Sparty T. Dragon
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You should take Vajra's advice and fill out SFWA's survey.
But you should also read his entire thread. He has much to illuminate on how our field is being poisoned.
But you should also read his entire thread. He has much to illuminate on how our field is being poisoned.
The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
You should take Vajra's advice and fill out SFWA's survey.
But you should also read his entire thread. He has much to illuminate on how our field is being poisoned.
But you should also read his entire thread. He has much to illuminate on how our field is being poisoned.
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i had to drop what i was doing to make this
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
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Its not extreme. You are 100% correct.
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Its not extreme. You are 100% correct.
Hmm, looks like a big windstorm on Christmas Eve is shaping up. That'll probably knock out the power. >.>
December 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Hmm, looks like a big windstorm on Christmas Eve is shaping up. That'll probably knock out the power. >.>
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Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
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Israel admitted it bombed a wedding in Gaza and killed 7 but nobody in the UK or Australia or anywhere else will clamor to ban the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself"— again I have to wonder why.
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Israel admitted it bombed a wedding in Gaza and killed 7 but nobody in the UK or Australia or anywhere else will clamor to ban the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself"— again I have to wonder why.
Ah, yes. Mullet indeed.
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Ah, yes. Mullet indeed.
Heh, we were listening to Magic Sword at work this morning, and my coworker liked it. Also, this happened:
December 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Heh, we were listening to Magic Sword at work this morning, and my coworker liked it. Also, this happened:
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this feels like a universal thing i experience all the time lol
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
this feels like a universal thing i experience all the time lol
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I did not know this and I think this is a very interesting little nugget of knowing! Thanks, Merriam-Webster!
‘Soup’ was a slang term for drugs that were injected into a horse to make it run faster.
A racehorse that was on PEDs was said to be ‘souped up.’
We now use the term to refer to anything that is enhanced.
A racehorse that was on PEDs was said to be ‘souped up.’
We now use the term to refer to anything that is enhanced.
December 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I did not know this and I think this is a very interesting little nugget of knowing! Thanks, Merriam-Webster!
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No similarity is 1-1, but I bet if you go back ~60 years to the right-wing freak out about Black characters appearing (as normal people not caricatures) in children’s stories, it’s probably pretty identical to the right-wing freak out about trans characters appearing in children’s stories
December 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
No similarity is 1-1, but I bet if you go back ~60 years to the right-wing freak out about Black characters appearing (as normal people not caricatures) in children’s stories, it’s probably pretty identical to the right-wing freak out about trans characters appearing in children’s stories
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Making art is not all joy and fungus reanimated bunnies! That’s okay. That’s normal. That’s part of why art is important and also why artists and writers need to be paid for their work. If you keep dragging yourself back even when it’s hard, you’re doing fine.
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Making art is not all joy and fungus reanimated bunnies! That’s okay. That’s normal. That’s part of why art is important and also why artists and writers need to be paid for their work. If you keep dragging yourself back even when it’s hard, you’re doing fine.
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Been pretty productive today. Got everything I wanted to get done done, and I still have a bit of time for a work out.
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Been pretty productive today. Got everything I wanted to get done done, and I still have a bit of time for a work out.
It ended up more of a noodle/dumpling bowl. Still tasty tho.
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It ended up more of a noodle/dumpling bowl. Still tasty tho.
In other news, I'm still digging around for alternate ways to get Clip Studio running again, and a lot of people are like "just use Krita" but every pro artist trying to install Clip Studio agrees that Krita just doesn't do what they need it to do.
Clip Studio is a art BEAST. You don't understand!
Clip Studio is a art BEAST. You don't understand!
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
In other news, I'm still digging around for alternate ways to get Clip Studio running again, and a lot of people are like "just use Krita" but every pro artist trying to install Clip Studio agrees that Krita just doesn't do what they need it to do.
Clip Studio is a art BEAST. You don't understand!
Clip Studio is a art BEAST. You don't understand!
Internet is still slow/buggy. I just may have to ugrade my modem. Bleh. BLEH I SAY.
I don't rent equipment from Comcast, I always buy my own modem. They HATE that, but they can't stop me. BWA HA HA HA!
I don't rent equipment from Comcast, I always buy my own modem. They HATE that, but they can't stop me. BWA HA HA HA!
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Internet is still slow/buggy. I just may have to ugrade my modem. Bleh. BLEH I SAY.
I don't rent equipment from Comcast, I always buy my own modem. They HATE that, but they can't stop me. BWA HA HA HA!
I don't rent equipment from Comcast, I always buy my own modem. They HATE that, but they can't stop me. BWA HA HA HA!
Bathroom is clean. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay.
December 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Bathroom is clean. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Finally cleaned the bathroom mirror!
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Finally cleaned the bathroom mirror!
Okie dokie. The second portion of the veggie broth batch is in the freezer (I freeze 'em in silicone molds so I can just grab a little puck of broth as needed), the bone broth is cooling, and I did a water change on the fish tank. Phantom had his water change + meds yesterday.
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Okie dokie. The second portion of the veggie broth batch is in the freezer (I freeze 'em in silicone molds so I can just grab a little puck of broth as needed), the bone broth is cooling, and I did a water change on the fish tank. Phantom had his water change + meds yesterday.
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Oh fuck yeah. It smells amazing in here.
December 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Oh fuck yeah. It smells amazing in here.
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it