Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?
A variation on subtitled dialogue from an episode of The Simpsons where Troy McClure is saying "don't kid yourself Jimmy if a cow ever got the chance he'd eat you and everyone you care about" but this image replaces "cow" it with "celebrity." In the image a cartoon child in a button up shirt, bowtie, and shorts looks up at a cartoon man wearing cow skin pattern chaps and other traditional cowboy wear: 10 gallon hat, red kerchief, vest, cowboy boots, spurs. Hard to tell where they are because there are caution stripes behind them but they are probably in a factory that kills and processes cattle.
In this article, you will find NOLC labor leader Laurie Wimmer:
- conspiring to undermine the city charter with a Stoel Rives lawyer,
- lobbying to keep progressive councilors out of city leadership,
- failing to report her lobbying after Q1 2025,
- calling DSA the “MAGA of the left”,
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The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
House House, the video game developers who brought you Untitled Goose Game, have a new world for you to explore called Big Walk. And Portland studio Panic want you to come play it in their downtown offices for FREE. It made me dizzy but I'd go again.
This story contains a porn-texting police chief, a money-hungry police union, a nasty mayor’s race, a man in a Waldo costume and the phrase “pig pig pig” — your weekend read from The Western Edge.
A Tumblr post from 2018 by kaylewiswrites-deactivated2018 How I think I'm writing: Using eye contact, or lack thereof, to display emotions such as intimacy, shock, denial, or nervousness. How I'm actually writing: She looked at me, and I looked away. I tried to look back, but she was already looking at the sky. "Look," she sighs, looking back at me for a split second. "I don't know how to say this." We looked at each other and time stopped, but then she looked her lookers at something else to look at, looking tired.
Picked up my novel again after setting it aside for a few years while I finished grad school and this was the basic experience of rereading it:
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
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Next week in The Atlantic, probably
The headline is great. Almost like all these good kids were sitting around being wholesome, and slurs started snapping and cartwheeling like it was Westside Story and overwhelmed the youths.
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
And beyond cultivating future readers, literacy changes how people interact with the world. Not just culturally, but how well they interact with financial, legal, and political systems which have huge impacts on them.
When we talk about what it means to be a writer it’s easy to think about how we support other writers, bookstores, journals, literary organizations, or libraries. But I think general literacy is a huge issue we don’t think about enough.All writers should have a vested interest in this.
sounds to me like other cities have some catching up to do
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This is the slop he wanted to copyright.
"Even if [the Supreme Court] later overturns the Copyright Office's test in another case, it will be too late. The Copyright Office will have irreversibly and negatively impacted AI development and use in the creative industry during critically important years."
Good.
Bill Gates in suit hands clasped in front of chest intently explaining to someone
Bill Gates Clarifies He Only Hung Out with Child Sex Trafficker for Fun, Light-hearted Conversation: tinyurl.com/3ek228xc
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So sorry to hear that. I hope you have time and space for healing.
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Writing a book is such a nightmare. That's the fun part!
A button with a drawing of a frog on it with the word “yikes” above it.
My husband bought a button maker and this is the first button I made.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is trying to expand the state’s already massive tax breaks for data centers.
Data center companies are already saving nearly $500,000,000 in local property taxes this year in Oregon.
Now the Governor wants to double key tax breaks from 5 years to 10.
Portland’s wealthy business class is so desperate to codify and mandate the very thing that’s driving communities across the country into the ditch.
Ever increasing police budgets + austerity + refusing to tax rich = disaster.
When Gavin Newsom says "the Democrats need to be more culturally normal" with "less focus on pronouns" what he's actually saying is "the trannies aren't normal and don't normalize them."
Congratulations!
I got the call from @laneheymont.bsky.social this morning, but this is the first time I've seen it in print: GIRL IN THE CREEK is a Stoker finalist for Best Novel!
I have to look at it again, because it's almost impossible to believe my eyes.
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