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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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guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

The reason generative AI is so popular with wannabe creatives is best illustrated by something every pro writer has encountered: getting pitched an idea by someone saying "You write it and we'll split the profits!" because they think the idea is what has value, not the writing. The opposite is true.

The Flyer. 1/4

Ingenious 😂 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 Librarians🔥 #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/