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tamasrev.bsky.social
Reader, writer, programmer, father of two, sometimes mother
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I love these genAI jockeys who speak of democratising art. 'Art' isn't this cabal with hidden techniques. Everything you need to know is in the open. Heck, composition alone is quite the multiplier for even modest talent, and you can learn it. No, what needs democratisation is basic income.

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Dear Europe, Trump completely melts under pushback. So push back.

submitted 5 days ago • 737 comments

When I first read The Library of Babel from Borges, I found it a bit cheesy. It was nice, how accurately it described the Turing machine, but from a Comp Sci background there wasn't much else in the story. Luckily, I read Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote before Gen AI became a thing.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Some days I don't write the story, but the diary. Not so artistic, but improves my mental health.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Strange days, I find even The Umbrella Academy painful to watch.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

By the time I figured it out, hardly anybody remembers that controversial question, but anyway, here is why: Women are choosing the bear minimum.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Sauna is the only palce I know, where it is socially acceptable to bury your head in your hands with no apparent reason.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

When I see a successful author bitching that they don't follow another writers legacy, it makes me wonder, do they not know? Or do they know something that I don't? Or maybe I just don't have to follow anyone with an inflated ego just because they write?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Any recs for sedatives for parental meeting? I'm looking for the kind of drugs that don't make me a zombie, but makes sure that I don't stand up and start yelling at the head of class.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out the solution to the Fermi Paradox is that technological civilisations use all their resources trying to build a marginally better sales bot.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

After 7 pages or so, I found the voice that I'm happy about. I'll have to edit the first chunk more throughly than the rest of the story. Last time I found the right voice after the 1st paragraph. Anyway, the only trick for writing is ... writing. There is no royal way.

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1. Some years back I was taking a cab in Chicago and the taxi driver, discovering I was a writer, complained that all his young son wanted to read was comics. I made the point to him that reading comics was reading, and that his kid was taking pleasure in reading and at his age, that's important.

submitted 18 days ago • 77 comments

Since my father's passing, I developed a low tolerance of bullshit. I start to think that this is not a liability but a resource, even if my family doesn't like it.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The Kalliope story line from Sandman reveals more of the author, than anyone would've guessed, apparently.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

My latest: Trump's Gaz-a-Lago won't happen as he proposes, because it's a nonstarter with all the parties needed to make it work. But while Trump's solution is bad, he is right that the last two decades of international Gaza policy have been an abysmal failure and we should demand something better.

submitted 24 days ago • 19 comments

Not to sound cruel but they did attack her like if she was talking like he is

submitted 24 days ago • 669 comments

Based on the smiley reactions I got on the daily status meeting, I conclude that skeletons falling out of the closet is a Hungarian idiom that I happened to translate it to English.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking about all the leftists who campaigned against Harris who helped this man win.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

If the tech industry had worked this way 130 years ago, bread would have radios in it.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

The more I use GenAI coding tools, the more I am convinced keeping to "traditional" software engineering practices is what works most productive here. As in 10x more productive. E.g. - Small changes - Test that the change works before moving on - (unit) tests wherever you can

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments