Understand that the Billionaire class is just absolutely furious that even being that rich doesn’t mean they can own people. It explains so much of their obsessions, from driverless cars and AI to zero hours contracts and migration paranoia.
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Minor writer. https://adamscantwell.blogspot.com/ “A Forest with its Mouth Open Wide” still in print, hardcover weird fiction collection (search ebay) Previously Egaeus Press, Mount Abraxas, Raphus Press, Fiddleblack
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.
Fucking thank you! ai is indeed quite elementary and shockingly, stupidly brute force
ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@@sven.blacksky.app · 2d agoI understand it too [*], and I hate it because of what I understand from it. * Contrary to the myth they want us to believe, it's quite elementary and also dumbly brute force.
Your windpipe is that of Anubis, your chest is broad with gold, your breasts are two eggs of carnelian, which Horus has streaked with lapis. Your forearms glisten as glass, your shoulders are firm in their protection, your heart is gladdened every day. (BDQ)
Was wondering if this word would ever be uttered again Also, we are secular
Defector@defector.com · 4d agoHumanists have done nothing wrong: defector.com/humanists-ha...
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Grown are his falcon wings, plumes of the holy hawk; His power has brought him, his magic has equipped him! (Pyramid Texts) (ALL)
Three photos from my collection of a boy and his cat who obviously loved each other very much. Ca. 1950s. ❤️
anyone remember the "HALLS of Medicine" ad campaign? Made no damn sense at all. Beginning of the end www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxny...
1989 Halls Of Medicine Commercial
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in most books, a pig is killed eventually. the house on the borderland is superior because the hog-slaying starts right away
it's actually rather rude to be a low-talker in, like, public or the workplace
hey hey hey welcome to our future
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2w agoTwo Years On, the World Witnesses Human Safari in Kherson A viral video of a drone attacking a vegetable seller at Kherson farmers' market has brought Russia's deliberate targeting of civilians, which… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/05/two-years-on-the-world-witnesses-human-safari-in-kherson/
hi so everything is being complicated by my invisible disablities, and i am finding it hard to keep my head above water. i would love to find points of exchange with people with disabilities who write to survive. any advice, pointers, venues and anthologies to submit to, would be greatly welcome.
No "Seinfeld" without "Odd Couple"! No "Sheldon" character without Felix Unger!
@adamscantwell.bsky.social!!!! Bela Lugosi got hitched in REDWOOD CITY in 1929!!!! This is no doubt the coolest thing to ever happen in RWC!
“The Hearing Trumpet forthrightly introduces eccentricity into the feminist debate as a perspective that’s a legitimate alternative to the patriarchal one: whatever is eccentric is Goddess-like in spirit.” -Olga Tokarczuk
menges white house room, livingston manor, new york, 1977
(And if you think upstate New York is exempt from that whole conversation, it took an armed revolt 2 decades before the Civil War to get the Hudson Valley out of a literal feudalism situation.) (Alexander Hamilton was SUPER involved in keeping feudalism legal in the US. It's a fun rabbit hole!)
Anti-Rent War - Wikipedia
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Happy birthday to a true Chicago icon and a blues legend heard around the world, Buddy Guy!
Whole new categories of crime and abuse are being developed as we speak
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3w agoRapidly becoming convinced that one major immediate impact of AI diffusion is a massive uptick in the sophistication and scale of scams and hacks. Seeing it everywhere.
people shouldnt overreact negatively to the Emily Wilson review, it's right there in the text that she more or less enjoyed the viewing, and certainly enjoying writing the piece. I guess "I'd be ashamed to have written this" is a bit harsh but... she's a real writer in an extremely demanding field
