Former South Korean PM Han jailed for 23 years in martial law case reut.rs/3LW9OvW

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

For centuries, a “gossip” was a woman who attended another woman's delivery. The word was a corruption of “god-sib” or “god-sibling,” meaning “sister in the Lord.” The gossips offered support to mother & midwife. Only later did it become derogatory. More info: www.historyextra.com/period/gener...

The main tune I worked on in my practice session today is this beautiful one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Monc... Keeping myself honest. I did about 30 minutes of clarinet (and now can play a 3-octave G scale kinda reliably), some chromatic patterns, this, and a couple of Wayne Shorter tunes.

Ted Gioia on what he sees as an ongoing cultural shift responding to a lot of what's going on these days, which he terms "The New Romanticism": www.honest-broker.com/p/25-proposi... Given how sick everyone's becoming of pseudo-AI being rammed down our throats, maybe he's onto something.

oh wow, that is a steal. that would be stealing. please steal these at $3.

Holy shit, that’s just actual theft.

I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:

It's happening! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

The thing that kills me is how so many "experts" are so quick to blame Zoom for the learning deficits and not, you know, *the trauma of living through a badly mishandled pandemic.* Like, maybe with all that death and fear people were emotionally affected in ways that impact learning, guys?

Sheila Williams Hospitalized locusmag.com/2026/01...

And with another Sunday night past, another session of our #mythicbastionland game: www.gordsellar.com/2026/01/12/o...

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The Vanilla Adventure (new and improved!) is on Kickstarter now. We have early backer bonuses and lots of tasty stretch goals. #osr #rpg #dnd www.kickstarter.com/projects/dra...

I don't think I posted the last Mythic Bastionland session log here, but anyway, here's the most recent one, for those interested: www.gordsellar.com/2026/01/08/o...

Happy New Year, start it off smiling with this golden oldie

Damon Knight: hello citizens Knight: it's me, damon knight Knight: science fiction writer, SFWA founder, and vigilante crime fighter Barker: yeah that scans Poe: how do you figure that, clive? Barker: i mean with a name like damon knight Poe: oh yeah that makes sense

Mary Ruefle pretty much sums up being alive.

I don't like when mama storygames and papa OSR yell at each other

Oh yeah, this post reminds me I haven't mentioned that I've just started learning clarinet. Total beginner. I find that I keep trying to default to sax fingerings, so I'm training myself not to. Fun challenge... well, fun for me. Maybe not for those within earshot of my practice room!

🗃️ The Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and so many modern atrocities began the same way. Sorting entire groups of people into camps is complex, and hard. It will ALWAYS turn into chaos because evil people are also incompetent. Historians aren't wrong if they say this is how it always goes.

One tune I've been working up lately. I've been curious about Lee Morgan for a while, and I'm working my way through the Real Book and hit this tune, which finally got me to digging. Ceora's just a great, great tune. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRjs...

shel silverstein was a prophet

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Really I just think we should always be skeptical of "survival of the fittest" bro types who love to fantasize a brutal past. But we know it can't have been that because we have love, justice, morality. Those aren't new, soft things. They're as evolved as teeth.

anyone who knows Korea’s deeply entrenched 70 years history as a sending country for #adoption understands that this is titanic. m.koreaherald.com/article/1064...

Next: is eating babies bad now? Please answer our poll because we're not sure.

Man, if I won the lottery: www.ebay.com/itm/33629596... You can hear what it sounds like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEg... Looks like a saxophone mouthpiece. Sounds like a woodwind tuba. Look at that thing!

Another session down. And a Big Tree down too. www.gordsellar.com/2025/12/22/o...

My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤

The problem is not having ideas. The problem is that billionaires, are sitting like dragons on gold, on the stolen wealth of ordinary people's efforts - leaving them no time or energy to sit, work through, refine, and implement their ideas into books, music, film, and visual art. 1/

The way to restart the idea machine is PAY CREATIVES FOR THEIR WORK

The worst AI apologists are the ones who see that it's not wanted and is a huge problem but still advocate for it as if it'll save our lives rather than destroy creativity and create an entire generation unable to do even simple writing or research because they ceded learning through practice to AI.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Donald Trump is eulogizing Rob Reiner in the right way. —Ezra Klein

At what point do we talk about either moving Worldcon or, at the very least, having an international alternative?

Back at it with @prismaticwasteland.com's look at the implied setting of D&D through the lens of language. What does the existence of 'Common' actually imply? www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/the-lan... 🧵8/9

We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔 But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️ If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!

Just overheard someone on the train saying he is troubled sometimes by the thought that AIs might be entitled to rights. It’s amazing that the tech companies have managed to make the conversation about the ‘rights’ of a dumb grift rather than the rights of those whose work the grift has stolen

BROOKS-MEDICINE HAT! YOU CAN DO THIS WE ARE CHEERING YOU ON LET’S GOOOOOO

a bunch of wikipedia editors made a website where you can stream public domain movies! wikiflix.toolforge.org#/

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

This is all connected. The global fascist project is about maintaining control in a world of depleting resources and quality of life. We are an inroad for them. Give them the power to kill us, they can kill anyone. This world ends in fire, unless we stop it.

It is so striking to see the disclaimer "AI can make mistakes. Check outputs before using" on every single piece of software. Imagine the equivalent warning label on the Ford Pinto. "The fuel tank ruptures and bursts into deadly flames when crashed. Do not crash the Ford Pinto while driving"

A Volcano Caused the Black Death? Not really, but sort of, in The latest Modern Medieval from @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1