Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)
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An interesting thing to read on the internet.
"But every conversation, every document signed, every desultory email to our lawyer asking for updates, returned the same answer: Not Yet."
On Waiting: The Heartbreak at the Center of Kim Bo-Young’s “I’m Waiting for You”
On the unfortunate fragility of love.
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Foreign Objects by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
Foreign Objects
Flash fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
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The story of how Big Tech annihilated the journalism industry
How Big Tech Destroyed Big Journalism
The story of a destructive tech industry that went from embryonic to hegemonic.
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"It’s that same sickness that turned North American cities into sprawling miles of roads and parking lots and big box stores with no real center to gather in, no social or cultural or spiritual purpose but to sell you stupid shit and then shove you out..."
Hostile Architecture: Late Capitalism and Backrooms
The scariest thing about Backrooms is that we already live there.
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Got approached by a prospective client TODAY who wanted help creating a D&D adventure for an AI DM, after trying to have an LLM come up with it only resulted in unplayable shit. NGL, it was satisfying to tell him "no" and that his product is doomed to homogenous mediocrity
Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · last wk.ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying by @wizleo.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/chatgpt-llms...
Adopt them or let them run a literary magazine. We think either is a good choice.
Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 2d agoShould you adopt a rat?
Turning away from tragedy, pain, and despair is a tale as old as humanity. But the reasons why are anything but simple...
A History of Turning Away
What does it mean, truly, to turn away from something?
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"If movies reflect life, why wouldn't they have sex in them?"
Sex, Lies, and Video Essays: On Gen Z, Intimacy, and James Spader
Movies used to have more sex in them. What happened?
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Interesting essay, helped me understand why I haven’t been able to successfully teach the story
Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 3d ago"It’s this entire punitive mindset, and not merely Omelas itself, that the walkaways of the story’s title abandon..."
Great point about GenAI being seductive to folks new to TTRPGs. At least AI slop will be polished, right? But you can't develop your own skills that way—the growth is in the process. GenAI produces beginner's work effortlessly, but without all the painful effort, a beginner is all you'll ever be.
Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 3d agoDo not let Big Tech into your RPG sessions www.typebarmagazine.com/chatgpt-llms...
A fastball of a story that will leave you drained but in doing so make you understand the power good writing has over the human spirit.
Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 3d agoTiddies by RS Benedict
"It’s this entire punitive mindset, and not merely Omelas itself, that the walkaways of the story’s title abandon..."
Three Walks Back to Omelas: On Suffering and Happiness
"Meaningless" cruelty implies the possibility of meaningful cruelty.
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"It’s these rich realms of pulp that often blend science with mythology, romance, and heroism, where the genre can find new life." www.typebarmagazine.com/revisiting-t...
Revisiting the Past: Can Pulp Save Science Fiction?
Sci-fi started out as pulp. Should it return to its roots?
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How long will you let yourself be held captive by music streaming services?
Streaming Music, The Illusion of Choice, and You
Maybe it’s time to change our relationships to music streaming services.
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My first essay for @typebarmagazine.bsky.social (one of my favorite things I've ever written) was about Manifest Destiny, colonialism, "fuck around and find out," and HP Lovecraft;
An Unintended Critique of Manifest Destiny in H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness
On dismal failure and death drives.
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im also feeling inspired from this reading of omelas: what if our problem is that we can't imagine a piano performance world ~without~ memorization? what if we can't imagine that we can be free from performance anxiety irt to memorization bc we view the anxiety as the other side of the coin?
Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · last wk."Those who treat Omelas as a utilitarian allegory wish to view the child as a concession, a 'gotcha' moment illustrating the ethical quandary alleged to inhere in all joys and comforts. But such a reading is erroneous."
Anyway, everyone stop doing discourse (annoying, bad for your mental health) and read my short story (very good, bad for your mental health in a different way) www.typebarmagazine.com/pink-plastic/
Pink Plastic
Fiction by Tiernan Blanchard.
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"The gulf between taste and skill is something all creatives grapple with." www.typebarmagazine.com/chatgpt-llms...
ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying
Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs.
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"Regardless of how well iTunes did during the early aughts, the pivot to Apple Music to compete with Spotify clarified one thing: when most people subscribe to a music streaming service, what they are paying for is the service—not the music." www.typebarmagazine.com/streaming-mu...
Streaming Music, The Illusion of Choice, and You
Maybe it’s time to change our relationships to music streaming services.
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I thought this take by Alexander B. Joy on "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas" was really interesting. It made me look at what #LeGuin was doing in a new way. https://www.typebarmagazine.com/three-walks-back-to-omelas-on-suffering-and-happiness/
Three Walks Back to Omelas: On Suffering and Happiness
"Meaningless" cruelty implies the possibility of meaningful cruelty.
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