Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚

Who doesn't love female knights in sapphic stories?

Just blocked someone I've followed for a long time. Though the account owner is anti genAI, they're now sharing AI deep fake videos about people on the other side of the political spectrum. This person has sued over deep fakes of themselves but legitimizes the practice?

If this was a woman-fronted result like this, the word wouldn't be "tepid." Supergirl is labelled a BOMB and CRASH for $45 million loss. LA Times says $150 mil loss for Digger, others say it's $200 mil or more. All men involved in this "tepid box office" will find future work and funding easily.

AUTHORS - anyone else not getting ANY spam book club and publishing schemes emails over the last 36-48 hours? Cause mine have stopped cold. Almost as if ... something ... happened to the data centers the bots and scammers used.

If the Jolly Green Giant could get kids to eat their vegetables, perhaps a sweet anthropomorphic triangle can win over AI skeptics AND CHILDREN we need to addict the CHILDREN. Fixed it for you, WSJ.

And by "me" I mean other people's kids.

replace "Oakland coal terminal" with any other TFG backed anything and the headline is still true more of this please

omg i'm crying

Why would Chris Christie launch a presidential campaign that will never succeed? It's a gravy train compared to one-off side gigs as a lobbyist. Seems kind of Occam's Razorish to me. See also, "Buchanan, Pat: 1992, 1996, 2000."

On the "silver lining" side of this is the fact that every time the Fed raises the interest rate, there's a non-zero chance a certain someone might have an aneurysm.

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

I feel affirmed in my life choices.

Every. Single. Time. regulations are relaxed and there's a cheaper way to do anything, a company will do that. Fines are small. There's no jail time for execs who say sure, store fresh product next to rotting offal or workers must use plowed fields as latrines and then it *foreseeably* kills people.

In which I discuss coffee, old friends, and a beloved illustrator. www.kallmaker.com/old-friends-...

Only somewhat relevant to writing scams, but this site looks to me like a very helpful general knowledge resource on a variety of common scams, including phishing scams, romance scams, AI voice scams, and more www.tuteladigitalis.com

Remember, there's no money for health care or disaster relief or adequate food inspection and weather prediction, but plenty of money to support something that already has billions and billions in investment helping it along. (And plenty of money for war and spoiling the people's landmarks.)

"You see, with a scam, there’s always a loose thread. You just need to find that thread and give it a gentle yank and it all unravels." One writer's experience with a scam that is unfortunately extremely widespread right now. danielbest1967.substack.com/p/a-cautiona...

A powerful movie with images I remember decades later. No surprise that the performances were powerhouse.

same, gurl, same

I smell a patsy. Who's likely guilty, but was also likely doing what Everyone Else in the Room was doing, including TFG. Cause this guy might hang for it and then all investigations will stop. The hundreds of millions made in seconds, time and time again, was all by him. Sure.

Bwahahahaha crab salts

Librarians all over are teaching patrons how to do this because it's *what the patrons want to do.* I mean, what a concept!

Book lovers! Take the time to read this. Small presses, this is about your submissions now. Authors, this is what we're competing with. Readers, this is the future "meh" of stories if AI is doing the writing.

And I would want this option for every meal.

I simply can't IMAGINE what it must feel like to have a powerful entity STEAL YOUR UNIQUE STUFF and use it to make things that both divert your income to their pocket and help even more people steal from you. That really must just suck so much. #thoughtsandprayers (image from NYT summary)

That a novel written for lesbians by a lesbian marketed as lesbian romance and about lesbian community, lesbian love, lesbian hopes and dreams, lesbian families, and lesbian spicy activity was TOO lesbian.

Yup. Same in gaming and using mods. It's "he decides to" and "she has to".

The comments are painful gold.

The architect of breaking the judiciary as well. He was so intent on winning the courts by any means that he didn't care who received the resulting power, including a madman intent on breaking the country itself. May fire ants be the last thing he sees. ALL of this is on him.

Yes, and TFG wanted to GIVE the entire taxpayer funded apparatus to a corporation who would then sell us what we already paid for. Because it's not a good government program if one of them isn't getting a cut off the top.

I remember when the world sent tall ships to sail into New York Harbor to celebrate the USA's 200th birthday in 1976. When everywhere I looked bicentennial celebrations were happening - big cities, small towns, it was one big celebration. This is grotesque.

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Let's see, so far there's living longer with lung cancer and now fewer heart events. Super happy I rolled up my sleeve!

Something new from me - To Boldly Follow, in which Quinn is is determined to get to her fan convention. Then she makes the best wrong decision of the night. And maybe her life. lesbian romance, lesfic, sapphic books, pride reading list www.amazon.com/Boldly-Follo...

Sometimes you have to approach the problem from a new perspective.

Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder

What's a few hospitalized kids if he and RFKjr get rich? Sure they're all about protecting kids when it comes to stepping on trans people and lgbtq+ rights, but actual villains Right in plain sight? It's crickets.

Sometimes you need a tilt-head Corgi smile.

Wow, taking pride truly universal!

Why isn't anyone talking about June 14 NOT being the US 250th Birthday? It's TFG's birthday. All the taxpayer money being spent to have a huge party on June 14 is for HIS BIRTHDAY.

How about this Pride month, reading lists focus on the businesses and writers who don't run away when there's a "chill" in the air? SMALL PRESSES and INDIE WRITERS are *right here*. In plain sight. And. Always. Have. Been. #sapphicbooks #queerreading 🌈📚

Let me clear my throat so Marlon and Dave can hear me, ahem, “STANDUP COMEDY IS FOR FUCKING PUNCHING UP NOT PUNCHING DOWN!” Thank you.

I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh

Expose your kids to every kind of food possible. Make it a deal that if they will try at least one bite, they don't have to finish it. My kids, as adults, came back to stuff they thought was gross as kids (like peas!), and are truly adventurous about food and its gateway into other cultures.

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My Mr. Coffee that -- get this, it's shocking -- makes a pot of coffee. That's it. Coffee grounds, water, press start. Minutes later, hot coffee. Toss grounds into compost bin.