amazing to see genai people sous-videing their brains in racism in real time
Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳
@phoebebarton.bsky.social
Giant queer trans sf/game writer who is NOT AMERICAN, typewriter guardian, mind poisoner. Nebula winner, Aurora winner! Assistant Editor at Escape Pod, CW '19. Hamilton, Ontario. Header by @shargrave.bsky.social. She/her. www.phoebebartonsf.com
among other issues, I'm exhausted with people using "powered" like this. what, will the robots all be on exercise bikes and that's where the factories get their electricity?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Honestly between long covid in anti-maskers and AI cognitive decline 2040 is gonna be a hell of a decade
oh shit I just figured out a concept for a story that made me smile, I guess I'm not completely emotionally numb after all
Sèphera Girón: so i hear some of you writers don't like ai Girón: well, i'm tired of all you writers not liking ai! Girón: and i'm gonna let you all know it! Girón: i'm mad as hell! Girón: put that in the newspaper! Girón: or better yet Girón: put it in the HWA newsletter!
I've told this story before and I suppose now it's time to do it again. When I was in 9th grade, my English teacher was the elderly sort of man who always wore a gray flannel suit and had a cigarette before class and a cigarette at the end of class every period.
Sarah@sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 18h agoIt seems like assigned reading, especially summer reading, should include titles from different genres, with different tones, from different eras. (And as a former sulky Anne Rice-reading teen, I advocate for some over-the-top moodiness in the mix with realistic problem fiction and happier tales.)
the Enya music comes up and all I can think of is tribute.wmv, which this essentially is, honestly
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 23h agoOh my god I think I found the video.
Welp, Nexus Alpha VN has been put on indefinite hold but since @ela-bambust.bsky.social is a real one about sharing the art, I'm at least gonna show off all the romance options that got developed because I'm proud of them! Might show more expression sheets if people are interested.
it's been fascinating finding out NYC is like one of those weird edge cases in a civ game where the science tree is laid out in a way where you can have nuclear power plants but haven't unlocked like, indoor plumbing
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · yesterdayCould the answer to reducing rats in New York City really be as simple as putting garbage into trash cans? Yes, actually.
"Dans la version québécoise, l’histoire se déroule à Sainte-Irène, une ville du Québec." ...I'm baffled at the extent of everything the Québec version must have altered in regard to all the Texas stuff
Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 20h agoin the Québécois version of King of the Hill (“Henri pis sa gang”), Boomhauer is named Papineau and sounds like this
there you go sonic hates laws he wants to destroy our society he's going to bring down western civilization or whatever gets the most people mad at him
Sonic the Hedgehog@fastestthingal1ve.bsky.social · 22h agoWelp, good thing I don’t care about copyright laws! Guess I’m going to Six Flags!
this still infuriates me the more I think about it. Musk is responsible for so, so many deaths and immiserations, and yet these shitheads are going on about this pointless bullshit. GUESS WHAT! did you know NASA intentionally slammed shit into Luna a bunch of times? it even left actual shit there!
Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳@phoebebarton.bsky.social · yesterdaydoing a search of "spacex moon" gives an interesting cross section of "I'm angry about this because it involves Musk and for no other reason" and "I don't understand fucking anything about space"
seen some gormless rubes naming their AI trash after my beloved daughter im building an egg carrier that sucks to drop on your house
Like, Zoinks! Really cool history of Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem's career and adherence to an extremely attainable rule when it came to accepting roles. If there were Arabic characters, "is there one GOOD Arab in the script?" Vilification of Arabs in Western media is gas on the fire of genocide.
How the Voice of Shaggy Took a Stand Against Anti-Arab Racism
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doing a search of "spacex moon" gives an interesting cross section of "I'm angry about this because it involves Musk and for no other reason" and "I don't understand fucking anything about space"
Notorious RBMK@comraderobot.bsky.social · yesterdaydid you know the crater spacex is making on the moon will stay there PERMANENTLY [12.7K reposts] [40.1K likes]
seeing as how they're both on YouTube, I am kind of tempted to compare and contrast Strange New Worlds' "Valles Marineris" and Andromeda's "Angel Dark, Demon Bright" as predestination paradox stories and how Andromeda's is the vastly better one in almost every respect
I should've figured that cranks would have landed on the Hollow Sun Theory years before I thought of it
learning that, apparently, the correct pronunciation of Polyphemus is "polly-fee-muss" and not "puh-liff-uh-muss" is shattering my world
I used to think it was crazy that each Flock camera costs taxpayers $2,500/month! But now it all makes sense. These are valuable objects that may contain up to 2-3 lbs of copper and 1-2 grams of gold.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d agochat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold
"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoEvery 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
im called eggman cuz i make a damn fine omelette
"Intondi quotes poet Langston Hughes asking the question voiced by many others; why did the United States not drop the atomic bomb on Germany or Italy?" uhh... because they surrendered before the bomb was ready?
THE UNITED NATIONS FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d agoWWII propaganda is good actually
Honestly, filtering for, "the Nazis were bad, Stalin was bad, the correct side won WWII" is the easiest way to filter out 90+% of bad faith interlocutors if only everyone was honest about their views but the fascists and tankies know this and so sometimes falsify their opinions strategically.
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d agoWWII propaganda is good actually
seeing as how they're both on YouTube, I am kind of tempted to compare and contrast Strange New Worlds' "Valles Marineris" and Andromeda's "Angel Dark, Demon Bright" as predestination paradox stories and how Andromeda's is the vastly better one in almost every respect
Just wanted to make sure you got made fun of not just for using ai but also because you are wrong
"look at what our flawed brains can do, powered by 'AI'!" what, make really bad decisions, faster? yeah we've had something for that for ages, idiot, it's called cocaine
Richard Murphy@richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 2d agoI did an infographic on Marx recently. This seems like the appropriate follow-up. In one way or another, I used AI in creating this post. I also used a word processor, my brain, thinking time, coffee, discussion, and about 50 years of reading.
Breathe easy, InfoWarriors! Sen. Mitch McConnell just called in with a reassuring update from the space between life and death!
the story of the collapse of urban streetcars in North America is really the story of how important things must not be left to private, for-profit operation. private streetcar operators were incentivized to skimp on maintenance and sell them for scrap once buses became cheaper
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.