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Walked away from Omelas only to find that everywhere else was also Omelas. I dig fighting games, pinball, sumo, reading, and Oxford commas. Blocking gen AI whenever I see it.
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Ingenious šŸ˜‚ FFS

The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.

Believing they were tricked is easier than realizing this shit is exactly what these wockaflockas wanted.

Putting the "con" in economy.

If you are a creative professional or hobbyist, please, I beg you, reconsider your use of Adobe products. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Just blocking 'em and walking away like a cool dude walking away from an explosion without looking behind me.

This is so fucking good

In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.

Hells LibrariansšŸ”„ #LibrarySky #ReadToLive

"If you wish to know the true measure of a person, give them power." - some famous person, probably

This town might just be big enough…

How am I only discovering Animals as Leaders now?

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

The new eucharist is going to be deep dish and Malort.

Tom Humberstone's excellent comic about the Luddites' history. thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

It's Friday - engage hips, disengage dignity.

šŸŽµHEAD LIKE A HOLE, BLACK AS YOUR SOULšŸŽµ

Socialism is what they called public power.Ā  Socialism is what they called social security.Ā  Ā  Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Ā  Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

I’m just about sick of correcting terminology, especially ā€œtrauma bondingā€.