bothered to write?

If you're wondering whether the "open letter about AI" on file 770 is worth reading and engaging, it is not. The whole thing is rhetorical mush so it was no surprise when I got to the end and she admitted "her" letter was itself written by AI. Useless bait.

Hearing a real author whose books I loved is enjoying my experiment in narrative x daily puzzles really made my day!! 💕 People enjoying the The Daily Spell makes me excited to keep going with it and doing my best! 💪

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I am a nobody in the book world and I have absolutely rubbed elbows with a lot of people who I think of as somebody in the book world and they have all been very welcoming to my straight white male self. My secret is I try to not be an asshole.

Sometimes I read SecUnit (Murderbot) as fem-coded and one big reason is that it is obsessed with clothes having pockets.

When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.

I can relate, Murderbot. I can relate. #murderbot #slyart