Will K

I really miss Adobe Photoshop Mix because it let me realize my genius from my phone

I have ADHD and executive function dysregulation, and my kid's teacher has asked me on three separate occasions to give examples about what makes my kid special. Once with advance warning, twice on the fly...in front of my kid and other kids. I don't even hesitate.

I would appreciate it if reality would stop catching up to the novel I've been working on the last three years. I'm revising and polishing and I'd really rather it didn't come off as been-there-done-that when I submit it.

I grew up only ever hearing 70s and 80s popular music through shitty radios, so listening to it with a good system is kinda wild. Those producers were going so hard! Is anyone even trying that hard these days?

You can see some very kind, talented people talk. And then also I say "um" about 5,000 times. But if you're interest in writing #scifi #fantasy novels, this is an amazing opportunity

get in, no time to explain

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This feels like a #weirdcar #radwood catch: Corolla FX16 GT-S, a California-built hatchback with what looks to be the original plates.

I need someone to follow me around with a big stick to bop me on the head whenever I decide it's worth my energy to argue with strangers on the internet.

Lol, honored to have had my argument entirely misrepresented by whoever TF this guy is because the bootlickers can only convincingly argue against straw men.

We've been genetically engineering dogs for like 10,000 years. This is even more embarrassing than the time that one tech bro rediscovered the idea of "the train."

I'm sorry, I don't know who Ezra Klein is. I'm very much looking forward to his 15 seconds of infamy being over, because if this lasts much longer there's a serious chance I might learn something about him.

And I know people are saying, "wokeness didn't kill Bioware," but I also keep thinking about the take that's basically like, the first thing Kushner kills is the studio that did gay stuff that rules.

I know it's not the worst thing he's done, but Kushner took a horny, science fiction, immersive sim, Bioware RPG away from you.

We really need to teach kids how far apart a million and a billion are. A million seconds is 11.5 days. A billion seconds is like 31 YEARS. Now think how much bigger the gap is between 5 million and 5 billion. And all that wealth was taken from your pocket. Anyway, fuck transphobes, fuck Rowling.

We've built our god in the image of the worst of mankind, from the story "Do Not Build Your Gods in the Image of the Worst of Mankind"

God damn, this party is necrotizing from its consultant class. The industry of Democratic polling, fundraising, and strategy is an absolute cance that consistently works to stifle any reform to protect its own revenue stream.

Bill Giese #1982 h1.nu/1GyOh

No creative company should be publicly traded. The model makes no sense. You gamble on projects, and hits fund failures. Big hits fund you for years, maybe. But the idea you can eke out consistently growing quarterly profits is a joke, unless you're exploiting your audience (loot boxes)

Jesus, I hadn't heard about this. The depth and breadth of the evils this administration is perpetrating globally will take decades to fully catalogue, and lifetimes to even begin to redress.

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Text from my wife. Can you guess what's happening?

I honestly think that for all the doomerism, we're actually radically underestimating how much AI is rotting people's brains.

I think metafiction has run its course as disruptive expression. Look at where culture has arrived with Deadpool. At best, metafiction has been reduced to a catharsis of smugness.

6 year old and I just beat TMNT: Splintered Fate. An okay Hades knock-off, but also now one of the most important games of my life.

If you're on Facebook, Insta, or Twitter...why? Seriously? Exchange numbers with the two friends who still use those. Set up mailing lists for your business. Zuckerberg and Musk are dismantling your democracy and undoing your rights, and every time you log in you support them.

Wait'll the folks who are mad at Zuck for muzzling No Kings get wind of the Rohingya genocide.

The key difference between Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk is that Holmes cost many in the ruling class a lot of money and Musk is making many in the ruling class a lot of money.

This is a fascinating liability dodge. If he can get his cars labeled as "sentient," how can Tesla be sued when they kill someone? I mean, beyond the fact this is bullshit so thick and deep it could smother the fucking sun. But so far that hasn't stopped him.

The word "attorney" is Norman; the word "lawyer" is Anglo-Saxon. There were courts of law and equity and ALL OF IT WAS A FUCKING MESS. Everyone who inherited this tradition--whether it be England, Canada, Australia, the US, or any other poor fools--has sorted it out in slightly different ways.

Let's put this one on the Oh, Wow, What a Shocking and Unexpected Surprise shelf next to "cigarette companies knew nicotine was a addictive" and "oil companies knew about global warming"

The fake car actually being a signal to investors that Space X is gonna buy Tesla and shore up Tesla's value with all that sweet government money is really the only take that matters. The flying car will never actually be built, but that's not even a little bit the point.

Sub in Darkman for Shadow and I'm on board.

Jeez, you mean compressed gas and a big fan *didn't* keep ~4,000 pounds of battery, motor, and assorted other real-car bits in the air? I'm shocked. Shocked!

I hope that one of the things humanity takes away from the AI debacle is that human life and achievement are about the process. That old chestnut about the journey is an iconic cliche for a reason.

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