What is a "millennial optimism"

I'm starting to make hard copies of things. Given the way things have been going it feels foolish to rule out a major solar storm suddenly erasing all the digital data on earth.

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 12h ago

Writers: please back your work up in multiple places and formats. Pretty please.

I, for one, oppose sacrificing children to Moloch.

Reminder: hate rots your brain. Unfortunately this remains true even when the thing in question is odious and you have objectively correct reasons for hating its guts. You've got a find a way to continually step back, breathe, get it entirely out of your head and love something.

hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

Human-sounding chatbots could only have achieved such popularity during an epidemic of loneliness and alienation, and every day we watch them worsen that same epidemic beyond what would otherwise have been possible. They're not just gas poured on the fire of our isolation, they're a full-on BLEVE.

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social · 5d ago

cool, cool

Marco and Polo. Nasty little demons.

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · last wk.

Every day is a struggle to keep faith that good still abides in humanity, that anything decent and right will survive these times and that our efforts are not entirely in vain, and yet that faith is always rewarded.

DON'T VOTE FOR TRANSPHOBES BUT GENERALLY OTHERWISE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE VOTE

They're not even hiding the theft anymore They stole from humanity Now they're trying to justify themselves By marketing their theft to you "Don't do the work, but take credit for it!" Poser plagiarists as a business model It's sickening

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co · last wk.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Yet again the American Empire is poised to exterminate humanity

United Nations report highlights significant increase in U.S. climate pollution

The U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution dramatically increased last year. The United Nations warns the planet is on track for catastrophic warming.

npr.org

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

But is anyone else disgusted that it was the gas prices that moved a good chunk of the country and not the ethnic cleansing?

I have relatives who abandoned their queer kids and "disobedient" daughters. Nothing’s ever written up about them “casting out” (uncle’s word) their flesh and blood, so called. Fuck these people.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

Something hard about the present moment is that incremental reform has been so utterly discredited as an idea. We are assured that enshrining a human right in law takes generations and yet we witness how stripping it away again takes maybe a year

Foz Meadows@fozmeadows.bsky.social · 2w ago

looking at the difference between the American No Kings protests today and what’s going on in France, Albania, Italy and Japan, and cannot hep but think of this particular quote from Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars:

The sharpest executives in the industry are noticing this only 2 years after ordinary workers. This is why they get paid the big bucks.

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You know, you and I may not be this newspaper’s target audience

It's not just that AI boosters are repelled by the time and effort it takes to get good at something. It's that they don't regard the exertion of a skill (even for skills they already have!!) as worthwhile. The idea of doing something for its own sake is alien to them.

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“Make accessible” a thing humans have been doing for as long as there have been humans.

30k is life changing money. Let me speak from my material reality. In the olden days when I went to university 30k wpuld have covered a major portion of my tuition food books and housing costs for the 4 years. Kids whose parents didn't have that money had to borrow it. Well off Kids didn't.

There is no such thing as biological sex but a lot of folks aren't ready for that conversation

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Sole medere pede ede perede melos [Heal with the sun, eat on foot, and publish your works]

If you think about it, gamma radiation is just an evil color.

Sometimes, when something goes your way, you've just got to tip back your head and let out a nice, loud, diabolical laugh

Hi there is currently no ethical way to use genAI. Hope this helps.