DUNE OR DUNE NOT: THERE IS NO TREY

Heads up: as pointed out to me by @popelizbet.bsky.social, Becky Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild-Built: A Monk and Robot Book (Monk & Robot 1) is on US Kindle sale for $3 right now -- I suspect it'll end soon, though. I got some for random giveaway.

It's way too early for me to be laughing this hard. 🤣

Well the kittens decided we needed another gift

Palantir. Sauron. CyberDyne. Blackrock. Mr Beast Inc. Cerberus. Blackwater. Anduril. Citizen. Citadel. Gilead. Bain Capital. Darktrace. Oracle. Umbra.

Hire nutjobs, get your nuts jobbed.

There are so many reasons to be anti-AI. Setting aside the environmental fuckery and the goddamn wholesale thievery (which SHOULD BE ENOUGH, but here we are), it's *wrong*, in the sense of "can't reliably get anything right." Some people have looked at my copyeditor self and said, "You're just

whats Mandarin for "oh lawd he comin"

Cats and clerics clearly know what's up.

Again,

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

it will never stop being funny that this post *still* gets new people to discover or remember the game

I repeat: I am twelve years old and will always snicker at this.

Humans matter. I want art to be made by humans and enjoyed by humans. And I want that to be true across the chain of creation. From idea to implementation to publication to presentation and distribution. Fuck AI.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

SO, you want to network but don't know where to begin. 1. DON'T. Make friends instead 2. It's not about what they can do for you 3. Famous people are just people first 4. If you do have to gush, don't just say 'i love your work' , pick one thing and say why. Open ended compliments are awkward

HOO HOO HOO HOO

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Can anyone 1) confirm this is true and 2) walk the rest of us through how to do it?

If that is your earworm problem, blow it the HELL out of the water with this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPhI...

A coffee forward venue named BEAN ME UP, BISCOTTI

The snort I snurted.

Fucking OW. We have two snow shovels: a regular, straight-handled one (the classic with the orange blade) and a fancy one w/ metal edge on the blade and a bent "ergonomic" handle. I don't know who that last one is for, but it is NOT ergonomic for ME. Back is blown TF out, and I can't even lie down

Thread. With a cheerful vengeance. 😏

I will not buy your AI book I will not give its text a look I will not share your AI art I will not share even a part I will not play your AI game I will not play it, feel some shame! Use your soul and heart and head And make us things to love, instead (With apologies to Dr. Seuss).

This is basically our cat Milk.

nobody ever asks about that shit. people ask if you have any cats. then they ask if you have pictures.

Think I just saw a raven here (on the principle I've seen of if you think, "That's a big bird," it's a crow but if you think, "FUCK, that's a huge bird," it's a raven). Neat!

And the only utensils are sporks.

What in the long-handled FUCK is this glorious nonsense and why am I not watching it already...

BARBIE Q

Make a Bond movie casual The Spy Who Tolerated Me License to Ill Tomorrow Never Bothers Waking Up The Cafeteria Is Not Enough Skystumble

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

They tell on themselves with every proclamation. This time, it's "destructive moral ideas." MORAL IDEAS ARE THE OPPOSITE OF THAT, JV DUNCE. (Yes, I know, he meant "morally destructive ideas," but the truth came out accidentally.)

“a crazed mob wanted to literally kill her and she’s mad we didn’t denounce the guy who set it all in motion. psh. women.”

What about second fucking breakfast?

Oh, so, THAT'S what this post is about:

“Dork Ass Losers” from this exchange is my all-time favorite:

Ideas are, no question, the cheap part. I have SPREADSHEETS of ideas, and if I keep up my current production rate, which is already unrealistically high, I will die before I finish using them all. EXECUTION is the important part.

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

They USED to laugh and call him names...

Somebody in the area needs this sweet guy.

An illustration of just how belt-and-suspenders I am: Many years ago, I made the switch to trackball mice (with the trackball located under the thumb) and never looked back. Fast-forward to today, when the cursor was getting draggy, so I went and cleaned the trackball bay. Came back, turned it

Bought the kids some noise-cancelling headphones for christmas, but I can still hear them?

the pope: *makes the sign of the cross* ed, an idiot: he's just virtue signalling!!!!

Merry/Happy Christmas to those who observe! May your cookies not burn, your trees not topple, your lights not mysteriously burn out in the middle of the string, and That Relative not ruin dinner.

BEHOLD, MASSES AS FORETOLD BY THE PROPHECY, YOUR NEW QUEEN

SANTA'S MAGIC CHEMTRAILS

and Tiny Tim, who both WAS and WAS NOT dead until we opened the box under the tree that Christmas morning,

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, where the shadows lie, One Tim to rule them all, One Tim to find them, One Tim to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them.