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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 3d

Realize it’s become a meme at this point, but:

"Do you think God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?"
—Spy Kids 2

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 3d

I agree with both of these assertions. Fortunately, there’s a Gordian knot type of solution readily available.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 4d

What do we want?

A producer!

When do we want them?

Did we ever write that down? Where would we even write that down?

I don't know I just memorize them

That makes sense

What were we talking about?

I dunno

Probably not that important then

If only we had someone who knew

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

Time to repost a classic.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 8d

Ohhh, don’t think I experienced those. I shudder to imagine it

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t do this to me Shivam, I haven’t recovered from the pie episode

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 8d

As a result of filtering everything that happens in American politics through the lens of “They represent authentic America, we are imposing liberals who need to plead with the Volk,” leadings Dems/libs constantly lend legitimacy to the Right’s claims and sabotage their own response.

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 9d

Even the ppl I hate are still ppl and I want them to have full rights as such. I also want them to come to a bad end and face consequences for their actions. But I want them to have full rights as ppl the whole time. I want everyone to have that, period full stop.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 8d

Hazel, you’ve got to read The Infinite and the Divine. It’s about two old gay robots who love hating each other, complete with the “only one bed so they have to share” trope, except instead of a bed it’s a planet

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 10d

Screenshot from the article linked in the previous post that reads: The moral of Niemöller’s poem, then, isn’t really “speak up even if you aren’t in danger.” It’s “speak up, even when the Nazis threaten marginalized groups that you yourself despise.” Fascists do take advantage of indifference and apathy to some degree. But they also build on widespread prejudice.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 10d

Fascinating read about the guy who wrote the “first they came for” poem. The poem hides something critical—it’s not actually about indifference. He didn’t speak out because *he actively supported persecuting communists, trade unionists, and Jews!*

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 10d

just worth reiterating that historically "we need to throw these people under the bus for pragmatic reasons" is often indistinguishable from, "I, personally, do not like these people and want to throw them under the bus." www.everythingishorrible.net/p/martin-nie...

Martin Niemöller Was an Antisemite

His poem was not about indifference.

www.everythingishorrible.net

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 11d

Lightly immunocompromised here, had Covid in late summer 2022. Paxlovid killed my fever and it never came back, but I dis have a paxlovid rebound, and tested positive for around two weeks. I had a minor “this is not getting better” freakout around this time, fwiw.

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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 12d

I am in Portland almost every day and in no way is it “War ravaged.” We do not want or need federal troops in Portland. The Trump administration is using lies and delusions to try to justify turning the military against US citizens. It’s illegal, dangerous, and outrageous.

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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 12d

Donald Trump is lying. I was at the ICE facility two days ago and saw a few peaceful protesters, not a “siege.”

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 13d

Yesssss best aquarium!

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 18d

It was that second thing

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22d

These guys are unpopular and dumb as rocks, they did not discover a secret 'I win' button at the heart of all politics labeled 'mean tweets' or 'cancel elections.'

Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 25d

It was a few months ago for me, and the problems have gotten less frequent since then, but it will still occasionally spit out absolute gibberish, including misspellings and entire words I did not type

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27d

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"

anyways, great news! (1/X)

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 28d

WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 29d

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · Aug 25

Emmie is the calico, her brother Mozzie is the tabby. Both bellies are soft, but only one is safe to pet…

A calico cat with a white tummy laying on her back on the floor

A tabby cat with a white tummy laying on his back on a couch with his paws sticking up above his head

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · Aug 16

That is incredibly kind of you!

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · Aug 11

While reading them to my little one, I noticed that the Pooh books also contain a lot of hidden little math problems for listening kids to mull over and solve if they want. Taken together, I think the text is reflecting the preoccupations of a young kid doing regular lessons.

David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · Aug 11

For books whose intended audience will be hearing them read aloud, Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books are astonishingly dominated by a concern with the written word, with orthography and spelling. It's very charming, TBH, but surprising!

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