Remarkable: 100% of the ads in Northern Virginia heavily featured Trump to turn out voters for the redistricting referendum in the closing days, a source tells me.
That's right, all of the ads were all about Trump. This backfired for him spectacularly.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2093...
The opportunity of LLMs was to see what kinds of thought-free simulated writing they could generate and use those outputs to judge what's worth our human time. Instead, we're being drowned in bullshit writing. biblioracle.substack.com/p/bullsht-wr...
Yep, it's ultimately a time shifting machine. Makes everyone else work more so you can work less.
AI companies are smartly setting themselves up as providing the illness and the antidote. Their goal is trap us in positions where we have to pay for AI, even if just to filter out everyone else's AI outputs!
Jixed with something similar. I've already notice many colleagues now produce pointlessly long emails that are obviously using LLMs to make it seem like they did more work. The result is more work for everyone else. bsky.app/profile/thel...
The trap of AI is how it forces us to deal with it. Your coworkers now use ChatGPT to produce longer emails and longer powerpoints to look like they are doing more work, which now makes it your problem. You either waste more time or have to use AI to summarize emails to get time back.
This is true but flipside is everything will cost more either in time or in filtering systems. What once was cheap or quick will become expensive and time-consuming.
e.g., AI makes evading spam filters cheap and quick, and now all of us waste more time dealing with spam.
bsky.app/profile/opin...
Slop is the right lens to view AI through as its main effect is to clog up every system with a vast volume of gunk.
The dream of the AI companies of course is to charge us to spew slop and also charge to filter slop, with the result of everything become even more unequal and costly.
This word is key to this book and to the entire Gazology genre: Genocide is the equivalent of water in Dune, the substance that moves the storyline along.
I won't link to the stupid Free Press article, but man the "conservatives try to understand a single book" challenge remains impossible huh?
He might have turned on the war in 2006, but same gist. He was definitely writing screeds against anti-war protestors at least as late as 2005.
But enough about Glenn Greenwald
Gen Z has discovered Ancient Greece and now everyone is moderationmaxxing, balanced pilled, and golden mean gooning!
Rising and grinding again in Margaritaville
An apple a day keeps Gregor Samsa away
A PEEK: Proud to be part of this upcoming SFF antho along with @thelincoln.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social and others! THE SPECULATIVE DETECTIVE AGENCY releases on 10.06.26. Pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/4tpEXbT #supernatural #cryptids #sff
I have a story in this fun forthcoming SFF detective fiction anthology alongside @victordeanda.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social and others! If you're interested, you can preorder here:
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danke!
There are many reasons to read this, but one of them is that Lincoln uses the correct definitions of plot and story, including an expansive definition of plot that nonetheless is still a subset of story.
Oh, you disagree?
Sorry, you're wrong.
Have you lost the plot? I have a little series on the pleasures of plotting in fiction. Part two went up today countercraft.substack.com/p/the-princi...
danke!
Glad to hear it was helpful! And yeah, I'm a sucker for those types of narratives too. Have you ever read Kobo Abe's The Ruined Map? Great kind of pointless noir novel where the detective gets further and further away from solving the case
Part One bsky.app/profile/thel...
Part two in a series on the principles (not rules!) of fiction plotting countercraft.substack.com/p/the-princi...
Complaining about "legacy media" when you work for a division of CBS.
yeah I don't follow Stancil and don't know the context of those posts.
right, I'm not saying comparing to previous eras is bad! Just that is the gap. Like Stancil is saying America is rich compared to median country in the world. Probably true. Also, in part, because of American imperialism of course...
The more things change...
By writing little plays about his friends, did Plato invent “autofiction”? In this essay, I will
I'm not advocating for that, simply referencing the language used in the quote.
Hope you enjoy it!