"somehow"

i think Boots Riley makes movies with the assumption that his politics are at odds on some base level with the form of filmmaking, though I Love Boosters may be his attempt to break out of that constraint

i'm sorry they fucking what

bluesky is the place to go for HBO

people keep telling me my new dome city is "a bubble" but actually no it is a glass dome

don't let it turn into procrastination. discovering things as you write and incorporating them on the fly is fine, too bsky.app/profile/quel...

telling the kids these days that a "mid-life crisis" has nothing to do with age it's just about realizing your life is only okay

never going to recover from someone telling me i look like jonah hill. worst day of my life. no offense to jonah hill. some offense to jonah hill. probably can't say "getting told i look like this guy is the worst thing anyone's ever said about me" & cover that one with a no offense

you know i thought homelander killing an obvious musk stand-in was kinda funny but a bad choice from a satire perspective. apparently it was the best choice

there's absolutely nothing even 20% of the queer community agrees on

Count Dracula? As far as I know there’s only one

reading a book set in Massachusetts and there's a reference to "going to the DMV." immersion broken immediately. this is an inexcusable sin

If the options are humanity persists OR women have rights, I’m picking women having rights every day. But those also aren’t the options, people just hate women!

tbh i think it is a problem for the midterms. my bleak prediction is gop holds both houses. they're redrawing every map they can & elected dems aren't really reacting

if i have to know this exists so do you

i think "many such cases" is going to be a big anachronism in future writing about this era. specifically i mean it'll show up in period pieces that take place slightly before it became a common thing to say

Being literate in AI and being a customer of consumer gen AI are two entirely different things and there are a lot of people urging everyone to become customers and calling it becoming literate.

i will continue to read that logo as "infonionwars"

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lol sorry, gang. I'm just browsing Kickstarter tonight and I see so many projects with AI art and obvious ChatGPT copy. The whole point of a Kickstarter pitch is to assure your audience of your competence. Nothing about using genAI does that. And that's why your shit isn't funding and never will.

one of my biggest pet peeves in conversations about detecting AI is when people say anything to the effect that the telltale sign of AI writing is it's "too good" (for x student to have written). no! AI writing isn't good! using that language just makes students think AI writes better than them!

tell me you don’t understand structure without saying tell me you don’t understand structure

two things aswell -- 1) a person w/out kids + renting an apartment + shitty employer health ins could get 50% raise and still not afford house, kids, or better health ins. 2) no matter how much of a raise that person has gotten, the CEO & board of the company they work for has gotten SO much richer

aaaaaaand this is the second time we get a "christina koch's dog sees her after coming back from space" video youtu.be/Z3eEjHWT90M

Good evening to just be curled up with a novel. Can I recommend putting your phone in the next room and getting a physical book out? (I'm currently reading Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

We didn't deserve this day.

if the whole internet goes down in the next 10-15 years i'm gonna have to hand it to david mitchell, but i will have nowhere to do so

Dreamed I was supposed to be working on a novel at a writer’s colony, where you had the option to astrally project home as often as you liked. Which I did so much that I hardly got any work done. Arriving home at end, I realized I wasn’t sure whether I’d truly come or was only projecting myself.

My highest recommendation for all 900 pages of King Sorrow

A24's THE DRAMA is a movie that asks what would have to happen for you to be upset that you're marrying Zendaya

no see he might push wealthy people to leave the city, which is bad, AND he might make it easier for wealthy people to live in the city, which is also bad

yeah and it sounds like they need the money for burgers

when i was in middle school & i saw the word "arse" in british ya books i just assumed it was a censored version of ass. the polite way to say ass. took me years to realize

thank you

Fuck anybody saying being anti-AI writing equates to being anti-working class, because AI means the working class can finally write their stories. Bullshit. Working class folks have always been writing and telling their stories.

the scene in Industry s4 where yas gets jumpscared by a hitler painting feels like that old comedy sketch where it looks like a psa about stopping for pedestrians but then the pedestrian is hitler, but played totally straight. this is a good thing

season 3 of Industry proves this show is trying to be Succession bc just like Succession they have decided to get way too into their own writing style. they have cranked the dial too far this season. please let sarah goldberg say 1 sentence that sounds like it came from a human

My bet is they don’t actually believe this crap, it’s just something they say for hype purposes because it makes for a clickbaity headline. Still, “maybe we’ve enslaved a conscious mind which is suffering” is a pretty weird flex.

"that meeting could've been an email" okay let's stop pretending you hate emails less than you hate meetings. which email provider is paying you to say that

everyone's responding with their celebrity stories so i guess mine is for a while i knew the password to dee snider's phone no i did not get the chance to use it

listen if you ever end up in a situation in real life where you didn't do anything wrong, but if you did it was someone else's fault, you should make up a different story so you don't have to say that

tiktok (i think) has influenced language such that i've heard a few people casually & earnestly refer to songs as "sounds" five years ago you could've had a tv character talk like that in order to establish they're a space alien in a poor human disguise

the beautiful thing about Neighbors on HBO is that it's a documentary that seems to have specifically chosen its subjects based on who is most likely to sue them

other pet peeve of mine: when people state the list price of a college as though that is definitely what an individual student paid for it who even knows if they bothered to look up the years she attended, that's probably this year's rate

going to be thinking about this often, i suspect, as i get into actually editing all my writing from last year. i get the feeling i'm going to cringe at a lot of meaningless gestures

let he who has not thrown a stone from a glass house cast the first stone

i can imagine a yoounger version of myself walking out on the first act of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die when its satire feels extremely shallow so i'm glad i stuck around for it to turn out to be much more interesting than that

if you work for a well-regarded university or other big cultural institution do you have a moral obligation to search for your colleagues in the epstein files

reading all the replies about people who were motivated to succeed to spite professors who failed them &, i'll admit, i just teach writing, but i'd love it if a student who failed my class went on & became an accomplished writer to prove me wrong