Platforms in the small/indie web. One of them has a “Discover” page where I pick interesting posts to read. It’s quite refreshing and reminiscent of the joy of early to late aughts blogging.

Have found the Small Web and have honestly been enjoying reading more blogs again.

Omg. I miss this soooooo much.

We were stoked to have some face time with the Japanese-American actor, but his schedule prevented it. So, we opted for e-mail correspondence. A list of queries was sent his way, and we waited. The silence continued until it was quickly replaced by a ticking clock as deadlines loomed. We had the photospread, but nothing directly uttered by the 29-year-old. With a driving need for a feature, we had to be inventive. Harnessing our creative license, we pulled his verbatim from previous interviews and fed them through an AI programme to formulate new responses. Are these the words we expect from Mackenyu? Or are they just replies from an echo chamber of celebrity-hood that we want to believe is from him? With the absence of information, can new insights be gained? Nature abhors a vacuum, and in its place, a story fills the hollow. The following interview was produced with Claude, Copilot, and edited by humans.

cover of esquire singapore featuring a photo of the guy they didn't interview

Esquire Singapore posted a cover story interview that

***did not interview the subject***

***but instead***

***generated the entire interview using AI***

jfc wtaf gtfo

FOUNDRYSIDE by Robert Jackson Bennett

Foundryside kind-of review (more a reading journal), on the blog. Still trying to figure out what to do with the blog. #TeamPRH

I figure that the only way blogging right now will work for me is if I just do it for myself.

@charlesatan.bsky.social was right: I’ll be finishing all the English volumes of the Apothecary Diaries light novel this week. I’m down to LN 14 & 15. Honestly curious what my withdrawal symptoms will be like when I’m done.

Really happy that you got to join and there was interest, Kokay! Good luck on the rest of the process, and I hope the best for you, i.e., an offer!

❤️

Love this, Adan & Feli! Also, as someone who read the early version, you should totally get representation!

Picking up where I left off in EMPIRE OF AI, and I just keep thinking, the whole world is Omelas, and instead of a child being sacrificed to suffering, it’s whole communities or countries.

#flotilla #gaza
Video from @ yusufomar on instagram

Proud of the flotilla, everyone did a great job quickly responding to the attack.

I definitely get why the boats stay spread out. How pathetic is it to bomb a ship SO far away from Israeli territory in the middle of the night?

Ok, Apothecary Diaries is nice and I will likely get into the LNs bec I need to know the rest of the story, but it is also, um, slow. So fine, I shall be watching the show with the chainsaw coming out of a guy’s head.

After around an hour addressing my inbox post-2 week sales trip, I’m happy to report that I’ve gotten the unread emails down to the 500s.😂

I’m not entirely sure, as I haven’t looked at the price of fuel in each country. But it’s standard of living costs, in general. Ours is high: transpo, food, rent.

Have read all existing chapters of Dandadan, which means I’ve voluntarily subjected myself to the torture of waiting for a new chapter every week. Yay, me.

Ang pinakamahal talaga na Grab sa SEA, liban sa Singapore, ay ang Pilipinas. As in malayo compared sa iba

Missed a PO for a key title, so now am quite upset with myself because it might arrive late.😔

I just got onto the Dandadan bandwagon, and I’m only 80+ issues in, but I have to say, the Evil Eye/Jiji arc is an amazing allegory for creating a kind society for PWDs.

Andaming kelangan gawin, huhuhuhu.

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

When you want to conduct a genocide without people seeing what you're doing, you kill all the journalists. That's exactly what Israel is doing. They just murdered 5 Al-Jazeera journalists living in a tent next to al-Shifa hospital.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Listening to a masked man kink, stalkerish dark romance and why is it hilarious??

This last week, I find I have a day to finish a book before some deadline. You’d think that would result in a lot of books read in this month, yes? No, it does not.😂

I may have confirmation that I’m a cool mom. My son’s gf apparently checked out my Spotify lists (wc I honestly didn’t know you cld do), & has told my son that my musical taste is cooler than his. Yay, me.😄 On a side note, they are also offering to help me move my playlists to Apple Music.

Trying to finish five books by Weds and sample a few others. Wish me luck.

For today, being a supportive wife means explaining what “slutty little glasses” are to hubby and sending him pics of Jonathan Bailey in them, so that he doesn’t feel too bad about having to wear his own glasses.

“Luck is the magic that happens when the right reader feels the right book in their soul - and then cannot shut up about it.”

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.