they really need to start matching people with the jobs they want to do

that’s so awful (and greedy and thoughtless) of them!

i have been very, very, veeeeeeery slowly working on a book proposal about layoffs on a human level if anybody has an experience they'd like to talk about!

lots of Smart Politics Knowers on here could benefit *in general* from developing empathy that they can apply to situations they haven’t encountered in their narrow slice of experience (video games and movies)

just a reminder to my friendly leftists & liberals on here: if you’re going to speculate about future AI-caused layoffs etc please do so on a human level, your comrades aren’t merely job numbers

no offense but it’s weird to post in the abstract like this about human beings who are going to suffer/are already suffering from these layoffs. it’s not just theoretical speculation about electoral politics and the economy, it’s devastation/lack of healthcare for lots of real people

brown border terrier on a grey-green couch grinning with his eyes closed

tfw you have an upset stomach and decide to ruin everybody else’s day

Yes, as a member of the press core, I am attending the Imperial Press Gala, and not reporting on the successes of the Rebel Alliance in favor of Imperial Propaganda.

HOWEVER, I will be carrying a little rock that says "The Emperor is smelly poop" in my pocket while I do so, so I AM doing my part.

right, I think we would have let GRRM off the hook with one major supply chain problem or peasant uprising over troops robbing supplies etc etc. just make it clear you thought about it and it’s fine

and again, not everything has to match up, Westeros is just huge and that’s fine….except what are those supply lines like??? how are the peasants being requisitioned/taxed for this???

that being said, if a writer bitches about someone ELSE’s tax collection, their economy better werq down to the military requisition orders

the thing about fantasy, you see, is that it’s made up

it’s okay if technology/farming/tax collection/military patterns etc in fantasy novels aren’t perfectly “realistic” to a similar historical period as long as the author is reasonably trying, and also not making implicit or explicit claims to realism

Iran opening the strait was the easiest layup in the treaty talks so far and the US couldn’t close

Editing Services My goal as an editor is to help bring forth the best version of your book, not to impose my own ideas or preferences on your story. I edit nearly every speculative fiction genre and am intimately f…

I'm offering developmental and copy editing services! If you or someone you know wants far better editing than AI can provide, hit me up either here or through my website: whatsmacksaid.com/services/

And because I'm starting out, if you mention this post I'd be happy to cut the price in *half.*

funny bc the last literary panic (like a month ago) was over the handful of tiktokers who HATE 3rd person POV. there was a whole pearl-clutching article about it and everything

not the point but im so team nanny

thinking about how on the rare occasions that working class interviews do happen (in mainstream news), the subjects are invariably trump voters

it does make sense as fantasy…but only if everyone has given up on being comfortable and survives on the dream of someday being rich

anyway I would write about it if someone would pay me and be patient, long-term unemployment kind of ruined my life for a while tho

the reasons are 1) it’s scary because it could happen to youuu 2) americans are primed to think that the unemployed are lazy 3) there’s always someone who has it worse it’s easy to pretend that the white collar unemployed have privilege somehow

there are stories about the fear/temporary reality of AI taking jobs, but little about how Trump’s bad economy, destruction of the public sector, and unfettered corporate excess has left individuals (real human beings!) unemployed for months or years. it’s barely made it into fictional media either

interesting how one or the primary domestic stories of the last 2 years has been layoffs and the horrible job market, yet almost no media outlet covers it on a human level

“but the republicans” - the dems are voting for this shit!!!

congress doesn’t need a war powers resolution they already have war powers. they just don’t have any guts

ok that WAS cool but i think a synthboard could have done the same

i’m not joking i seriously don’t know who or what Diplo is. fashion or music maybe?

looks like Spike from Buffy set out to be an artist but failed to get that all-important fellowship

i’ll bite what’s Diplo

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):