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Morgan Johnson

@poormojo.bsky.social

USA Today bestselling author. Book cover artist. He/Him

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Rory Blank@roryblank.bsky.social · 1h ago

Man it's so funny when James Carville threatens to leave the Democratic party, like oh no, now the party might have candidates who are actually popular with their constituents and have popular policy positions and win elections what are we going to do noooo don't

Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer@cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 11h ago

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots

The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me)@guncelawits.bsky.social · yesterday

Normalize saying “The OpenAI Corporation” instead of “ChatGPT,” “The Anthropic Corporation” instead of “Claude,” etc. You had The OpenAI Corporation write your fiction for you? That’s fucked up, dude.

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost@chaoskat.bsky.social · yesterday

Someone in my writing group who hasn't said anything for months submitted 100 new pages over the weekend and said he has started “working with a collaborator” and after exactly two comments on his pages he let it slip it's ChatGPT. This is gonna be a bloodbath.

Katiesaurus@katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 24h ago

"The data suggests the eight oil companies – Aramco, BP, Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies, Eni, Chevron and ExxonMobil – made more than $700,000 of profit every minute over the spring quarter."

Michael Rass@mikerass.bsky.social · yesterday

Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90 billion in just three months as Trump’s illegal Iran war sent energy prices soaring and the emissions-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · yesterday

The tax immunity is the most illegal part. As outrageous as it is to give a settlement to the J6ers, it's within the DOJ's power to negotiate financial settlements on these terms. Tax immunity isn't something that can legitimately be given.

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d ago

Todd Blanche's last-minute promise won over Senators Cornyn & Tillis, but shouldn't have. The "deal" leaves Trump's tax immunity intact. It confirms what the Senators should have already known about Blanche's lack of fitness to be AG. My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

Michelle Keep@jmkeep.bsky.social · 2d ago

Doing Facebook ads and it OF COURSE keeps pushing AI at me at every step (targetting, translations, graphics, copy, literally every single step) but this is one of its suggested graphics where it says (with caveats) that I *could* get 10% higher click through with AI-generated images.

An absolutely butchered graphic that says Mafia romune king! in a speech bubble and "Obsessed with the spaie" over top of the text in the bottom corner where it's also repeated kindleunlimited twice, it's awful and ugly slop.The original image that I uploaded that has a couple embracing in the background along with a cover and a trope list that doesn't have random letters and speech bubbles mangling everything.
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 3y ago

MY ARCH-NEMESIS: All your great works, all your grand plans, culminating in this? *scoffs* I know now that you’ve never been worth my regard. I’d crush your frail body beneath my heel but for the fact that it would sully my boot. ME, NOSE DEEP IN HIS WIFE: cmm muh gmmum a mimih hih duhd