i go round and round about this shit it's never going to be a positive thing and will always be just yaoi fanfic for ciswomen shit

You know what I *haven't* seen in the wake of Heated Rivalry airing? An influx of out gay men in my hockey community. A TV show that isn't even fully out yet (ha) is not why we have queer hockey organizations in my city. It isn't why we have spaces for queer people to play without fear.

No, it isn't. bsky.app/profile/joyo...

I'm gonna see if I can trick that bot into making 100% discounted orders, who's with me?

He came out (started being open about his sexuality) around 2017, because of actual spaces made by other queer people. Heated Rivalry giving him the confidence to be more open about that online is a good thing, but it isn't why he came out, and it discredits actual community spaces to say that.

The way all sports media now is underwritten by gambling companies feels a little bit like if every cooking competition show’s commercial breaks were full of ads for different brands of heroin.

Fascism is bad. People needing to be told that fascism is bad is worse.

tl;dr dirtbag leftism is just theorybrainers inadvertently proving the horseshoe theory

JK Rowling should get in on the hot new trend for disgraced creators of previously beloved characters.

Your boy is "stronger than Vader or Palpatine and has two lightsabers & can pull Star Destroyers out of the sky & could kill Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan & his name is Starkiller & he inspired the whole rebellion & saved Leia & died but then came back!" but do go on about a girl with a lightsaber.

In a twist that will surprise no one who's been against this plagiarism machine from the beginning, turns out AI doesn't 'learn' shit. It stores info, accesses it as needed, and AI companies just lied about it. So now can we stop pretending stealing is progress? removepaywalls.com/https://www....

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There's zero doubt in my mind, that is not the first time Jonathan Ross has shot someone. Probably not the first time he's murdered someone, either.

the dude walked around their whole car filming them, I don’t think we can exclude the possibility that he killed her because she was queer

there is a world of difference btwn “does not want to talk to the press right now” and “wants the press to pretend she doesnt exist while drawing attention to her murdered wife’s ex-husbands”

This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

The erasure of Becca Good from the narrative by mainstream press, especially major national outlets, is disgusting and shouldn't be ignored. She was there. She saw this awful murder. And the media would rather spend time focusing on a deceased former husband of Renee's.

theres so much horrible shit about the murder of renee good, but there is something deeply terrifying about the way everyone from media to politicians have erased her wife from the story. ive seen far more mention of her late husband than her wife who was sitting next to her when she was murdered

The ICE agent's name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Bluesky deciding to suppress Jonathan Ross' name isn't surprising given the people that own and operate this place, but it is a good reminder to view every single platform with suspicion. This place isn't a CSAM generating nazi hellhole but it is also not your friend.

A new Nuremberg is the bare-minimum, moderate position. The radical position is one I don't think a government should enact, because I don't think The State should have the legal authority to execute people. But, if anyone deserved to be shot in the head yesterday, it wasn't Renee Nicole Good.

for Renee Nicole Good, a poet and a mother

hi Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good in my city yesterday and they don't want you to know his name is Jonathan Ross. so if you need to know who Jonathan Ross is, that's who Jonathan Ross is. the ICE agent who murdered that woman? yeah his name is Jonathan Ross. fuck you Bluesky.

She was married. Her wife raised the child with her. Her father put it out that the boy "didn't have anyone," seemingly as a means of pre-emptively assuming custody over the child. To continue this narrative both insults the dead woman and adds to the surviving parent's grief.

Over the holidays, I set myself a goal of writing 500 words a day; ~1 chapter every 9 days. ~30 minutes, even if I'm on my phone in bed, even if my brain isn't clicking. I know myself, 1500 words a day is *not* something I can do daily. 500 feels sustainable. It feels like a buildable habit.

We’ve graduated from “abolish ICE is the moderate position” to “Nuremberg trials for the Trump regime and its Gestapo is the moderate position.”

Putting out the usual reminder that you do not have to excoriate yourself by watching a video of an officer killing an innocent person. You are not lesser for thinking “I don’t need to see that” and following that instinct.

Murder.

For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...

Alene isn't the forgiving sort. Howe for murdering her family, Loghain for throwing Ostagar, Flemeth for abusing Morrigan and tormenting her family, Sten for murdering innocents in a blind rage. But, unforgiveable transgressions against her, specifically? Alistair, for his thoughtless tongue.

"But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. [...]" "...There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

"I wish none of this had happened." "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

I beat the boy aquarium's ceremonial furry at musical chairs. 💪

Alternatively, they're just colonial imperialists at heart and love colonial imperialism, something which is hardly unheard of in Canada

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It’s inconvenient but everyone should be comfortable having multiple messaging apps and knowing exactly what they’re all for. And right now one should be Signal.

Canadians (especially cis Canadians), PLEASE take a moment to sign this petition and take action in defence of trans people. It takes less than a minute to sign and verify your signature. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

I am not a fan of "remove anything that doesn't further the plot" because sometimes you just need to have the characters take a break to have dinner and talk it might not be directly "furthering the plot" but it *is* enriching the characters

I was reminded today, again, how I lucked the fuck out with getting the endo I did. Truly, a magnificent man that does medicine the way it should be.

I posted to this effect yesterday BUT ALSO: there will always be a nonzero number of indie game developers who will reject AI. We don't have to reward companies that sell out to the fascist slop machine.

Imagine the apollo project tried to get to the moon by building a jet airliner, and when that didn't work they spent a trillion dollars building bigger ones. That is how misconceived current LLM translation efforts are: they cannot work and we knew why decades ago.

Nothing grates me more than when AI game dudes are like "Don't you wish you could ask an NPC aNyThInG?" Absolutely fucking not. If you don't understand that every piece of writing is made with intention, character, and meaningful choice... you probaby shouldn't be directing a fucking video game.

start a sentence with however. start a sentence with but. start a sentence with and. live life on the edge

You'll probably never have an idea that no one else has ever had, because that's not how human cognition works. And yet you have the power to execute even the blandest and most common idea in ways that no other human being, living or dead or yet unborn, would ever do.

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground

Don't come into my replies to defend AI companies when I've literally just compared that shit to corium, you dense motherfuckers.