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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 16h

Oh, I’ve already blocked her

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 17h

The Democratic establishment is just fucking allergic to winning.

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 1d

The best thing you can do for your writing is to take good care of yourself. The work comes easier, faster, and better when you've got full bars.

Corollary: The best thing we can do to get more amazing art from our faves is to take good care of the artists.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 17h

I almost responded to that with “Graham Platner. Fuck off.”

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 22h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 1d

!!!

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 1d

Amen.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 2d

"Resting about to check into the White Lotus face."

Put it in the Louvre.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 3d

I am not religious and I am also friends with 50% of the Madison Avenue Baptist Choir and go to their services annually around my birthday.

And I'm absolutely leveled by how wonderful that minister and congregation are. Every time. Religious abuse is horrible. But religion is not the enemy.

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 3d

I am not a religious person & I despise the way that "Christianity" has been used by the current admin & its cultists as an excuse for hatred & evil, but I am equally appalled by the number of people I see dumping on & denigrating people who are practicing a truly compassionate & empathetic faith.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 3d

I say this unironically: Amen.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 3d

The utter lack of contractions in dialogue.

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 4d

what the fuck do you even do with all the data centers when this bubble goes nuclear? have you ever been in a data center? they are freezing cold computer barns built specifically to house racks of servers, that's all they're fucking good for

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That BG Dork @thatbgdork.bsky.social · 5d

Ahh. The reactionary mindset in a nutshell "secretly, everyone is afraid to agree with me that this selfish thing is Good Actually™️™️™️, so I'm going to just do it bc then I'm actually doing what everyone is doing & am not REALLY selfish".

it's why the RW tilts at "voter fraud" windmills so much.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus died for your AI.

He didn't have all three arms nailed to the cross for nothing.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 5d

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 5d

"The plan? Of course we have a plan. Can you see the plan? Oh, you're just going to have to trust us..."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 6d

I wouldn't be a published author without social media - the information, support, and generosity of the people in the business have been priceless.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like all of us failed to properly appreciate "a dignity deficit that would embarrass Renfield" yesterday, which, accurate.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 6d

Rowling isn’t fit to trail behind Dolly ringing a bell and chanting “I could’ve been like Dolly. I chose to be a transphobic bigot”.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6d

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 6d

The conversation, for the record, stayed.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 6d

I wrote a conversation between the cishet hero of Fake Flame and his queer colleague who basically points this out (my queer dev editor loved it).

The copyeditor (who for this and other reasons I dubbed "all lives matter") said that the colleague was "making it about him."

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 6d

I kept waiting for the reviewer to complain that nobody broke into song.

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Adele Buck @adelebuck.com · 6d

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 6d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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