brianedits.bsky.social
Editor, Author, and the Least Interesting Man in the World.
He/him, Ace-spec, mobility impaired, dx neurodivergent.
Proud father of a kick-ass trans son.
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Stet.
Come on, y'all, you paid me the big bucks for this advice, you should probably take it, right?
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The fate that awaits us in their custody is worse than a quick death.
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I love how Roko's Basilisk is just Pascal's Cyberwager.
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My superpower is being able to talk to all animals and plants.
Unfortunately, I did not get the superpower that lets me understand their replies.
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It's *right next to* a Christian cross. I know, we're supposed to think it's the second-shittiest "X" ever conceived of, but it's very obviously a cross.
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On the one hand, ignoring other members of an identity (trans men, ace women) is kind of her trademark when there's the possibility that a stealth penis might be nearby.
On the other hand, she at least knows there are men who identify as ace, which is... like, thanks? I guess?
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Why is she mad at people who *don't* have sex? Doesn't that make us *less* dangerous? Shouldn't she be *thrilled*?
How is anyone supposed to make this woman happy?
She should just come out as a proponent of "traditional" marriage already and skip all these weird in-between steps.
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The 1st draft would have been about $19. The current draft is probably going to be $11 after the death exemption. The subplots I cut just happened to be the ones with all the cishet dudes.
(And the remaining 1 isn't even cishet, but it doesn't come up on the page, so I won't claim him on the form.)
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Is it bad that I recognized the URL immediately?
"If it ends in XcQ, then the link better stay blue."
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bsky.app/profile/kenk...
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It's hard to pick a favorite bit of bullshit from this pile. A top contender is the claim that Kilby TURNED DOWN "a number of" AI sponsors because it "went against our mission."
I guess she wrote a multi-page manifesto calling anti-AI authors abelist and classist just for shits & giggles.
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And bigotry
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One of the best progressives in the house, huh?
Weird I haven't heard anything about her until now. Shouldn't "one of the best progressives in the House" be out there doing things and making noise?
Oh, she's 80. She doesn't have to worry about what the future will look like. That's why.
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The Rede is adapted and changed from a statement in The Book of the Law (the religious text of Thelema), which states "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
That original phrasing is what the poster above is quoting. Not Gerald Gardener's reinterpretation.
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Bring it, Vanilla ISIS.
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Schumer has been paid to put up a token show of resistance and then lose. He's a jobber.
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It's also *real, real easy* to use a mass followback hashtag to pick up an uncritical following to which one can disperse misinformation that aligns with their hopes/fears/biases.
I automatically mistrust *all* of those "Resist" accounts with YY-thousand followers.
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The culprit for all of this was the Weasel of Time.
In April of 2016, right before everything started going to hell, a weasel (or it could have been a marten) chewed through some wires inside the Large Hadron Collider, shutting it down mid-experiment.
www.npr.org/sections/the...
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It's worse than that. Mars doesn't have a magnetic field; any oxygen we produce will be quickly stripped away by solar activity. How much energy would it take to continuously operate a planet-sized-magnetic-field generator, with 0% down time, forever?
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Thermodynamics works for individuals/societies as much as it works for energy/physics.
Things will only ever get worse unless we're actively putting energy into keeping them from getting worse. Things almost never just "get better" on their own, and if they do, it's not even a little bit stable.
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I don't know if you hear this as often as you deserve to: Your daily bunnies are SUCH a boost to my day. I'm excited every time they pop up in my feed, and no matter what awful news I've just read, they give me a smile and sometimes a giggle.
Thank you for daily bunnies.
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Right? This is the shit I wanted to see weeks ago. I don't care about an angry speech and a photo op in front of already-compromised federal buildings; I want to see congresspeople and senators chaining themselves to the doors.
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More importantly, it does not take sentence rhythm into account before using them.
Since an author's choice to use em dashes is *all about* the rhythm, sound, and look on the page, putting a pair of jarring halts in the middle of a quick-moving sentence for no reason is a big tell.
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It's not just that it uses em dashes. It's that it favors them over more common punctuation that does the same job. It doesn't just use them instead of commas and parentheses for nonrestrictive clauses; it uses them in iffy ways, like in place of colons or between dependent and independent clauses.
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Another quick thing to look for is "overuse" of "unnecessary" quotation marks, as if it is using them for "emphasis" rather than to denote "uncertainty" or actual quotations.
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Moreover, AI will use them in grammatically dubious ways, like putting them between independent and dependent clauses or in place of a colon when introducing a list.
For example: "My wife did everything—planning, calling the contractors, and even prepping the work area."
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The most common correct punctuation for framing extra clauses (also called nonrestrictive clauses), like these, are commas and parentheses, with em dashes coming in a distant third.
You can certainly use them; it's correct and no one will stop you. The difference is, AI uses them *all the time*.