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This reads like they just found out that a lawsuit would stand...

IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day!

The grooviest day of all.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

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UK only.

Nearly three-quarters of the way there already folks, come on and join the party! This is going to be *so good*.

'negligent homicide because your remote drivers are working 30 cars at once and can't sleep' is an incredibly Leverage-coded story. Also given we don't have an active CSI series right now, I'm giving i maybe a year before 9-11 or some flavour of NCIS does this.

TIRED: Was my book a big enough deal to be stolen by Anthropic?

INSPIRED: Am I a big enough deal to have my identity stolen by Grammarly?

Dan Abnett & INJ Culbard on the sci-fi comic you SHOULD be reading! — In Orbit Every Wednesday YouTube video by 2000 AD

In Orbit THIS Wednesday!

@molcher.bsky.social and @cuntersthompson.bsky.social are joined by Dan Abnett and @injculbard.bsky.social to celebrate the return of BRINK!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l6_...

As I commented on the video, only yesterday I picked up the first three collected volumes of Brink from my friendly LCS, swayed by the enthusiasm of your reprobate podcast droids, so this chat is perfectly timed.

Amazing foresight they had by calling themselves grasshoppers.

Oxford friends: kiddo is interested in going to Oxford for uni and we are visiting in the next few weeks. Anyone have advice on the unmissable? Have already booked Bod & walking tour and entrance to a couple colleges

Understood. Even our niche little Wiki for our niche little software product is being scraped to within an inch of its life, and I cannot imagine what use training an AI on *that* information is going to be to anyone, but bots gonna bot. 😫

Dear everyone,

As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.

A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

just had all 100g of god's fiercest warrior the weasel in a standoff with 24000g of Husky

the weasel did her telling off then went back to her den. Rainbow was not impressed.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Group of People You Know Just Made a Great Point

One of my favourite literary put-downs is from Douglas Adams's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Zaphod Beeblebrox, who often reacts in erratic ways, claims to be “pretty dangerous when I'm cornered,” to which Ford Prefect responds “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”

The trouble with "human authored" stickers is that the AI shills will use them. Those who've displayed zero morality when it comes to theft won't start now.

Best way is to ban AI usage in the arts entirely.

In the early days of Claude I had somebody telling me that the LLM lets him program in languages he doesn't know. I asked how he plans to debug in a language he can't code in or read and haven't heard back.

A vibrant movie poster for "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" features a bearded man looking upward as a chaotic explosion of wires, snacks, small robots, and various trinkets erupts from his head against a bright teal background.

The movie poster for Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" depicts a man’s smiling head erupting with a burst of bright light that reveals fantastical imagery of a winged warrior and a samurai against a cloudy sky, contrasted with a bleak, industrial city below.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, Verbinski's first film in a decade, is available for digital download (at least in the US).

Time to discover a fun crazy weird sci-fi film, somewhere between Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) and Brazil (1985), with a message that doesn't bother with subtext.👍

oh i...i wasn't prepared honestly whew Lord

Grammarly sucks, pass it on.

The only official continuation of the Hugo Award-winning TV series!

All 12 issues of #TheExpanse Dragon Tooth collected in a single 368-page hardcover!

On sale now! 🚀

ISBN: 979-8892157377

Ordered from Page 45 this morning. 😁👍

ComicLab meme: "Don't stick with a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it." — Aubrey DeGraf

Wise words

It's been pointed out by so many people, how did you not spot this yourselves before it even made it out into the world, especially when it's being used to promo a scheme like this? You need to get better if anyone's going to trust your ability to moderate it.

Evergreen skeet, frankly. 😬

If you're really going to do The Authority, and you do Apollo and Midnighter right, you're going to piss off so many people it'll be hilarious. I double dare you. 😁

Well, "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" is some of the most impressively unhinged sci-fi I've seen in a good long while. Highly recommended. 😁👌

Bet the price has stayed the same. I've noticed similar with cereal bars from various brands. The bars get steadily smaller, the number in a pack has gone from 6, to 5, sometimes even just 4. Fuckers. 🤨

A young Kurt Russell with Robert Vaughn in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." episode, "The Finny Foot Affair" (1964).

Oh wow, I had no idea...

This entire long thread AND its embedded ancestor is proof that hell is empty and all the devils have dating app profiles