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Wrote a little thing in my newsletter this morning about the way people talk about AI and writing, and the devaluation of labour www.anxietyshark.ca/solve-for-wo...

my youngest grandson returns from The Waste. No food again, just metal scraps. But he's so proud, and wants a reward. "Tell me again about The Great Before. Tell me why The Green went away," he begs. "in the Before," I begin, "people had questions about who should participate in women's sports..."

someone tell congress spring break has to be cancelled so they can come home and do a real fast impeachment, and then they can go back to their fundraising dinners by friday at the latest

Happy to report that Jesus Christ Superstar still whips ass.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Ha ha April Fool. You've actually been having a bizarre dream and it is in fact 1996 right now. We are all going to go watch the new Coen Brothers movie 'Fargo' later. I will call you on your phone that is attached to a wall and can't make you insane later.

I was smart for 5 minutes of my life and now my job is thinking and so you see the situation I find myself in

I recall a poetry prof from another life, who said that you're not a writer if you don't love words, and I don't think you love words if you're letting a computer pick them for you.

if i ran a convenience store, i'd make a big deal out of having one of those hot dog roller machines, and instead of hot dogs it was all loose cigarettes.

i am a MAN. i am a COWBOY. when a homeless guy asks me for change i PISS MYSELF. MASCULINELY.

Happy 250th birthday to a beautifully penned gentleman’s agreement it turns out everyone can just decide not to enforce at all

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

An engineer buddy of mine said AI is targeting the audience who likes gadgets and hates being told they're wrong about something: men. She said we're getting endless stories about the evil it's being used for and pain it's causing and they shrug and say so what, not my problem. And she is right.

I need us as a culture to stop conflating “is good at math/programming/finance” with “is smart.”

I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

this is the most Not Fucking Around anything has ever been. I can’t wait to see it, but I ALREADY agree that crypto is a massive scam, so I also can’t wait until the people this movie is trying to convince also see it and at least some of them hopefully rethink everything about themselves

I do see posts from LLM enthusiasts that boil down to “critics are just mad the computer is better than them at trivia now” and idk, I think *most* critics are just genuinely terrified they’ll never find work they don’t hate that pays a living wage again in the current batshit climate

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

IT'S FINE, YOU CAN HAVE IT, I DON'T WANT IT. ONE LESS HOUR TO BE SAD ANYWAY.

My sister rescued a new pom. He's inbred and his name is Sandwich

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

It takes real galaxy brains to mass cancel solar and wind projects and then start a pointless unpopular war that sends oil prices soaring.

The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of a…

‘markwayne.’ that is some trashy shit right there. i shouldn’t have to know about a guy named markwayne until the day im finally ready to hire a monster truck chauffeur

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Good morning! Yes, this is he

Going to a Payless ShoeSource could fix me

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

is everyone on glue

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

my productivity and creativity are doing just fine thanks. what you mean is will I let you send alerts asking if I need the computer's help every time I'm trying to work in a document. or cleaning up a photo. or in Garageband. anywhere. big nope, only upgrade on pain of death at this point

Miyaneko, a white cat whose ears make an “M”, is the mascot for Miyazaki City. His special skills are dancing and overreacting.

Today at church I sat behind a middle schooler I’ve never talked to, who spent the whole service drawing on a notepad. At the end of the hour she stood up, turned around, and showed me the drawing. “This is you as a dog,” she said

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

Killing schoolgirls in Operation Le Epic Bacon so people forget about the dead economy and the president's pedophile best friend for ten minutes.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

it’s all just video games to them, they don’t believe anyone who lives in the Middle East counts as real people they’re just making things go boom, watching it on TV, and high fiving

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...