Sunny Moraine
@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
Writer of the horrific and weird, recovering sociology PhD w/focus on war and genocide. Christian Druid. Creator of the GONE podcast. Author of YOUR SHADOW HALF REMAINS, out now from Tor Nightfire. They/them.
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Bunch of new followers recently, so here’s a quick rundown of stuff I work on:
I WROTE A BOOK. It’s about isolation and madness and our desperate need for human connection. You can buy it. I also read the audiobook and venture to say I do it very well torpublishinggroup.com/your-shadow-...
I WROTE A BOOK. It’s about isolation and madness and our desperate need for human connection. You can buy it. I also read the audiobook and venture to say I do it very well torpublishinggroup.com/your-shadow-...
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This despite it being aggressively shoehorned into every productivity application available - maybe investors are stupid???????
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This despite it being aggressively shoehorned into every productivity application available - maybe investors are stupid???????
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my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
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It’s incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It’s incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.
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Caught one of those Annabelle Conjuring movies and I think they’ve made too many of them, she’s a lawyer in this one but never thought the biggest case of her career could lead to love
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Caught one of those Annabelle Conjuring movies and I think they’ve made too many of them, she’s a lawyer in this one but never thought the biggest case of her career could lead to love
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This also makes me think about articles that are written with ai slop and have fake quotes from people and how this can turn into an even more of a circular hot mess 😜
In other words, even good students who are mostly doing their due diligence may be misled by how the bot takes nearly-accurate information, and then presents it as field consensus. The claim in question was one of those borderline bits of field-discourse, which can understandably be tricky.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This also makes me think about articles that are written with ai slop and have fake quotes from people and how this can turn into an even more of a circular hot mess 😜
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If you think more liberation movements are built on “what have we got to lose” and not hope for a better future, you’re already lost. My family survived two genocides. They didn’t survive because they were doomers. They survived on hope.
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If you think more liberation movements are built on “what have we got to lose” and not hope for a better future, you’re already lost. My family survived two genocides. They didn’t survive because they were doomers. They survived on hope.
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Abuse culture is an ideology, as surely as capitalism or fascism.
I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Abuse culture is an ideology, as surely as capitalism or fascism.
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"you just want to have a beer with him"
I absolutely fucking did not, thank you very much
I absolutely fucking did not, thank you very much
heard george w bush’s voice in the martin scorsese documentary for the first time in years and felt the exact same surge of involuntary hostility towards it that i always used to feel
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"you just want to have a beer with him"
I absolutely fucking did not, thank you very much
I absolutely fucking did not, thank you very much
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Donald Trump and George W Bush are very different in many ways but they have this in common: they were/are very appealing to large numbers of people and I would very much like to know what the fuck is wrong with every last one of them
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Donald Trump and George W Bush are very different in many ways but they have this in common: they were/are very appealing to large numbers of people and I would very much like to know what the fuck is wrong with every last one of them
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do you or someone you buy gifts for love speculative fiction? activism? HAVE I GOT THE BOOK FOR YOU! Getting fantastic reviews already! Out THIS TUESDAY!
Realistically if you follow me there's probably someone in your circle this would make a great gift for! Possibly that person is you!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
do you or someone you buy gifts for love speculative fiction? activism? HAVE I GOT THE BOOK FOR YOU! Getting fantastic reviews already! Out THIS TUESDAY!
Further cementing my strong suspicion that executives do basically no work at all ever
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Further cementing my strong suspicion that executives do basically no work at all ever
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87% of executives sitting at their desk writing prompts like "a picture of my wife coming back with the kids"
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
87% of executives sitting at their desk writing prompts like "a picture of my wife coming back with the kids"
Oxygen (2021)
I hate how under the radar this flew given that it’s one of the better tight little thrillers I’ve seen in the last five years or so. A few moments that genuinely made me *holy shit* gasp
Go in knowing as little as possible youtu.be/8IqXgZd-P98?...
I hate how under the radar this flew given that it’s one of the better tight little thrillers I’ve seen in the last five years or so. A few moments that genuinely made me *holy shit* gasp
Go in knowing as little as possible youtu.be/8IqXgZd-P98?...
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Oxygen (2021)
I hate how under the radar this flew given that it’s one of the better tight little thrillers I’ve seen in the last five years or so. A few moments that genuinely made me *holy shit* gasp
Go in knowing as little as possible youtu.be/8IqXgZd-P98?...
I hate how under the radar this flew given that it’s one of the better tight little thrillers I’ve seen in the last five years or so. A few moments that genuinely made me *holy shit* gasp
Go in knowing as little as possible youtu.be/8IqXgZd-P98?...
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Just pointing out how grim the funding situation is. If an institution fights you have no idea where future grants are coming from. Harvard won in court and is still telling researchers to cut everything 20% because they don’t know what happens next. Somehow everybody has to make it to Jan 2029
Yes I agree with this. The problem for grant-dependent researchers is that even if they win in court to get their illegally withheld funds, they’re sure to be denied any new grants by these corrupted agencies. 2026-2028 will be a killing field as institutions hemorrhage their research apparatus
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Just pointing out how grim the funding situation is. If an institution fights you have no idea where future grants are coming from. Harvard won in court and is still telling researchers to cut everything 20% because they don’t know what happens next. Somehow everybody has to make it to Jan 2029
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Your school won in court but your budget is cut 20% so you’re firing two techs and not taking any PhD students. Your grant is up for renewal in 2027, sorry but Jay Bhattacharya has classified it as woke. Meanwhile 10 pharma recruiters are in your inbox. American science is straight up fucked.
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Your school won in court but your budget is cut 20% so you’re firing two techs and not taking any PhD students. Your grant is up for renewal in 2027, sorry but Jay Bhattacharya has classified it as woke. Meanwhile 10 pharma recruiters are in your inbox. American science is straight up fucked.
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No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
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unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
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Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
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The media treated Biden's pardon of Hunter for trumped-up gun possession charges as more scandalous - far more scandalous - than Trump's pardon of war criminal serial killer Eddie Gallagher. And here we are:
Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The media treated Biden's pardon of Hunter for trumped-up gun possession charges as more scandalous - far more scandalous - than Trump's pardon of war criminal serial killer Eddie Gallagher. And here we are:
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He’s at 60% disproval lol
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
He’s at 60% disproval lol
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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not to get *all* doomerist, but having seen this & another thread on how COVID has essentially fucked over an entire generation of people (cognitively speaking), I've also started to notice similar phenomena happening at HÍ.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
not to get *all* doomerist, but having seen this & another thread on how COVID has essentially fucked over an entire generation of people (cognitively speaking), I've also started to notice similar phenomena happening at HÍ.
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We seem to be able to identify scab technology when we see it
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We seem to be able to identify scab technology when we see it
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Terms of remaining include not only giving up social media but a priest put in charge of them. Nothing really changes in the Catholic church.
"Runaway nuns can stay in Alpine convent if they leave social media"
Austrian nuns win reprieve in abandoned convent - if they stay off social media
The three nuns say they were taken out of the convent against their will and placed in a care home.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Terms of remaining include not only giving up social media but a priest put in charge of them. Nothing really changes in the Catholic church.
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Michigan’s 7th district has a chance to do the funniest thing ever
""I'd heard of furries, but to be honest, I didn't think they were real. Then one filed to run against me for Congress," stated the email. "Samuel Smeltzer, whose furry name is Elyon Badger, announced he's running against me, in costume, on a far left progressive platform.""
'The furries are coming for me!' GOP lawmaker turns heads with odd fundraising pitch
Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI) sent out a bizarre fundraising call to action for his supporters on Friday, headlined, "the furries are coming for me.""I'd heard of furries, but to be honest, I didn't think t...
www.rawstory.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Michigan’s 7th district has a chance to do the funniest thing ever