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Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the thing about all the AI writing "tells." AI uses em dashes because the *real human writers* whose work was stolen to train AI also use em dashes! You can pry my em dashes from my cold, dead hands. Or: "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

Ugh, Nvm

Alt: A gif of Michael Bolton from Office Space making a disgusted face

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I'm not letting AI horseshit maneuver me into a defensive position with my writing. I write like I write. I love emdashes. I keep using emdashes. Whatever we write, AI will take and copy it -- all you can do is keep writing the best shit you can write in the form you want it to take, and fuck it.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

How many of us will be unable to vote because we're weeks into repeated bouts of explosive diarrhea?

I'm starting to wonder if Trump's *real* plan for the midterms is to make America such an unbearable hellscape that it's impossible to make it to a polling place. "OK ... avoiding deadly eggs and bacon for breakfast, gassing up the car at $6 a gallon, navigating through the ICE checkpoint ..."

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Garbage - Special (w/Titles)

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Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · last wk.

OK, this is wild and basically the opposite of what I always thought it was about? (i.e. drunken hookups)

No song meaning has more radically changed for me than learning that Semisonic's "Closing Time" is about bringing a preemie home from NICU

Waking up to a broken coffee maker on a Monday morning just feels like a terrible omen for the week.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's giving "George's Marvelous Medicine," the Roald Dahl book in which George serves his mean grandma a cocktail of various items (including medicine for their animals) and she grows so tall that her head bursts through the roof of the house

“The committee ended the day by voting in favor of injectable TB-500, a peptide that, according to the F.D.A., was initially developed as a veterinary drug to boost performance in horse or greyhound racing.” IT HAS NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN STUDIED IN HUMANS. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

Steven Santos@stevensantos.bsky.social · 2w ago

so many reasons to love @alyankovic.bsky.social “I wish people would offer me things that I didn’t feel bad about accepting." 😂

Guess who had the integrity not to accept $1 million to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival last year?

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Took a few days off to work on a personal project and dang it's a nice day to not be stuck in the office 😎

Pool report from @svdate.bsky.social, who is at the World Cup ceremony: "The president walked onto the field at 1826 to a sustained chorus of boos. Ambient crowd noise was about 78 decibels. Booing brought it to 84."

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of my core memories of visiting Barcelona is accidentally ordering a big plate of ham at a restaurant. Didn’t come with bread or anything else. Just a big ol’ plate of ham. What a meal I had

Congrats to Spain. A generational ham country. Ham as a fingerfood, ham as a meal. They earned that trophy in my book. The ham book, in this instance.

Did Fox turn up the music on the broadcast to drown out the booing

This is the argument the local data center developer made last night — that a lot of arguments against data centers online are misinformation generated by the Chinese so they can get ahead Funny how no one seems to care that they're ahead in renewable energy and EV technology/adoption...

Axios@axios.com · 3w ago

David Sacks, AI investor and White House tech advisor, warned Friday that the U.S. is on track to lose the AI race to China.

Overflowing crowd at City Hall for this public planning commission meeting on a proposed data center in Allentown

Crowd of people seated during a presentation at Allentown city hall

Overflow crowd outside meeting room at Allentown city hall

The presenter on behalf of the data center at the podium with his single-use plastic water bottle like IDGAF

Yeah let’s cut down a bunch of trees (red dots) to build this data center no one wants

Building plans for a data center that show a bunch of trees being cut down

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3w ago

And we have the technology to stop making it worse, and in every country other than the US that technology is being deployed at massive scale, and it’s not only cleaner but cheaper, and yet … here we are

At this point I don't really think anyone is even bothering much with denying climate change, instead there's just this insidious loss of interest, and resignation, but the thing is as bad as it is and will get it could still get a LOT worse depending on what we do

Editing a very obviously AI-generated story while I need to wear a mask in order to go outside due to climate-change-driven wildfire smoke has me EXTREMELY FIRED UP to go oppose this proposed data center yeah let's burn the planet so a computer can draft a story like "___ isn't ____, it's ____"

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