WEEK 151 SHOWS
SUNDAY 7pm - KING KONG (1933)
9pm - SKY MED: SPUN OUT
Preshow begins at 6:30pm and wheels up at 7pm to Skull Island. All times central on Twitch.
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Here's what's coming up, class-wise, for the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers! Please share if you've enjoyed one of its classes in the past. :)
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FINALLY
Spectacular!
I’m still appalled by this. We need real ethics reform of SCOTUS—this should be an impeachable offense.
Awesome! Love the Hollywood.
It’s like everyone of these techbro oligarchs read Stephenson’s “Snow Crash” and decided to model themselves on the billionaire villain of that cyberpunk novel.
Such good news! We lost Bill Bixby and so many others to it as well.
We saw it with friends at a cineplex in downtown Portland and absolutely loved it, having been MSTies since 1992. I was (and am) a fan of the original “This Island Earth,” but loved the riff nonetheless.
HUGS! Heedless is one of those words I remember, even before this, but now it is so on point. Another, which Robert Reich used, was ”knave”—which I thought meant fool, but actually means a dishonest or unscrupulous man.
In today’s TKZ post, James Scott Bell shares writing rejection and success stories #writingcommunity
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There is, save for the current administration.
Happy 80th to the remarkable Mr. Curry, who has brought us so much joy.
A massive stone arch straddles the horizon. The milky white stone texture of the "rainbow" stands against misty lavender sky. Gray-blue lines mark randomly patterns of interconnected lines and shapes. Circle, egg, broken ladder, swirl, hour glass—none of the shapes or lines repeat. Transparent spheres, each containing a solitary flame, float toward the arch. A long causeway extends out across a channel of blue water to the center of the arch. The channel splits what appears to be a futuristic city as seen from very high up. Skyscraper-like structures appear tiny against a stretch of flat concrete as they cast long shadows that run parallel to the horizon.
In this week’s newsletter, Michael provides advice on airbrushing, makes a statement on humanity’s long walk off a short pier, and discusses his one true homage to Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps.
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A Cybertruck being towed in downtown LA
Sometimes the visual metaphors just arrive on their own
(License plate number obfuscated by Google's magic eraser, image otherwise unaltered. Reposted to clarify since some of all y'all were way too excited to scream "AI SLOP"in the comments)
He hates polls such as this one which show such disapproval but his behavior won’t change. Threatening war crimes again.
This was indeed taken from Oregon, just west of Portland.
Venus shines brightly in the twilight sky, right of a fir tree and to the left of the Moon’s waxing credit.
Venus and the one-day old Flower Moon in tonigh’s twilight sky #astronomy #astrophotography
Today is the three year book birthday of ZEN AND THE ART OF STARSHIP MAINTENANCE by @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social! 🎉🎂🚀
If Artemis II and PROJECT HAIL MARY left you craving more hopeful scifi, Buckell's 15 galactic adventures exploring humanity's cosmic wonder are made for you. Check them out below! ⬇️
Hey Portland people! Don't miss Cascade Writer's next Chat & Chill event with @daviddlevine.com
Saturday 4/18, 2pm - 4pm
Rose City Book Pub
Join our Discord to stay up to date on future Chat & Chill events! More info can be found on our website, cascadewriters.org
Domestic short-hair gives look of dismay.
Totoro’s default expression is supreme feline dismay #cats #caturday
My wish for every AI company and every company using AI:
It’s really… interesting, how a lot of “authors” who went all-in on the plagiarism machines thinking it could be an infinite-money glitch (especially if they got bot KU “readers”) are now pivoting to offer “formatting” or “submit to distributor/aggregators” services.
UGH. Makes me doubly glad I left FB at the start of last year.
They really don't get it. I'm with you about being happier no longer worrying about those folks and the indie spaces they inhabit. For me, the whole "business first" model is absolutely inimical to my own creativity.
As a reader, I don't want AI "summarizing" or "recapping" what I've read. Once upon a time I kept a list of phone numbers in my head. I'm now down to two, my own and my wife's. I don't want to lose my ability to recall what I've read, especially while reading.
As a writer, I don't see using AI as inevitable at all. For myself, it's never. As an older creative, I need to not only maintain my own cognitive and creative abilities but to actively improve them.
My post today at TKZ provides a checklist for self-publishing #writingcommunity #publishing #selfpublishing
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