So yes, refusing, and yes to the investments.

If you believe a war criminal on the run from the ICC and a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and financial fraudster (who is most likely also a pedophile) are waging a moral and just war in the Middle East right now, I have some bad news for you.

You’re an idiot.

I guess I fit that particular category, lol. I hated Covid, obvs, but thrived in the stay at home environment and absolutely didn't miss in person contact with other humans at all.

Lost my dad to pancreatic cancer recently. Two months diagnosis to death. It was the most traumatic whirlwind I could ever imagine. The mRNA wouldn't have helped him, but if it can help anyone survive this awful cancer, the research should be urgent.

movie poster mockup for scifi novel Thief of Gods

In the tradition of the #scifi genre, Thief of Gods is #spaceopera that addresses themes of privilege, class, and race, but also asks questions like what is justice and who’s actually entitled to it? and How does one navigate systems specifically meant to oppress them? #posterpit #A #amquerying

Lol, no thanks, Reese. AI is slop garbage trash and so is anyone who uses it.

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

Sounds like he's expecting his "ballroom" to get bombed.

I cannot wait until the moment that moron is out of the people's house and someone can tear down all that trashy "gold" crap. I know that's beside the point, but still.

What's an all-time favorite line in a movie?

Suffering the consequences of their choices, I see. Good for them.

This GenX is part of the blue!

Also, we literally hired those folks through the process of elections to do that business FOR US.

This is why I'm sitting on those manuscripts. Publishing right now feels like a foggy minefield not worth the effort of attempting to navigate.

Same. And AI destroys the Humanities only if we let it. I, for one, am fighting back as both a college instructor and as an author, small as I am.

I hadn't seen this elsewhere, so I'm glad I saw it in your post. I picked up some good ones!

A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment.

Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here:

www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

Tina, as one of your constituents, I urge you and all Dems to go to DC without waiting to be called. Do everything you can. Be loud. Make a kerfuffle. Bring an uncomfortably white-hot spotlight onto the Republicans and this admin.

I can’t help but notice how a bunch of our representatives are posting on social media for the military to refuse illegal orders.

We wouldn’t have to worry about our military refusing illegal orders if our representatives were doing their job.

Wishing American reps/senate had even half the courage and patriotism of Korea's.

With all due respect, what do the Dems plan to do about it? Seems like a crisis that could use an immediate response. Would be nice if we had a functioning opposition.

Do it bro. Kill AI. Please.

For the life of me, I'll never understand why so many people are afraid of that man. He's such a big bully baby and the best way to deal with that is stand up to it. They have what he wants, but they just wimp out every time.

The press is looking at it all wrong. They have all the power, not the other way around because that man craves attention like a drug addict, and the press has the power to give it to him. He'd never ban them all because they're his drug. And honestly, access to him is crap anyway.

She's been corrupt since at least the 2000 election when she was Florida AG, so it's not a new thing for her.

I've been in existential writing crisis for so long I can't remember the last time I even bothered promoting because...what's even the point?? <sigh>

So far there are two and they're fairy tale retellings set in the zombie apocalypse (with an upcoming Kickstarter...) Find Hero for Hire here: amzn.to/3898njR and Hero at Heart here: amzn.to/43ulhcu Thank you! 😍

Gross. No. The utter lack of original thought and dependence on regurgitating what's already been done is exhausting and nobody asked for it. Just stop.

The Next Coup Attempt And How to Stop It

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

Been rewatching Only Murders in the Building, but SG-1 fills in the in-between.