Hey remember when Nanowrimo said "sure why not" to allowing AI slop in their process and then immediately died after 20 years of operation oh, no reason, was just thinkin' about it
Bess Hamilton
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Writer. Canadian. May I be a star in the dark time. She/her. My opinions & views are mine alone. Am guaranteed AI-free.
Yesterday I sneezed while taking my favourite mug to the kitchen for a coffee refill and dropped my mug. I blame ragweed for the loss of my beloved mug.
We don't have to accept harmful tech and try to mitigate the damage via tepid legislation. We can ban it. It's maddening our governments treat this stuff as a natural force beyond their control.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h agoIt’s not a guardrails problem but rather a fascism problem.
I'm very tired of the guardrails metaphor, because it so often is where thought dies.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h agoIt’s not a guardrails problem but rather a fascism problem.
I might be moving to a neighbouring town, so I'm beginning the great purge that proceeds any move. And honestly, I have so much respect and admiration for people who move to another country. Moving, even when you want to, is really hard. Moving because you have no choice must be unbearable.
Ontario, imagine what it would be like having premier who didnt exist solely to serve the wealthy.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 19h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
hi all. I'd really appreciate it if you listened to, shared, and perhaps even left a (good?) review of my podcast. the point is to highlight the amazing work in medieval studies being done right here in the US, as well as how the medieval continues to haunt modern America --> AmericanMedieval.com
American Medieval Podcast
A podcast about the Middle Ages (with an American twist), hosted by Professor Matthew Gabriele.
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American Medieval Podcast@americanmedieval.bsky.social · 8h agoFriends, Romans, skeeters, its new episode Wednesday. CONSPIRACY THEORIES!!! @elisewang.bsky.social joins the pod to talk about medieval origins and modern myths. #medievalsky 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social story here: www.404media.co/microsoft-te...
amazing how so few of the gazillion think pieces criticizing women for not dating straight men fail to mention the whole “many of them literally don’t wash their asses” thing:
Nikolaj Bill@nikolajbill.bsky.social · 20h agoI remember a coworker in her late twenties saying this on how dating was so difficult. I was not surprised by her first two complaints: general anger issues and having few outside hobbies. I WAS surprised at her mention of how many men apparently don’t wash their hair or butts.
I hate that Who is seen as the only viable British terrestrial TV vehicle that can carry science fiction. They should use this lull to develop something new that doesn't come with the dead weight of historical baggage and toxic fandom.
IGN@ign.com · yesterdaySolving the "problems" currently plaguing Doctor Who will take time, the series' former showrunner Chris Chibnall has cautioned, explaining that the show's most pressing issue now is "primarily about money." https://bit.ly/3RUqeI6
I hate the fact that life has turned into an endless series of single-use kitchen gadgets. Want to go to a theme park? Better install their proprietary app. Want to go to another theme park owned by the same company? That will be another app.
It's ragweed season and despite my prescription strength allergy meds, I have the worst hay fever. All the fluid in my body is leaving via my nose. And my tongue is itchy.
stop. making. people. feel like. chatbots. are "conversational" and their friends.
Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social · yesterdayMy new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵
This is, respectfully, dumb as shit. Tammy Duckworth gave her legs and she’s not using that to excuse her bad behavior
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d agoA watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
This is the definitive yarn you want to read about data center resistance and the unlikely political bedfellows the movement has drawn. excellent feature by @mollytaft.com www.wired.com/story/how-da...
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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it's because every consumer of this content is a dude who is fuckall at sports and gets dogwalked by every other dude he's ever played so now he gets a kick out of watching a woman lose and pretends he'd have done better. It's pure inceldom dressed in sports
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d agoit's interesting how many men get satisfaction out of knowing that other men can beat elite female athletes. like ok, maybe the best high school boys team in the country can beat a WNBA team, but YOU can't
Writing fiction in any genre should be a purely human exercise. If you use AI to generate *any* dialog, story ideas, character shapes, *anything* creative, you're betraying the very concept of artistic expression. This is a bright flashing red line for me. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.
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After years of participating in sowing dissent, Mr. Kenney has spent the past year performing what you might call the Captain Renault move: He is shocked, shocked to find separatism flourishing in the gambling house he helped sustain. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Jason Kenney is trying to stop the separatists. But he deserves some blame for their rise in the first place
As premier, he gave vent to some of the grievances that now animate the movement
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My friend in grad school was told by his brother that history is just “interviewing war veterans and writing a report.” In that moment I was convinced less than 10% of the population knows how historical knowledge is actually created, and this just reinforces that belief.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
god i love local news
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
I'm not saying we should go back to being this careless about kids, by the way. My dad turned out ok, but even with his grandkids, he's not great at judging how much independence kids should have. We need a balance between child labour for a bootlegger & not letting responsible teens babysit.
Bess Hamilton@besshamilton.bsky.social · 2d agoMy dad's first job was when he was 8 to 10 years old selling bootleg liquor at a hotel. He & a friend were hired by the maker to sit in a stall in the men's room and pass booze under the stall after someone passed them cash. How they weren't molested or murdered. He also washed dishes at the hotel.
I wrote this 3 years ago for @pastemagazine.bsky.social, about reporting on transphobia in music without ever involved trans people, and you’ll be surprised (I’m not) how it continues to be extremely relevant www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...
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"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
As "Cathy" so aptly put it: "The thing that is a good tool for the skilled people is being sold as a thing to reduce the number of skilled people hired": bsky.app/profile/cath... 51/
Cathy@cathyby.bsky.social · 3d agoIt's almost like a Greek myth. The thing that is a good tool for the skilled people is being sold as a thing to reduce the number of skilled people hired.