Buncha AI creeps got me righteously angry so I'm on my way home to do a spite-fuelled writing session with my very own functional brain.

Sometimes I feel sad, but then I remind myself that I'm no longer dating a man with a wall full of cheap fake swords, and i feel happy again.

Huh. I would not have guessed Chicken Soup for the Soul would have been a key player in this fight, but here we are. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

The closest I ever get to feeling like an alpha male provider is when I do something nice for my cat. I MADE that catio for you with my own TWO HANDS. I toil so that you can live the soft life!

Capitalism has always hated art because it's a form of labour that is done for the satisfaction of the worker and not the profit of the owning class, and it cannot be enclosed or made artificially scarce because anyone can do it with almost anything. That's what AI is designed to change.

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

Shoutout to everyone who choose to create in spite of everything

To me, at the bottom of the AI question is this: aren't you guys sick of being lied to like all the time? Even before AI we were being lied to all the time, now the lies are harder to spot and more insidious and steal the truth from us every day. How does this not make people mad?

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Going for a very particular vibe today.

Maybe the problem is some people have gotten a little too used to having a robot jab a stick into the rage centre of your brain constantly like a lab rat in a cage, and now a social media site where people just talk about normal stuff doesn't scratch that itch.

I actually can't stop thinking about this. An actual award committee read this and thought it was good. They praised its "restraint". Restraint! How are we supposed to hold the line against AI when apparently our literary institutions are all charlatans??

Am I the only one that rolls her eyes every time someone tries to rebut Red Pill types by saying they're gay? 1)Plenty of men have proven they are perfectly capable of wanting to sleep with people they hate 2)Don't pretend this is some kinda social analysis. You're just calling them gay as a taunt

Every once in a while a controversy like this comes up and a have to watch the dumbest fashy basement dwellers in the world pretend they care about classic literature.

No worker should be forced back to work when they’re standing up for their rights on a picket line.

So Don Quixote is genuinely a really funny and engaging read. In case you were looking for one.

Finally saw the Wicker Man ('73) for the first time. What a fantastic movie, dude. Christopher Lee was a goddamn treasure. Been thinking about it all day. The kinda movie that lingers with you.

People who think they are highly intelligent while also dismissing emotions as frivolous are actually quite vulnerable, in my experience. They don't respect feelings, don't acknowledge them, so they take their feelings as facts. The robot feels like a person, therefore, the robot is a person.

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

I saw not one, but TWO vultures on my way to work this morning. They were definitely vultures. Hunchy vulture shoulders, red bald vulture head. Vultures! In Midtown Toronto! What a time to be alive!

Folks, its really good.

I love being in a union because every so often an older member will call you "sister" and they'll pretend its about solidarity but you know they just forgot your name.

Verdict: What a cool book!

Nothing is more embarrassing than adults bickering about whether audio books or comic books or whatever "count" Count? Count for what? We are not in 4th grade and nobody is going to give you a pizza party. Who is counting. What are any of you talking about.

It's amazing fascists are such a dire threat to the world considering that they're so bad at everything.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

My most inconsequential opinion is i hate how people use phones instead of lighters when they're in the crowd at concerts. They just don't have the same charm or light quality. It's just not the same.

I do like bluesky, but in the event that it shuts down I will not be seeking a replacement. I believe i will simply go outside.

I do not like the way American liberals talk about Canadian politics. You don't know our politics, you don't know our system, all you know is the guy you like said some mildly anti-trump things in a speech once and you turned him into your imaginary mascot. Carney is conservative.

Can you imagine the dancing in the streets when it finally happens?

I can always tell the ol' winter depression is letting up when I have a sudden urge to practice the piano and the violin and also learn watercolours and write a new story and knit a sweater and sew a new purse and....

If you've never owned a bread maker, you gotta. I don't care if you've never made bread before, it's so easy, it does everything. You can get them second hand for like $25. You can turn it on overnight and wake up to fresh, warm bread in the morning. It's so good.

I don't know why this is, but every time I log onto bluesky I see at least one memorial to a deceased pet, and while I sympathize I do NOT appreciate being reminded that my cat is not immortal.

Ok, but are we *sure* he's alive and they're not just moving him around with a broom or something

My coworker accidentally said "sleep depravity" when he meant sleep deprivation so now I'm calling him the sleep pervert.

Lol get fucked Sora

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

I both work in and am audience for opera/ballet, so I was mildly irritated by Chalamet's comment. But I am honestly stunned by how mad everybody is about it? Because like... he's right, most people don't go often. But they seem fiercely loyal to them all the same, apparently.

I'm so fucking angry that we threw gasoline onto an already burning planet for the sake of having dumb empty ugly plasticky videos of vegetables yelling at each other.

I heard stories of people who've fed crows, and been given gifts in return. It sounded charming, so I began doing that. Then, one night, there was a rapping on my bedroom window. I stumbled up and opened. A crow flew in and spoke: "They're coming for you. You must flee." I only just made it out.

They trash the world then imprison the immigrants trying to escape their destruction.

I wrote a post on Reddit the other day, and one guy came in to call me a fat ugly whore, and I laughed and clicked block and immediately forgot. But then another guy came in and accused me of writing the post with ChatGPT and I was more offended than I've ever been in my life. FUCK that guy.

Someone a decade+ younger than I asked me if I saw the Matrix in theaters and how cool that must have been

Forbidden bubble tea.

"Gandalf," said Frodo, "i figured out an ethical way to use the One Ring. And its going to save time and help me brainstorm and anyway, the technology is here, I don't want to be left behind. " "Shut the fuck up, Frodo." said Gandalf. "For real, shut the entire fuck up."

Nothing like watching the 90s horror movie that absolutely demolished you psychologically when you were 12, only to discover it's the goofiest, campiest heap of silliness you've ever seen.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Hannibal Lecter really ruined fava beans for me.