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here have some Short Story Rex with work from @ivygrimes.bsky.social @ergot.bsky.social @notasentence.bsky.social @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social and more buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

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here have some Short Story Rex with work from @ivygrimes.bsky.social @ergot.bsky.social @notasentence.bsky.social @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social and more buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

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*When you're increasingly wary about Trumpistan Big Tech and, uh, China european-alternatives.eu

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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct?

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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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"Art needs a hundred thousand ways in. It needs collectives, scenes, freakshows, symposiums, laboratories. It keeps us going, makes us better." -interview with @johnchrostek.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

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A thing I wish I could teach people is that the vast majority of very rich people are deeply stupid. They did not get where they are because of ingenuity or talent. They got there because of compound interest on hereditary wealth and being tax cheats.

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The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

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Nursing a take that the major Silicon Valley firms can be understood as organized crime syndicates and perform some of the same functions as the old ones used to — money laundering, feeding addictions, skirting regulations, political influence.

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Big Echo Interview Pop-Up! Get your red-hot spec fic noodlings here! @vajra.me @nassos.bsky.social @clubded.bsky.social Sofia Samatar! Brendan Byrne! So many words! So many thoughts! www.bigecho.org

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Left: 2+2=4 Conservatives: 2+2=22 Centrists: who can say, 2+2 must be about 13

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If you’re choosing generative AI over human creativity and labor I judge you and I don’t like you.

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It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

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Not on social media much these days but i should point out that i did a newsletter last week about @spicycloaca.bsky.social & @rlsummerling.bsky.social & @maxinesophiawolff.bsky.social & @gdholloway.bsky.social and more buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

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Re-read Theodore Sturgeon's "The Man Who Lost the Sea" for an upcoming @podside-picnic.bsky.social episode. Holy shit could the man write strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-...

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Not on social media much these days but i should point out that i did a newsletter last week about @spicycloaca.bsky.social & @rlsummerling.bsky.social & @maxinesophiawolff.bsky.social & @gdholloway.bsky.social and more buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

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What do you get when you combine ecological collapse, impulsive murderous tendencies, and the last pig on Earth? You get “Pig House” by Kay Vaindal.

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It’s a must read for anyone who cares about the poetics of weird fiction atseajournal.com/potboiler-un...

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For all you deranged “Pig House” enjoyers out there, Kay’s got another equally deranged story coming out in our next issue. Gird your loins.

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"Trump appointed a road rules cast member to be in charge of airline safety and this is the result" that's all true and a one-sentence narrative that is completely damning to the ears of someone who isn't paying much attention to politics. Take the layup.

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i am already on the record as saying this story is very very good

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the ai sloppification of the world will only end if organizations stand up for artists like this. this is another great reason to unionize your workplace as you can include NO AI ART in your work contract

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Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit. Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

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joy mecha fight, famicom (1993) www.mobygames.com/game/29390/j...

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New STP newsletter is out, including a little writeup I did of The Kwak Race by Manuela Draegher (tr. @brianevenson.bsky.social) published in The Baffler last year. A surreal trip of a story that I loved!

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Wrote about Las Vegas, the rise of gambling, CES, AI propaganda, and the exterminist future we are racing towards thetechbubble.substack.com/p/trapped-in...

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me: hey, if you had to choose a favorite municipality in the province of Granada in Spain, what would it be Robert Plant in the Led Zeppelin song "In My Time of Dying":

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As of a week or so maybe ago my story "The Skullhole Panic" has been opened and unpaywalled and is free to read online and itd make me happy if you did houseofgamut.com/gamut-magazi...

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No, Gaiman didn't plagiarize Tanith Lee (I have a bunch of Lee first editions, I interviewed her once, I know her work). There are a bunch of writers who did gods stuff before him (Adams, Leiber) BUT it does show something I've noticed that a lot of writers from the 80s and 70s have been forgotten-

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Happy Birthday to the legendary Takeshi Kitano 北野武

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