Movie theaters forever

@glitched-tabletop.bsky.social I just came across your DG io page and thought I'd share my DG scenario Writhe, which I shared through the @rpg-reanimators.bsky.social podcast a while back: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fo...

Cancelled my #Spotify account after using it daily for almost 10 years because they refuse to stop posting 🧊 ads. If they can choose to ignore ethics and human decency bc it "doesn't violate their terms of service", I can choose not to give them my money.

Here's how @theguardian.com is reporting on the shutdown. This is how you do it.

What the Debate Me bros have done is found a way to filibuster the self-evident humanity of a person or group by making it an endless topic of debate. As Toni said: "None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing." It's not my job to prove my equality to those who think me inferior

Any company that uses those A I voiceovers in their ads just did a terrific job guaranteeing they won't get my business

Yesss my @haileypiperfights.bsky.social collection grows! So excited to crack this one open!!

@friede.bsky.social Doing some reflection on terminology, I feel like the word "modules" is very D&D coded compared to "scenarios", or at least as someone primarily involved in horror TTRPGs, I primarily hear "scenarios" being used. Are there any resources you're aware of about this split or usage?

This was a great talk to attend, and I highly recommend giving it a watch/listen. I hope you get to feeling better soon @sarahgailey.bsky.social! 💖

Teaching AI literacy. (GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)

I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession. Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.

Mulling on gen AI and is this the first example of the Diffusion of Innovations theory bell curve reversing on itself? Many early adopters seemingly realized its capped potential & dangers as the diffusion passed into the "late majority" phase while the tech is blindly fueled by capitalist greed

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process." organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

There should be a personality test based around how many of X items you would pack for a Y day trip. Q: You are going out of town for a 2 night driving trip. How many books should you pack? A. 0, I have my phone B. 1, I might be able to finish it in that time C. At least 3, plus my eReader

Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here. stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/

Every day I wake up and check the news to see if it's The Big Day. I can't wait for The Big Day!!

Someone in the replies called this doordash for bears and I can't stop laughing

QUEEN OF TEETH: Woman + a vagina monster growing in her + woman from the company at fault who hunts them = threesome 🦷😈 ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT: Toxic sapphic vampire ruins everything 🫀 A GAME IN YELLOW: Sapphic couple meets third woman for BDSM using a cursed mind-altering play as a sex toy 💛

Given the news out of SCOTUS today about healthcare for trans kids in Tennessee, now is the time to support orgs doing good: Trans Youth Emergency Project: southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/forms/60 Transgender Law Center: transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/ OUTMemphis: www.outmemphis.org/donate

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

A good percentage of my friends are conservative. That percentage is 0, which is a good percentage of conservative friends to have

This is 100% my philosophy too. I'll always prefer to make weird stuff I love, for a small group of weirdos, over twisting me and my work into unnatural shapes for mass appeal. You really don't need millions of followers to make a living as a creative, just like ~500-1000 folk who always show up.

Just finished Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud. The wild setting threw me for a loop at first, but was difficult to put down once the story got going. A dark and surreal cascade of spiderwebs tickling my brain that ended in an interesting and horrific cascade. 5 out of 5🕸️s

New in PN: Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age" "They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social

Every homeowner on the spectrum should have pegboard organizers in their garage because my god is this satisfying

Positive feedback about things you like to see counteracts the hate that gets spewed. The hateful side is constantly putting in feedback. If you don’t, theirs will be the only voices heard- and feedback matters. A lot.

Remember when NFTs were inevitable? The plagiarism bot has more and louder rubes, but it’s just as much a grift, and we don’t have to agree to it.

"the horror genre has come to feel oversaturated with films that attempt to explore, or even recreate, the psychological experience of being horrified"

The older I get, the more I have to use knowyourmeme .com

@natcassidy.bsky.social I don't have a cool physical copy to show, but just picked up When the Wolf Comes Home off libro.fm and am excited to jump in!

"We went to space and found the devil" is a pretty neat subgenre

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect theonion.com/musk-signals...

Today thru Feb 7th, you can preorder WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME from @barnesandnoble.com & receive 25% off (an extra 10% if you’re a Premium Member)! I’m at the hospital while my wife recovers from surgery right now & can’t whip up a promo graphic, so enjoy these behind-the-scenes wolfies instead.

Watching this on repeat how is your day going?

Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target. Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

@lesliejanderson.bsky.social this reminded me of Unmothers for some reason lol

I bet the one thing all the experts agree on is that neither of these clowns should be remotely involved in matters of public health

Reminds me this happened the night the Shard opened

Writing the GM advice bit for Hollows and ended up doing a Player advice bit instead. This is, I think, the most that I can boil it down to