I hate the way we’re barrelling headfirst towards a self-inflicted epistemological crisis: AI-written books, cynically edited political speeches, deepfake art, AI music pap, fabricated podcast slop, YouTube flooded with cute animals and influencers who don’t exist, LLMs that hallucinate… HATE IT!

(meme from Tumblr)

but a second rate or blandly pretty metaphor is a piece of language that has called attention to itself and then just sits there like a lump—it's a fatberg in the useful sewers of descriptive language (me channeling the blessed spirit of the Bulwer-Lytton contest)

Art Fight!!! This is Stephen and I am in love with him

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

Millie Bobby Brown believes she was a closeted gay soldier who was slain with a sword to the spine in a past life.

We wanted to know how regular Americans feel about the country’s 250th birthday. So we talked to three South African neo-Nazi billionaires at a ketamine bar on Market Street

And it's out! The 7th and final part of Kelwas's voyage. Many, MANY thanks to everyone who's been reading along! buttondown.com/crosshatches...

Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

ALL HAIL THE MAGIC OF DAVID AND THE SUBMISSION GRINDER-- WITH THE AID OF A MYSTERIOUS FORCE CALLED 'A.P.I.', WE SHALL INFECT THE WORLD WITH OUTRAGEOUS FICTION!

Book cover artists QRP with your book covers! Legend whispers someday I'll have new ones to share, timely as a wizard

First one is the french edition of "The Beast Player", by Nahoko Uehashi, the other 3 are from @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social 's edition of, respectively, "Magician" and "A Darkness at Sethanon", by R. E. Feist, and (the amazing) "The Tower of the Tyrant", by @jeremyteg.bsky.social

If you can’t agree that it’s a good thing that elected reps can be punished for doing stuff like this you’ve lost the plot

Not only is it a skill issue but "You need to work within the system and within the Party" is what the people freaking out about this have explicitly been telling critics to do for decades. I guess they didn't mean it, didn't think anyone would try, or were confident it couldn't work.

Tomorrow Corey Booker will give a speech about how these candidates are sabotaging the Democratic party. Lol. Lmao.

ppl with depression get told by his party every day that theyre evil for feeling that way and bootstrap pulling and more hard work is all they need, he should have been working the sad away

Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito should be impeached www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

5–4 on a constitutional question that is older, more settled, and just as clear on the text and purpose as "can women vote?" They're coming for that one too, it's currently in the "right-wing extremists on social media" stage, same place where "there's no birthright citizenship" arose.

people say the Supreme Court isn’t representative of the people, but a third of the justices can’t read if it gets in the way of being bigots and another third can only read things that help them feel better about bigots, and that sounds pretty representative to me

If a supreme court justice votes in a way that reveals their complete inability to interpret the plain text of the constitution, that should be grounds for impeachment. Full stop.

I understand SCOTUS, know who they are, & by all rational accounts it feels so naive to say: "I can't believe 4 of 9 justices said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship." And yet, I can't believe 4 of 9 justices just said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship.

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

If they don't make court reform a non negotiable platform plank, find someone else who will. That is all

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

Huge sheep discovered in South Wales. (I posted this on Twitter many years ago - before the madman bought it, renamed it, and I left. Out of interest it got 4.3 million likes/retweets. How mad is that!) Worth a post here I thought.

Who needs AI when you have goofy people making masterpieces

🚨AFTER 33 MONTHS, I BRING YOU THE SINGLE LARGEST CREATIVE PROJECT OF MY LIFE 🚨: THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM: EVERY GAME, EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY PORT! EVERY RELEASE, EVERY REGION, NO EXCEPTIONS! I've meticulously studied & presented EVERY single instance of Namco's historic game collections, for you!

Today I fire all of my guns at once and explode into space. Squeezing the trigger of every last professional skill I possess or lack until they're all clicking empty. Namco Museum Museum. YouTube Premiere event: Noon today, PDT. 5-minute countdown begins at 11:55 PDT. youtube.com/@mythicresonance

⚠️OMG OMG I CAPTURED A FULL GREBELING YAWN ON VIDEO CALL THE GREBE.... FANS? 🐣 🪶

AFTER NEARLY THREE LONG YEARS, THE SINGLE BIGGEST CREATIVE PROJECT OF MY LIFE IS FINALLY COMPLETE!! THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM - EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY GAME, EVERY REGION, EVERY PORT RELEASES FRIDAY 6/26/26 @ NOON PST youtube.com/@MythicResonance

Absolutely true, but GOP-inc *requires* everyone to pretend this deal is Good, Actually and I suspect we're going to find out that a lot of the folks who remained in GOP-inc did not, in fact, ever mean a word of what they said. But, you know, The Dispatch crowd will be apoplectic.

The congratulatory emails from Dominos pizza re: my free medium pizza dig the knife into my self esteem a little deeper every time

“A.i.” reproduces all the sexism and racism and bigotry of its inputs. If you use it uncritically, you’re accepting and furthering all that bullshit.

Thread about how using “A.i.” will turn you into a world class loser in the eyes of your colleagues… and yourself. Just say no. This shit is trash and it destroys human souls. I’m not exaggerating.

In 2017, I had to abandon ship. I was lost at sea. Caribbean fishermen, in the dead of night, risked their safety to pull me out of the ocean. Ever since the first illegal boat strike, I've been haunted by the betrayal of our duty to render aid and what it means for the safety of life at sea.

The US secretly approved a financial and maritime arrangement between Qatar  and Iran , under which billions of dollars were paid to Tehran in exchange for free passage for Qatari tankers and ships through the Strait of Hormuz, three diplomatic officials now confirm.

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

"Bread and circuses" except the bread has never been more expensive and the circus is lining the pockets of the oligarchy.

A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance

not sure how to end your novel? just stop writing

every wealthy individual on the planet is constantly ruining everything and every hobby for their own benefit

... and the quality of life in the U.S. improved by leaps and bounds for everyone, and science, medicine, education, and culture flowered

Hazardous

FYI the American Dream is not “a place so tolerant that people who considered themselves part of a superior group in their home countries can join the elite here and lord it over other ethnic groups.”

i really, truly, find this offensive

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

InkFoundry's database has more than 2000 SFF stories, conveniently tagged and easy to search. Such a helpful resource! @inkfoundry.bsky.social