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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 5d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 23d

The frustrating thing with the Sensible Centrists who just want there be "a conversation" about trans athletes is that already happened and continues to happen. Standards have been getting tested and tweaked for years, not often done apolitically but done. What they mean is that no one asked them.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 26d

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

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Alex Hughes ( Capell ) @alexhughescapell.bsky.social · Aug 12

Gotham Writers is currently doing a survey of how writers are using AI and if you’re a writer it’s probably worth filling it out.

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AI and the Writing Profession

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Radish Doodles @radishdoodles.bsky.social · Aug 4

Okay, here you go:
(Side note: this was drawn with nothing planned, so I apologize if anything is wrong or offensive!)

Pages 1 and 2 of the butt zine: "remember, all butts are good butts" with various vegetables, fruit, animals and a lightbulb with butts.
"Even YOUR butt!" With pink hearts and several human butts of various shapes, colours, and sizes.

Pages 3 & 4:
"Some things don't have butts, but(t) I like to pretend."
A drawing of me wistfully looking up as I imagine a fork, cellphone, and car with a butt.
"BUT(T), why are those cheeks so darn funny?!"
With various faces laughing and crying laughing.

Pages 5&6:
"Well, for one, FARTS and secondly, POOP are heckin' funny, and everyone does it! (Even plants FART!)"
Drawing of myself farting and I look surprised. Along with a drawing of a dog pinchin' off a stinky loaf.

Page 7 (last page)
"In conclusion, butts are silly parts of our bodies, and everyone (well, almost) has a pait of cheeks that help us walk, run, sit, and of course, fart. The end."
Drawing of a person on top of a mountain with a big ol'dumper. The butt is shining over the mountain top, and the sky is blue with fluffy white clouds. The front most mountain also has a big ass.

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Jacques O'Lantern @ass.golf · Jul 29

Once there were brook trouts in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. They were epic as fuck, and for the win.

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jul 27

I'm starting to wonder if AI is just a way for these tech companies to admit they're in a bad way while still looking good for shareholders. The stocks are great, but the actual reason behind said stocks are made of wet cardboard.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · Jul 27

Satya Nadella's memo on Microsoft's layoffs portends the harsh reality that AI could make software companies more profitable while employing fewer people (Om Malik/On my Om)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Riley @raaleh.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jul 14

Also fantastic! I love anything Arthurian, and these are just steeped in so much magic.

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jul 13

Post a book you love from the 1970s!

The book cover of The Farthest Shore, by Ursula K Le Guin. It is the third book of Le Guin's Earthsea series.

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jul 4

Just a wee bit (see: unbelievably) excited to be published in Nimrod's upcoming issue!!!

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · Jul 4

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025 literary competitions! Randall Mann has awarded the top Neruda Poetry Prize to Michael Lavers, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim has awarded the top Porter Fiction Prize to Talia Neffson. 1/5

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jun 24

Today I came home to see the tiniest little praying mantis on my railing. Hello, little guy!

The tiniest, smallest juvenile praying mantis perched on the edge of a railing.

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · Jun 21

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jun 15

It's like watching Romeo and Juliet, you know where it's going and what's going to happen, but it still gets you anyways.

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jun 15

Was not prepared.

HAD @havehashad.com · Jun 15

shoutout to all the HAD dads!

today's square from Richie Zaborowske left me a little stunned when I read it as a submission, making me immediately reread it a couple more times, and it wowed me all over again rereading just now

https://www.havehashad.com/ezrmx

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jun 13

Ten writers by whom I've read more than 5 books:

Tamora Pierce
Diana Wynne Jones
Ursula K Le Guin
Garth Nix
Haruki Murakami
T Kingfisher
Martha Wells
Bryan Lee O'Malley
JRR Tolkien
Jonathan Stroud

Fun challenge!

Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · Jun 12

Oooh, I like this one! Pleasingly challenging, even though books are my job…

Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than 5 books:

Frances Burney
Julian Barnes
Hilary Mantel
Agatha Christie
Leila Slimani
Philip Pullman
Jane Austen
Angela Carter
David Mitchell
Zadie Smith

Neville Morley @nevillemorley.bsky.social · Jun 12

Ten writers by whom I've read more than 5 books:

Jenny Erpenbeck
William Gibson
Christa Wolf
Alison Lurie
Anthony Powell
Daniel Kehlmann
Lawrence Durrell
Ursula Le Guin
Ulrich Ritzel
Georges Perec

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HAD @havehashad.com · Jun 10

literature is dead and no one cares about short fiction... but 155 of you squares submitted to a pretty specific call in under 60 seconds.

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MetaVulture @metavulture.com · Jun 7

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · Jun 9

(Not those pigs either)

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Ian @rambleroam.bsky.social · May 23

"Some hotels skip the thirteenth floor because they think it's unlucky. But people on the fourteenth floor, you know what floor you're really on."

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · May 23

Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”

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Steven J @steven-connects.bsky.social · May 23

‘I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.’

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · May 23

Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 7

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · May 7

it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.

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