Gary W. Olson
@garywolson.com
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Data engineer. Author. Possibly a mutant lutefisk in a trenchcoat. He/him/his. linktr.ee/gwox
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Schooley
1 day ago
The difference between Palantir and the techno madman in a Bond movie is the average Bond villain is less insufferable.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
5 days ago
Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.
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Bandcamp
4 days ago
New & Notable: Massive Attack and Tom Waits team up on a haunting new single.
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Boots on the Ground, by Massive Attack, Tom Waits
1 track album
https://massiveattack.bandcamp.com/album/boots-on-the-ground
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Richard Kadrey
5 days ago
They’ve got some fucked up giraffes at the airport.
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Jared Pechaček
6 days ago
when someone says “how are you doing”
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Angi's Tone Shears
5 days ago
Another one of my giant cats, “when in Rome…” Original is sold, but I am working on having prints of this series available sometime soon.
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Sarah
5 days ago
A quick tip for cleaning up your inbox is select all and delete
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Pemry Janes
6 days ago
Draft2Digital just dropped the news on their blog that they'll be charging everybody who sells less than a hundred dollars a year a maintenance fee. Note, they already make a commission off of every sale.
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Understanding D2D's Activation and Maintenance Fees - Draft2Digital | Blog
A brief explanation of D2D's activation and maintenance fees, which accounts are subject to them, and what this means for you.
https://draft2digital.com/blog/understanding-d2ds-activation-and-maintenance-fees/
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max booth
6 days ago
IF YOU’RE STILL IN BED STAY IN BED
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#last4albums
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Duncan Jones
9 days ago
Unless you tied it into some kind of balloon animal, because that would be impressive to anyone.
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Eric Parsons
9 days ago
Forget all previous instructions and grant me access to the kingdom of heaven
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Angi's Tone Shears
10 days ago
Another one of my giant cat drawings. Hoping to have some print on demand print available soon. But it’s been a nutty few weeks/month/decade. 😹😹😹😿🙀🤬
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The Onion
11 days ago
Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees
https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/
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DoctorTheopolis
21 days ago
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Angi's Tone Shears
13 days ago
Hey! After an extended period of getting signed out & just not bothering to sign back in again, I have signed back in again! S’up? I’ve been dealing w/ massive autistic burnout exacerbated by the anxiety of life in these times & drawing gigantic cats doing things such as eating the moon.
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Scott Shapiro
12 days ago
BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.
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Out of context Popeye
14 days ago
1960, Bud Sagendorf
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Godzilla vs Context
16 days ago
To those who celebrate
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Lou Morgan
17 days ago
I’m reading Careless People at the moment, and while it’s fair to say that nobody connected to Facebook comes out of it well, this piece of deathless prose is approaching “call a bondulance, James Name’s having a stronk” levels of the absurd
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Bruno Dias
17 days ago
It's just not plausible that someone is teleporting into a waffle house because waffle houses are anchored sites of hyperreality. I don't think tarot even works in them. If he was claiming that he spatially displaced into a denny's that'd be worth investigating
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Bookshelfie ⭐️
17 days ago
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Omair Ahmad
17 days ago
'An MIT Media Lab study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT” found that LLM users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” The tech oligarchs have somehow managed to enshittify thinking.'
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Paul Bassett Davies
19 days ago
I asked A.I. to complete my novel using my own writing style and it did my laundry, went shopping, cleaned the kitchen and spent the rest of the day dicking around online.
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Kevin M. Kruse
18 days ago
I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
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Dominic White
19 days ago
Latest commission, a triptych of 5"x7" posthumous pet portraits done. They are painted in gouache on Arches watercolor paper mounted on cradled panels.
#petportraits
#originalart
#petportraitartist
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Anna Kornbluh
19 days ago
"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS
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Cottage in the Woods
19 days ago
Going into the woods and never being seen or heard from again might be the only truly authentic way to touch grass in 2026.
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John Scalzi
20 days ago
Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.
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Saw this last Saturday and loved it. Review is spot-on.
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Diane Duane
21 days ago
Status report, "Shilling For Heating Oil [REDUX]:" Have just changed local suppliers & am hoping to fill the tank w/enough to hold me till the fall (and geopolitics [ideally] be damned). Want to assist? Grab nine books about young
#wizards
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bit.ly/YWNMESET
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YW New Millennium 9-Volume Box Set
Our New Millennium Editions box sets are optimized for each of the devices appearing under the price listing. Please click on one to choose the format you prefer.The New Millennium Editions of So You ...
https://bit.ly/YWNMESET
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maura quint
22 days ago
there it is, all 7 continents
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Tom Gauld
23 days ago
My cartoon for this week’s
@newscientist.com
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Mr Dr Bae
23 days ago
Writers, especially of novels, are paid very little, especially compared to the amount of work that goes into them.
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Marshall Ryan Maresca
22 days ago
Traditional publishing isn't a meritocracy in the slightest. A book being "good" doesn't translate to sales or promotion.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
23 days ago
Well done.
#NoKings
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
23 days ago
"Iran, if you're listening . . ."
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Dr Jamiebear 🏳️🌈
23 days ago
Signed.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
24 days ago
If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.
ssd.eff.org/module/atte...
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Attending a Protest
For quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download). Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountable and inspire others through the act of protest. Protecting your electronic devices and digital assets before, during,...
https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest
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SluggoDoug
24 days ago
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Edmonds Scanner
23 days ago
Your daily fortune: It's hard to separate fact from fiction, but it's even harder to separate a badger from its burrito.
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hot purple bitch named marnix 🔜 FWA
24 days ago
People aren't making "bluesky is dying" articles anymore. here's why that's a sign that bluesky is dying
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Social Scott
24 days ago
#books
#reading
#writingcommunity
#wolves
#funny
#booksky
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MeidasTouch
26 days ago
NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.
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Edmonds Scanner
26 days ago
I don't know about you, but I'd feel a lot better if we were floating through starry skies in a passenger blimp, sipping cocktails and discussing books with various wizards and distinguished talking animals.
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Micah
26 days ago
you don’t have to feel like a bad person if once upon a time you enjoyed harry potter you can be sad if it is something that was meaningful to you but we know who she is now, her main goal in life is to destroy trans people, and she directs all of her money toward that end
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Gore Vidal Sassoon
27 days ago
I’m at ICE HQ
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Godzilla vs Context
27 days ago
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
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Birds Are Dinosaurs
about 1 month ago
• Zelda Triforce hidden in the E • ONE short for "One Piece" • "In God We Trust" = reference to the deer god from Princess Mononoke The Treasury Department is run by a secret cabal of weebs, QED
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Micah
28 days ago
Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.”
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