Mina
@rivermets.bsky.social
Best of luck everyone! Creator, writer, and host of Circuit Court Entertainment, still waiting for Alan and Jessie to meet (and Saga and Alex and...)
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Mina
@rivermets.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Circuit Court Entertainment
Where we examine all forms of entertainment through the lens of law and history. Twitter: @CCEPod, Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/circuitcourtentertainment Reddit: r/CCEPOD/ Art by @empresscirque on...
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
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Had to make a 3D wine bottle for an assignment so I went ahead and made the grape juice from Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Had to make a 3D wine bottle for an assignment so I went ahead and made the grape juice from Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice
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What gets me about this--apart from it being evil--is how the TOS make plain that no, LLMs are neither alive, nor conscious, nor intelligent. Because if *it* telling you to commit suicide qualifies as you *using* it, then it's not intelligent, now is it?
Also, this is evil.
Also, this is evil.
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
What gets me about this--apart from it being evil--is how the TOS make plain that no, LLMs are neither alive, nor conscious, nor intelligent. Because if *it* telling you to commit suicide qualifies as you *using* it, then it's not intelligent, now is it?
Also, this is evil.
Also, this is evil.
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It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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I don't know that these people would care, necessarily, but I think many of them either genuinely do not know (or perhaps refuse to know) how little most authors actually make
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
![A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd.
counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain
[High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h
Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.]
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every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2ssvkga34xug334b66hvrje/bafkreigp2f33rtfu62kqjygnsxhg3jxxs6udwuyisipmyqrh5ew4c6kbyi@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I don't know that these people would care, necessarily, but I think many of them either genuinely do not know (or perhaps refuse to know) how little most authors actually make
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This is so important. This is a prime example of why having stasis/agreed-upon definitions/shared intelligibility matters in our collective resistance to toxic masculinity culture.
I’m tired of “asexual” being conflated with “incel” & I’m tired of asexuality being treated as an optional subject.
I’m tired of “asexual” being conflated with “incel” & I’m tired of asexuality being treated as an optional subject.
Aspec language being used by allo people in ways that erase their aspec meanings point to the necessity for expanding aspec literacy for allo people.
Allo people need aspec literacy, too.
There's value in extending our education efforts to catch allos up to speed on our lives and experiences.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This is so important. This is a prime example of why having stasis/agreed-upon definitions/shared intelligibility matters in our collective resistance to toxic masculinity culture.
I’m tired of “asexual” being conflated with “incel” & I’m tired of asexuality being treated as an optional subject.
I’m tired of “asexual” being conflated with “incel” & I’m tired of asexuality being treated as an optional subject.
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I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
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"polyworking" is the kind of newspeak that births spree killers
Workers turn to 'polyworking' to combat frozen salaries and inflation
Working professionals in the U.S. are taking on side jobs to supplement their incomes amid frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"polyworking" is the kind of newspeak that births spree killers
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Doing something cool today. Sat on the sabbatical committee 2 yrs ago. Advocated for an artist who hoped to collab with a museum to design part of a new race/racism exhibit. He got the sabbatical.... Exhibit just opened & I made it EC for students. Heading down to the museum to check it out myself!
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Doing something cool today. Sat on the sabbatical committee 2 yrs ago. Advocated for an artist who hoped to collab with a museum to design part of a new race/racism exhibit. He got the sabbatical.... Exhibit just opened & I made it EC for students. Heading down to the museum to check it out myself!
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Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
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www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
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Every part of what this describes ("jumbo" offers, recruiting for 2L in the first weeks of 1L, etc) is terrible.
The biggest law firms’ intensive recruiting of first-year students has spread to smaller rivals, with some making offers even before first-semester grades are in.
Big Law’s Pushy Recruiting Pressures First-Semester Students
The biggest law firms’ intensive recruiting of first-year students has spread to smaller rivals, with some making offers even before first-semester grades are in.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Every part of what this describes ("jumbo" offers, recruiting for 2L in the first weeks of 1L, etc) is terrible.
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🎯🎯🎯🎯
This leads me to say something really controversial. Reconnecting Natives should reconnect with their relatives and their Native Nation BEFORE they use that reconnection as a platform, otherwise they are pouring from an empty cup.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🎯🎯🎯🎯
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I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
Harry Potter x Fortnite coming in Chapter 7
(In other words, Fortnite is adding a transphobic authors work into Fortnite)
#Fortnite #FortniteNews
(In other words, Fortnite is adding a transphobic authors work into Fortnite)
#Fortnite #FortniteNews
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
Hint. Fucking. Hint.
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I'm gunna be honest this is exactly what editors want when they say "authentic"
King's books, many of which i have read and enjoyed, are conspicuously absent from Bad Indians Book Club.
In case you were wondering if this was something a lot of us already knew.
In case you were wondering if this was something a lot of us already knew.
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I'm gunna be honest this is exactly what editors want when they say "authentic"
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Device hoarding is saving lives in Congo! Thank you for your solidarity everybody, this is a group effort. 🇨🇩
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Device hoarding is saving lives in Congo! Thank you for your solidarity everybody, this is a group effort. 🇨🇩
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Hate, hate, hate it when apps pop-up with new AI features that only have options like "Get started!" and "Remind me later."
Don't remind me later. Never speak of this again.
Don't remind me later. Never speak of this again.
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hate, hate, hate it when apps pop-up with new AI features that only have options like "Get started!" and "Remind me later."
Don't remind me later. Never speak of this again.
Don't remind me later. Never speak of this again.
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More House fascist republicans are expected to resign following QAnon terrorist Marjorie Taylor Greene’s departure which would likely result in creepy MAGA insurrectionist Mike Johnson being removed as Speaker.
Good, I hope so. He’s a terrorist, not a Speaker.
Good, I hope so. He’s a terrorist, not a Speaker.
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
More House fascist republicans are expected to resign following QAnon terrorist Marjorie Taylor Greene’s departure which would likely result in creepy MAGA insurrectionist Mike Johnson being removed as Speaker.
Good, I hope so. He’s a terrorist, not a Speaker.
Good, I hope so. He’s a terrorist, not a Speaker.
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Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
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Yes! CEO's do maybe an 8 hour day of what vaguely qualfies work & the insane salaries are for playing Businessman doing Business rituals. Which isn't that hard as just having the title mean most actions are the correct performance of ritual - unlike office workers who have tougher empty rituals.
I just love that we work in a system built on performative business.
Like, your average desk job can probably be done—successfully and competently—in a 3-day work week.
But no. We gotta be here 40 hours a week; 25 of which us corporate drones have to pretend we're actually busy.
Like, your average desk job can probably be done—successfully and competently—in a 3-day work week.
But no. We gotta be here 40 hours a week; 25 of which us corporate drones have to pretend we're actually busy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Yes! CEO's do maybe an 8 hour day of what vaguely qualfies work & the insane salaries are for playing Businessman doing Business rituals. Which isn't that hard as just having the title mean most actions are the correct performance of ritual - unlike office workers who have tougher empty rituals.
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Whenever I say this, people get Really Mad, but it's true. Same of any other art, too. You have to read the book, watch the film, see the painting, listen to the song, whatever.
I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.
I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.
"you have not played the game unless you've played the game" is one of my more annoying but unshakable opinions
the whole "don't play the game, just watch a video on youtube that will explain its story to you" is so disheartening because the issue of accessibility is genuinely really important but it's always just people who want to be spoon-fed nicely quantifiable information
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Whenever I say this, people get Really Mad, but it's true. Same of any other art, too. You have to read the book, watch the film, see the painting, listen to the song, whatever.
I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.
I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.