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Tim Maughan
@timmaughan.bsky.social
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should be writing a second novel

timmaughanbooks.com

altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
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regimecpa.bsky.social
The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
timmaughan.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Calling authors petit bourgeoisie is indeed insane. We are artisans and we deserve to profit from our labor.

That said, digital piracy has never been shown to represent actual lost sales, and may in fact DRIVE sales. I think authors should cool out about it.
cheriepriest.com High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 13h
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.] • • • every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
don't think most ppl get quite how badly the Open AI memory deals are going to raise consumer prices for basically all electronics - consoles, smart phones, GPUs, laptops etc

If you really want/need to buy something, you're probably best doing it ASAP

www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-alt...
Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIn...
www.mooreslawisdead.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Ooops.
Magician loses password to his hand after RFID chip implant
: Storing credentials safely and securely is the real trick
www.theregister.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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markscoz.bsky.social
I think this is appropriate here. Jesus fucking Christ. "House EDM"
A screen shot of a bleet that says "You know for a FACT this guy has been to a few raves in the 80s. In Chicago. On the SOUTH side. Where house EDM was born 😎🎶"
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
timmaughan.bsky.social
piss awful track selection for someone allegedly from chicago
vuc.bsky.social David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 5d
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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graysonmorley.com
Time for our main story of the week: Chozo Artifacts
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Next - try fascism. That should be easy, right?
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
I can’t believe John Oliver @lastweektonight.com has ruined Metroid Prime 4
the universally hated Miles from Metroid Prime 4
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/qLzlm...
I talked to Copilot AI in Windows 11 for a whole week. Here's how it went.
YouTube video by The Verge
youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
just watched a single youtuber call a game "undercooked" (meaning bad), "cooked" (meaning bad), and "fully cooked" (meaning bad) in the space of 5 minutes
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
not based on how popular Dispatch is!

*ducks for cover*
chibiufo.bsky.social Kyle F. @chibiufo.bsky.social · 5d
It's not already happening?
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
"To maintain safety, no operational details are included in this manuscript'

my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 5d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
today i am mostly trying to make the phrase "marvel slop" happen
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
yes i absolutely believe those ppl deserve a right to a trial by jury you absolute insane bastards!

we need to get rid of labour and we need to undo all the damage they're doing to our democracy.
“Do we think that someone who has stolen a bottle of whisky from a minimart should receive the right to trial by jury?” she said. “Do we think that someone who has been involved in a serious fraud involving cryptocurrency that we should have a jury sat in court for a year or more hearing such a case?
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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richardlittler.bsky.social
Frames from a Stranger Danger public information film. The predator asks a school 'Would you like to see an AI summary?'
November 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
timmaughan.bsky.social
phew - turns out the economy isn’t going to collapse, because the AI boom is real and concrete, and not just a case of the emperor’s new clothes

source: the emperor

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘We excel at every phase of AI’: Nvidia CEO quells Wall Street fears of AI bubble amid market selloff
Jensen Huang opens earnings call with attempt to dispel concerns after his $5tn firm beat Wall Street expectations
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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dragonsdpawn.bsky.social
'Tis gone made with rage!
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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fredkiesche.bsky.social
Holy fuck. Great Heinlein’s Ghost, fuck Musk and all who follow him or use this piece of shite.
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
I’m sure I’ll get round to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 eventually, but I’m going to need a mod to make the characters uglier
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
don’t forget to file, there’s more than a few grand at stake
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
“kamikaze drones” is the sort of phrase you use when you just googled modern drone warfare 5 minutes ago and it made you think of Pearl harbour and also you are a fucking hack
zeeshanaleem.bsky.social Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 8d
Stephens seems confident that this situation will be improved by war and a power vacuum -- historically a great way to generate stability.
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
timmaughan.bsky.social
shit sorry forgot the alt text
He continues: "Rather than thinking about Al as a cheap way to replace filmmakers, to replace writers, to replace artists, think of [it] as a new kind of machine that captures something and plays back something. What is the thing that it captures and plays back? The content of thought, or subjectivity."
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM