Brian Kenna

@drbrianish.bsky.social

Ph.D., WWI/modernist Brit lit and modern fantasy lit. I also really like board games and baseball, so expect to see a lot about them. He/him.

Interviewer: we’ve noticed your website has an identity that makes it unique CEO: we’re worried about that. obviously we would prefer to become a gelatinous sludge feeding slop into a yawning abyssal sadness Interviewer: well that’s just common sense

yes, the Tiresome Literature Boy could be exhausting at parties when he tried book mogging you while looking down his nose at you over his bottle of Vermont craft beer but you could feel reasonably confident he wasn’t going to unhinge his jaw and attempt to devour you in the name of proteinmaxxing

young me, lying on a sheet of plywood with a tin can for a pillow 😴💤 current me, lying in a big bed with a memory foam mattress topper and 15 fluffy down pillows 😖💢

Me screaming this at anime bros from the top of my lungs. 💀 I beg ya to drill into your head that the recent “out of left field” shounen writing that is impossible to follow and can’t stick to a storyline start to finish even if it’s life depended on it is indeed NOT peak. It’s bad!!

David Sims@davidlsims.bsky.social · 4d ago

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

real tired of "why aren't americans doing anything" bc of course you're not gonna see it lol. mainstream news won't cover it and people are safer if they operate on the down-low. stuff is always happening, just remember who is in charge rn.

The conservative solution for the “male loneliness epidemic” and decentering men is to just remove women from public spaces.

It's worth noting that their goal here is the exclusive ownership of knowledge. They're destroying the source materials so that they are the only ones with access to the information, and they can distribute it as they please, filtered through their LLMs.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.