@roanna
Comedy novelist/gossip columnist for imaginary people. Was once called the Dorothy Parker of Austin, TX. They might have been drunk. She/Her but not H.E.R (sadly). Member of Armadillo Authors Society. Learn more at https://www.armadilloauthorssociety.com/
Watch this clip.
Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
Pennsylvania has some of the highest utility costs and gas prices in the country with some of the lowest wages. Like it’s outrageous.
I’m in for Team Guillotine.
When her army of parents, teachers, and librarians overthrow plan kicks off I'm going to volunteer for oubliette duty. Unless there's a guillotine team...
how much to give me a piece of software that pretty much works and then never talk to me again?
It’s hard to describe how bad it feels to know the qualify of the second half of my life will be so much worse than the first
No joke, I think this might be one of the most important roles for tech-savvy Millennials/Gen Xers.
We caught a glimpse of an amazing world, one that was almost entirely free of corporate or political influence because the suits hadn’t caught on yet. We could talk with ANYONE in an age of landlines
My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“
I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.
As I’ve been saying for six years, you cannot decide to shut off empathy in just one lil area (all of disabled and vulnerable people.) Endangering people for your convenience and comfort is a drug you do not do recreationally.
Tuberville is a disgrace and should step down.
@TheChiefNerd on X posted an interview video on X: SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
nothing makes me happier to be an Old than hearing chodes like altman discuss their visions of the future
Quote skeet with the gif that shows up when you search your name
There are many things worth more than millions of dollars. Like the land that's been in your family forever.
Tall succulent against blue sky
Diesel truck stop under fluffy white clouds
An old grain mill under wispy clouds
Clouds desert plants yellow grass wire fence
Way out west
A fine piece of writing here.
"There are days I sit in silence and let the noise win. There are days I count the hours until evening, when the truck leaves and the alley quiets, briefly, like a body that has stopped struggling but hasn’t yet rested."
I’m not sure I can go to Chili’s any less than I already do, but I’ll try.
He was going to.
"non-diverse participants" is fucking crazy
And journal editors should never invite comment again from someone who submits an AI-generated peer review.
you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths
from this recent Dorsey interview:
(For the children who do not know, Berg was the OG TV showrunner—she created the very first family sitcom, The Goldbergs: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)
the team italy shot of espresso home run celebration is really good but it does have me thinking which mlb clubs are coffee coded, which are tea coded, and which are energy drink coded
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•no pay
•no pub timeline
•no rights reversion
•rights grabs (e.g. merch)
•overly fussy and/or snarky guidelines that make any reference to how hard editors work and how grateful writers should therefore be
"We realized we were making ourselves deeply vulnerable to a class action suit that absolutely would have wiped us out financially so we're going to find a way to do this without actual human names attached."
I honestly can’t decide what’s more humiliating:
that a billionaire is buying $145 shoes for top American officials,
that powerful men in the White House are apparently expected to wear them with gratitude,
or that this is now a news story about the leadership of the most powerful country on Earth.
This reads like they just found out that a lawsuit would stand...
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Haven’t read it since I translated it. I should fix that.
I think every single day about “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
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