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

submitted 3 days ago • 281 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

The Flyer. 1/4

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

Ingenious 😂 FFS

submitted 10 days ago • 278 comments

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.

submitted 18 days ago • 22 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

Putting the "con" in economy.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This is so fucking good

submitted 20 days ago • 216 comments

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

submitted 23 days ago • 659 comments

Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive

submitted 24 days ago • 339 comments

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

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This town might just be big enough…

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

How am I only discovering Animals as Leaders now?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

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/

submitted 27 days ago • 762 comments

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

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments