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More bad news for tech wunderkind Elon Musk - a photograph has recently surfaced that appears to show Elon associating with Epstein Files alumnus Donald J Trump

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Actually, this isn’t true. No such play or movie was ever produced.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Peers vote to defy government over copyright threat from AI

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

We’re losing something. I’ve felt it in myself over the last decade: a steep decline in my capacity for sitting and reading. In an economy where attention is the major currency, we’re being robbed. The thieves will take it all and then make a mint selling us solutions to the problems they caused.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

every time i see gen ai 'was used to "write" ____' it always, always ends in an abhorrent way. this is appalling.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Jesus, this is awful.

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

Here is my personal philosophy, based on several decades of watching publishers go under: the moment a publisher is late on money because they don't have it, they are the enemy and your goal is to get your rights back.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

A good thing about Bluesky not having an algorithm isn’t just seeing people I actually want to see, it’s avoiding spoilers I opened the other app to look for some stuff from artists attending the event I’m going to, immediately got hit with this for a show I can’t watch till tonight (Doctor Who)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Last suffer Walz templated the correct and clear answer, which is the Republicans are weird to want genital inspectors in youth sports and bathrooms. It's a good line for dems! Turns out you can affirm the human dignity everyone by making genital inspectors the weirdos and protecting healthcare.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Waiting for the inevitable announcement that this guy’s now in charge of the FDA.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This makes me so goddamned angry. To paraphrase the eternal wordsmith Roy Kent, "Have some fucking pride in your work, or don't fucking pretend to do it!"

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.

submitted 11 days ago • 89 comments

I fucking love gadgets. I like new things. I set up a gadget savings account ten years ago to restrict myself on gadget purchases because I am a gadget loving freak. Pretty amazing for the tech industry to make someone like me into a tech dethusiast in a matter of five years.

submitted 13 days ago • 88 comments

there is a lot of evil that has come out of this administration and a lot of harm past, present and future, but Elon discovering again and again that literally no one likes him is one of the few bright spots of this year so far

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’. I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY. Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙

submitted 15 days ago • 123 comments

I’m writing something! It’s fiction. It’s funny. It’s a podcast. It’s @whatlittle.bsky.social. And it’s not out yet. I’ve started this account to talk about the frustrations, grind and sheer joy that come from creating something yourself. Even if it takes a while. #audiodrama #writing #podcast

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.

submitted 16 days ago • 86 comments

It turns out that one of my writing sweet spots is "that's a stupid idea for a story" and/or "that's already been done before." Possibly and possibly, but let me see what I get out of it. The same twelve notes give us Mozart, The Beatles, John Coltrane and Taylor Swift. It's what they do with them.

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

I will never understand people who make things -- films, stories, art, music -- abdicating the making of those things in favor of a machine doing it. The joy is in creating something, not in avoiding the work of creation.

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments