This is the Gem and the Holograms and Sailor Moon crossover we deserved.

It's amazing the number of ways you can screw yourself with git. `git rm --cached <thing>` removes the thing from git, but keeps it on your computer. `git rm <thing>` removes the thing from all the places.

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad. Lately there has been a lot of hand-wringing, and rightly so, about if and how the publishing industry will deal with AI in the wake of the cancelation of the first major book deal due to suspected…

I wrote about how AI in book publishing is a labor issue. "AI paranoia is a symptom of a larger problem: a corporate culture that values quantity over quality, quick output over the very human labor of poring over a manuscript & making sure that each & every word sings."
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Well-timed bets on Polymarket tied to the Iran war draw calls for investigations from lawmakers Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket.

Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred.

Radical thought: Pursue impeachment now BECAUSE IT HELPS YOU WIN MIDTERMS IN NOVEMBER.

People want fighters.

Call things what they are (impeachable) and act accordingly (impeach).

Phew. My Kindle Voyage is safe for another couple years maybe.

Bowling for Soup was right. All we need is some ice cream and a hug... love and beer, old-school metal and holiday cheer..

Send the IMAX ticket love to these great folks' work
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Depluralize a movie.

Goony

For Solar we have a ton of panels already built and looking for a place to be installed. You can buy panels on Facebook Marketplace ~ $100 a piece. Converters are also fairly common. It's a will, not material, shortage to switch to renewables.

Don't throw her out entirely, yet. We need her answering pointed questions honestly under oath!

P1: Ok, ok, ok, so let's do the SpaceX "cameras in space" thing but make it look super fake.

P2: Like AI fake?

P1: No! Like 1965 Thunderbirds fake.

100 people sounds like a lot to some people. 330 Million is just a made up number.

"[...] more people in the US who believe they are Jedis than listen to that freak pastor every week"

I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter and also get a pamphlet on how I too can be a Jedi.

Anything written in prompts can be broken by prompts. Pass it on.

A screen capture of the devtools console panel showing thousands of failed attempts to probe chrome-extensions as once again new and innovative ways to spy on you spin on your own computer.

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS, YOU ANIMALS!!!

what the actual fuck????

We call it an attention economy. That makes your attention a valuable resource. How are you spending it? Most folks are unintentional about where their attention goes. They flit from distraction… ... We call it an attention economy. That makes your attention a valuable resource. How are you spending it? Most folks are unintentional about where their attention goes. They flit from distraction t...

Today. I wrote about leaning into not giving a f$%^ about whatever someone is telling you you need to pay attention to.
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Got it, Got it, Need it, Got it, Got it, Need it, Got it...

Stay strong, Amy. It's a slippery slope that forces you to read newspapers from a hundred years ago and realize we're still doing the same stupid shit, but now its at SCALE

Yes I want more Lady Astronaut stories. Doesn't everyone?

All the best bots tell him so

Negative Space: A Cozy Rock and Roll Space Opera [Velocity: Book 1] When someone offers to make all your dreams come true, you take it. Right? Jax tried to chase his dream alone, and it left him stranded on Station 0-K with a broken ship and a bruised ego. He escaped ...

It's back! Here, look ;)

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That kind of specialization is just a cymbal of the current state of journalism

How can I trust your coverage of high end electric drum kits without their support, Molly? How?

When T. Kingfisher says "you might want to sit this one out" that's got to be damn horrific. I'll wait till the next one! Thanks for the warning!

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so simple, and yet

We have no problem with the phrase "So-called anti-matter..." ??

Like it's only pretending to be anti-matter. It's an anti-matter hoax made by big-physics.

The "attention systems" of llms prioritize the first interactions and the most recent. Its the middle that often gets muddled.

Don't look at me like that. That's what they call them. Attention systems.