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Troy Wilson

@troystory.bsky.social

www.troystory.ca Author of 10 trad pub picture books. (And 10 million unpubbed ones.)

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Uncle Duke@uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Look, before you start yelling, I want you to keep in mind that you still have one perfectly good shoe, while Sam here and I have a total of eight feet between us, and exactly zero shoes. So, I think maybe you should stop and honestly ask yourself who the real victims are here.”

two beagle puppies, one sitting, one on their hind legs, both looking up pleadingly
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow@tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3d ago

this is a great thread for laypeople (like me) explaining why the a.i. has not become death, the self-aware destroyer of worlds

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d ago

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
J.P.@johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Whew 9/11 rescue dogs. Poor things got so down, working so hard for so long w/such little “success” (recovering bodies), some handlers resorted to having human responders hide in the rubble so the dogs could experience “finding” them. Dogs experienced prolonged depression after weeks of searching. 🇺🇸

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Troy Wilson@troystory.bsky.social · 7d ago

To me, the biggest upside to publisher rejections is this: you might figure out a waaaaaaaaaay better way to write the thing later. Two weeks later. Two months later. Two years later. Um, I'm living that RIGHT NOW. I've lived it lots. Sometimes you've actually dodged a bullet.