these people know how extreme they are

You pay taxes so he can illegally weaponize that money against you and your community

this is the “break glass in case of not enough potentially monetizing users”

I've posted a free first chapter of SPACE TRUCKER JESS here. TW for cursing, drug use, and engineering jokes: matthewkressel.substack.com/p/free-first...

Forgive the cobbled-together feel of this, but eat up!

Nine stories in this TropiWeird combo - including two stories never before seen! As they say in PR: buen provecho!

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Aside from the importance of the content, this article is a good reminder of the general rule that a news outlet might be kind of awful, but its reporters can still produce great stories.

Capitalism is a funny thing, because GenAI/LLM technology is considered successful not because of what it does, but because of its ability to attract venture capitalist investors

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

Every time I see this, I want to grab a rich dude by the lapels and shake him while yelling "IF YOU REDUCE THEIR PAY AND TAKE THEIR JOBS, HOW WILL THEY HAVE MORE MONEY TO SPEND, YOU IDIOT?"

Any time a chilly intellectual woman shows up in a story I instantly fall in love with her and proceed to be disappointed when she's portrayed as unlikable

This started in childhood with Lilith from Cheers and interferes with my enjoyment of all the Inklings

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

my most American trait is that I'm always up for a cheeseburger

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

It is good and useful to distinguish between "this piece is not to my taste" and "this piece is badly written", and likewise to distinguish between "this piece is my catnip" and "this piece is well-written"

Corollary: Let people like what they like.

I tried to come up with ways to explain like three of these that wouldn't get me immediately crucified and I'm just going to keep these thoughts to myself, thank you

It is not only possible, but desirable under the correct circumstances to write in first, third, or even second person omni.

Finding these confusing is a skill issue (yours)

(y’all asked for unhinged okay)

We should have ended it all when he started openly monetizing the presidency at his DC hotel & sending his kids to represent the 🇺🇸 government at official international events. But he is One Special Boy and we appear to no longer be a serious country interested in the rule of law or the Constitution.

I’d be inclined to add that all the recipes are interchangeable. III-Act can be analysed as V-Act, as 7-Segment/22-beat. Moments of character become hinges for plot; decisions define character, world and themes. The architecture exists only when you look at it, and the whole is one piece.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Again, it is worth keeping in mind when comparing the rate of discoveries that public funding for medicine and the sciences is orders of magnitude larger than for the humanities. We work slow in part because we work on a shoestring.

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...