OMG, Just found out you can export all the details of your @libro.fm library as a .csv file (a spreadsheet) with just the click of a button. How very cool is that?

The text of the last words Aaron, from the Shakespeare play "Titus Adronicus" O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb? I am no baby, I, that with base prayers I should repent the evils I have done: Then thousand worse than ever yet I did Would I perform, if I might have my will; If one good deed in all my like I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

With my fav villain AND my fav villainous ending!

No really

If you think this shit matters

SUPPORT THE PEOPLE WHO LEAVE

and TAKE YOUR MONEY OUT OF SUBSTACK

and support indie writing for ONE LATTE A MONTH

is what I'm saying

FUCKING LEAVE SUBSTACK

NO SHIT THEY SUPPORT NAZIS

IF YOU BIG PUBS LEFT SUBSTACK

THEY WOULD HAVE LESS $$ FFS

a lot of us already made the leap because we believe that fighting fascism is more important than doing the easy thing and complaining about it

hey support NAZI-FREE liberatory writing:

Both Shopping at Target and using self check out lines are a risk to your freedom, job, family, hell - your life. Don’t do either.

One thing I will always adore Stellaris for is it’s immense number of easter eggs. A constant love letter to the genre. Whether TV shows (The Markab sector - Babylon 5), Movies/Books (The Planet from Solaris) or previous classic games (The Impenetrable Red Shield - Star Control 2).

One of the small little insidious acts of sycophancy I was just thinking about two days ago is the way people who are or want to be one of “Trump’s People” almost all start emulating his style of speaking and writing to try and sound like him.

Lol. Yeah. My most toxic trait might be my tendency to the later option myself. Lol.

Brandon, I hate that a small part of me will now probably always blame you for my knowing the term “‘mantasy” exists because I had somehow managed to never hear it before today.

this is a declaration that all compliments on things are assumed to have the caveat "if this isn't ai, if it is never mind you're dead to me"

And how many hours will i be staying awake to find out?

So it’s one of my nightmare scenarios: it’s a rainstorm with the ground still frozen (still tons of snow out there) and the power has gone off. Will the power return before the backup sump-pump battery fails or will our basement (including my kid and I’s rooms) flood?

Yes! i saw Godzilla vs. Biolante earlier this year for the first time and it instantly became a top Godzilla film for me.

Folks, help a cool group of creators out by going and starting Moonbase Theta, Out for the first time. (See second tweet, lol) The first season can be listened to in full in basically an hour, but it grows by leaps and bounds from there.

For this year’s #TransgenderDayOfVisibility, first: check out this itch.io bundle for trans rights in Idaho. 500 #TTRPG items plus some publisher bonuses. I’m gonna start a thread from this post to highlight at least one game from the bundle a day — so much goodness. 🧵 itch.io/b/3525/ttrpg...

Incredibly accurate alt text on this one.

I'm absolutely certain that Canada is a better country under Carney than it would have been under Poilievre, but that certainly comes with the provision that "better" does not mean "good".

From the Library of Jurgen Leitner (The Magnus Archives) Audiobook on Libro.fm Enter the library of an enigmatic collector, where occult books are guarded and researched at a fatal cost, with this uncanny eldritch horror novel from Nebula Award–winning author Premee Mohamed and ...

Oh shit! Having listened to *almost* all of the Magnus Archives, this also is an exciting thing I just learned is coming from @premeemohamed.com (because of course there will be more than one thing in the same year, that's just the rules with Premee Mohamed books I think). libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Dang Premee, that's a gorgeous cover!!! And this book sounds so delightful!

a book cover with a gothic-looking city in dark blues and greens with some yellow lighting. adrian tchaikovsky says 'a triumph of the imagination.' wickhills by premee mohamed.

Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL

WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg!

Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

And they won't admit it and no one with the power to make them admit it or prove otherwise wants to force them to because then it would open the door for so many lawsuits of people demanding proof that *their* applications were handled properly and not rejected by bullshit.

Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.

Today in AI:

Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.

Everyone involved should be fired.

archive.is/ELrCI#select...

Like there ARE technologies that'll utterly transform the world and be gateways to a better future for all. And none of them are generative AI. And all the assholes saying it is generative AI are very often the same accidents of birth blocking the actually important technology and science.

Every time someone talks the inevitable nature of generative AI & how monumentally necessary it is to our future progress I think about how we created a medical breakthrough in the pandemic that should transforming the health of the world but it's been ham-stringed by the anti-vaxx crowd.

Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora The studio giant will no longer move forward with its OpenAI investment, as the AI company exits the video generation business.

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Oh shit - I might be a little afraid to try these in audio (they are more than a little disturbing at times) on the other hand...I'm kind of excited to try these in audio (they are more than a little disturbing at times!) lol. So, call that a recommendation!

Noticing when/if a director or cinematographer or writer has "borrowed" ideas/shots/concepts/techniques from others is half the joy of watching and loving lots of film, and it is *never* a criticism - except when people want to make bad faith attacks mostly aimed at riling up the general public.

It's hard to criticize some of the most popular movies of all time's decisions but I feel like the live action movies perhaps left money on the table by not going for a similar "muscle-y Link" approach.

Thanks - I am sure I will. I mean, I already know several stories in it and it has my favorite short story of all time - Pockets - in it, so it's already a win. Frankly, between your own writing and the fact some of my fav books ever were ones you recommended I owe tons of reading happiness to you!