If you are an author or editor at *ANY* level -- from beginner to jaded old veteran like me, click through to the article Todd's posting about, take 2 minutes, and email them to let them know you opt out. Will save us all time having to mount yet a 577th class-action suit down the road.
"I do not believe a prototype is worth more than spending time on product thinking and understanding why we'd even build it."
My life would have been much better if more people heard this lol.
Her vote aside, among white people across the political spectrum, it IS taboo to talk openly about their politics.
This is a grift designed to maintain white supremacy across political divide. To keep them communing along whiteness with their enemies & ideological opponents.
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.
No. I’d argue that misinformation via social media manipulation is the biggest threat facing functional democracies around the globe right now.
We can’t spread slop when it benefits our side. Nobody knows what is real anymore and it’s a giant fucking problem that impacts every aspect of our lives.
@masnick.com Everyone seems to think this is AI slop.
Has to be an impersonator because "Chuck Schumer who can't cook a cheeseburger" is the funniest thing I've ever heard
his bloody mother defended him. she SHOULD have been alive to see this. disgraceful
I have a continuing a mission of trying to trick Jim into writing an indie RIFTS.
lol definite "Allow Myself To Introduce Myself" wording there.
Grotesque. Get off Substack if you can. Let them know how you feel about this, at the very least!
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
I think you might like Assassination Classroom.
Basically anytime you find yourself looking for a synonym for "stupid:"
1. You're probably about to grab an ableist slur, and
2. You should instead find a word that's more precise.
Do you mean ridiculous? Shallow? Specious? Absurd? Careless? Inconsistent? Obvious? Cliched? Watered down?
I read on Reddit that the thought was they couldn't tell the difference between singing and talking on the phone... so all mouth movements are banned... which is worse all round.
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
few things i enjoy more than linkedin weirdos getting owned this bad
And that's when it clicked for me. Why Black people are so consistent even though we are also deeply disappointed by Democrats. Because we know what the other option is. We know how bad it can get. We're able to do an actual comparison of the options. While many other people are just guessing.
This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.
what people perceive as rightwing anti-intellectualism and anti-expertise trends are 100% seeping into the overly-online-left in the form of whatever this is and the related ‘if stories are about a topic or character they are endorsing that and if you try to analyze it you are also endorsing it”
I've seen this episode of Doctor Who... it was alright I guess.
Saw this article a few days ago - only reason I knew who it was www.bbc.com/news/article...
Matthew Lillard is a national god damned treasure, not only as an enjoyable as fuck actor, but as a D&D ambassador and co-owner with his friends of Beadle & Grimm's (makers of the best D&D accessories on the market.) The only person who looks worse for Quentin shitting on him is fucking Quentin.
So next time people wanna ask about why authors don’t talk about their personal finances online to strangers let’s all remember how strangers online behave to writers.
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
If you like cute cats with stupidly brilliant names, photographed amongst very pretty Oxford architecture, this article from @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is for you: oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
