This is a GREAT graphic. I'm going to add to it this one from @johnnorcross.bsky.social, which visualizes the text below.

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

time machine assassins could do a lot with just reagan, rupert murdoch, and james dobson

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Far more people will lose your game than win. Make sure your game is still fun even when players lose.

Mamdani needs to win and win by a lot so the establishment understands people are done playing around and it carries over to the presidential primaries

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

I’m doing victory laps in my kitchen right now!!!! 💃🏼 CGE just announced they are going to be giving away 100% of the profit from their Harry Potter game to pro-trans charities!! www.instagram.com/p/DNG48n-IVP...

It is the year 2025, @codenamesgame.bsky.social. We’ve had five years of patient, empathic articles and video and podcasts about why the “death of the author” excuse DOES NOT APPLY to an author who is still alive and using the money from this license to attack the queer community and brown women.

Looking forward to this Friday

STOP. STARTING. SUBSTACKS. IN 2025. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE TO AT THIS POINT, IT HAS BEEN COMMON KNOWLEDGE FOR 2 YEARS THAT THE PLACE IS RUN BY TECHNOFASCISTS, COME TF ON

Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care. They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.

Seems a good day to send the badges around again. I made these, & I grant permission to use them anywhere, print or digital, to affirm you did NOT use AI in the part or whole to create your work. YES you can use it for books, slideshows, TTRPGs, etc! Badge set here: www.aimeecozza.com/human-made/

Happy Jonathan Coulton Day to all who celebrate.

Senate resolution being voted on today to end the "national emergency" upon which the tariffs are predicated: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... (call your rep to say you SUPPORT the resolution to end tariffs)

So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic

Popeye gets it.

Sinners invites a new bold business idea. What if people want to see movies because they like them and not due to a pavlovian response to being 12 years old once!?

When I use Google now I just automatically scroll past the AI summaries like they’re banner ads

My thoughts on Generative AI

👇🎯 We are having trouble using proper terminology because it requires us to fully accept exactly what has happened to our country & wrestle with the fact that every single one of our elected representatives in Congress is violating their oaths of office by not immediately impeaching & removing him.

The President of the US is the dumbest man on the planet. Make it viral.

I think the two overarching categories of recommendations I would make are to put yourself in a REPAIRABLE and SUSTAINABLE situation. Repairable means to make sure your core things are in a way that you can maintain them yourself. Your home and car of course, but also the people who depend on you

Last month I canceled my Amazon Prime subscription and started making a deliberate effort to buy anywhere else, and it’s taken a little relearning how to shop and I can’t buy everything I want locally but I CAN buy anywhere but Amazon.

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI. Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI Please do it 🫠

Finished judging my games for round one of the @cardboardedison.com Award. Some had real potential and as always I'm curious to see if any of these make it to round 2.

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It's a new record for the Cardboard Edison Award: 348 submissions this year! Judging begins soon! cardboardedison.com/award

For the last 5 years, LAPD has received 3x the budget of LAFD. The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget. When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.

Truly, if I'm starting a career as a board game designer right now, it's because of the Cardboard Edison Award. Not only being 1st runner-up on 2024 made me sign my first game, but gave me confidence to keep trying. If you have a prototype you see potential, please submit! I'm rooting for you!

These anti-LGBTQ bills are still so politically unpopular that the cultists have to pass them in secret, during late-night sessions held in a lame-duck session in the purgatory between Christmas and New Years. Modern America doesn’t want this trash, and the best thing we can do is expose it.

Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...

I know stories like this are heartbreaking, but never forget that these stories are stories that people WANT to tell and stories that people WANT to hear. It takes the force of a billion-dollar company to silence us, and it costs us nothing but a pen and paper to break that silence. Make art.

Get your prototypes and pitches ready! It's almost that time again: Submissions for the 2025 Cardboard Edison Award for unpublished board game designs open January 1! cardboardedison.com/award

Oh goddammit, this fucking pest. Nip this in the bud, all of you block and so not engage. This guy engages in targeted harassment of libraries and librarians for defending intellectual freedom.

It’s not too late. If you live in: California Colorado Connecticut D.C. Hawaii Idaho Illinois Iowa Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Montana Nevada New Hampshire Rhode Island Utah Vermont Washington Wisconsin Wyoming YOU can register AND vote on #ElectionDay

a modest proposal

This US election cycle is a VERY good reminder why "Everyone's welcome at my table" is bad. You shouldn't invite hatred to the table. Blatant racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, insurrections and continued sexual assaults are not deal breakers for far too many people. Don't look away.

VOTING EARLY GIVES YOU MORE TIME TO • get lost in corn maze • relax inside hollow tree • sail away in hot air balloon • outsmart robot who trapped you on space station • figure out why you awoke this morning transformed into gigantic insect