Julie Barrett
@barrettmanor.com
(she/her) Writer of words. Maker of things. Taker of photographs. Servant to cats.
Yn the Paleolithic age, a cave-payntere named Ted doth travel across manye landes to joyne a group of cave-paynteres who have been losinge cave-payntinge competiciouns. Wyth hys hope, kyndenesse, and compassioun, Ted doth make them believe yn the power of their art. Thys summer: Ted Lascaux.
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
Oh, I see the mistake, but this theater is actually showing the new “Avengers: Domesday”, it’s a detailed account of land holdings and tax disputes in the Marvel Universe…
"...prompting your way to art or to writing is not the same as having a new tool that allows you to make art or tell a story. AI, here, is not a tool — It’s not allowing you to do the work. You’re allowing it to do the work. Which is to say, you’re the tool." 🔥
Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 3w agoProfessional writer organizations should not send out pro-AI propaganda in the form of tantrum-having "essays" to their members, and I don't think that's controversial.
If Ray Bradbury came back as a zombie, the title of the story he would write would be "There Will Come Soft Brains"
Time for the periodic life/health update - with cat tax! barrettmanor.com/julie/archiv...
Life/Health Update...
Major life update: Spoiler: Nothing bad....
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Thank you to Heather Cox Richardson for bringing this quotation to our attention. Read the whole pamphlet at archive.org/details/Army...
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...
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I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
The joke I told about Herucles at the Augean Stables stunk.
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · last mo.The joke I told about Pentheus just tore me up.
Rearranging my desk toys while waiting on a package to show up.
Warnock: “Donald Trump lost Georgia in 2020. He’s trying to sow doubt on the integrity of our elections in Georgia so he can create the pretext to interfere in 2026.” @warnock.senate.gov
Picard engineering tip: Even if computers can talk now, remember how deeply stupid they are.
If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?
yf you take a vydeo of somebodye playinge the bag-pypes that ys drone footage
You do not need to react, or even form an opinion, on every event around you. A true warrior knows that often it is better to simply observe and learn, to alleviate one's ignorance, rather than putting it on full display.
A new scam-hunting tool: check a website's source code for AI prompts www.propublica.org/article/goog...
How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral
I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unrel...
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donatid one million dollares to a charitye that doth provyde free textebookes to college studentes. Thankes to thys generous donacioun, the foundacioun will be able to give out ten textebookes thys yeare.
NEW RULE: whenever I call for expanding the Supreme Court, it’s always 2029. But we have to start now by flipping the senate. No need to say “shouldn’t we wait until we have a Dem president?” Yes. You can always assume that. Thanks!
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