KOSA. The SCREEN Act. The CHATBOT Act. The Youth AI Privacy Act. Four different bills, with the same flawed approach: more surveillance, more data collection, and less privacy online. Tell the Senate to reject all four. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...

Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint

Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification

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Me: Ok, I'm at the admin access console for the mainframe. GM: Do you roll for hacking? Me: Before I do, does the console have an attached keyboard? GM: Yes? Me: I flip it over and check for a sticky note.

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro is probably the closest thing to romance. It is romance but isn’t a happily ever after story. Ishiguro is a big influence as a good example of character driven sci-fi Guilty pleasure: romantic movies. I’ve seen The American President at least 20 times. #SumLuv

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 20h ago

Do you remember the first romance novel you read? Where did you get it from? 🧡 #SumLuv 🧡

NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them. Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...

My non-fiction debut "We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West" is out today. It's the result of years of research, travel to a dozen countries, and countless conversations. Thank you @wwnorton.com and everyone who supported me along the way. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

For Ash it’s intrigue. Jordan is naive but he treats her with a respect she finds charming. Then there’s his odd lack of connection to the system. He’s been hidden from the world, leading her to answers about her own past. She makes him her project. It doesn’t hurt that he’s pretty. #SumLuv 1/3

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 2d ago

Meet cutes don't have to be "cute"! They are a plot device 🧡 But! Let's talk about how they DO feel about each other early on! Is it fairytale love? Is it *lust* at first sight? Hate at first sight? All?? Snips here are welcome (always welcome if you want to answer anything with a snip) 🧡 #SumLuv

Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers by putting them in copyright peril

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Not exactly classic. Ash appears to members of the technophobic cult and they shoot at her. (She’s fine, she can’t be easily harmed.) Jordan approaches to discover his enemy is smart and beautiful #SumLuv

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 3d ago

"In which somebody runs into somebody else, and then something falls, and they begin to talk, and their eyes meet and they realize they are attracted to one another" —Rodger Ebert Do you have a classic one? Or one that passes 😆 Did you avoid altogether? Snips welcome! #SumLuv

I couldn't pick Hasan Piker out of a lineup or tell you anything about him but if he makes Carville shut the fuck up I'm all good.

Those Who Speak for God is a slow burn and forbidden love romantic sci-fi. Jordan is named the leader of Mount Ebenezer, a technophobic religious cult, by his dying grandfather. Ash was a victim of war but her mind was rescued and she inhabits a nanobot body. Human but “built different”. 1/x

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 4d ago

Who are you writing about? What makes a romantic story about them interesting? Note there will not be a character art or face cast prompt, so feel free to do that here if you'd like! Don't forget alt text for images if you post them. #SumLuv

Posting here because my story became romance by accident. I’m working on “Those Who Speak for God”. Your typical boy named leader of technophobic cult meets the android girl of his dreams. I’ve worked on this the last 15 years and it’s almost ready to query. #SumLuv

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 5d ago

Welcome to 🧡 Summer of Love 🧡 a daily prompt game for everyone writing in the romance genre! What's up? What are you working on? How long have you been writing? Tell us everything! Well, tell us enough 😅 I'm excited to chat with you this month. Don't forget to tag #SumLuv

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Princess Bride - As You Wish

Alt: Princess Bride - As You Wish

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Andy W. Taylor@sooguy68.bsky.social · 7d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Please stop arguing about the historical accuracy of an adaptation of a book that has a cyclops and a couple of witches and some giants. I’m begging you.

So Weird Al turned down an AI ad and also the Riyadh comedy festival and the lesson is Weird Al has more integrity than the vast majority of entertainers triblive.com/aande/music/...

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic gets Bigger & Weirder in a tour headed to Pittsburgh

It’s fairly easy to see how “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Bigger and Weirder tour got its name. The tour grew to 90 cities (after hitting 75 last year), plus the band has doubled in si...

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Heads up: Taylor Farms lettuce is sold under these brand names: Marketside (sold at Walmart) Earthbound Farm (owned by Taylor Farms) Cross Valley Farms (owned by US Foods) Private labels for Target, Whole Foods (365), and Amazon Fresh. AVOID ALL OF THEM

Uh, yes please.

gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Texas Republicans doing recruitment for us.

This is a great read, and it's also a lesson. This is what everyone could be doing, at every level. This is the possibility open to every one of us, while every single cry of "we had no choice" was and is a cowardly lie.

Kyle Goon@kylegoon.bsky.social · 2w ago

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org

Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.

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#QueerWritersChat I'm Ez, queer, disabled, working on star wip about social responsibility vs righteous anger, with tangible light, a sentient star, and a trans masc lead

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · 3w ago

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat! Let’s start by settling in! Introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on! No links, please! We’re saving those for the end. Next question at :15! @amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it a modest 10% productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000% productivity gain." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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Washington Post Stops Short of Being a Real Newspaper

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Stops short of offering evidence"?? What fresh hell of a mealy-mouthed headline is this??

Gotta love the techbros yelling about AI in the free breakfast area of a cheap hotel in rural Arizona. Bro, shut the hell up. I’m trying to enjoy my day old coffee. (They are thankfully leaving)

Warner on CBS: I was embarrassed that the president went before our country and networks like yours carried this as news as opposed to a rehash of falsehoods. It is incumbent upon you and any responsible journalist to pushback on this.

Apparently DoD created “war.gov”. There is no bottom.

Mitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies Sketch

Alt: Mitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies Sketch

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FRESH hell?! In this economy? While I've gotta make a dollar-shop tin of powdered hell stretch til next payday?

This framing is so disgusting and irresponsible. Yes, Taylor Farms supplies Taco Bell. THEY ALSO SUPPLY TONS OF OTHER RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES. People will take "avoid Taco Bell" as the lesson which is NOT HELPFUL. www.wcvb.com/article/cycl...

Iceberg lettuce sold at Taco Bell linked to cyclospora outbreak, sources say

Sources say shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms and sold at some Taco Bell restaurants has been linked to a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, according to reports.

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a few good Jessica’s

Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 3w ago

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social