Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

The frustrating thing with the Sensible Centrists who just want there be "a conversation" about trans athletes is that already happened and continues to happen. Standards have been getting tested and tweaked for years, not often done apolitically but done. What they mean is that no one asked them.

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

Gotham Writers is currently doing a survey of how writers are using AI and if you’re a writer it’s probably worth filling it out. gothamghostwriters.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Okay, here you go: (Side note: this was drawn with nothing planned, so I apologize if anything is wrong or offensive!)

Once there were brook trouts in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. They were epic as fuck, and for the win.

I'm starting to wonder if AI is just a way for these tech companies to admit they're in a bad way while still looking good for shareholders. The stocks are great, but the actual reason behind said stocks are made of wet cardboard.

Post a book you love from the 1970s!

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson. 1/5

Today I came home to see the tiniest little praying mantis on my railing. Hello, little guy!

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Was not prepared.

Ten writers by whom I've read more than 5 books: Tamora Pierce Diana Wynne Jones Ursula K Le Guin Garth Nix Haruki Murakami T Kingfisher Martha Wells Bryan Lee O'Malley JRR Tolkien Jonathan Stroud Fun challenge!

literature is dead and no one cares about short fiction... but 155 of you squares submitted to a pretty specific call in under 60 seconds.

(Not those pigs either)

"Some hotels skip the thirteenth floor because they think it's unlucky. But people on the fourteenth floor, you know what floor you're really on."

‘I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.’

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992

I can’t believe they just let me buy trees, as if I am somehow responsible enough to own something that will get thirty feet tall. That’s like a very slow kaiju!

Mothra vs Godzilla (1964)

I still love this song. youtu.be/sP4NMoJcFd4?...

The summer school program coordinator after last year's incident:

The best is last, right? Trememndously honoured to be included in Silly Goose Press alongside so many other talented authors and poets. What a great way to end the year!

Hi, I didn't think they're here on bsky, but Issue Three of Silly Goose Press came out today and my first published short story is in it 🪿📚

It's been A Week (tm) BUT! Next week the Silly Goose Press is publishing my VERY FIRST STORY AHHHHH

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate.

When the moon hits the plains, And you're a man on the Range, That's L'Amour.

Remember that time when the entire sky lit up and it was the most incredible thing you've ever seen?

Might get my first short story published later, idk, what're you up to?