Laura Anne Gilman

But the Skynet Bros can’t claim that they have the majority. And right now, I’m interested in taking that point away from them.

Enough that they’re willing to risk antagonizing this current regime, which they have not been, previously. Hence, as I said, interesting.

Some day we’ll get audiobooks made of that one. I just refuse to go the AI route, obviously.

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

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...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

“Surprising” to who?

Do you know where your birth certificate is? How about your passport? Do you even have one? Millions of Americans lack ready access to these documents, which they’d need to register to vote under the SAVE Act. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4bLkoR1

Microsoft filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Trump administration.

While I know that it’s in self interest (they’ve invested in Anthropic), Microsoft also hold a lot of government contracts this filing could put at risk. So this is a very interesting choice.

GFDI. *pours one out for the inimitable Lee Martindale*

A bright, fierce light is gone from the world.

That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.

Per a national NBC News poll,
“Just 26% of voters say they have positive feelings about AI, compared with 46% who hold negative views.”

Keep up the talking points, folks. We’re reaching people!

Uncanny Times Huntsmen, according to the Church, were damned, their blood unclean, unholy. Yet for Rosemary and Aaron Harker the Church was less important than being ready to stand against the Uncanny as not being ...

I’m so in love with the job that the audiobook narrators did with the first two books in the series - brother and sister monster hunters in 1913 America.

www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/u...

You had your chance December-February, Winter, and you snoozed on it. C’mon….

We must never lose sight of how absolutely fucking hallucinatorily batshit this is. The other guy says when you surrender now? That means *you* are the one suing for peace

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Mississippi Permit Board Grants xAI’s Request for 41 Southaven Gas Turbines to Power Grok The Mississippi Environmental Quality Permit Board has granted xAI’s request to add dozens of permanent gas turbines to its facility in Southaven.

The Mississippi Environmental Quality Permit Board has granted xAI’s request to add dozens of permanent gas turbines to its facility in Southaven, Mississippi, dealing a blow to area residents who blame Elon Musk’s company for contributing to noise and air pollution in their communities.

I warned them that failure to comply with my opt out would result in flying monkeys and lawyers being invoked, and signed it “with exactly as many regards as you deserve.”

I do, in fact, feel better for it.

If you're a writing professional who'd rather *not* have random AI-generated articles attributed to you without your knowledge or approval, here's the opt-out email:

expertoptout@superhuman.com

It's insufficient and tacky af, but it's a start. Go ye thereforth, etc. etc. etc.

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

Someone with Grammarly will have to tell me whether or not I'm being faked in this cursed app and also whether the advise it gives is any other than "use the word 'fuck' more often"

www.theverge.com/tech/891822/...

Thankfully, no other president ever needed to.

Just as in 2020-2021, the reason we as a society did not end up effectively checking ever-growing police power is because moneyed interests didn't want to change the status quo, which serves them well. Not because activists used a bad slogan.

And possibly neutering.

Today I had to make the choice between an investment that would probably give me a nice chunk of change, and my ethics.

I guess it’s a good thing I’ve gotten used to the creative freelancer lifestyle, rather than the Wall Street lifestyle, I guess. Dammit.

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

There's an emerging undercurrent in AI skepticism as the EO mandating its use in K-12 education is rolled out and mothers are pushing back on untested tech ed taking over our children's learning.

No, payment for the vast majority of writers has always been low and even the most celebrated authors of the past century spent a good deal of time being broke as fuck. We have a unique set of circumstances these days driving down wages, but there was never a time when most writers did well.

Trump's assholery has killed a wonderful advanced X-ray astronomical mission that has been in development for almost a decade.

Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.

Monday? Again?

Welp, there’s nothing for it. Prep your system with a nice primal screams?

Deep breath in, thinking of all the inevitable fuckery we will have to deal with, and let it out in 3…2…

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