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Seems pretty clear the BS discourse among journalists is just a manifestation of their anxiety at the death of twitter, which many of them built their whole careers around. (A few are honest about this). But you're not going to shame "X" back into health. The structural changes Musk made were fatal.

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This a basic and perhaps dumb question, but is there anyway I can purchase an audiobook and just get MP3 files (to put on an old mp3 player). Or is it all just Audible app type things now?

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Except this to get far worse once our information spaces get overrun by GenAI programs controlled by far-right billionaires who will quite certainly use them for propaganda purposes. (We've already seen this with Musk and Grok)

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METALLIC REALMS "builds an elegant homage to imagination." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/11/s...

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Perfect timing! Some lines from this wonderful text will definitively be quoted (and attributed!) in my presentation about AI and art at this weekend's upcoming NORCON (Norwegian festival for SF/F). From @thelincoln.bsky.social

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Gamify this, gamify that, how about you boys try playing the quiet game and whoever is silent the longest for the rest of this damn car ride is the winner.

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For sale: babby shoes. How is formed?

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Best readers only. Other readers need not apply.

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It's a very simple thing, but putting my phone away and watching actual movies (or good TV shows) instead of scrolling my phone while watching whatever dramatically improved the experience.

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I dunno if it is woke or anti-woke, but this trend in art is annoying as hell. You cannot write worrying about your worst, stupidest reader without annoying all of your best readers.

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RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSAo...

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RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSAo...

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r e m i n d e r

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since i'm apparently already feeling angry and vindictive today it feels like a good time to ask where the "don't call Trump fascist" debate has landed, you know, post-secret police

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METALLIC REALMS "builds an elegant homage to imagination." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/11/s...

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100% the plan here is to INCREASE workloads with AI as the excuse. "Surely you can handle twice as many classes with twice as many students in each now that AI saves you time on grading and syllabus planning." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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arnade is rich finance guy who made a hobby of taking bad photographs of drug addicts to go along with his barely sophomoric sociological ideas

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Absolutely true. If it wasn't for an NDA, the things I could tell you.

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Really enjoyed doing this interview. Check it out if you want to hear me talk about science fiction, novel writing, and challenging yourself in artistic projects.

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Libertarian tech bros discovering big corporations are less efficient than government www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

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i chatted with @thelincoln.bsky.social about his excellent new novel, metallic realms, for the newsletter. i think it was a really interesting conversation about novel writing, challenging yourself, and more!

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beyond the thin veneer of concern behind all of these opeds is the much simpler truth that their authors desperately want to describe something that is very obviously their problem (fewer people want to post in the venues they like more) as though it were our problem

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this is genuinely insane. we’re going to need to jail people involved with this administration

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It is genuinely unsafe for average people to use Twitter and speak freely. It appears to be this administration's primary intelligence gathering operation.

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"Won't someone think of the driverless megacorp surveillance cars?!?!" No. Not really.

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I’m not upset. I’m just here to convince you why the website you’re enjoying using sucks, actually. hey where are you going. come back here! I work for the Washington Post!! you have to respect me!!!

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the issue is not just ICE. we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now. we cannot do both

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New* fave piece of Jesus’ Son lore just dropped. (*from BASS 1992 Contrib Notes) “I read the story in front of an audience in lowa City, and afterward a physician told me he'd been to a slide lecture at that same hospital… they'd shown a picture of the man with the knife sticking out of his head.”

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Congrats, all!

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"I’ve always bristled at the blanket ban on adverbs. They are a part of our language.… Why would we want to limit ourselves by eliminating an entire part of speech from our toolkit?" Agree. We too hate general proscriptions (and prescriptions) for writers. countercraft.substack.com/p/defending-...

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If we had a functioning fourth estate, maybe someone could force Trump to explain why he let a "big-time drug addict" run half the government (or force Musk to explain why he introduced his children to a pedophile)

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