I was in a bookstore today. It is such a bummer how much shittier and less awesome covers have gotten - particularly in the sci fi and fantasy spaces.

This is like when I tell people the reason they're concerned about mercury in fish is because of coal fired plants and the mercury isn't there naturally and I get all BIG EYED like wtf.

YES WE DID THIS

WE POISONED OURSELVES

I’ll use all the commas and dashes and whatever the hell else I like. Regurgitative AI didn’t invent writing styles, it *appropriated* them, and I sure as shit won’t cede a single shred of my writing to the thing currently stealing it.

At least Ahab had a clear and well defined goal

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

Actually, maybe I have best and worst the wrong way around here.

Anyway, turns out that what it actually is is much worse than either of these things

At best, "British Movement" sounds like an outdoor yoga club for TERFs in Surrey.

At worst, it sounds like a campaign to get men of a certain age to go to their GP if they find blood in their stool.

I ate your PLUMS and I cannot lie
I'm guilty and I won't deny
That when I found them kept in a pretty chilly place
yeah I put them in my face
and man, YUM, couldn't have enough
'Cause you know that my tum is stuffed,
But you were breakfast saving,
Your forgiveness now I'm craving

Yes, a base is the ultimate goal of the Artemis program.

The plan:

Artemis I: uncrewed, testing rocket
➡️Artemis II: crewed, testing rocket/systems
Artemis III: crewed, testing rendezvous with lander
Artemis IV: crewed, landing on Moon
Artemis V: crewed, landing on Moon, beginning base construction

Can we see the heron photo when it's developed?

It's not important how I discovered this, but the first Wikipedia entry for "sexual intercourse" was written a few hours after the World Trade towers collapsed. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Probably the worst thing about the clocks going forward is having to rotate your entire henge 30°

Author Steven Vickers wrote on Threads, "To confirm, this '100% AI generated' passage is the opening of Chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I think authors are going to get screwed in these AI witch hunts."

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

are you an oil tanker? because you dress like you're trying to pass with the straights

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

17 Real-Life Would-You-Rathers I, a Woman, Have Had to Ask Myself 1. Would you rather have a career or a family? 2. Would you rather be perceived as likable or competent? 3. Would you rather be told to...

Would you rather be perceived as likable or competent?

Would you rather be “shrill” but finish your sentence or polite but interrupted by your male colleague?

Would you rather shoot literal botulism into your face or look your real age, you hag?

Appreciation to the fire crews who managed to keep it contained to just this one building as far as I can tell from the images. Fingers crossed for the station itself.

This is just heartbreaking. It's so hard to imagine the city without this section of Union Street

That's the spirit!

A reminder that in the UK the clocks go forward on 29 March. You've got a few weeks yet. Don't let the posts from folk in the US mess with your schedule

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Ah shit! We let pedophiles decide our beauty standards. Post the release of the harrowing Epstein files, and the powerful men in media and fashion, considered possible accomplices, it feels fair to say this with more gusto!

One of the most powerful things I've read in years, and a real dropping of the scales moment for something vile that has been insidiously poisoning everything for decades

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Surveillance innovator accuses ICE of widespread patent infringement The patent holder, SecureNet Solutions Group, was an operating company which shuttered almost two decades ago and has asserted its patents since 2015 in 17 US district court cases

get in, losers, we're going... to sue ICE for patent infringement

www.iam-media.com/article/surv...

There is no marketing I'm more susceptible to these days than any company saying they don't use generative AI in their projects. I'm a sitting duck for that promise even if they're selling graham crackers or masking tape.

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

AAA Games: See every solitary pore on a character's face. Count their eyelashes.

Indie Games: Wanna drive a van

AAA Games: Listen to your GPU squeal in agony as we simulate the blood pumping in each vein

Indie Games: Let's sell low poly fetuses in space

Not to be too genuine on social media, but this is great. I think I needed to wake up to some hopeful news for once

Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election.

If you want to defeat the far right, you need a real alternative, not a more moderate version that panders & parrots but offers nothing to address real issues.

Congratulations @greenparty.org.uk, Hannah Spencer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the people of Gorton & Denton
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