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R. I. P. Walter Koenig www.startrek.com/news/best-of...

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

I’m more upset than necessary about the Marissa Mayer AI thing. I could literally point at -*any random little girl* and say, I sense that she’s empathetic! Creative! and loves animals! And win the lottery. What kind of person would tell this story out loud??

i know the trot of my tone here seems slightly flippant because thats just the nature of posting, but this makes me deeply, deeply sad. like physically ill. i cannot believe there are people out there doing this. i cannot imagination seeing reflection on your own child as a task to streamline

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

Alas, alas, ther ys no easilye obtained cure for the dull ache of lonelinesse.

Honestly several things are depressing about ai but the two that stand out are the eagerness of people to outsource thought because cognitive effort is uncomfortable, and the casualness with which people use the shiny, easy thing knowing it's bad for climate change

Leave the dogges alone you absolute bastards

Fuck thys noyse.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Happy Release Day to @feliciafm.bsky.social and her gorgeous scifi fantasy novella, THESE BRIGHT AND PERILOUS DESIGNS! Absolutely love this story and we're so excited it's out in the world today! geni.us/TBAPD

🥹 My novella is out today!!!

FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoply, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'woe & hope' Accessorize wyth a scarf.

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FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoply, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'woe & hope' Accessorize wyth a scarf.

Wrote lyke two thousande polished wordes about the Julian calendar onlye to be tolde it was not "that kynde of datinge profile."

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash! Beholde: sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [remembir: thou art awesome] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

Yessyrupferatu

@jewelstaite.bsky.social is a treasure and it is about time someone came out and said this stuff

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash! Beholde: sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

Wher ys the horse and the rydere? Wher ys the horne that was blowinge? Wher ys the brighte cuppe, the friendes gift? Wher yn the worlde ys Carmen Sandiego?

Thys month on my playliste ys officiallye Audrey Hobertober.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

That sounde? The worlde buyinge Mass Effect, or startinge it up agayne. Goode storyes nevir go awaye.

You Kan See Everyethinge? Yn thys economye?

The Tesla roadster doth use compressid ayre so technicallye it ys not a "flyinge" car it ys a "car that jumpes thrugh the power of farts"

Mass Effect will lyve on as long as one, just one person yn the course of their daye doth saye to themselves "okay Ich am goinge to take the Renegade choyce heere"

Did you heare about the Grand Theft Auto set yn Toronto? G T Eh

A queer retelling of Hamlet set at a secretive magical university? Don't mind if I do. This will fit nicely into my current dark academia hyperfixation. Has anyone else read THOUGHTS BE BLOODY yet? What did you think?

"O, from this time forth My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!" -Hamlet, 4.4

The availabilitye and varietye of D20s

It's a grim moment when "scam to get investment cash" is actually the best case scenario, as the alternative is bio-engineered murder dogs. This is the company that stuck a couple of genes into a wolf and claimed (/were reported to have claimed) to have recreated the prehistoric dire wolf

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [remembir: thou art awesome] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

Ich am sorrye Ich kan not come to worke todaye Ich have onlye one dreame.

It was the dunjeons of tymes, it was the dragonnes of tymes.

It was the Dunning of tymes, it was the Kruger of tymes.

All art, even the moost abstract written art, ys direct intervencioun ynto the material worlde by a being wyth a brayne pumped full of oxygenated bloode, heir to the errours and miracles of yeares we kan not even ymagine. Machynes have materialitye too but confuse not the glove wyth the human hande.

THE DANCE OF ICK AND NOPE

Artists don't need to be miserable, depressed people to be great. That is a toxic myth. But art does need to be miserable and painful and scary at points to be good. There's no shortcut.

All art, even the moost abstract written art, ys direct intervencioun ynto the material worlde by a being wyth a brayne pumped full of oxygenated bloode, heir to the errours and miracles of yeares we kan not even ymagine. Machynes have materialitye too but confuse not the glove wyth the human hande.

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

It would be lovely if the video games industry would let the people who make the games buy food

Be sure to checke Halloween candye carefullye -- thys yeare, all of Narnia ys hidden yn one snickers bar.

Wher are the trulye new fonts?