Theo M | Sometimes Writer
@theodoremercer.bsky.social
I write books (when I finally have the time to do so)
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This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
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November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers
"Financially ruin the entire AI industry".
PLEASE
PLEASE
August 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"Financially ruin the entire AI industry".
PLEASE
PLEASE
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re: generative AI
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
re: generative AI
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
Beyond reprehensible. Cops should face justice, but you just know they won't.
Former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas is in hospital after sustaining facial injuries during an arrest at a pro-Palestinian protest in Sydney's south-west www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Former Greens candidate 'struck in the eye' during arrest at Sydney protest
Former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas has been hospitalised after being injured during an arrest at a pro-Palestinian protest.
www.abc.net.au
June 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Beyond reprehensible. Cops should face justice, but you just know they won't.
Plagiarism machine plagiarizes, who could have forseen this?
June 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Plagiarism machine plagiarizes, who could have forseen this?
F-18 actually stands for how many hundreds of fathoms deep the plane now is
Another US fighter jet falls into sea from Truman aircraft carrier, US officials say reut.rs/3GJnYxF
Another US fighter jet falls into sea from Truman aircraft carrier, US officials say
A U.S. F-18 fighter jet was lost in the Red Sea on Tuesday after tipping off the flight deck of the Harry S Truman aircraft carrier, in the second such incident in about a week, two U.S. officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
reut.rs
May 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
F-18 actually stands for how many hundreds of fathoms deep the plane now is
Tech Bros once again solving the problem of being an unlovable, hollow shell of a human by leaning harder into being an unlovable, hollow shell.
everything about the tech and ai world makes me sick to my stomach. it’s all so deeply anti-social
April 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Tech Bros once again solving the problem of being an unlovable, hollow shell of a human by leaning harder into being an unlovable, hollow shell.
Why exist at all?
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
April 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Why exist at all?
May Rowling spend every remaining day in complete terror and dread.
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
April 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
May Rowling spend every remaining day in complete terror and dread.
Bring back Kenneth Branagh!
Looks like lots of Cretaceous friends in the new Walking With Dinosaurs!
Walking With Dinosaurs | Official Trailer (2025) - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
youtu.be
April 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Bring back Kenneth Branagh!
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‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models
Authors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.
Novelists Kate Mosse and Tracy Chevalier as well as poet and former Royal Society of Literature chair Daljit Nagra will be among those in attendance outside the company’s King’s Cross office. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
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No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:
April 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:
This kinda stuff makes me unreasonably sad. Can't help but imagine this lil fella floating sadly in isolation for all time.
Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft Operations Manager Peter Collins confirms that Gaia has fallen silent, having been successfully passivated and switched off after more than a decade spent mapping the cosmos.
www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end
The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy.On 27 March 2025, G...
www.esa.int
March 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This kinda stuff makes me unreasonably sad. Can't help but imagine this lil fella floating sadly in isolation for all time.
Clark & Weir's Birdeater (2023) was genuinely such an unsettling horror experience. I can't get it out of my head. Worth a watch, because it's so painfully real.
March 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Clark & Weir's Birdeater (2023) was genuinely such an unsettling horror experience. I can't get it out of my head. Worth a watch, because it's so painfully real.
There is no violin small enough to play.
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
There is no violin small enough to play.
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Happy International Women's Day!
May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most needed—whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting.
When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!
May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most needed—whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting.
When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!
March 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Happy International Women's Day!
May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most needed—whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting.
When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!
May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most needed—whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting.
When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!
March 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
March 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I sneezed in the grocery store, whilst reaching down to pick up a jar of pickled olives, and pulled a muscle in my shoulder. What hurt was not so much the torn ligament, but the sudden, agonizing realization that followed:
I'm getting old.
I'm getting old.
March 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I sneezed in the grocery store, whilst reaching down to pick up a jar of pickled olives, and pulled a muscle in my shoulder. What hurt was not so much the torn ligament, but the sudden, agonizing realization that followed:
I'm getting old.
I'm getting old.
Mick Fleetwood
Need I say more?
Need I say more?
February 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Mick Fleetwood
Need I say more?
Need I say more?
And she's buying the
February 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
And she's buying the
Fuck literally every aspect of this
A version of Microsoft Word with banner ads and surprise video pop-ups that doesn't let you *save files to your computer*. Just the thought of this is painful www.theverge.com/news/618278/...
February 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Fuck literally every aspect of this