iconic behaviour tbh 😂

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

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The Photonic Effect “What space opera is meant to be. A brilliantly complex novel about love, loss, and war.” —K.B. Wagers A starship captain and her crew face conspi...

THE PHOTONIC EFFECT releases tomorrow! To tempt you into preordering, let's deep dive into the initial pitch of "Voyager x DS9 x Mass Effect" and how its influences all shake out on the characters and world. THREAD

(And the all-important preorder links!)

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ph...

I noticed this, too! There’s a heap of Buffy-related Easter eggs in it

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'Am I going to die today?' Finish inquiries before Camp Mystic reopens | Opinion Texas should not allow Camp Mystic to reopen unless investigators determine the Eastlands’ conduct on July 4 met the minimum standard of care for a summer camp.

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Nearly 80 students forced into 400+ push-ups at school, many diagnosed with permanent kidney damage, lawsuit says A dozen families in Texas filed a lawsuit against a charter school after nearly 20 students suffered potentially life-threatening injuries in February.

this is unhinged www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/04/17/n...

a spherical chonk and his emotional support sock

A demonstration at the Dilley Concentration Camp in Texas. Children and families have been imprisoned in the concentration camp in Texas for months, and all they’ve experienced is abuse, neglect, mistreatment, undrinkable water and moldy food. #SHUTDOWNDILLEY

Credit: @mommmaliz.bsky.social

being hungover in your forties is such bullshit

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あなたの声が力になります She Held the Evidence Alone. Japan's Publishers Have Said Nothing. We Are Asking Why.

c.org/TWNY6YSm2M

reading honkaku novels has taken me to places I wouldn't go with a gun*

*watching poorly-subtitled ad-strewn rips of japanese horror films on dailymotion

even more depressing is the fact that I found this piece because I saw it on FB, googled it to share a non-FB link, discovered the version that came up was longer, slightly differently worded and by a different author, and realised the FB one was from an AI page that had plagiarized it wholesale

in the land of hollaback, where the hips don't lie

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Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like Is America next?

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Anthropic Settlement Update: 91.3 Percent of Books Claimed in Settlement - The Authors Guild Yesterday, class counsel in the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit filed papers apprising the court that 440,490 of the 482,460 eligible works had been claimed—a remarkable 91.3 percent rate (the typical clas...

New on the Anthropic settlement from the @authorsguild.org : over 91% (!!) of eligible books were claimed as of the claims deadline (I would not have predicted such a high number!)

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Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.

We should be learning from other countries...

If you’re a Hachette author you should be talking to your editors and teams about this. If they’re using AI to counter AI, it’s still AI. And it may also be giving your work to the machine, serving it up on a contractual platter.

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breaking news: local animal has been cruelly denied cat treats for at least four hours, is in danger of wasting away

Pursuit of Jade, which I just finished!

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