Sorry for the delay! I’m EST, I tend to write/edit in the evenings so a later time would be fine with me. #CRPShrikes

We are not in the "AI era." We are in the "source: trust me, bro" era.

So disgusting. Chat bots make everyone’s life worse and AI has largely been used to prop up fascism and kill the planet faster than jet fuel.

The Video Game Industry Failed Monolith Productions The closure of Monolith Productions, an innovative video game developer, shows what’s wrong with an industry in which game publishers have the ultimate power to shut down projects and fire workers.

My partner just published a great article about labour rights in game production. It talks about how the disregard for game creators has ultimately hindered the quality of our games! jacobin.com/2025/03/game...

I want to see city halls full of rumpled retired people ready to skeletonize a recalcitrant congressperson in 30 seconds, all across America

Global capital, if there happens to be another financial crisis—one which the US is hurtling toward—what’s going to happen, I ask, if there is NO national treasury?

So Musk is probably going to loot the federal treasury. Great. This is so truly fucked.

Give Ford a call and let him know how you feel

the funding freeze was halted with just minutes to spare before it was due to go into effect. shudder to think what would’ve happened if the memo wasn’t leaked.

BREAKING: Attorneys General of CA, NY, AZ, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, NV, NC, NJ, NM, OR, RI, VT, WA, WI, and D.C. are suing Trump for his budget freeze.

That 0 GOP AGs are joining, despite the fact that this freeze hurts their constituents the most, speaks to how MAGA is 100% a cult.

Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.

God bless

Departing the New York Times I left to stay true to my byline

Paul Krugman is one of the few long-time pundits I genuinely respect, and this is worth reading.

contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work

www.404media.co/its-total-ch...

I certainly hope so. Else we’re in big trouble. But the whole discourse that there is active socialist opposition in the UK or the US just isn’t the case. There are people fighting capitalist monopolization—Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbin for example—but both have been sabotaged by their parties

Capitalism has already won. The only people who live under socialism are the super-rich. Literally every sector of the UK has been taken over by private companies which is why it is so dysfunctional. Many many hospitals have been privatized and only appear to be public.

It's pretty interesting that the day we find out Microsoft is the tech company behind the licensing deal with HC for AI training we also find out Microsoft is launching their own publishing company. 😡

An AI startup CEO on a Forbes '30 Under 30' list has been charged with defrauding investors out of $10 million Joanna Smith-Griffin is latest Forbes '30 Under 30' alum facing criminal charges, joining Sam Bankman-Fried, Charlie Javice, and Martin Shkreli.

The Forbes 30 Under 30 to prison pipeline remains undefeated www.businessinsider.com/joanna-smith...

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#litmags #writer #writingcommunity

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Twitter account deactivated!

Fracking really is the worst

I think the lack of movement on environmental issues on all sides of the politics spectrum has greatly contributed to voter despondency and low turnout

Sounds great! I write fantasy and speculative thrillers! 😊 so happy to be off Twitter now!

This checks out. I feel dirty being on Twitter. Reeks of Musk.

Study explores the impact of LLMs on human creativity Large language models (LLMs), AI systems that can process human language and generate new texts in response to written prompts, are now widely used by people worldwide to complete various tasks. These...

For anyone thinking "AI" helps your work as a writer or artist: the fact is it's making you worse.

A large study of "AI" out of U of Toronto, found that use of it in any way, whether getting it to do the work for you, or simply "assisting", actually DECREASES your creativity ability after the fact.

Oh wow! Makes sense. I hope Twitter tanks.

Oops! Meant to say bots*

Fewer boys for sure. Definitely feels like there’s been a heavy post-election migration from Twitter.

It feels like all of a sudden everyone is now on bluesky. Is it just me?

Right there with you!

I should say that I think it's also really important to counter the dem's narrative that Americans are naturally right-wing. I believe it's dangerous. The democratic party are trying to exonerate themselves from responsibility for this catastrophic loss and justify their party moving further right