I don’t like when people think Being A Dick is the same thing as Having Balls. It’s not. Not even close. In fact there’s a Vas Deferens between them.
Please stop paying for anything Harry Potter. This is where your money is going. At this point, you're not an ally, you're an abuser and we're your victim.
@joemerrick.bsky.social Hi Joe! is the explosive hamburger recipe stronger than the potato recipe? or is there still only two strengths of rock smash?
There is no ethical consumption of Harry Potter. And not in the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" way. In the "your fandom is now comprised of hate symbols" way.
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 6d agoJKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.
For fans of special challenges, the final Bowser battle in New Super Mario Bros. U presents the "Defeat Bowser By Throwing His Son At Him Challenge". Normally Bowser dies after 3 hits with the Clown Car. However, the player can also throw Bowser Jr. at Bowser NINETY times to win.
I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”
”This is our story” ☀️🌙 This is late but Happy 25th to the Final Fantasy game I hold closest to my heart!! I wanted to celebrate with a parody of Klimt’s “The Kiss” since I adore every aspect of Tidus and Yuna’s romance. 🥰 Here’s hoping FFX-3 becomes real in our lifetimes 🤞
SOME GOOD NEWS! continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!
Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 6d agoSCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!
Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.
My 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 🧵
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
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"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
a $20 boot lasts a month but a $200 boot lasts 50 years but the company that makes the $200 boot got bought out by private equity and changed factories to the same one that makes the $20 boot so now it only lasts a year but another company bought the original factory and is selling boots for $400
🚲insert into warcrimes_users where profession = 'maga'@db-user.bsky.social · last wk."people long for cheap disposable things" or buying goods has become a crapshoot of quality and people are focusing on the only signals that are reliable: price and social signals
This is an important story, beyond the world of sports. There were BIG MONEY interests at stake here. But *organized opposition* to a cartoonishly corrupt sell-off torpedoed the plan. Almost immediately. There is a lesson here.
Infantino scraps FIFA World Cup sell-off plan after backlash
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has scrapped his proposal to sell stakes in the World Cup after widespread backlash, including from within global soccer's governing body, and a threatened boycott by European Nations.
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Being anti-AI isn't enough. You should be pro-art, pro-artist, pro-writer, pro-worker. Don't expend all your energy tearing people down. Spend it lifting people up instead. Make their voices so loud, their art so visible, it drowns out the slop.
When journalists asked me about where we would see the effects of DOGE, my answer was a) during crises and b) for the big services that interact with the public like SSA, VA and IRS. So lets check in on the IRS: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The IRS is imploding.
The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.”
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Literally what fandom discourse has turned into I fear.
Xenoblade 2 to me, is learning to break free from myself and start to truly live as a woman. It gave me the language to understand my trans identity, and I could not be more thankful. #blog #gaming #xenoblade
Reconstructing The Self
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Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
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so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2w agoExclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
Predictive data has been a thing for years in specific targeted areas. It's the broadstroke application that's eradicating humans and water that I take offense at.
Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.
saw this earlier and it genuinely broke my heart i'm not AMAB for the record but every nonbinary person deserves to belong in queer spaces
Supporting the animators does not mean embracing a narrative that the use of ChatGPT was done by someone wholly unaffiliated with the project. As present, no one has taken responsibility/been blamed, and there's absolutely no way to know yet how, where, and to what degree it was used, and by whom.
"Misinformation" is an incorrect term, here: someone involved with the Avatar movie used AI for cultural consultation/research or marketing copy text, and it's not unfair for folks to write the whole thing off accordingly. Was it a department head or exec, giving notes? Was it someone in marketing?
Like I'm not sorry I saw "we used the AI racism machine to racistly research cultural hairstyles" on a literal fucking giant screen and assumed "hey, they might've used the racism machine to do racistly ignorant cultural research, that's worrying and we should know if that's true"
People weren't saying the animation was made with AI oh my GOD!!! That's not what people were worried about- they were worried about cultural research being assisted by ai- as mentioned in an official art book at an official event!!
In case you didn’t know, librarians and libraries absolutely whip ass.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2w agoAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.