Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

. . . And as expected, here's something of mine I'd love more eyes on. I'm very proud of my most recent story, "Blanquitos." (FYI it might take 5-10 minutes to read, at most) www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/12/05/b...

It's my birthday today. I've reacted an age that a much younger Karlo could not have conceived of being, and yet here we all are If you want to celebrate, don't worry if you've not brought a gift - just do me a favor and: 1) read something new 2) let the author know how much you liked reading it

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

It’s beginning to feel a lot like list-mas. Both @timakers.bsky.social and @jeremyteg.bsky.social on this @fanfiaddict.bsky.social list. Will it be our last Daily Double of 2025? Will you read The Last Dragon Knight and Tower of the Tyrant before the year is out? fanfiaddict.com/lordtbrs-top...

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Found a bookstore that stocks your novels

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I think people today don't understand just how dramatically the night sky has changed - it looked like it does in super remote areas *everywhere* before the invention of electric lighting, and light pollution that obscures the sky has gotten dramatically worse in the last 25 years.

Why did Elon Musk delete this tweet? 🤔

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

ultimately, the llm bubble will burst and we can have a rational conversation free of fraught discourse. until then, as long as the primary drivers of revenue are things like deepfakes, and spambots, the boosters can make all the outlandish claims they want, and i’ll continue to ignore them

I’m sick of singing about piss

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

people always laugh when bears run away from housecats because they're so much bigger but like. imagine you were in the woods & you ran into a weird little guy that looks kinda like you but like 1/5th the size & his head is shaped weird & he is running toward you full tilt yelling. what would you do

If another country invaded El Salvador under the pretense of liberating CECOT victims it would be a better justification than any US military action since World War II

You know how when they do a restoration of an old painting they slowly remove the old yellow varnish with solvent and then they reapply a new varnish and it looks so clear and detailed and amazing. I think I need that done to me

we are poor in so many ways, but we are undeniably rich in cowards

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When it comes to GenAI in literature or visual art, AI boosters seem to have given up pretense AI users will produce better art much less radically new art. It's a more honest "AI will flood the market with infinite slop so you need AI to flood with slop too!" pitch/threat now.

i really do believe the push for AI is purely ideological. a hatred of human beings and human creativity. these CEOs admit point blank that it hasn't made workflow more efficient. it's not profitable. the backlash is certainly bad for marketing and will hurt sales. they don't care.

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Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else

Out: hot rat summer In: toilet rat winter

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

it is winter, which means I just want to eat cheese and sleep alas, I am forced to write woe

This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.

This is huge. Trump has successfully prosecuted a state official for bucking his racist war on immigrants. If they can get a judge, they can get anyone. Gift article.

I’ve really been enjoying Pluribus. For one thing, the realism! Carol is a writer, but once there’s the slightest excuse to not work, we never ever see her write.

Tower of the Tyrant apparently hit #35 on the Sunday Times Bestseller list, which isn't super high, but is the first time I've broken the top 50! So whoo!

periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.

In fairness the problem is more that like 60% of the general US adult population cannot read in a way that results in comprehending what the author's intent was

The Pact and Pattern trilogy was an amazing first foray into JT Greathouse’s literary worlds. I’m super excited to dive into The Tower of the Tyrant. @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social doing the most with their edition. @gollancz.bsky.social @jeremyteg.bsky.social #BookMail #BookSky

Also: McLuhan was right. Text requires the reader to actively engage. It requires cognition. Video (and still images) can be passively viewed, and can more easily be aimed directly at the emotions without requiring thought.

it is INCREDIBLY fucked up that we’re trying to make writers look hot on camera. every writer i know is like “please leave me in the same clothes i’ve been wearing all week that are covered in crumbs i will shower after my deadline” they should not be on tiktok

I have some bad news about the Pentagon.

It is revisionist history to say anything other than Trump’s coalition was built on old fashioned American racism. He opened with “They’re not sending their best,” progressed to “shit hole countries,” and now we have pogroms in our cities. Some may have held their nose, but they did vote for this.

It was Disco Elysium then, it is Disco Elysium now, and will be Disco Elysium forever

Lately I've been constantly yearning to write whenever I'm not at home, and then hardly writing at all when I am. Truly, man is an enigma.

I think the most illustrative example of why AI is so terrible are those fake animal videos. Sure, let's drain the fucking oceans to create videos of animals being funny, something you can easily experience by being near any given animal for 5 seconds

I have no aspirations of being a TikTok or IG influencer because I don't have it in me. I don't have the right look; I don't use makeup (nor am I interested). Also, learning how to record & edit in video (& doing it over & over again WITH NO GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS) is time I could be writing books.