This whole thing is absolutely brimming in both transphobia and homophobia.

Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

Every once in a while a group of 10-15 tourists vanish without a trace in the Paris Catacombs and then afterward the Eiffel Tower is a few feet taller

This week's Saturday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, in which Lady & Lord Riven have just arrived at their surprisingly un-welcoming honeymoon destination, a secluded inn in the Black Forest. ❤️🦇

Snap it up now in ebook or paperback: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave
#romancelandia

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

“The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable.“

“This is not a climate-zealot kind of approach. Our old coal-fired power stations are… getting replaced by the least-cost energy, which is renewable energy.”

Love Australia’s no-bullshit vibe.

Moving quickly to a world where students use AI to complete work, profs use AI to grade it, no one learns anything and we will live in a world of mediocrity and incompetence where only the billionaires benefit.

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

like seriously team, I know y'all are working on both improving Discover and on better reply sentiment filtering and all, but it's going to take a while to tune it properly and a "never show my post on Discover" setting would be a 10 minute fix that would get 65% of why people want private accounts

if we lived in a halfway normal country this wouldn’t make anyone nervous, it would simply form part of what we all collectively agreed was real life

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

Tonight at White Whale Bookstore in Pittsburgh, come celebrate the launch of THE TINKERERS, my new novel for young (and not-so-young) readers! whitewhalebookstore.com/events/48225

Got a question about publishing you've always wanted answered? Well now's your chance!

#AuthorTalk #WritingCommunity #Manchester

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Pundits 15 years ago: of course rich people don't want us all ground into nutritional paste for their pets

Pundits today: it's time for us to have a serious conversation about whether we should be ground into nutritional paste for rich people's pets

One of the questions is why we allow private corporations to fill the sky with junk?

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

That's a great cover. I shall be checking it out.

I'd love for you to read my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book during the Halloween season.

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

Time for a new pin-able post. I just can't get enough of these two covers!
https://www.marievibbert.com/novels/

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...