Do I have it right that people who are trying to create digital slaves are telling other people not to use "eugenics language" toward computer programs

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social, a researcher at @dairinstitute.bsky.social. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When I was very little I had a friend through a message board. My mom typed for me, his caretaker typed for him. We talked. I loved him. I learned way later that there was a very strong possibility that his caretaker was making his side of the conversation up. Really messes with me to this day.

yeah this is child abuse sorry

don’t worry, we’re also about to stop paying them all

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

hi, cis folks! trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too. we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi info & script in the🧵⬇️

The only way forward here is to start calling that magazine only "Athletic" until they demand their "The" back. At which point, they can HAVE it back, but only if they take it from "the MLB."

My contribution to The Loneliness Discourse is that we see D&D, Warhammer, etc, going mainstream because they‘re Third Space Provider Games so we should all talk more about such things to save America.

When they won't let you replace Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial with a statue of yourself...

Be right back, buying popcorn futures "the Board and executives may have breached their fiduciary duties of loyalty, care and good faith by placing improper political or affiliate considerations above the best interests of the Company and its stockholders,” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

One of the things that’s maddening about this is that *everyone knows* that casting “male loneliness” as a great social emergency—like the “birth rate” panic—is a way to legitimize attacks on women’s freedom. It’s taboo to point this out even though it serves literally no other function!

well meaning people love to be like ‘aren’t you scared of being left behind if you don’t start using AI in your work’ and from the bottom of my heart: no, im not scared of that. i would rather go back to restaurants for the rest of my life than publish AI ‘books’

The Savant is absolutely going to air. I don't know how craven the announcement was in the first place, but they're not going to pass this up. Someone at Apple is watching the Kimmel numbers climb on YouTube and giggling.

I'm wishing @isobelcarr.com a peaceful transition from this world, and am in awe of the friends who are caring for her through this last phase of her life. Her GoFundMe is nearly met - gofund.me/514cc87e4 May we all have friends like this.

Also a good reminder that actually, book publishers do need to do fact checking

If you're into this stuff, he also has about the best breakdown of the K-19 submarine reactor meltdown around

Fuck yeah, Gary Cohen. Get his ass.

The word "suddenly." That's pretty much it, my writing is perfect, what are you talking about.* *Hubris.

Since quotes are going around from @readingtheend.bsky.social's excellent @reactorsff.bsky.social piece today, here's the full essay I wrote last month on fandom, trad publishing, IP, and navigating it all from a more personal perspective:

Really thoughtful piece. The books suffer from a quality perspective, too. This isn't about any one author's output. This is about the churn, and the way that fic works emotionally on the reader vs. how a novel does.

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

See also every vicar in rural and semi-rural England who wrote one sermon a week and spent the rest of his time cataloguing beetles or moss or doing computational analysis of the Bible by hand.

I think it's important to note, bear in mind, and remember going forward that the Disney reinstatement statement is disgustingly craven and pathetically, ineptly self-serving.

My son is autistic, largely nonverbal. He reads a lot, is smitten with all things Lego. He excels in school. He finds his ways to communicate. There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad. It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.

Oh, is the Rapture tomorrow? And I haven't even cleaned.

Zohran Mamdani here displaying more understanding of Jewish New Year than, oh, a good half of the kids I went to Hebrew School with.

All right. Starting up the ol' APPLE RANKINGS machine again this season -- and this time keeping track of them and doing some re-reviewing. We begin with the much-maligned (er, by me) HONEYCRISP. terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...

I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We have it as a contract point that translations of my work have to be performed by actual humans, I think actual human readers deserve to have actual humans translating and making the works as excellent as they can be regardless of language

Hot Topic has gone downhill.

Remember when the hot debate was about what a slippery slope we’d create if Simon & Schuster cancelled one Nazi’s book deal?

I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice I would like to file several complaints

congrats to your grandma in heaven on finally being able to fulfill her fantasy of being eiffel towered by paul newman and robert redford

One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

young men should join d&d groups, where they will either meet women or discover that they were one all along.

You’ve still got till 5!

Big boat stuck and it is, apparently, filled with "carbon blocks for industrial use." Big box of rocks (ship) stuck on BIGGER box of rocks (earth).

*deep inhale* Ooooooooohhhhhhh for JUST ONE TIME I would take the Northwest Passage

i think it rocks that all literature coverage in all media outlets has been reduced to incessant conversation about 1-3 nonfiction books by already successful authors

I'm currently typing out, on a manual typewriter, a list of all the books I've read. What's fun about that is I have read a lot of books. Also, my typing has improved a lot.

Shameful to see a creator fired off a book and the whole series immediately cancelled on the same day because she was glib about the murder of someone who famously said that people like her should be stoned to death.

Take some advice from someone who has seen this play many, many times before: this is the same old predatory publishing model, not some innovative step forward. “We deduct our expenses before—“ No, that’s where you can stop reading, everything else is now irrelevant.

Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:

And of course it's not just hobbies, walk the floor of any science fiction or wander around any ren faire and see how many small businesses are getting absolutely fucked by this nonsense

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.