Oh hey. New call. Open now.
I have very little personal writing time anymore, and I want everyone to feel my pain. So. Write a positive speclit story (or two) in 60 minutes and send it to me, pretty please! 400 words max. Deets in the link 👇👇
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Macbeth: SHIT
Naming Clarkesworld -- who's been at the forefront of the anti-AI brigade since forever -- as one of the prestige mags that's worth having written for is equal parts sad and utterly unsurprising.
Also nobody who gets into The New Yorker (THE NEW YORKER!!!!) is writing for $40/hr, please.
Come visit us and I'll run a DnD one shot for you! Check two boxes off at once.
My Top 10 New (to me) Movies of 2025:
The Brutalist
Conclave
Destroy all Monsters
Flow
KPop: Demon Hunters
Little Amelie or The Character of Rain
Millennium Actress
One Battle After Another
Wake Up Dead Man
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Campaign two had PC lesbians! And a gay PC relationship with a not-evil Drow NPC! Campaign three had more lesbians, more tortured gays as PCs! And THEN they got Brennan.
So I'm not sure how you can be more pro-queer than PCs playing queer characters for YEARS. I say as a big fan of BLeeM, too.
And it's not like Matt Mercer and the CR crew campaigns 1-3 were bastions of anti-woke, no-relationships, hardcore monster grinding sorts of players, either.
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Ok, so, uh. Something came up.
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What appears to be a kid-drawn poster about monkeys, saying we should stop cutting down trees because that is their home, and that we should donate to the Jane Goodall institute.
Ok hell yeah. Some kid (presumably) put their whole ass into this public education campaign. I’ve seen multiple stapled on poles near my house. I love the energy.
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
The IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete as their preferred gender since the 2004 games, and without needing surgery since 2015. If trans women had such an overwhelming advantage in sport, a trans woman should have won a medal by now?
Trans bans are fascist and pointless. Let her compete.
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
The frustrating thing with the Sensible Centrists who just want there be "a conversation" about trans athletes is that already happened and continues to happen. Standards have been getting tested and tweaked for years, not often done apolitically but done. What they mean is that no one asked them.
As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War
Gotham Writers is currently doing a survey of how writers are using AI and if you’re a writer it’s probably worth filling it out.
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Okay, here you go:
(Side note: this was drawn with nothing planned, so I apologize if anything is wrong or offensive!)
Once there were brook trouts in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. They were epic as fuck, and for the win.
I'm starting to wonder if AI is just a way for these tech companies to admit they're in a bad way while still looking good for shareholders. The stocks are great, but the actual reason behind said stocks are made of wet cardboard.
Also fantastic! I love anything Arthurian, and these are just steeped in so much magic.
Post a book you love from the 1970s!
Just a wee bit (see: unbelievably) excited to be published in Nimrod's upcoming issue!!!
We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson. 1/5
The tiniest, smallest juvenile praying mantis perched on the edge of a railing.
Today I came home to see the tiniest little praying mantis on my railing. Hello, little guy!
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
It's like watching Romeo and Juliet, you know where it's going and what's going to happen, but it still gets you anyways.
