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Rob Berg

@robwillb.bsky.social

Writer, copy editor, copy editorial director @bonabooks.bsky.social, Jim Henson expert, actual Muppet, theatre gay, former Disney cast member, Oz fan. Lives in London on a narrowboat. He/him. https://linktr.ee/robwillb

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Rob Berg@robwillb.bsky.social · 4h ago

Help, the most self-righteous bores on the internet are trying to retroactively cancel Wicked because of how Ariana Grande looks now. As well as emphatically state fanfic theories that Ari and Cynthia's friendship was based in bonding over shared EDs as gospel truth. Get lives, touch grass, I beg.

Rob Berg@robwillb.bsky.social · 6h ago

Just got what I'm assuming is an AI email from a "private equity firm" interested in acquring my "OBGYN practice" and like, how much are we talking upfront here, I may be willing to negotiate. 😏

Rob Berg@robwillb.bsky.social · yesterday

Got woken up in the middle of the night multiple times by a bunch of coots fighting to the death. There was insane bird shrieking, the sounds of violently splashing water. I've seen these angry little assholes try to drown each other in the daytime before but at 3 a.m.? Seek some therapy, children.

Eddie Robson@eddierobson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Right, and this is why it has the "liberal enclave" rep, because all these rightwing blowhards who wanted to come here for bad-faith "debate" went away crying about how mean everyone was here, instead of just making their own corner of it and leaving the rest of us alone.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Trip Galey@trip.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't know any D&D DM that doesn't allow Prestidigitation to clean the body. Bottoming in Faerun must be SO much more convenient. To say nothing of tops who can cast Bear's Endurance... (Yes, I do play a Bard. Why do you ask?)

Rob Berg@robwillb.bsky.social · 2d ago

Something else I love about SPIDER-NOIR is that somehow everyone on screen, from the leads to the guest stars to the extras, have 1930s face. None of these people look like they have ever seen an iPhone.

Rob Berg@robwillb.bsky.social · 3d ago

You know that thing about how Nicolas Cage's performances are always either Very Good or Awful with no in-between? SPIDER-NOIR is one of the ones where he's Very Good.

Juliet E McKenna@julietemckenna.bsky.social · 3d ago

One of many blunt posts from an uncompromising thread on AI mania with citations, and link to an essay version at /2 for those who prefer.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Suresh says he's *never* seen a successful enterprise AI project: "Every single one – we have seen 0% success in a year and a half." Not one of their clients would face a business challenge if OpenAI went out of business tomorrow. 27/

Rob Berg@robwillb.bsky.social · 4d ago

Despite loving The Odyssey film, I have no real skin in this game, I'm just finding that the way this thing won't die has spun around to funny again. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

'The Odyssey' book nerd battle rages on: Susan Orlean says Emily Wilson is being 'a bit of a jerk'

As literary figures clash over Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey,' author Susan Orlean calls translator Emily Wilson 'a bit of a jerk,' and Wilson admits to one key regret in her review.

latimes.com