you're putting your journalism behind a paywall, handing 20% of your revenue to Substack, and requiring people to hand some of their hardearned money (which they're paying to you as a subscription fee) to nazis and sex traffickers in order to read what you have to say.
that is profoundly fucked up.
i'm going to be beating my "get off substack" drum again.
because seriously: get off substack.
stop helping literal sex traffickers make money.
"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."
Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.
...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.
i got away from this for a few weeks but back at it this week. really enjoying it and have the follow up wonder engine ordered
New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it.
Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
to be clear, ai does suck
my cats though? super cute
my cats marley and mj sleeping on the couch. marley is laying on his side while mj is laying perpendicular stretched out and partially draped over marley’s side
instead of going on about how ai sucks here’s something happier, a picture of my cats when they were young and would snuggle together
screenshot from today’s workout showing its elapsed time at 30 minutes and 4 seconds
screenshot showing my apple exercise goal for the day at 29/30 minutes
impressive that apple somehow messed this up
i think it's a good day to say i'm working on a potential series of blog posts (not about software but instead video game related). that way when i change my mind i can be like haha april fools? whether it's a prank or not will come down to how i feel after finishing the intro post
It's tailored to fit my needs but if it looks like it may fit your needs too, you can sign up at forecastyourbudget.com to be notified when it launches next month
I had been using a spreadsheet for my finances since 2010 or so because no budget app did what I wanted. The spreadsheet didn't do everything either so I built Forecast Your Budget with #ElixirLang and Phoenix LiveView
my cat mj laying on her back belly exposed. her head is tilted looking up as if to ask “can i have some belly rubs?” why yes, yes you can
my cat marley laying on the top platform of a tall cat tree next to a window. he is diligently looking out to make sure no pesky birds come by. if they do he’s going to give them a stern chirping
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll check them out!
Seriously?
We’re totally in a golden age of queer & queernormative fiction, it’s fucking dope. Malka Older’s Mimicking of Known Successes is a sapphic noir detective mystery series set in the future on Saturn or Jupiter. If you like SFF mysteries w/some romance Kara R Jorgensen’s Reanimator Mysteries are A+
Kingfisher is truly excellent! David R Slayton has a queer adult fantasy series that’s excellent, 2nd book coming out this summer (I’m starting the eARC soon). The first is called Dark Moon Shallow Sea—after the Sun god’s worshippers overthrow the Moon goddess of the dead, one survivor finds a box..
i'm not really sure what i'll like book-wise so i really appreciate all the suggestions!
i went with clockwork boys and three chapters in amy has not steered me wrong
as someone who is trying to read more, this book made it really easy. and dare i say, i might read it again?
me buying books i plan to read eventually
if your ai chatbot is coercing people into killing themselves you should go to jail
you can't go wrong with anything by t. kingfisher
awesome thank you i'll check her books out!
do you have other fiction books you recommend? i keep buying books that come across my timeline (fiction and non-fiction) because i want to read more but this is the first book that's got me in a good reading habit. i'm close to being done with it and want to keep that habit going
apple has once again restored deleted text threads...
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Since the pronouns labeler is gone.
what rudy & team are doing with atproto decentralization over at blacksky is much more exciting than bluesky and it’s not even close
I think it's time. #soon
